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Royal Ascot 22/6/24 - The Sun Always Shines On TV
A few musings on the week before we hit the main betting bit; Crowds were up at Ascot overall but down fairly significantly on The...
Royal Ascot 21/6/24 - Come on Pilgrim
We're packing up tonight for the long trip north after racing tomorrow so this is going to be short and sweet. Though, clearly, not as...
Royal Ascot 20/6/24 - Wave of Mutilation
Again- this won't be a long one as we're doing 12 hour days all told and the longer the week goes on the more tired we get. My extremely...
Royal Ascot 19/6/24 - Sale of the Century
A rather splendid curry at the Gurkha Chef means I've got about 10 minutes to write this before I crash. Brevity is good for the soul...
Royal Ascot 18/6/24 - Chaos Theory
I'm writing this preamble on Monday night so I have no idea how we've done but I do know what's happened on the trip down. We dropped off...
Hexham 15/6/24 - Meat is (Comedy) Murder
Firstly I'm not a vegetarian or vegan. So why the odd title? Well, firstly, it's a cracking album and if you're tempted to tell me The...
Perth 9/6/24 - Don't Go Back To Perth(ville)
Another blog, another mangled 1980s REM album track. Gold Cup Day which has always been a strong betting meeting. The predicted crowd was...
Hamilton 2/6/24 - Finest Workhorse
This was the final of our triple header of early season Hamilton jaunts which were all something of a reconnaissance mission. First two...
Musselburgh 1/6/24 - Dunno
Quick turnaround from Musselburgh today to Hamilton tomorrow so it'll be a quick trot through the betting action before I,...
Kelso 26/5/24 - CTRL, ALT, DEL and start again...
So the short lived Sunday evening experiment has been shelved. Interestingly because of a lack of increase in betting turnover-...
Hamilton 17/5/23 - It's The End Of The Card As We Know It
I know. I'm plagiarising myself. I've used this song title before but it seems apt today and it's a truly fantastic tune. In fact, I do...
Perth 16/5/24 - Lazarus
I appreciate that, nominally, you're here for the betting blog but, really, I know you're here for the latest instalment of the CairnBet...
Hamilton 5/5/24 - Slight Return
Where did we go? Thinking back we've not been at Hamilton since Covid I don't think. I mean, I've passed through it on the M74 but the...
Musselburgh 3/5/24 - Chance
Our 3 day (semi) epic jaunt through 3 meetings which are all marginal calls for one reason or another starts at Musselburgh on a Friday...
Perth 26/4/24 - And The Beat Goes On
I know you are only reading this to see how the big CairnBet v Pinno Golf Match ended and modesty prevents me from mentioning CairnBet's...
Musselburgh 21/4/24 - It's Oh So Quiet Shhhh
After the busiest day of the Scottish calendar we were back to normality. Or so we thought. Another desperately quiet meeting which was a...
Ayr 20/4/24 - Dreams Stay With You
A quick Kelso catch up from Monday first- apologies for lack of blog. Business dire, though the good news is that our Harry Potter run...
Newcastle 13/4/24 - Why Does It Always Rain On Me?
So here we are after an enforced hiatus as the rain beat down relentlessly, costing us a few meetings, particularly the very good Easter...
Newcastle 29/3/24 - Like The Weather
In deference to a couple of our very favourite bookmakers, we start by revealing where we were hiding when the storm broke after a late...