Today's Horse Racing

[stevequal]

Cheers.

[LeTiss]

Anyone have any idea what an "Introductory Hurdle" is? One coming up at Ludlow.

It's the first time you meet your girlfriend's parents!

[stevequal]

[stevequal]

Tough day, had a better day yesterday. Roll on Cheltenham tomorrow, should see some seven figure markets.

Infact tomorrows card is a carbon copy of this time last year.

[Euler]

I did OK till bloody Kempton where I had two bad markets in a row which really took the shine off the day.

[stevequal]

Kempton + Maidens + Favourite at Evens = Trouble

[stevequal]

Nasty drift on Top Gamble.

[Euler]

Kempton + Maidens + Favourite at Evens = Trouble

Yeah, sometimes you do some daft things

[Euler]

Dundalk is mental this evening.

[stevequal]

Just wondering if anybody had any thoughts as to why Top Gamble drifted so much in the 2:40pm at Cheltenham. He may well have been over hyped, but the drift seemed very strong for a class 3.

[Naffman]

Probably because Top Gamble didn't deserve to be that price in that field (some Group horses) after winning races at Ffos Las.

[stevequal]

Cheers. I know that these things happen, but my bank got hammered by that drift on what it usually a fairly stable market.

[Naffman]

Yes never good when that happens. I was speaking to Switesh and he was scalping a horse in a stable market at Cheltenham, until it swung 10 ticks in the other direction. It's a cruel game sometimes.

[stevequal]

Yes, I am scratching my head a little. The only thing is the trade bands were quite wide, so I couldn't argue that the price was being "held" around a certain point. But with the lumpy way the money moves through Cheltenham your relying on the quality of the race to keep the price in check.

[hgodden]

Either ATR is behind even more than before or BF suspended earlier but the 12:50 at Lingfield was turned IP with 2 horses still left to load.... happened at least 5 seconds earlier than normal.

Hope nobody got caught badly there. Worth noting for future races.