mick
Sire
Defiantly a Marmite means of investing but over the years some of my very best and worst memory's have come from same. While i am not aware of having any masochistic tendencies there can be an almost perverted pleasure involved when having placed your bet you then feel the need to constantly scan the press and Dec stages , will i get a run will the weights be raised or will the going or draw sabotage the wager. But on the occasions when come the 48hr decs all is sweet there is no finer feeling than to be holding a voucher @ 33/1 for an animal the market is now calling a 10/1 shot. Well perhaps one when some of them actually oblige by winning.
I do not bet on the NH so while waiting for turf flat AP opportunities i thought i would contribute to the thread by recalling some of my above and will start with two sides of the coin from one of my fav races The Cambridgeshire. It was 34yrs ago when Dallas won but i still cringe when recalling because i had an elderly betting shop mate whose nephew made the grade as a jockey. He also bet and left a tank with his uncle and we placed his money.
A few days prior to the race he asked us to put a fair wedge on Dallas @ 14/1 and we went round the shops and got this done. Uncle Harry followed in but having looked at the race i concluded that Dallas a 3yo with a big weight could not win so had nothing on for myself. On the Monday as we drove back round the shops collecting a bag full of cash i received ever increasing amounts of stick from Harry. !
A more recent and happier recollection was when Spark Plug won the 2016 running. Although its none of my business i have a thing about horses names and when he first started running i recall thinking not a positive or kind name for a race horse. But when the entries where published i worked the race and concluded that off my ratings and profiling Sparkie had the makings so when the AP market went up i started backing him at 33/1.
At the 48hr decs he was declared to run with the rider i was hoping for shown as booked, but matters then started to take a turn for the worst because an Indian Autumn meant the ground was Fc G-F and i wanted good. On the morning of the race this was changed to Firm in places something we seldom see at Newm and the swear box then received a good earn when the course clerk announced that they had not watered over night because a heavy dew was fc which did not occur.!
By this time Sparkie was 12/1 but Tbh i was feeling very negative about his prospects and had mentally accepted that my money was done, but no one told the horse that the ground was to fast because he won by 2lens giving me a very good pay day indeed.
Anyway that's a couple of my AP tales and i would love to read some of yours.
I do not bet on the NH so while waiting for turf flat AP opportunities i thought i would contribute to the thread by recalling some of my above and will start with two sides of the coin from one of my fav races The Cambridgeshire. It was 34yrs ago when Dallas won but i still cringe when recalling because i had an elderly betting shop mate whose nephew made the grade as a jockey. He also bet and left a tank with his uncle and we placed his money.
A few days prior to the race he asked us to put a fair wedge on Dallas @ 14/1 and we went round the shops and got this done. Uncle Harry followed in but having looked at the race i concluded that Dallas a 3yo with a big weight could not win so had nothing on for myself. On the Monday as we drove back round the shops collecting a bag full of cash i received ever increasing amounts of stick from Harry. !
A more recent and happier recollection was when Spark Plug won the 2016 running. Although its none of my business i have a thing about horses names and when he first started running i recall thinking not a positive or kind name for a race horse. But when the entries where published i worked the race and concluded that off my ratings and profiling Sparkie had the makings so when the AP market went up i started backing him at 33/1.
At the 48hr decs he was declared to run with the rider i was hoping for shown as booked, but matters then started to take a turn for the worst because an Indian Autumn meant the ground was Fc G-F and i wanted good. On the morning of the race this was changed to Firm in places something we seldom see at Newm and the swear box then received a good earn when the course clerk announced that they had not watered over night because a heavy dew was fc which did not occur.!
By this time Sparkie was 12/1 but Tbh i was feeling very negative about his prospects and had mentally accepted that my money was done, but no one told the horse that the ground was to fast because he won by 2lens giving me a very good pay day indeed.
Anyway that's a couple of my AP tales and i would love to read some of yours.
