Cheltenham Festival

Eggs · March 18, 2017

..well the old fella has survived 5 full afternoon sessions on the Guinness. My boobs are wobbling when I run up the stairs so I need to get back into the gym on Monday. I love Cheltenham week and it's only 3 weeks to the Grand National.

wembley84 · March 18, 2017

evilwebby said:
If he was a professional punter then I highly doubt that £400k loss is the end of the story.. we don't know what else he might have backed or layed against in that race.

Don't ever believe the headline stories about betting, especially when bookmakers say that they've taking a beating because of a certain result. They're bookmakers - it's their f£c1ng job to run and price the book so that they don't care what the outcome is. If someone wants to place a big bet with them that will unbalance their books they they need to be refusing that bet size, and/or cutting their odds to make that selection less attractive.

That bookie will have laid off the liability in bits and bobs with loads of other places. Prob only stood to lose / win a few grand off that punt. One thing bookies aren't is daft.

hallamblue · March 18, 2017

Eggs said:
..well the old fella has survived 5 full afternoon sessions on the Guinness. My boobs are wobbling when I run up the stairs so I need to get back into the gym on Monday. I love Cheltenham week and it's only 3 weeks to the Grand National.

Managed to get the winner of the Midlands National today. Just looked at the Grand National, scanned all the form, narrowed it down to 2, got excited, went to the betting and.....

They were 2 of the 4 favourites :rant:

Toast · March 18, 2017

Eggs said:
..well the old fella has survived 5 full afternoon sessions on the Guinness. My boobs are wobbling when I run up the stairs so I need to get back into the gym on Monday. I love Cheltenham week and it's only 3 weeks to the Grand National.

Top pub fitness mate.
I'm thinking of booking Aintree off work now myself..

hallamblue · March 18, 2017

Toast said:
Top pub fitness mate.
I'm thinking of booking Aintree off work now myself..

I love Aintree. Along with Doncaster it's one of the fairest courses, not many excuses, and the ground is usually exceptional at Aintree as it's not used that often.

Toast · March 18, 2017

hallamblue said:
I love Aintree. Along with Doncaster it's one of the fairest courses, not many excuses, and the ground is usually exceptional at Aintree as it's not used that often.

The Lincoln meeting is a graveyard for me.
Barry Hills used to get em ready first up, but now it's a lottery.

hallamblue · March 18, 2017

Toast said:
The Lincoln meeting is a graveyard for me.
Barry Hills used to get em ready first up, but now it's a lottery.

I meant as a jumps course really, with that long finishing straight. The trouble with the Lincoln nowadays is the all weather. A lot of the horses have been given a prep run on sand and it's very difficult to tell which ones transfer form from a/w to turf.