It's finally here! Welcome to Day 1 of bettrends LIVE! at the 2010 Cheltenham Festival. Live reports from Paul Jones and the bettrends Team will be posted here from 10 a.m. and will pop up below in real time – as they happen – there’s no need to refresh your screen.
Monday, March 15, 2010
Tuesday March 16th Welcome to the first of four days for this service where I take the trends from the Guide to hopefully cut the wheat from the chaff using years of patterns to bring the fields down to a more manageable level. Any horses appearing in brackets in the short list are not perfect trends [...]
Monday, March 15, 2010
Three more bets today, one in the William Hill Chase hopefully covering our position on The Package, another in the Byrne Group Plate at 20/1 and a replacement bet for Saddlers Storm (NR No Bet) in the NH Chase who annoyingly bolted up at 4/1 yesterday so is likely to miss the race. Luckily, I [...]
Monday, March 15, 2010
Three more bets today, one in the William Hill Chase hopefully covering our position on The Package, another in the Byrne Group Plate at 20/1 and a replacement bet for Saddlers Storm (NR No Bet) in the NH Chase who annoyingly bolted up at 4/1 yesterday so is likely to miss the race. Luckily, I [...]
Monday, March 15, 2010
Cheltenham Festival 2010: Battle of the Gold Cup grooms I was gobsmacked to get the chance to look after Denman in the summer after his Gold Cup win. He’s a bit of a bruiser, most of the time straightforward and a real pro but with the odd grumpy moment, pulling a few faces and having [...]
Sunday, March 14, 2010
SANDOWN PARK CHELTENHAM PREVIEW Saturday, March 13th In my experience previews straight after racing don’t really work but this one certainly did and a very good crowd of maybe 250 stayed on afterwards which isn’t surprising given the top two trainers in the Trainers’ Championship were the big draws on the panel they being Paul Nicholls (PN) [...]
Friday, March 12, 2010
Two bets today in the World Hurdle without Big Buck’s market and in the Champion Bumper. This is the penultimate copy with the last being on Monday at 1.00 p.m. TODAY’S ANTE-POST ADVICE: Frawley (each-way) (Champion Bumper) – Best prices: 25/1 Bet365, Skybet, Corals, Sporting Odds; 20/1 Hills, Ladbrokes, Paddy Power, Blue Sq, Betfred, Totesport Katchit (each-way) Without [...]
Friday, March 12, 2010
The friendliest preview evening on the circuit chaired by Chris Pitt that we report back from each year though this was my first visit back here in three years. The panel comprised of RacingUK presenter and pundit Lydia Hislop (LH) and Steve Mellish (SMel), The Daily Mail’s Sam Turner (ST) aka Robin Goodfellow, Channel 4 [...]
Tuesday, March 16, 2010