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• Another one bites the dust

  Author: Wayne Finter | Date: 10th November 2019

  With the November handicap being abandoned at Doncaster this weekend, the 2019 turf season has now come to a close.

  We will look back on this year as the year we experienced three excruciating near misses for big payouts (all were worth around 40+ pts);

  1) Clon Coulis in the Royal Hunt Cup - on at prices up to 33/1 ante post - and he was beaten by a nose into second by a rival whose jockey broke the whip rules

  2) Ripp Orf - had a strong bet on him at 14/1 for the Cunard handicap at Ascot and saw him finish a neck second, after going off 7/2, after his rider overplayed the waiting tactics off a steady gallop

  3) Prince Of Arran - we were on him ante post for the Melbourne Cup at Flemington at 20/1 and saw him finish a nose second behind a winner who was better placed off a steady gallop

  That said, it was a generally solid year for the service. Apart from a bad June (which had followed an ante post football bonanza the preceding month.....all eight singles advised in the 2018/19 season won, as did five of the seven accumulators - at odds up to 75/1) we made a profit in March, April, May, July, August and September, before the heavy rain set back in during October and led to abandonments galore.

  We ended the 2019 service with a profit of +31.66 pts to lowest advised prices, from 535.35 outlaid at recommended stakes (a +6 % ROI). 

  It would have been possible to better this figure by taking higher odds for any of our winners (most selections are tipped up with an odds range but I settle at the lowest odds on record) and if taking enhanced places on many of the each-way selections (especially at the weekends).

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• Awesome August

  Author: Wayne Finter | Date: 18th August 2019

  May to June was a losing period for the service but we've bounced back with a profitable July and recorded a profit of +37 pts in August so far from 47 pts staked (a ROI of +79 %).

  Recent highlights included 3 pt MAX bet Victory Day (5/2) winning at Ascot during the Shergar Cup and Dakota Gold (8/1) winning the Great St Wilfrid at Ripon this weekend. 

  We also had Dakota Gold in a 36/1 double with Anna Bunina (11/4) on the same Ripon card and landed further 18/1 and 7/2 (-35p R4) winners on the day courtesy of Breanski and Hortzadar at Doncaster and Ripon, respectively.

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• Football ante post review

  Author: Wayne Finter | Date: 13th May 2019

  

  The 2018/19 football ante posts couldn't have gone much better. All eight advised singles won and five of the seven accas won at odds of 75/1, 35/1, 24/1, 10/1 & 9/1. 

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