“£500 Challenge Bet” (£800 – 1 bet running)
Irish 1000 Guineas today. Personally I thought the English version was a mess of a race. The lack of pace was one thing and the other was there looked to be a draw bias – perhaps a strip of faster ground under the rail. All in all it was an unsatisfactory race and I would be far from sure the form will work out. Throw in the way fillies improve and regress at this time of year; that the two O'Brien horses were given far from hard races; and that there's a few Irish fillies held back especially for this, and it's not hard to conclude the front two are a bit short. Slipperytoad tells me Nahoodh could also have stamina limitations – hardly tested in our Guineas.
I'd go 6/4 the front two and we can lay them at around 1.9
Lay Nahoodh and Saoirse Abu to lose £20 at around 1.9
“Barking Bets” (Banked £200/Current bank £1212 – 1 bet running)
(I did three races during the day – all Ok, although one photo finish was a buttock clencher. Sadly I then went on to tackle the two hunter chases at Stratford and hit the buffers. Consecutive losses are pretty horrible in this fund. Sadly we are back where we were about three weeks ago, and that's a lot of standing still. The early rounds of the French Open look a big opportunity/risk. I haven't had time to look at the women's yet, but let's kick-off the men's today.)
Todays bets
Curragh 3:00 Duke of Marmalade £120 at 1.4
Tennis Nalbandian beat Berlocq £1210 at 1.08
Tennis Almagro beat Pashanski £120 at 1.09
Tennis Rochus beat Decourd £120 at 1.25
Tennis Acasuso beat Hrbaty £120 at 1.17
Wish I had laid Nahoodh as well given her stamina doubts and the fact that the Curragh is a testing track.
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