November 16/17 Cheltenham

It was a crazy weekend of punting, with contrasting results and so many highs and lows. Excessive alcohol consumption added to the mix.

 

It looked to be an exciting week ahead with the Open meeting (Previous Paddy Power meeting) for 3 days at Cheltenham, as well as the Glad Slam of Darts and the promise of loads of rugby union bets with the start of the European cup.

 

Alas, things started poorly as after day after day of rain, the opening Friday of Cheltenham was called off. I was proper gutted, as I’d worked extra hours during the week to have the Friday afternoon off, and all for nothing.

 

Thankfully Saturday went ahead, and what an eventful day it turned out to be. Remarkably for a Saturday I was pretty fresh, as I was driving over the Pennines early Saturday morning to visit my mum and brother, and hence didn’t drink on the Friday. Arriving there early meant that I got back in times to see most of the afternoons racing.

 

It started well as Northern Monkey landed a maximum with Thyme Hill(Also backed ante post for any race at the festival). The next couple of races were poor, but NM also tipped Scentasia at 7/2 as a heavily backed winner at Lingfield, and I was flying. The big race went the way of Happy Diva tipped by The Value Bettor, which ensured a winning day. Ben Linfoot had a placer, but Handicap snip had two losers. I have joined Bet Alchemist and he also provided a lovely 25/1 with Golan Fortune.

 

Scottish football bets had 3 losers, but fortunately I backed the Sporting Life accumulator, which won, and made my football punting profitable for the day. Elite Rugby provided its usual stream of steady winnings.

 

The Sunday was a mixed day, which was only rescued by a 25/1 winner of the bumper, Israel Champ tipped by Jodie Standing of Marten Julian’s midweek preview which I have recently joined. As usual my bogie race was the Greatwood Hurdle with my horses finishing 2^nd,3^rd and 4^th.

 

Profits were made in the darts, as I had backed Peter Wright each way and then covered the win part of the bet on Price in the final.

 

All in all a chaotic weekend of punting, where discipline went a little a awry, as a few new services were used. I am aiming this week to update my services, to ensure a more disciplined period ahead. There’s a new football service I am joining and my horse tipsters need consideration. I’ve also joined Paul Jones Cheltenham ante post service. My punting records also need urgent attention, having yet to recover from the chaos of the bathroom being renovated.

 

Thankfully though, I got out of the weekend unscathed, with profits.

November 4th

Good afternoon.

 

It’s still a relatively short update as the bathroom is still being renovated and hence with all the chaos, it’s difficult to make time for anything else, and as a result the blogs not been updated and I haven’t kept records for a few weeks. The good news is, the bathroom should be finally completed this week, and from looking at my accounts last weekend must have been decent.

 

It certainly was busy with loads of horse racing in both the Uk and the Breeders cup in the States, Rugby league, the end of the Rugby World Cup, and football from SFB.

 

The main triumph on the horses, was Ben Linfoot, who had a welcomed return to form with 2 winners out of 4, with the very lucky Diego Du Charmil at 12/1, and all the way winner Gumball at an early 10/1. It was the first betting day of the season for The Value Bettor who also tipped Diego Du Charmil at 9/1, to ensure a winning first weekend. Northern Monkey also had a steady but unspectacular weekend with a couple of winners. Handicap Snip was break even with his biggest single winning.

 

The other notable returns came from Scottish Football Bets (SFB), who had 4 winners out of 5, just as I was considering binning him off. As they say ‘Form is temporary, class is permanent’.

 

The main focus for the early part of this week is the Melbourne Cup, which takes place at the unearthly time of 4am on Tuesday morning. Northern Monkey has built up a nice position through singles and one successful double on Prince of Arran, so its fingers crossed on that one.

 

Anyway, I should now be in a position to start up my records again, which will commence next weekend, and I will post the figures on a weekly basis.

31st October

Just a quick update.

We are having the bathroom done at the moment, and therefore updates have been difficult.

Hence I'll start my records from November 1st, which will coincide with the start of the TVB's season and the Breeders Cup weekend.

I'll be back hopefully early next week.

Update for the National Hunt

I said yesterday that I'd be reviewing my tipsters, and I've accelerated the process, as the National Hunt season is due to start shortly, and to incorporate my specialised HN tipsters into my betting I need to drop a couple of services.

My dedicated HN services are The Value Bettor, and also Matt Tombs. TVB kicks in at the start of November and Matt Tombs, most likely the middle of November for the first big Cheltenham meeting of the year.

Therefore I will be dropping, Handicap Snip and also The Insider immediately, and will review Ben Linfoot for the next few weekends. There also won't be any more of my own bets. Scottish Football Bets also needs to show some improvement in the next month.

Therefore from today onwards, my tipsters will be:

The Value Bettor;
Matt Tombs;
Northern Monkey;
Betting Emporium (Festival Service);
Ben Linfoot;
Elite Rugby;
Scottish Football Bets.

I can't imagine that there will be any other services, but you can never say never. I'll also be starting a new spread sheet of results from today onwards. The previous one showed profits, but I am really not sure how accurate it was, with me often putting additional bets on. From today onwards, its just the tipsters listed above. 

Therefore for the weekend ahead its just likely to be Ben Linfoot and Northern Monkey with respect to horse racing bets.

Week ending 13th October 2019

Alas it was another disappointing losing weekend on the punting front, only saved like the previous weekend by my own personal bets on Saints -10 in the Super League Grand Final, and some good results from elite rugby.

On a poor horse racing weekend, all my services showed losses, even Northern Monkey. Like the week before the weekend really hinged on the big handicap, which was the marathon 2.2 mile trip of the Cesarewitch, NM had Coeur De Lion and Buildmeupbuttercup, who both ran poorly, and there were also very poor runs from the horses selected by The Insider, Handicap Snip, and Ben Linfoot.

As I touched upon last week, I am going to have to take a serious look as to whether I continue with some of the loss making services. Ben Linfoot and Handicap Snip have had dreadful seasons, and I am really considering if I should dump these from the portfolio. The Insider has also been poor since I joined, although its only a month into this service, so perhaps I should give this service another couple of months.

Scottish Football Bets has also been treading water recently and is now showing a loss for me. However, I am fairly confident that Greg will turn the results down as the season moves on.

Anyway, hopefully next weeks update will show a brighter picture.

October 4th Update

Sorry for the lack of updates, last week I was away in Porto for the week and have been dead busy this week catching up with works and things. Strangely in Porto, if I used my phone on data I could place bets, despite this apparently not being permitted. There weren't many bets, but the rugby world cup ones went well.

There has been a bit of a drawdown since my last post put nothing too dramatic, just a couple of minor losing weeks. Rugby as mentioned previously has been good, but horses not so good.

I am still using the same tipsters, but have added a new one called The Insider, he's 77 points up this season, so lets hope that he finished the season strongly. Already he's tipped up in the Arc, and has gone against Enable.

Some really exciting positions for this weekends racing already, Northern Monkey has had a strong bet and also had it in 2 doubles with the first ones winning, with a potential profit of 40 points if it comes off. Also I had some lumpy ante post bets on Sydney Roosters to win the NRL, with the final being on Sunday morning, and that's after I've watched my own team Featherstone Rovers which takes place on Saturday, so I dread to think what state I'll be in on Sunday. Its going to be a heavy weekend on all fronts.

There's also been an early tip by The Handicap Snip at Ascot, in the same race as NM's big hope, so a first and second would do the job.

Anyway, I promise to be back with an update early next week.

Weekend Review 15th January 2019

A very quick review of the week as I am away on holiday next week and need to get loads of stuff done.

Although it was the Leger meeting at Doncaster, fields were in generally fairly small and hence there weren't as many bets as anticipated.

It was another poor week for Ben Linfoot, with just a couple of places, whilst Handicap Snip continued his revival with 7/1 winner Sandret who defied a huge drift from 7/2 to hack up.

Not a lot else to report and not much time either.

I'll be back around the end of the month due to a week out of the country next week.

Stay lucky.