Happy Christmas, Birthday, Anniversary, Hanukkah and retirement all rolled into one as the 4 day star studded Cheltenham festival starts today... Saying that if the conditions do prevail to become heavy, or really hard work, then we might find a few upsets through the coming days...?!? Anyway here's my selections for today combined of AP's and singles with a couple of accy's through the week as we go... Kalashnikov - Keen on this one to turn the bird over...!! Footpad Gold Present & Vintage Clouds B D'air Apples Jade Rathvinden - Another one I'm keen on today Rather Be & Mister Whitaker Lets hope for a good day's & weeks racing with some great stories thrown in and that they all come back safe and well... Good luck to all...
Getabird win/Slate house Ew Saint Calvados win Yala Enki/Vintage Clouds both ew BD win acc/ Elgin w/o BD AJ win acc/ Gers Girl w/o AJ ew Mossback win Barney Dwan/Any Second now
It's only 6lb more than the bottom weight FP, I'm on! I am also on the top weight Testify at a good ew price My picks for what they are worth are: Kalashnikov Saint Calvados Cogry ew Buveur D;air Apples Jade Rathvinden (sorry Stick, but you talked me into it!) Barney Dwan / Testify ew
Good Luck Chaps. Thanks for all the opinions and insight. I won't waste your time with the particulars of my own various small stakes dabbles. That said, might as well tell you all that it's the kid's 7th. So with that in mind I threw on one of my usual speculative 4 from 7 bets with a not so subtle twist that puts me firmly in Brainless-Mug territory: all 7 selections today will run wearing the number 7. Small stakes and purely an afterthought, I won't hold it against her if they all fail to place or worse. Hard to have much confidence with a few of them but If it makes it to leg 7 I'm reassured to be looking at the much talked about Barney Dawn. 'Mon the lucky number 7.
Done the following at Ladbrokes this morning with no restrictions Win treble on Footpad, BVD and Apples Jade E/W Lucky 31 on Western Ryder, Ramses De Teillee, La Bague Au Roi, Jury Duty and Rocklander E/W Single on Rocklander (probably the one I fancy most even though it is the biggest price) Not gone mad though, only day 1 Best of luck one and all
1pm, ITV on, afternoons food and drink in front of me, betting accounts updated...here we go! Good luck chaps.
Ssssssaaake. I'm hiding my phone on my desk at work which is streaming STV. Doing our work's diversity training which is basically a flash-type course where I click through it and pretend I'm working while watching the festival. Pretty jealous for those that are watching at home or in Gloucestershire.
There’s me asking when Tom George last had a festival winner. Nice ride Touchy. Western Ryder unlucky, interferes with coming down the hill but stayed on for 6th.
