Brevity again being the key as only just had chips and have a date with my pillow in about an hour. Before we get into the blog thanks to a couple of our colleagues for helping us out with a cash hedge today. A friend in need's a friend indeed and all that. But did we box clever????
1) For most of the betting the winner, Stage Star, was a fairly significant loser as you couldn't keep them off it. Fortunately for us we took plenty of late money on Mighty Potter to flip that into liability and give us a modest win. Which was then obliterated by a truly rancid place book which took away about 80% of said profit. Small top up with the forecast but we didn't truly cash in on what looked a result, mainly as a result of having a stack of profit on Appreciate It who was never in it. At least it gave me the obvious gag throughout.
2) If I believed in luck we were in the "if we didn't have bad luck we'd have no luck" category as two monster jackpots were fighting it out only for Good Time Johnny to descend from the clouds, and a suitably massive in running price, to go past and kill us. Done by the collective Johnnies and mothers of Johnnies. The joint got a kick. Repeatedly. I wanted to go home. No points for wallowing in your own metaphorical filth though and 20 seconds later we were up and at it again. And there's no such thing as luck despite what the heather seller in the car park would have you believe. 10 quid a sprig apparently. We've got tons of it in Scotland and it'll normally only cost you 3 footsteps from your car. Plus a fiver for a lucky stone. You don't even need to leave the layby to get one of them for free.
3) Got stuck into Shishkin for a lovely chunky liability. Chances all over the book though Envoi Allen and Hitman were tiddlers and an each way problem as well. Shishkin jumped like a houseboat but ran like a rutting stag in between fences to ensure we were never quite comfortable. Finished like a train but was too far back. Beaten by our worst winner which was also a massive place liability and Hitman pretty much assassinated our win book profit. Little win on the forecast but the feeling remained that we just couldn't get a break, even when we got them beaten.
4) We took a couple of very chunky early bets from connections on Home By The Lee. Then a couple more from the family of the connections of Home By The Lee. Then a couple more from the extended family. Then possibly some more from the bloke they met in the pub. Either way it was going to be a max liability as early as 11:30. Then much the same situation for Flooring Porter but without the bloke from the pub. Both max liabilities in both win and place. We got them beaten but, again, felt we missed out on what looked like a huge result by winning well, but not spectacularly. The favourite placing helped but the other big priced one didn't. We were nicely ahead now but we were still plagued with what might have been.
5) Max liabilities on the jolly DatsAlrightGino and Midnight River plus halfs on Il Ridoto and Frero Banbou. We had a mercifully stress free race for once as good winners were the only ones in it and a solid win on Seddon was supplemented by a dream of a place result which gave us half as much again. We finally had expenses for the week in sight without the need for a Hubble.
6) Luccia was a max plus and meant we only had one other loser (Under Control) but again we were living in Worst Winner Land with You Wear It Well though, again, we stood plenty in the places and got our reward which ended up trebling our win bet.
7) As the rain continued the final race was a quieter betting heat. Or maybe everyone was getting a head start on the Cheltenham Car Park Inchathon. Angel's Dawn was a very nice winner and yet another place win which hadn't been in evidence much this week.
All in all we had a very nice win and the week's expenses are finally paid which didn't look likely this time yesterday. We were definitely under par v the traditional layers today, primarily by our inability to lay Appreciate It in the first and standing Shishkin but not getting full reward. The way we bet we have to accept that and we also know we won pretty well when we probably shouldn't have on Tuesday and didn't get the pummelling we could have yesterday so rough and smooth and all that.
Finally, Placebo and Radiohead (sort of) in there if you were paying attention. I'm hoping the Placebo shoehorn was worth it- I'll find out tomorrow...
We're travelling most of tomorrow evening on the way to the Newcastle (for Saturday) with Kev and Pap FM so I will be blogless until Sunday. But then you get a Gold Cup/Newcastle double header. If I was blogging on Sky Martin Tyler will tell you it's live, but it won't be. It'll be retrospective.
Until then...
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