I Need Your Help!
A short Monday night note to you, dear reader, and a plea for assistance, if I may.
As you may have noticed, I have little 'Rate My Blog' icon on this page, where you can award me a mark out of ten for this little periodic tipping and tittle tattle column.
If you enjoy reading my thoughts, comments and suggestions (or even if you don't!), would you be so kind as to award me a mark out of ten? I appreciate you're all busy people, and will be very grateful to all who are able to do this for me. It will literally take two seconds to do.
Incidentally, if you have any comments regarding issues you'd like to see discussed, or thoughts you may have, there is also the opportunity to use the 'comments' button at the end of this post.
I'm always interested to hear your thoughts - it feels rather lonely writing this spot with no real knowledge (aside from the odd very kind comment on email) of whether its hitting the mark or not. So your help is again very much appreciated.
Enough begging on my part, already!
On to the great Teofilo debate, and Jim Bolger, the (alleged) wonderhorse's trainer has today issued his promised update bulletin. He was extremely upbeat about the chances of Teofilo both making the lineup,and indeed winning, the 2000 Guineas. Good news for those who have backed him, egg on face potential for yours truly.
He is now trading at around 3/1 on betfair and a best priced 11/4 with bookies (Stan James). This cynical young wag still considers this shocking value, as Bolger did sound a word of caution that he couldn't be certain that the ailment afflicting his aspirant Pegasus would recur, nor even that it was fully healed. The horse will canter Wednesday, do half work Thursday and work for real on the weekend, all being well.
He remains not for me. Of more appeal is his filly, Finsceal Beo, who is favourite for the 1000 Guineas. She was impressive in her trial, so we know she's trained on, and will go to the race in form and fit, which is more than can be said for her (considerably) more greatly hyped stablemate.
Other news: Rapid City finished a staying on 12th (beaten by 11, beat 11) of 23 in the Spring Cup on Saturday, and was only beaten five lengths. He will definitely have chances over a stiffer (and more end to end gallop) mile, or a mile and a quarter. The plan for him is Royal Ascot in due course, and I am wetting my pants in excitement at that prospect. (Before you ask, I'm not literally wetting my pants - that would be silly when I've been able to use the potty for a couple of years now. No, rather, I'm metaphorically very thrilled about the chance of being dressed up like The Penguin out of Batman and bowing and scraping in front of Her Maj...)
Finally, a quick mention for TrainerFlatStats, which stepped up a gear today with a lovely 10/1 winner at Pontefract, courtesy of Tim Easterby's Flighty Fellow. There haven't been many runners to date (just 15), but that will change soon enough, with the start of evening racing coinciding with the slowdown of jump racing.
Its not too late to get the discount version of the guide (£27 instead of £57), but it will be after next Monday.
Check www.trainerflatstats.com for details of the guide (and associated bonus reports), but make sure you use this link to buy or you'll end up three cockles (that's £30 to you squire) down on the deal...
http://www.trainerflatstats.com/introorderpage.html
And finally finally, though I am in no way a Manchester United fan, a huge congratulation goes to Cristiano Ronaldo, who has overcome the boo boys (including me) with a season of absolutely breathtaking displays to be awarded both the PFA Player of the Year and Young Player of the Year trophies - the first person to do this for twenty odd years apparently. Surely the Football Writers' prize will follow, as will World Player of the Year in December, a knighthood in the New Years' Honours list, and investiture into sainthood by the end of next season.
In all seriousness, as a Bournemouth fan, I have no partisan affiliation in the Premier League, so enjoy each game on its merits. With the exception of their most recent outing against Boro (cost me money!), I have been thoroughly entertained every single time I've watched United this season.
Love 'em or hate 'em, you've got to take your hat off to 'em. (With apologies to fans of all other Premiership clubs, esp. Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool!)
Pip pip!
Matt
As you may have noticed, I have little 'Rate My Blog' icon on this page, where you can award me a mark out of ten for this little periodic tipping and tittle tattle column.
If you enjoy reading my thoughts, comments and suggestions (or even if you don't!), would you be so kind as to award me a mark out of ten? I appreciate you're all busy people, and will be very grateful to all who are able to do this for me. It will literally take two seconds to do.
Incidentally, if you have any comments regarding issues you'd like to see discussed, or thoughts you may have, there is also the opportunity to use the 'comments' button at the end of this post.
I'm always interested to hear your thoughts - it feels rather lonely writing this spot with no real knowledge (aside from the odd very kind comment on email) of whether its hitting the mark or not. So your help is again very much appreciated.
Enough begging on my part, already!
On to the great Teofilo debate, and Jim Bolger, the (alleged) wonderhorse's trainer has today issued his promised update bulletin. He was extremely upbeat about the chances of Teofilo both making the lineup,and indeed winning, the 2000 Guineas. Good news for those who have backed him, egg on face potential for yours truly.
He is now trading at around 3/1 on betfair and a best priced 11/4 with bookies (Stan James). This cynical young wag still considers this shocking value, as Bolger did sound a word of caution that he couldn't be certain that the ailment afflicting his aspirant Pegasus would recur, nor even that it was fully healed. The horse will canter Wednesday, do half work Thursday and work for real on the weekend, all being well.
He remains not for me. Of more appeal is his filly, Finsceal Beo, who is favourite for the 1000 Guineas. She was impressive in her trial, so we know she's trained on, and will go to the race in form and fit, which is more than can be said for her (considerably) more greatly hyped stablemate.
Other news: Rapid City finished a staying on 12th (beaten by 11, beat 11) of 23 in the Spring Cup on Saturday, and was only beaten five lengths. He will definitely have chances over a stiffer (and more end to end gallop) mile, or a mile and a quarter. The plan for him is Royal Ascot in due course, and I am wetting my pants in excitement at that prospect. (Before you ask, I'm not literally wetting my pants - that would be silly when I've been able to use the potty for a couple of years now. No, rather, I'm metaphorically very thrilled about the chance of being dressed up like The Penguin out of Batman and bowing and scraping in front of Her Maj...)
Finally, a quick mention for TrainerFlatStats, which stepped up a gear today with a lovely 10/1 winner at Pontefract, courtesy of Tim Easterby's Flighty Fellow. There haven't been many runners to date (just 15), but that will change soon enough, with the start of evening racing coinciding with the slowdown of jump racing.
Its not too late to get the discount version of the guide (£27 instead of £57), but it will be after next Monday.
Check www.trainerflatstats.com for details of the guide (and associated bonus reports), but make sure you use this link to buy or you'll end up three cockles (that's £30 to you squire) down on the deal...
http://www.trainerflatstats.com/introorderpage.html
And finally finally, though I am in no way a Manchester United fan, a huge congratulation goes to Cristiano Ronaldo, who has overcome the boo boys (including me) with a season of absolutely breathtaking displays to be awarded both the PFA Player of the Year and Young Player of the Year trophies - the first person to do this for twenty odd years apparently. Surely the Football Writers' prize will follow, as will World Player of the Year in December, a knighthood in the New Years' Honours list, and investiture into sainthood by the end of next season.
In all seriousness, as a Bournemouth fan, I have no partisan affiliation in the Premier League, so enjoy each game on its merits. With the exception of their most recent outing against Boro (cost me money!), I have been thoroughly entertained every single time I've watched United this season.
Love 'em or hate 'em, you've got to take your hat off to 'em. (With apologies to fans of all other Premiership clubs, esp. Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool!)
Pip pip!
Matt
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