Saturday 18th January 2020 + Summary

TODAY’S SELECTIONS

12.40 – Ascot – Goshen. Only 5 runners & ours is way, way out in front of the betting. WIN.

14.05 – Haydock – Thebannerkingrebel. What a stupid name. Only 4 runners. Number of places paying out is 2. Close-ish odds. SPLIT.

15.35 – Ascot – Defi Du Seuil. A bit tricky. 4 runners & ours is almost exactly the same odds as Un De Sceaux. Probably a SPLIT.

OBAD – See 14.05 above.

RATCHET – 10% of Bank Stake.

Let’s keep our fingers crossed, the horses on the turf & the jockeys on their saddles!

YESTERDAY’S SUMMARY

A losing day, BUT stick to the faith. The software will come up trumps & we will be on the winning path really soon. I know the last few days have been disappointing, but we can’t win every race. There are ups & downs, the same with everything. We’ve experienced our Downs; now it’s time for our Ups and tomorrow’s the day it swings in our favour again.

13.45 – Chepstow – Getaway Fred. Odds on Favourite. I went for a Win. Yet again, this let us down. Ours came 2nd after leading. That makes it FOUR straight losses, with my stake increasing with each bet. Meaning my losses are also increasing with each bet.

14.25 – Musselburgh – Smart Lass. Because the odds had dropped after I posted my initial choices, I went for a WIN. This would have brought my earlier loss back into a profit of over 2.5% target for the day. So what happened?? The damn thing came 2nd, beaten by a 4/1 runner. Now I am standing at FIVE losses on the run. My Bank has taken an absolute hammering and because I was up to a 7 point stake, my software spreadsheet won’t let me place any more bets for the day.

20.00 – Dundalk – Power Ahead. Not betting on this as my spreadsheet cuts in & won’t let me bet over 7 points.

OBAD – I have now had 4 losing bets out of the last 5. Bank shattered.

TRIPLER – 2 losing bets today added to 3 losing bets yesterday. My Betting Bank has been decimated in the space of 5 bets. I am still in profit, so can’t really argue, but to see my Bank fall faster than one of Fred Dibnah’s chimneys is abhorrent. I feel totally shattered at the last 2 days.

RATCHET – at least there were 2 winning bets, which is something. But I started my Ratchet betting with a much lower Bank than Tripler, so even a 4% profit was nowhere near catching up the losses on Tripler.

Here’s hoping for better results tomorrow, which I feel sure will happen.