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@PoliticsForAlI
Seems like the replies on here fall into 2 categories. 1) Those who oppose lockdowns now that the vaccine rollout is clearly working in cutting hospitalisations and deaths. 2) Those on furlough.
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Musselburgh betting blog with exact figures to dispel the myth that on course is awash with cash. I don't normally ask for retweets but, if you come across anyone spouting nonsense about an industry they don't understand please send them here.
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@PoliticsForAlI
@JasonGroves1
Does that include the deaths caused by lockdown due to undiagnosed illnesses, mental health issues and increased poverty? Or are we just ignoring those and working on just the Covid ones because they’re the only ones that count?
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@timspector
Sadly, Tim, it’s now Boris that’s whipping it up. As businesses continue to fold, suicides continue to rise and cancers continue to go undiagnosed we’re gonna extend lockdown because of a variant that the vaccine actually works against. Madness. Utter, utter madness.
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Musings about the BHA initiatives here along with betting blog from Cartmel. A lot of BHA musing if I'm honest. It's a bigger deal than the white paper for us and, if you think it's interesting, please consider a retweet (which I don't usually ask for).
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Musselburgh yesterday. A guy there summed up racing in 1 sentence. With another delay to the fixtures I'm throwing 1 last hail Mary in the hope that the authorities see sense. Please feel free to retweet, copy or forward if you find this interesting
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@psicorps2000
@PoliticsForAlI
@MrHarryCole
You’re smack on David. Well done. There’s still a few events/hospitality businesses hanging on but this will finish them (including me) off. How’s the furlough going???
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Betting blog from Eider up. We get a bit serious re crowd sizes and Cheltenham pre sales figures and wonder if there's a better way. As always with the more serious blogs, if you like, please consider a retweet- it's the only time we ask. Thanks
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Harry Speller has written a fantastic piece about his first year in bookmaking and it's on the CairnBet blog here. Fascinating stuff and takes me back. Especially the bleeding... Please check it out- infinitely more interesting than anything I have written
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Bit more of a serious, technical piece from us today. If you want an insight into how our system works, what our thinking is and how we think it's gone so far click here. If not, I wouldn't blame you and you can just keep scrolling.
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@oddschecker
The bloke who called me a robbing b****** for correctly applying a rule 4 at Perth on Friday
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Betting blog from Cheltenham up. Honestly, it's pretty joyless and I wouldn't blame you for hoping for pens in the Arsenal game for a bit of excitement if you do venture further than paragraph 2. At least the lyric was suitably obscure
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@cricketwyvern
@nadhimzahawi
Been like this in Scotland for 18 mths. Kids hate it and it makes no difference to transmission. Barbaric.
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Thursday's betting blog from Cheltenham up. Kevin can't find sausages on a shelf full of sausages, I take charge of my own beer and a whole row of bookmakers get abused from a punter having a bad day and wanting, nay demanding, 2s on a 5/4 shot.
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A few short months after Premierisation to pander to off course books demand for increased betting window, whilst decimating crowds at likes of
@RiponRaces
,
@HexhamRaces
&
@Cartmelrace
major off course books won’t bet at
@BathRacecourse
, presumably over money. Embarrassing.
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“You’re 11/2. Next door are 5/1. It’s got more chance of winning with them”
Love Ladies Day
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Bit of guff about small crowds. More guff about midweeks. Some betting blog guff. Half decent 1960s film gag. What else are you doing on Sunday night other than despairing about Euro golfers under pressure? Retweets better than sub goalies for Villa
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Blog up. I moan quite a lot.
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Cartmel attendances for the May Saturday
- 2023 (with a 1:40 start) 11347
- 2024 (with a 4:00 start) 9527
Good old Premierisation. If only they could have known in advance
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Today's blog. Apologies for the lecture but, man, I was wound up earlier.
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We're up. It's still not pretty. Enjoy our continued pain
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Kelso report up. Feel free to do the usual, though a retweet is definitely nicer than an unfollow😀
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Betting blog up from
@HexhamRaces
yesterday plus your indispensable guide for bookies at Ascot and a shout out the funniest guy in the ring. If he ever decides to blog me
@SimonNott
and
@PgarrittyPaul
are out of business!
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Musselburgh betting blog up. We try, once again, to clear up some misconceptions about the world of bookmaking. We welcome some new blood to the ring and we win big on a couple of rags. Like normal books do. Have fun.
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Today's blog up. There are no words...
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Betting blog from the Eider at Newcastle yesterday. Not very busy but I can guarantee you the absolute worst pun in CairnBet history- and regular readers will know that's a high bar. Also some musings about expenses and restructure. Enjoy. Or probably not
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Today's betting blog up. I suffer total beer misery and am already concerned about the meat content of tomorrow's sausage butties. We talk holes, drowning, water pumps and ladders, but in what order? And a double dose of vintage comedy
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@blepharon
@doctor_oxford
Would you like to have a chat with my kids about wearing masks for 6 hours a day for virtually no measurable gain in Scotland? I’m sure they’ll enlighten you as to why they think it’s horrific.
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Wet bend at Chester. We’ve come down from Scotland. Massive cost. Ludicrous.
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Hexham betting blog up where we ponder a betting ring without exchanges and reach the conclusion it would be a wonderful place. Been a while and it's not a bad one even if I say so myself
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@BBCMorningLive
Worked in mortgages for 30 years. A 10 quid bet cannot affect your mortgage application. Are you turning into The Sun or Daily Express
@BBCMorningLive
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Ever fancied owning a racehorse?
@momentumspk
has written a guest blog for us on ownership and it's bloody brilliant. Please give it a read and consider a retweet. His love for the sport shines through but it's also brutally honest & totally illuminating
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Hamilton betting blog up. We return to Hamilton for the 1st time since social distancing was a thing, we wonder why Butch Harmon talks directly to the camera which is just uncomfortable, we define "experience" and we watch another host of jollies gag up
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Newcastle betting blog up. Me and
@BookieBaz
sing half the Steeltown album, I get stuck with the worst rear view in bookmaking and we get done by another Newcastle Cloud. At least no Guava in sight. Next one will likely be Monday night. Have a great Easter
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Today's betting blog up. If you want to see how we did with our "stand what we take" system have a look. If you're a bookmaker looking for a way to enjoy student days, also have a look. If you're after the footy ignore this, you probably want Sky 401
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Hamilton betting blog up. We look at pros and cons of betting online v on course & conclude that both have their place, despite my obvious bias! We have a payout queue that stretches to the moon & we look forward to
@BookieBaz
joining us for a week of golf
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Newcastle Ladies Day blog up. Our (not) golfing buddy
@Lloyd_Cole
gets a track - free 10p bet for 1st to find, we make a delicious Steps gag, 50 books huddle in a space designed for 5 and Simon discovers that I am never wrong, just occasionally not right.
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Gold Cup Betting Blog up. Turns out I'm a richer source of comedy and derision than even Kevin was with the most embarrassing moment I've had since I was in Infants School. And, no, we didn't want Galopin Des Champs.
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Ascot betting blog up. We let Kevin loose in a shop for the first time since Cheltenham with inevitable results. We cause actual, real chaos. Simon goes full on Yorkshire and we finally get rid of the last of the Guava. The power of the re-gift. Have fun
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ICYMI betting blog from Perth and my take on white paper- myths v truths. Plus Lucinda v us, Pixies, heavyweight champions and James Bond’s safari suit betting tricasts.
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New Years Day betting blog up. We have a newly acquired fear of felines, we're selling our car after race 1, Steve snores and
@BigCountryUK
get a B side mention. I don't like to big myself up but it's a decent one, this, even I'd probably give it 7/10
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@RacingPost
Thank God we did the Premierisation thing to keep off course bookmakers onside whilst simultaneously marginalising the people who actually want to go racing then huh?
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Betting blog up. It's short. It's punless. I'm not selling it am I? Try to enjoy nonetheless...
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@geoffbanksbet
The "good cause" reply is incredible, in the correct sense of the word. So it's not about problem gamblers if there's a good cause involved? You can spend a grand a week & go bankrupt trying to hit the impossible jackpot provided a proportion goes to the local youth club? Really?
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Betting blog from Kelso up. It's raining gags, almost literally with our brolly woes. None of them any good (apart from
@MikeEckley4
's and our Proclaimers one) but you wouldn't expect anything else.
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CairnBet will be officially retiring at the end next year. Can we have 10 grand a chuck for each meeting we attend between now and then please? Ta (check T&Cs re the actually retiring bit)
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Royal Ascot Saturday betting report now up. Written whilst watching US Open. Scottie gonna win by a mile so you may as well read this instead. It's not even that bad this time (I give it 6/10) and we have broken indie tradition by channelling Deacon Blue
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It was Kelso. It was freezing. Did we win? You'll have to read the betting blog to find out. And, yes, it is a shameless tease
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A mate of mine who is an owner has kindly agreed to do a blog for us- it’ll be up later in the week. An area I have no experience in so it’ll be really interesting to see what challenges he is facing and to get a totally different perspective on the industry to the guff I post 😁
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Betting blog from Kelso. We lament the lack of coordinated support re the live event, we can't quote Bruce Willis for fear of ejection & we see 1 track increase crowds 5 fold on a quiet meeting without resorting to a new badge. It's decent! RTs appreciated
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@racingoncourse
This white paper is supposed to be about problem gamblers. I know I’m repeating myself but how many problem gamblers take a trip to a racetrack and pay an entry fee to have 7 bets in 4 hours? It’s senseless.
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@orlanichochlain
As we have a binary statement may I ask a binary question? Approx 14000 horses in training, bred for that purpose, would never have been born without horse racing. Would you prefer it that those other 13985 horses didn’t exist in the first place?
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Gambling Commission concerned about the data quality of my annual return due to lack of on course activity compared to previous years. For their next trick they will be providing me with a paper cut and pouring salt on it.
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Interested in our 3 month analysis of hedge limitation and thoughts on the on course market after the last few days Twitter chat? Can't be many in truth, but here it is anyway
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Betting blog from Muss up. We discuss why we are happy to stand rags & there is more serious stuff about future of live crowds as recent decisions start to affect crowd satisfaction. Rarely ask for retweets but if you think this is relevant please consider
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Yesterday's Perth betting blog up along with white paper thoughts on perception v reality. Bit more serious than usual but there's also a belter of a boxing gag, plus 1980s tv shows and 1970s Roger Moore
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Bonus Musselburgh betting blog up as we make a late decision to attend. I extol the virtues of an REM song generally hated by fans, Bryson is adamant that the dead heat won't be called a dead heat and I work ridiculously hard to get a
@Lloyd_Cole
gag in
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Betting blog from Tweed, sorry, Student Day at Muss now up. By popular demand (3 followers) there are 2 "In My Tribe" album tracks hidden away plus a whole lyric seamlessly incorporated. For non 10000 Maniacs fans revel in a plethora of 2 quid bets
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Betting blog up from Newcastle Ladies Day. Of course we lost on Little Ted. Though if you like or retweet you'll be indulging in some X Rating. I'll get me coat...
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No blog from Hexham today I'm afraid. Be as boring to read as it was to stand there and take 25 bets a race. This isn't a Prem time shift meeting but is indicative of what post 4pm Saturday starts are like. Hexham a great track who will suffer from Prem thru no fault of their own
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Ascot Saturday betting blog up. We see a lot of good things but can't understand the absence of a big screen for half the crowd. Simon gets a kiss, Carragher gets a name check, we get controversial about the live band and Aha make a CairnBet headline debut
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Ascot betting blog up. PIxies album tracks, Kevin goes both blind and mutilated whilst making sandwiches, Simon nearly loses a limb on an inhaler cap & Steve is on the verge of being strip searched for eating his shortbread in too casual a fashion. Enjoy
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Betting blog from Cartmel yesterday featuring the fastest pitch in in the west, we balance on the pin in the centre of Britain and there are more weak milk related gags than you can shake a stick it. Stick that on your cornflakes
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Betting Blog up for today Kelso. And I'm off to bed
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Betting blog from Ayr up. I make an obscure Oasis gag, we wave our wand at Kelso, I do requests (again) and we get to the bottom of the Ayr car park/percussion instrument quandary. Oh and I get my heart broken into a million pieces on the National
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In the spirit of the day we have also made a business decision to remove Bath from our 3 July’s offerings. Nowt to do with media rights but more to do with only having a licence to bet on course and living in a different time zone.
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You still up? Might as well give our Kelso betting blog a read then? Might even help get you to sleep...
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Cartmel betting blog up. A request for famous Benitos, the best voice in racing and a Billy Joel/Mark Ronson mash up on a tuba. You get your money's worth with us. Oh, and a final (I promise) 2 liner on "premierisation"
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Betting blog up from Newcastle yesterday. Thinking of starting a crowdfunder for bankrupt books. Shocker. I'm sure there'll be tons of sympathy 🙄
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Musselburgh betting blog up. We suffer repetitive earworm syndrome with Saturday Night on a Friday afternoon, we find one "G" out of 4 and all the Ladies Day names ended up not running. Enjoy
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3 weeks since the last one we finally have a betting blog up. Been on holiday, got Covid, we've not been winning much. Were we Pretty in Pink on Ladies Day? Read on. And, if you're feeling sorry for our average run and tedious blog we'd love a retweet...
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Perth betting blog up. Our friend
@BookieBaz
is both Lazarus and Icarus in the same 18 holes. We fund 10 punters' trips to Singapore and we play pick and mix with results all day. In truth we're blogging the betting but really it's all about the golf
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Our first ever jaunt to Hexham tomorrow.
@MikeEckley4
and
@PgarrittyPaul
tell me it’s the best track in the U.K. so can’t wait. Blog will be Sunday from Wales then on to Ascot. Fight back to start here?? Hopefully…
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Betting blog up from Perth. Where, conventional wisdom goes, you can't win. We make Back to the Future gags that don't involve gigawatts, race 1 betting is non existent with the exception of a couple of cheeky e/way bets and we go myth busting
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Perth betting blog up where we get all dewy eyed hippy, we remember the days when REM wrote great ballads,
@BookieBaz
& Emmet join golf's equivalent of The Harlem Globetrotters and Perth sees a plethora of rags prevail- but were we on the right side? Enjoy
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Betting blog from Musselburgh yesterday now up. It's a very quick run through as a) it was very quiet and b) I have a hot date with
@BookieBaz
on the first tee in about half an hour. Have fun. Golf results regularly updated throughout the day. Possibly.
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Been advised Cartmel only going to be allowed max 5000 punters for the rest of the season. Can’t guarantee full attendances in 2022 either. So social restrictions not ending on 21 June then? Just the end of hundreds of thousands of businesses then?
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@Macbet1972
@geoffbanksbet
You are correct. Used to work in a bank. AML is to stop turning cash into “legitimate” financial instruments. If the money is already in the bank, betting with it does nothing for a money launderer. Paying in £20k in cash at a shop does but that’s not what they’re checking.
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Ladies Day betting blog up from Perth. A totally out of character Bucks Fizz reference plus a dissertation on the importance of numbers in bookmaking. Just not the way you think. Enjoy
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Happy New Year! However please be aware that New Year will only start at 12:00 if you live in a Premier Town. For everyone else it will be either 10pm or 2am. This means that the 12:00 celebrations can be better televised. Please ensure you adhere to your allotted time. Thanks
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Yesterday at Newcastle. Yes we got battered on Trueshan. Yes it hurt.
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ICYMI betting blog from Musselburgh where we see Premierisation magically stretch time, 100/30 constitutes a “result” and we still don’t know what to make of our day. Another blog from Hamilton may pop up at some point in next 24 hours too. You lucky folk
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Betting blog from Plate Day at Newcastle. Purple dinosaurs, lucky wees that weren't particularly lucky, the "P" word and pitching up at breakfast time. It's all here and at least 10% of it is vaguely readable.
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Today's
@Ascot
short betting blog. It's short. It's about betting. And we meet our first two eejits of the week. And boy, were they eejits. It won't take long. Give it a spin
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@kinneston
@pigeon_island
@itvracing
Surely ITV could've just used the extra time to "tell the story" as BHA tell us this is what Premierisation is all about and, apparently, what will bring people into racing. Honest guv. And not about extending the betting window for off course bookmakers. Honest guv, again.
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@paddypower
Be more impressive if they hadn’t scribbled it down on their notepads 2 hours ago in the pre game meeting just in case.
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Sat on the toilet/train/sofa? Wondering what to read for next 5 minutes? Give this a try. Latest betting report/blog thing from Kelso. Feel free to retweet/like/unfollow/be disappointed
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Cartmel betting blog up. The strive for originality, Big Brother watching, the promise of a 3am alarm and a slew of Disney princesses in the last. It's not a bad one this time- might be worth a quick read. Only a quick one mind
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Betting blog from Ascot. Short and sweet but at least we got it done in between the packing. We have heartbreakers and jackpots in equal measure and we discover that Hexham really is the epicentre of the universe.
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Betting/whinging blog up. And, in a moment of unrivalled generosity, due to racing being abandoned, I’m refunding all fees you’ve paid me for reading the blog.
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Hamilton betting blog. We ponder the bookie Bath boycott using our favourite farmer analogy. 1970s French crooner is seamlessly blended with 18th century portrait painter and we win 5-0 in forecasts much to Steve's chagrin. It's long time to 8pm kick off
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As promised, we're back blogging. We were Frankied, we had one monster result on a rag and, of course, one loser on another one. If you do nowt else at least get to race 4 to read my best ever on course line. I appreciate that's a low bar
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