Cheltenham 23 Mega Thread

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  1. KamikazeCo-Pilot

    KamikazeCo-Pilot Well-Known Member

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    Its now or never for this one. Always on my mind to back this at these odds but if he doesn't at least place I'll be all shook up
     
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    13:30 Impaire Et Passe
    14:10 Gerri Colombe
    14:50 Run For Oscar EW
    15:30 Energumene
    16:10 Delta Work
    16:50 Andy Dufresne
    17:30 Fascile Mode EW
     
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    x11barnsley Well-Known Member

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    Good luck everyone !
    Five favourites won yesterday and I reckon there’ll be quite a few today as well .
    Let’s take some money off the nice bookies !!!!!!!!!!
     
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    Run free, Malinello. :(
    #bloodonyourhands
     
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    The Real Whacker puts me ahead for the week so far!
    San Salvador in the 2:50
     
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    Mr C is normally a good poster. No point engaging on this. He has a different view, which self-evidently is not shared by the rest of us engaging on the actual racing.
     
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    Yes fair enough, point taken.
     
  9. x11barnsley

    x11barnsley Well-Known Member

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    Bitter they are, harder they fall
     
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    I'm doing well on the winners but really struggling to get any sort of long shot on a good E/W bet. I shouldn't moan but it's usually the other way around. I've barely had any horse placed in 1.5 days.
     
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    I’m two winners and a place from the first three on my lucky 63 today.

    And my choice in the third was only beaten by barely a nose in the line as well. I’ve backed Energumene in this next race.

    I’m a bit skint so only using free bets, Paddy Power offering £5 a day for the first three days.

    Returned just over £7 cash yesterday which I’ve left in and used another free bet today, which I’ll get something back from given the result of the first three races. Free money. Same tomorrow, likely to get something back.

    I’ll put a cheap lucky 63 on Friday with what’s there and there’ll still be something left in the cash pot.

    Which I’ll inevitably stick on a football acca on Saturday and lose.
     
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    If it’s stats, you want. & this Animal Aid, not some random ‘fact’, plucked from the arse end of the internet. Not that it will make blind bit of difference to anyone.
    https://www.horsedeathwatch.com/background.php
    I wouldn’t mind so much, if people had the balls to say- fck the welfare of the horses, my gambling habit is much more important to me.-
    But instead it’s like listening to Tories trying to defend their hideous immigration bill.. o_O
     
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    You're absolutely correct.

    I revel in the misery of the pain of horses, and each time one passes away I raise my drink to toast another successful death.

    Hopefully you continue to post in this thread as we long for another horse death celebrate.

    Don't forget, every time you get behind the wheel of a car YOU are contributing to the death of horses
     
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    It's absolutely nothing like that though is it?
     
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    Iput 4 ante post bets on i had 2 slips with 2 horses on an 2 with 1, wint be backing ante post again, i've got 50parnd e / way on Global Citizen and that's all ive bet on

    Nice return on mi bet doubled mi money,

    Nowt to loose, money back in bank, 50parnd e /way Klassical Dream
     
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  16. BrunNer

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    FFS, had £10 e/w on Francky Du Berlais at 100/1. Refused the last while in third!
     
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    If you race a horse (that incidentally has only been bred and only exists because of racing) then yes there is a risk of injury and death.

    That’s not good. Of course it isn’t.

    If you have a horse to ride as a hobby there is a risk of injury and death whenever you ride it. Be it on a road, on a bridle way. If a horse dies on the road say, does the rider have blood on his/her hands for riding on the road? Does the driver? They knew the risk.

    You think horse racing is cruel. Ok. You aren’t alone and are entitled to the view. But the ‘blood on your hands’ quip is beyond the pale. What in life has no risk?

    If you drive to asda with your toddler in the back and get sideswiped by a lorry, and the kid dies, do you have blood on your hands for exposing the child to the risk? I appreciate the percentage risk isn’t the same, but where is the line in the sand here?

    If these thoroughbred horses weren’t ridden out daily and raced, then they’d still want to run and jump. They could fall in a field and snap a leg, with no human around and potentially lie in pain for hours - and then have to be destroyed.

    Racing is an imperfect sport. You also can’t ask a horse if it wants to compete. But I can guarantee you that any horse which doesn’t want to race won’t be running at Cheltenham. These beasts want to race. It is literally bred into them.

    I don’t particularly revel in the knowledge a cow has been slaughtered to feed me, but I still like steak and burgers.

    The relatively low chance of harm to a horse won’t stop me having a very occasional bet. (Generally Cheltenham week, the grand national and maybe the St Leger). It doesn’t mean I don’t care when a horse is lost.
     
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    Today has so far been a double ya money day.

    3 wins and a place from an each way in last race.

    But ive a pot luck in last race and gone with Fun Fun Fun on an each way.

    So... Anything else is a bonus and tomorrow's bets are now kind of free.

    Can't see me carrying on in this vain like, never that lucky
     
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    Think positive… conditions are good so it’s likely that fancied horses will win again.
    Biggest price winner, so far was 20’s in last race.
    Wup these bookies
     
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    I'm having a 5hit Cheltenham thus far. Just the two winners. It's the e/w punts that have taken me into day three and four. So far there's only 4:10, 4:50 and 5:30 on Friday I haven't had any bets in. Got £211 riding on the next 11 races plus £5 due back off a non runner tomorrow. So I'm hoping that changes. I've backed short priced horses but just the wrong ones as my picks will point out :(:D
     
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