Alan carried the Sunday flag landing a good priced placed horse in his EW nap. Well done. El Gran Senor, can you clarify your post about a 2/5 nap, please? Did I miss one?
first 5 favourites have won so hopefully someone making a few quid. tho on a quiet Monday prob not! these include Brief Ambition that lands the nap at 6 to 5.
@David Booo!! The winner was very well backed. Jonathan Haynes loves having winners at Hexham. Although he trains at Brampton, Cumbria, it's an easy whizz along the A69 to Hexham. Hidden Cargo was unlucky here the last meeting - he nearly fell at the water jump! Another fun fact: Hidden Cargo has been trained by Mickey Bowen as a pointer, and by his dad Peter, trainer of the beaten favourite! Small world.
The Ludlow prize money is not that bad today, especially if you look at Saturday's Stratford card which had an average winner's prize of £3.67k, with four winners taking home less than 3k. An absolute disgrace for a midweek fixture, but for Saturday? If you remember it costs about 2k a month to have a horse in training (that's just for the basics) and then add say 500 to get it to the racecourse to run (entry fee, racing plates, transport costs, jockey fee), it makes it a pretty expensive hobby for the small owner. At the same time, a sunny Saturday will bring out the paying customers in their droves all hell bent on eating expensive food and downing overpriced booze. The end result is that racecourses have become "hospitality venues" with live sport thrown in. Ludlow is one of the more enterprising courses, which you can bracket with Market Rasen, Kelso and Perth; on the other side of the coin I would list Stratford, Worcester and Leicester.
When I first started going racing regularly the prize money for winning a maiden hurdle or bumper at Hexham was about £400. That is the equivalent to about £3,570 today (source: Bank of England inflation calculator). The winner of the Stratford bumper last Saturday took home the princely sum of £2,100.
@Harrytheactor Thanks for your thoughts Harry. I just can't see how the current system is sustainable. Either a new model of funding is developed or the sport needs to look at whether having 2 summer tracks like Stratford & Worcester is viable.
@tuforu are Coolmore ever any good in the States? I don't understand their reasoning to buy a Horse like that. Another Green Monkey. Their Stallion Roster in the States looks like a Real Madrid Galicticos line up right now.
and thank you Streak Lightning 28/1 Won
Bronson in blue won 13/8
first 5 favourites have won so hopefully someone making a few quid. tho on a quiet Monday prob not! these include Brief Ambition that lands the nap at 6 to 5.
Cup of coffee won 5/2.
Not a day when you'd be skipping down to the bookies with a line...Brief Ambition Ludlow 2.20 can hopefully over come its two rivals....
Previous nap is an non runner…EW Nap Streak Lightning 19:30New’c
Hillfinch 16.05 Ludlow.
Bronson in blue nap (14:05)
I'll try Rocco in 3.30L
Nap 7.00 Newcastle - Bless Him
33 runners on a 7 race card at Ludlow today & that's a track often cited as having decent prize money.
Head to the stars. Ludlow 3.30.
Broken Rifle - 17.30 Newcastle (nap)
Cup of coffees 1.00H.
Dan Gun 2.40 Hexham is todays nap,well done Alan.
Well above Par 13:30 Hex Nap.
Sorry. Tuesday in the 17.00 at Naas at 2/5 won.
Today my nap is Finest View. 13.45. Ludlow.