February 21st

Time seemed to be really dragging on, as we reached 3 weeks to go until Cheltenham. The mundanity of work a boring inconvenience to what really matters in life. You should never wish your life away, but I was wishing these 3 weeks to pass as quickly as possible, until the best racing of the year and nearly a week and a half off boring work.

It was a decent Friday to start the weekend with Horsetrader after a poor run bouncing back to form with 2 winners, Hamelin at 14/1 and Willoughby Hedge at 8/1.

The weekend was pretty good, with Roger Bush and his West Country Racing service having some spectacular results, including a massive gamble landed on Arden Denis (4/1 into 2/1) on Saturday, and on Monday with Midnight Request (13/2) and Lord Ballim (11/2) landing me a significant double as well as the singles. Other wins included Vieux Lion Rouge for Betalchemist, and a lovely 10/1 winner  Zac Brown for Northern Monkey. Northern Monkey also recommended a double of Zac Brown and On the Fringe for the Cheltenham Foxhunters, which means that there is now a significant bet running onto the McManus owned animal. I also had 2 very close seconds with Flintham and Joe Farrell, but all in all a very good weekend and start to the week. The Cheltenham ante post portfolio is also looking half decent at this time, but not something to take for granted until some of them actually win.

I’ve also started following Ciaran Meagher, the new golf tipster used by the Paul Jones service, and he added significantly to the profits with a strong bet on the easy winner of the Genesis Golf, Dustin Johnson at 10/1, and a winning bet on Noh to be top Korean at 7/2. Added to his tip on Matsuyma to win the Phoenix, it’s a very promising start by this new tipster.

I am going to try and keep things relatively quiet this week, but there should be the golf again this week, and there is a reasonable weekend of racing to look forward to including the Eider and the Bet bright Chase.

Anyway, only 3 weeks to Cheltenham.....