Straight into this one as you've no doubt already read the laboured preamble (or, more likely scrolled through it) from yesterday's blog.
1) A slightly milder hotpot to open with than yesterday with favourite Country Queen hovering around evens or a touch odds on. Untouched book for us here with jolly a small loser and, predictably for us, the 3 at the bottom of the market losers for the max. Our luck from yesterday held into the first today with our biggest winner, Our Marty, giving us a cracking start supplemented by barely laying a winning each way bet either and a few quid on the forecast giving us the cherry on top. Even though I don't like cherries...
2) 2 losers in a 3 runner race and the sages of the ring didn't approve. We did, though, when Statuario made all and beat our 2 bogeys only slightly pruned by a losing forecast market.
3) Seriously? Honestly? Another jolly (Fine By Me) beaten at Perth. The stuff of dreams as we had it for the max. You Name Him not our best winner but the bandwagon rolled on in the most unexpected fashion. Could we continue?
4) No. No we couldn't. 4 runners, 2 losers, the bottom 2 in the market for the max. Went for a quick toilet break and by the time I'd emerged we could only lose as our winners conspired to take each other out. Big step backwards but we knew we could keep beating them forever.
5) What? Another rag wins at Perth? Nayati was nibbled in the market and looked a lively outside chance for us and laying Jackhammer and Platinumcard for solid liabilities meant another good winner for us. Crazy times at Perth.
6) And at that point we should've gone home... Easy Bucks, easy win, moderate loss. Only consolation was the 2nd horse, Rapid Raider, was even worse. Our 2 were never going.
7) Oh this was an absolute shocker of a book. My mate from the golf club had been telling me all day that he was up for a big each way in the last on Jardine's "Shir I Don't Know" which, frankly, could've been anything. We laid 20/1 for plenty each way and watched in horror as it collapsed and collapsed and collapsed. The win book was shot, the place book even worse and there was no late drift to save us with it going off well into single figures and the late hedging I had to carry out was the liberal application of expensive lipstick on the smelliest of pigs and we had losers absolutely all over the place. Oink. We had the teeniest of squeaks a couple of furlongs out as Bix Beiderbecke unexpectedly hit odds on in running and, just as quickly, hit 1000 and one of our (several) max liabilities, Jem in Em, beat another one Wisteria Bloom in the "Who Cares We've Lost Anyway" Stakes.
We gave about half of our day's profit back on the last 2 races but, overall, a very nice couple of days for us after losing out on a big 2 day meeting and Musselburgh a couple of weeks earlier and then seeing Kelso being, well, Kelso last week. A final note. I am sure that Hazel Peplinski wouldn't waste her time reading the ramblings of an exiled Scouser in Scotland but, on the off chance she does, we wish you a very happy retirement. Perth continued to thrive during her stewardship and we (and many others no doubt) as bookmakers are very grateful that the track continues to offer solid opportunities to work on what would be normally considered "off" days. Long may that continue.
Squeaky bums books at Kelso await a week on Sunday. Until then...
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