A Valentine's Day Gift For You... My Best Ever!
Because I love you, dear reader, and I truly appreciate your ongoing support, in terms of reading my rambling racing ranting, and occasionally clicking on the little advert-y type links, which equate to pennies (and no more!) to me, and – of course – sharing your views via the comments, I have a little Valentine's Day gift for you...
Before I get to that, though, as I like to do, I thought I'd quickly establish who St Valentine was, and why it is we celebrate our love on this day...
I thought I would, but alas, it seems there is no categorical verdict on this. As
www.techdirect.com/valentine/origin.html has it:
While it can't be proved historically, there were seven men named Valentine who were honored with feasts on February 14th. Of these men, two stories link incidents that could have given our present day meaning to St. Valentine's Day.
One of these men named Valentine was a priest during the reign of Emperor Claudius. Valentine was revered by the young and old, rich and poor, with people of all walks of life attending his services. At this time Emperor Claudius was heavily recruiting men to serve as soldiers for his wars without much success.
The men preferred not to leave their wives, families and sweethearts to fight in foreign lands. Claudius became angry and declared that no more marriages could be performed and all engagements were cancelled.
Valentine thought this to be unfair and secretly married several couples. When Claudius found out, he threw Valentine in prison where he died. Friends of the priest retrieved his body and buried it in a churchyard in Rome.
Another version had St. Valentine jailed for helping Christians. While Valentine was in prison he cured a jailer's daughter of blindness. Claudius became enraged and had Valentine clubbed and beheaded on February 14, 269 A.D.
Yet another story claims that Valentine fell in love with the jailer's daughter and wrote her letters that were signed "From your Valentine."
All of the seven Valentines eventually evolved into one. In 496 Pope Gelasius declared the day in honor of St. Valentine. Through the centuries the Christian holiday became a time to exchange love messages and St. Valentine became the patron saint of lovers. Lovers' quarrels come under his jurisdiction and, naturally, he is the patron saint of engaged couples and of anyone wishing to marry.
Enough of this flirtatious frivolity, and onwards to my gift to you...
I'm offering you a free copy of TrainerTrackStats, which has been doing really rather well again this season. Not only that, but you can also receive my daily email updates until the end of April absolutely gratis. And... so could all your racing mates!
It's a pretty generous offer, and possibly one I'll live to regret, as I'm basically giving away something that I charge good money for. In fact, March and April's email subs would set you back £54 if you hadn't bought TTS, and £67 (including the guide) if you had.
To recap, since the start of December, TTS has won nearly two grand for twenty pound stakes, win only, and well over £2,500 win and place for the same stakes.
Last Saturday, there were 12 runners. Six won, at 14/1, 4/1, 4/1, 7/2, 7/4 and 1/4 (Denman making it a good day for winning SP's including 1's and 4's!).
On Sunday, there were three runners. 2/1 shot Dream Alliance fell when tanking along, Otarie was 3rd at 14/1, and Oscar Bay won at 13/2.
Yesterday, Cornerback popped up at 11/2, to keep the winners rolling.
OK, so it's obviously an excellent product, and I'm giving it away for zippy nada, not just to you but to all your racing associates as well. Am I mad? Not quite...
Here's what I ask in return:
1.Open your email program and add two or more racing friends in the 'To' box.
2.Tell them about this free offer (or refer them to www.nag-nag-nag.co.uk/blog.html)
3.Ask them to send a blank email to nag@getresponse.com (which will sign them up to receive these blog posts) and to tell you when they've done this
4.When they confirm they've done this, email me their names / emails at matt@nag-nag-nag.co.uk (of course, you have my word I'll only use them for checking purposes)
5.I will check they've signed up, and send the guide to you and all those that signed up with you.
6.If four or more of your mates sign up, I'll also add you and them to my email list, so you receive the daily email updates telling you which horses qualify.
7.Er, that's it..!
Now of course I am asking you for something here, and I appreciate that you may not wish to do this, which is absolutely fine. I have no problems with that whatsoever.
However, if you think this site is of value to you, and if you enjoy my periodic ramblings, system reviews, travelogs, Friday Fun, free tips, racing previews, and so on, then maybe your pals will too.
Put simply, if you copy and paste the above into an email to your mates, and they like racing freebies, you'll all be enjoying TTS for the rest of the jumps season.
And, it gets better... If they then share it with their mates, pretty soon, a whole lot of people will be getting a whole lot of free love (no, not that kind...!)
I hope you think this is fair (it basically means I will make no more money out of 'my baby' for the rest of the year!!!)
So, somewhat premature (as ever, I hear my lady friend chortling!), I wish you a Happy Valentine's Day, and hope the object of your affections reciprocates your sentiments with roses on...
Matt xx
Before I get to that, though, as I like to do, I thought I'd quickly establish who St Valentine was, and why it is we celebrate our love on this day...
I thought I would, but alas, it seems there is no categorical verdict on this. As
www.techdirect.com/valentine/origin.html has it:
While it can't be proved historically, there were seven men named Valentine who were honored with feasts on February 14th. Of these men, two stories link incidents that could have given our present day meaning to St. Valentine's Day.
One of these men named Valentine was a priest during the reign of Emperor Claudius. Valentine was revered by the young and old, rich and poor, with people of all walks of life attending his services. At this time Emperor Claudius was heavily recruiting men to serve as soldiers for his wars without much success.
The men preferred not to leave their wives, families and sweethearts to fight in foreign lands. Claudius became angry and declared that no more marriages could be performed and all engagements were cancelled.
Valentine thought this to be unfair and secretly married several couples. When Claudius found out, he threw Valentine in prison where he died. Friends of the priest retrieved his body and buried it in a churchyard in Rome.
Another version had St. Valentine jailed for helping Christians. While Valentine was in prison he cured a jailer's daughter of blindness. Claudius became enraged and had Valentine clubbed and beheaded on February 14, 269 A.D.
Yet another story claims that Valentine fell in love with the jailer's daughter and wrote her letters that were signed "From your Valentine."
All of the seven Valentines eventually evolved into one. In 496 Pope Gelasius declared the day in honor of St. Valentine. Through the centuries the Christian holiday became a time to exchange love messages and St. Valentine became the patron saint of lovers. Lovers' quarrels come under his jurisdiction and, naturally, he is the patron saint of engaged couples and of anyone wishing to marry.
Enough of this flirtatious frivolity, and onwards to my gift to you...
I'm offering you a free copy of TrainerTrackStats, which has been doing really rather well again this season. Not only that, but you can also receive my daily email updates until the end of April absolutely gratis. And... so could all your racing mates!
It's a pretty generous offer, and possibly one I'll live to regret, as I'm basically giving away something that I charge good money for. In fact, March and April's email subs would set you back £54 if you hadn't bought TTS, and £67 (including the guide) if you had.
To recap, since the start of December, TTS has won nearly two grand for twenty pound stakes, win only, and well over £2,500 win and place for the same stakes.
Last Saturday, there were 12 runners. Six won, at 14/1, 4/1, 4/1, 7/2, 7/4 and 1/4 (Denman making it a good day for winning SP's including 1's and 4's!).
On Sunday, there were three runners. 2/1 shot Dream Alliance fell when tanking along, Otarie was 3rd at 14/1, and Oscar Bay won at 13/2.
Yesterday, Cornerback popped up at 11/2, to keep the winners rolling.
OK, so it's obviously an excellent product, and I'm giving it away for zippy nada, not just to you but to all your racing associates as well. Am I mad? Not quite...
Here's what I ask in return:
1.Open your email program and add two or more racing friends in the 'To' box.
2.Tell them about this free offer (or refer them to www.nag-nag-nag.co.uk/blog.html)
3.Ask them to send a blank email to nag@getresponse.com (which will sign them up to receive these blog posts) and to tell you when they've done this
4.When they confirm they've done this, email me their names / emails at matt@nag-nag-nag.co.uk (of course, you have my word I'll only use them for checking purposes)
5.I will check they've signed up, and send the guide to you and all those that signed up with you.
6.If four or more of your mates sign up, I'll also add you and them to my email list, so you receive the daily email updates telling you which horses qualify.
7.Er, that's it..!
Now of course I am asking you for something here, and I appreciate that you may not wish to do this, which is absolutely fine. I have no problems with that whatsoever.
However, if you think this site is of value to you, and if you enjoy my periodic ramblings, system reviews, travelogs, Friday Fun, free tips, racing previews, and so on, then maybe your pals will too.
Put simply, if you copy and paste the above into an email to your mates, and they like racing freebies, you'll all be enjoying TTS for the rest of the jumps season.
And, it gets better... If they then share it with their mates, pretty soon, a whole lot of people will be getting a whole lot of free love (no, not that kind...!)
I hope you think this is fair (it basically means I will make no more money out of 'my baby' for the rest of the year!!!)
So, somewhat premature (as ever, I hear my lady friend chortling!), I wish you a Happy Valentine's Day, and hope the object of your affections reciprocates your sentiments with roses on...
Matt xx
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