York 13th December 2019

As predicted last weekend was a crazy one, as I mixed a weekend away at York with the 2 day Cheltenham meeting.

 

We set off to work at dinnertime on Friday, which enabled me to have all bets placed by the time we got on the second  train from Piccadilly to York.

 

After a slow start to the day, the profits really kicked in during the middle part of the Cheltenham card, with winners for Repetitio at 11/1, Cogry (6/1), and Easyland (9/2). A notable double from The Value Bettor who picked the first 2(From 2), and a winner from Jeramiah Catskill with the last one. I also had a  winner in the evening racing with Alfredo Arcano (Norther Monkey). It was a great day, which ensured that the weekend would be break even at worst, and it being a toss up as to whether the punting or the beers in the Phoenix Pub were the highlight of a truly great day.

 

Surprisingly I felt ok come Saturday morning, and we started the day with a lovely cooked breakfast and a full circuit of the city walls. After a tour of York Dungeons, I settled down in the Stone Roses Bar to watch the racing, whilst Karen braved the chaos of the Christmas markets. The beer certainly tasted good when Blu Cavalier won at 12/1 at Doncaster for JC, and even better when Warthog battled hard to land a big bet for Handicap Snip in the big handicap chase. Call Me Lord (Watched this in Spark, a great new casual eating/drinking venue on Piccadilly) then landed the big hurdle race, having been tipped by Matt Tombs and Northern Monkey to make it an epic day. Scottish Football Bets also weighed in with 3 winners out of 4 selections and Craig Forsyth had an evening winner with Jackstar (9/2 into 13/8).

 

The day finished in a haze of booze and euphoria, as we visited several more pubs and stumbled back to the Hotel.

 

The weekend had been so good and profitable that, I booked another night in York, and enjoyed a chilled Sunday, with no further bets.  

 

It’s a bit of a come down to be back in work this week, but, weather permitting, there’s some decent stuff this weekend, and then it’s the Christmas holidays with some stellar racing.

December 7th Weekend

After a few poor weekends, it was nice for things to turn around with some decent results this weekend.

 

There was good racing on both Friday and Saturday, with a great start on Friday with Roger Bush producing a lovely winner in Tactical Manoeuvre(11/2 into 4/1). I also now get the weekend preview from Marten Julien, and backed Picanha at 12/1 in the bumper at Exeter who ensured me a very profitable start to the weekend. Jodie Standing, seems to have great knowledge on the bumper horses, and its worth noting any she tips in the weekend preview.

 

Saturday as usual was very busy, and proved to be another cracking day for me, with highlights being the Paul Jones tip’ Walk in the Mill winning at Aintree, as well as Defi De Seuil a strong bet winning from Northern Monkey. Poor days by Ben Linfoot and also Scottish Football bets were offset by an incredible return to form by Handicap Snip, who tipped Acting Lass as a strong win bet (6/1 into 3/1), as well as Nuts Well (8/1 into 9/4) and last but not least Hogan’s Height who absolutely hacked up at 16/1 from an early 25/1. It just shows that sometimes, however hard, that you have to stick with tipsters. The Value Bettor also tipped Acting Lass, although the other tips ran poorly, for a small losing week for the service.

 

Elite Rugby had selections in the European cup, and provided a small profit.

 

The week ahead looks like being a massive one, there’s a two day Cheltenham starting on Friday, and also the World Championship Darts starts on Friday. I am also away for a weekend away in York, so it looks like being an absolutely epic weekend. Darts tips will be from On The Oche, Paul Jones, Betting Emporium and Sportinglife.com.

 

In the meantime, my main aim this week is to keep my punting tight with very good discipline. This will hopefully enable me to have the maximum available   ammunition for this weekend’s action.

Weekend 23/24th November 2019

It was a hectic weekend of action, which was neither bad or good.

 

The weekend was as usually almost entirely focused on Saturday, with two nice looking cards at Haydock and Ascot, with a few football bets thrown into the mix.

 

The football results were mixed, incredibly the sporting life accumulator, landed at 18/1, for its second win in 2 weeks amid amazing circumstances. I’d given up with it to be honest, as Rotherham went 2 goals down within the first 20 minutes, even meaning that I turned the match\goal alerts off my phone. Whilst in the pub, later, I decided to see how the other matches were going, with 10 mins to go, to see that Rotherham had turned the match around and were now leading 3-2. However, Stoke and Peterborough were being held at home. Remarkably two injury time winners for the afore mentioned landed the bet. In contrast however, it was a dreadful weekend for Scottish Football bets as all 4 bets lost badly, with it being a weekend of giant killing in the Scottish Cup.

 

In horse racing, it was weekend which could have been massive but ended up being moderate. The key race as usual was a big handicap, and as the tired horses jumped the last Haydock hurdle, it was looking like a certain winner for me with Acey Milan just getting the better of a protracted duel with Ask Ben, surely the winnings were in the bag I thought. Alas, Stoney Mountain flew from nowhere to storm clear in a slow motion finish. An absolutely gut wrenching defeat to take, even though I was on them each way. Ben Linfoot landed a huge gamble with Bold Plan (10/1 -11/4), and Handicap Snip had a nice winner with Thebannerkingrebel. Alas it was a very poor day for Northern Monkey and The Value Bettor, who couldn’t find a win between them.

 

Sunday was a quiet one with the only bets being in the Troytown at Navan. Fortunately for me, The Value Bettor tipped up Chris’s Dream (7/1 – 9/2), who landed a massive punt, and wiped out his Saturday losses.

 

Overall it was a mixed bag this weekend, with some fantastic moments, as well as some kick in the stomach moments. Hard to know about profits/losses until I update the results this week.

 

Next week, looks like another busy one, with Newbury Friday and Saturday, and perhaps a few punts on the snooker. Until then……

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.