Just two winners reported on the final day from Luke and Gforce - well done. If I've left anyone out, I apologise; please leave a message on this thread and I'll update.
Will hold for any errors on my part then tot up the table and publish.
Wee Consett ... odd that our lifetime nav systems have taken so many here through that place. My first visit was a drive from Scotland in 1988 to sign Reuben Page up for the SiS service.
The nearest we ever got to gambling in those days was buying a few Premium Bonds every month, from what we had left in "savings" then. I used to walk into Consett centre at lunchtimes (if it wasn't too cold) to get a break from teaching, Thus buying a few Premium Bonds at the Post Office every month was a special event. Hope of untold riches beckoned. We bought £41 in total during the time we were there.
I think we lost interest after a while so any spare money got saved in an interest bearing account. There has never been a payout on any of the bonds, which we still have. They are rather strange looking items, giving that feeling of a long forgotten age about them, a bit like postal orders. A poor investment which is nearly 45 years old. I suppose the promise of escape from the daily grind was worth something and you didn't lose your stake. £41 meant something then, though. I think the minimum spend was £3 (it's £25 today), but in five months we were able to stretch to a fiver for a five pound certificate and even one £10 one which made up the total with the two three pound bonds.
Well done Jess Bedi, training her fourth winner under Rules in her short career. Oliver's Island lost out by the minimum distance last week at Lingfield (the furthest Jess has ever travelled a horse from her Teesside base), but gained compensation today at Rasen. Jess has a fine record as a PTP rider in N Yorks and rode work at Rebecca Menzies' and Kevin Ryan's and now as a trainer based at her family's farm she is one to watch.
I have no clue from his breeding as to the naming of Meatloaf, Paul Nicholls' runner in the Wincanton junior bumper. But it has led me to discover a whole world of culinary trivia on Wikipedia, including the fact that the Danish name for meatloaf translates as "mock hare".
The race contains two other horses that recall for me childhood telly watching. Twentyfirstlancer: he's by Churchill; Winston of that ilk served with 17th/21st Lancers at the Battle of Omdurman, where Corporal Jones, later of the Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard Platoon, also fought with great gallantry against the Mad Mahdi. And then there's Mr Mackay, that dour Presbyterian prison officer engaged in a weekly battle of wits against Fletch in Porridge.
None of this drivel constitutes a tip in any way, shape or form. Especially form.
Brough Scott wrote an excellent book 'Churchill at the Gallop' which I received as a Christmas gift a few years back. It hadn't really registered with me how brave a man he was and from insecure memory I think he led the last great cavalry charge. Recommended.
Asy nap is a NR I now going for Champagne Auction as he is going down to post in the 15.35 at Dundalk
Wee Consett ... odd that our lifetime nav systems have taken so many here through that place. My first visit was a drive from Scotland in 1988 to sign Reuben Page up for the SiS service.
Well done Jess Bedi, training her fourth winner under Rules in her short career. Oliver's Island lost out by the minimum distance last week at Lingfield (the furthest Jess has ever travelled a horse from her Teesside base), but gained compensation today at Rasen. Jess has a fine record as a PTP rider in N Yorks and rode work at Rebecca Menzies' and Kevin Ryan's and now as a trainer based at her family's farm she is one to watch.
Chelm 6pm How impressive
Twentyfirst Lancer.
wincanton 3.25
I have no clue from his breeding as to the naming of Meatloaf, Paul Nicholls' runner in the Wincanton junior bumper. But it has led me to discover a whole world of culinary trivia on Wikipedia, including the fact that the Danish name for meatloaf translates as "mock hare".
The race contains two other horses that recall for me childhood telly watching. Twentyfirstlancer: he's by Churchill; Winston of that ilk served with 17th/21st Lancers at the Battle of Omdurman, where Corporal Jones, later of the Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard Platoon, also fought with great gallantry against the Mad Mahdi. And then there's Mr Mackay, that dour Presbyterian prison officer engaged in a weekly battle of wits against Fletch in Porridge.
None of this drivel constitutes a tip in any way, shape or form. Especially form.
Smugglers Blues market rasen 13.25 EW to start December
Llanz won for Milton....hope that cheers him up a little
Trolley Boy - 2.55 Wincanton
2.55W Shallow River nap
5.30 Chelmsford - Diamond Ranger
General Medrano - 13.47 Leicester
Spanish Angel Nap 20:00 Chelm now nap ew value gone
Kingsmill Gin 2.25 Wincanton is todays nap,well done yesterdays winners.
Good memories from Tom about Consett yesterday. Must admit I used to drive through there in the wee small hours, but that's another story.
Nap Thurles 1442 Foxy Girl
Gerard mentor 12.07MR.
I really enjoyed the Travelogue and Sociopolitical backdrop yesterday.
It must be irksome for Quai des Brumes to see such a generically named favourite in the 15.02 at Thurles called Quais De Paris.
Quel Quai de Paris?
The Third Reserve in that Race is now odds on.
Quais De Paris is my nap.