SUPPER TONIGHT, ROLL ON THE SHILLING !!!

after todays win for No Supper owned by Optimum Racing,perfect starter for the connections bid to win at the festival next week with Little Shilling. No Supper was always travelling well under Richard Killoran and jumped for fun, not only did Optimum own and advise a strong bet on No Supper, Andrew the brains behind the Optimum operation analysed the market spot on, advising members not to touch any prices below 7/2, and if you could not get the 7/2 which was under pressure, wait for the shows, after the selection went out the 7/2 soon disappeared with prices ranging generally from 5/2 -11/4, although the exchange price was pretty static trading mostly in the 4.1/4.2 region, the exchanges obviously mirrored the slight drift with 4.8/4.9 available to money near the off.
The service measured on account bets alone has endured a tough time recently, not really in respect of p/l which has remained static, but 2 selections recently have failed to make it over the first fence. I backed the horse with Stan James @ 10/3 but was rewarded at 7/2 due to BOG, so todays win will hopefuly see an turnaround in fortune and the p/l returns match previous seasons.

VSR nearly followed up yesterdays 5/1 winner, but McCoys brilliance in a finish scuppered the win.



SUNDAY



OPTIMUM RACING



2.05 Warwick NO SUPPER £75 ew @ 7/2 WON ...... pulling a cart !! +£328.13



VSR

2.45 Market Rasen QUENTIN COLLONGES £25 ew @ 10/3 2nd -£8.33



4.45 Market Rasen MY MOMENT £25 ew @ 7/2 r4 55p 3rd -£17.13

THE10KCHALLENGE P/L (after today) ...........................

OPTIMUM RACING +£108.12 (+4.32pts)

VSR +£338.30 (+13.53pts)

PERSONAL TRADING +£1693.97

SPORTS BETTING +£1428.99

THE10KCHALLENGE.................................................+£3,569.38


Also a mention for TheBetPlan that i have been trialling recently my £500 bank has increased to £804.50 since i began.

Got the Cheltenham dough today..........

with a £100 treble on this afternoons football, i had £50 of free bets in my account and added £50 of my money and backed Crystal Palace 6/4, Barnet 10/11 & Man Utd 5/6 i was going to lay off the stake when the first two won, but courtesy of the VSR win for Sergeant Harper i was up on the day and decided to let my bet roll.
But the win came at a good time with Cheltenham next week and a faulty ballcock flooding the bathroom at home and requiring a plumber this afternoon, so not much left especially as i paid for Mrs D to have her hair done today ............ Im not a great fan of going to Cheltenham festival week but i have next Friday off and have decided to go along and cheer Little Shilling on in the Martin Pipe conditional hurdle ......... Good luck to connections.
A relatively quiet day with only action courtesy of the successful selection from VSR and Sergeant Harper, advised at 5/1 - 11/2 before being supported into 3/1.

SATURDAY

VSR

2.25 Chep SERGEANT HARPER £25 ew @ 5/1 WON +£150

SPORTS BETTING

£100 Treble Crystal Palace 6/4, Barnet 10/11 & Man Utd 5/6 ALL WON +£774.94

Gambling and racing..............

was the last thing on my mind, thursday afternoon as i walked into my local only to find that one of my drinking buddies had died of a massive heart attack earlier that morning, we had celebrated his 50th only a fortnight earlier and a more genuine a friendly chap you would be hard to find. I had a Cheltenham preview night to attend and i was thinking of just going home and having a quiet one, but the Mrs was out and i did not want to spoil her evening and i didnt want to be on my own, so i decided to go ahead, had a good evening under the circumstances but my mind was elsewhere.....................

THURSDAY

OPTIMUM RACING

2.10 Carlise ET MAINTENANT £125 @ 5/2 2nd -£125

a change of fortune required.............

for followers of Optimum racing, with the well supported Le Briar Soul blundering and unseating Christian Williams at the first, second time this has happened to us recently and the over the course of this NH season we have had to endure these instances far too often, so a loss of 4 points on the bet, treading water at present with Optimum and this is when the punting gods are not smiling on us, the service as stated many times before is measured by the main account, but the extra added info has been topdrawer, but im confident it will all click into place soon............ next week would be handy !!!

I managed to recoup a large percentage of my losses on the day, from the betting activity of commission agents, although i was a bit premature with my laying of Garleton at just below 3/1, and with my first play i was relieved to sneak into 4th with Whatcanyasay and although on a small scale i was really happy with my position going into the race on this one. Some of these agents are proving a bit warm and im not sure how much longer we will be entertaining their business, which will be a shame personally !!!

WEDNESDAY

OPTIMUM RACING

4.00 Fontwell LE BRIAR SOUL £50 ew @ 11/2 unpld u/r -£100

VSR

2.20 Catterick SUN KING £25 ew @ 5/1 unpld -£50
2.30 Fontwell FASSAROE £25 ew @ 15/8 3rd -£15.62

PERSONAL TRADING

2.50 Catterick WHATCANYASAY £40 ew @ 10/1 4th placed +£60
2.50 Catterick LAY £40 @ 11.00 win mkt lay £20 @ 2.80 place mkt +£2.80 overall

4.20 Catterick GARLETON £100 @ 7/2 WON +£350
4.20 Catterick GARLETON Lay £100 @ 3.90 WON -£290

Blank days on monday & tuesday..........

with the racing making limited appeal for my services, Tuesday would have been without any action but one of our shops reported interest in Clive Brittains Intibah, amounts not significant but the faces backing the horse were, got tied up in some bet settling and consequently missed the 6/1 available with Lads, so availed myself of the 5/1, not complaining as Intibah was sent off a well supported 5/2 shot always travelling a victory never looked in doubt .................. UNTIL Ours came out of the pack to eat into Intibahs lead, thankfully the line came in time to give me a nice win on the day.

PERSONAL BETTING

4.40 Southwell INTIBAH £50 ew @ 5/1 WON +£300

minimal sunday action ................

which im always happy with, but with Spurs in the Carling Cup final i was especially pleased not having to concern myself with betting, last year being a season ticket holder i was at Wembley to witness the 1-0 victory versus Chelsea, but with times hard and work commitments i did not renew this season, to be honest i have not missed it much, but lets face it it has not been a memorable season on the field so far, has it !!!!
So Sunday afternoon was spent in the local, cheering them on, we didnt get the end result but at least we put in a decent performance and competed throughout the 120 minutes.

One bet, one winner from VSR in the form of Leopardstown scorer Shirley Casper @ 9/4.

SUNDAY

VSR

2.55 Leop SHIRLEY CASPER £25 ew @ 9/4 WON +£67.50

Fridays win for Quince.........

in the Wolves 7.20 made it a full house from the Bet Plan, a reverse today but bank has increased from a monkey to £774.01. Had a manic Saturday really busy at work and my personal betting had to take a backseat, but the 2.00 Kelso was where my focus was directed with OPTIMUM putting up Open de Lisle 4pts @ 11/4, but then the beauty of my job came into play from a trading perspective with this race, as commission agents of all sorts came out of the wood word to back Cantgeton at all rates from 4/1 to 3/1, it was as if everyone and anyone wanted to be on at any rate above 3/1, i dont know if it was the owners money all i would say is that they wanted to get involved in a aggressive style.

SATURDAY

OPTIMUM RACING

2.00 Kelso OPEN DE LISLE £100 @ 11/4 3rd -£100

VSR

2.25 Doncaster BORDER REIVER £25 ew @ 6/1 unpld -£50

PERSONAL TRADING

2.00 Kelso CANTGETON £100 @ 4/1 WON +£400
2.00 Kelso CANTGETON lay £100 @ 4.00 WON -£300