Fat Jockey Day Two Yankee - Captain: Hardy Eustace

[Kevloaf]

Hardy Eustace

You have the honour of being Day Two captain. Making me move the goal posts on when you could have been registered from certainly worked in your favour. I have full faith in your being able to deliver for us on the second day of the festival.


The point of these yankee's, is for us all to back them for (min stakes is fine) so we have a collective yankee to support on Day One! With it being collective yankee, as much engagement as possible is encouraged.




Win only, each way, handicaps, shorties, no-hopers, popular horses, personal fancies, tips from the other yankees, cases made elsewhere, random guesses... all up to you .....Your decision will be final.


Final selection to be put up on Monday 15th March, by 15:00 please.

[BigChaang]

Charles Aznavour , appearing in Cheltenham .... Soon . .

[Quevega]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1uqfO2-oJA

made me cry just now.
Must be lockdown.

[Hardy Eustace]

Hardy Eustace

You have the honour of being Day Two captain. Making me move the goal posts on when you could have been registered from certainly worked in your favour. I have full faith in your being able to deliver for us on the second day of the festival.


The point of these yankee's, is for us all to back them for (min stakes is fine) so we have a collective yankee to support on Day One! With it being collective yankee, as much engagement as possible is encouraged.




Win only, each way, handicaps, shorties, no-hopers, popular horses, personal fancies, tips from the other yankees, cases made elsewhere, random guesses... all up to you .....Your decision will be final.


Final selection to be put up on Monday 15th March, by 15:00 please.

YESSSSSSS!!!!!!

Its an absolute HONOUR.

Lets get this show on the road.....

Would be great to nail the winner of the ballymore - get us off to a flyer.

The Grand Annual looks a bobby dazzler this year - anyone have particularly strong fancies?

Then I guess it is a case of deciding which of the supposed good things we want onside Monkfish, CPS, Kilcruit vs Sir G.

What do we reckon then lads?

[Hardy Eustace]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1uqfO2-oJA

made me cry just now.
Must be lockdown.

I promise you I will personally serenade you with this when we have nailed all 4 legs of the day 2 yankee!!!

[Quevega]

I promise you I will personally serenade you with this when we have nailed all 4 legs of the day 2 yankee!!!

I'll be in bits.

[Quevega]

And would probably propose

[Hardy Eustace]

And would probably propose

You'd have to take my surname!!

[Kevloaf]

Day two could be insane really.

We already have 2 Mullins odds on shots that look imperious.

He also has short priced faves in the Ballymore and Bumper as you say (although deeper races) but both looked superb at the DRF!

Then, as another kick in the balls, we have a short priced C&D Cross Country winner who is already 2/1 and only going one way!

5 horses under 2/1 on the same day potentially?


Coral Cup is one of the toughest handicaps because of the sheer number of angles in (horses up in trip / down in trip / at the right trip / old fashioned plots / improvers

...and the Grand Annual had Croco Bay win at 13 years old which bamboozled me and is now over a new 'track' essentially so we have less to go on that ever





What is the plan

[Hardy Eustace]

Day two could be insane really.

We already have 2 Mullins odds on shots that look imperious.

He also has short priced faves in the Ballymore and Bumper as you say (although deeper races) but both looked superb at the DRF!

Then, as another kick in the balls, we have a short priced C&D Cross Country winner who is already 2/1 and only going one way!

5 horses under 2/1 on the same day potentially?


Coral Cup is one of the toughest handicaps because of the sheer number of angles in (horses up in trip / down in trip / at the right trip / old fashioned plots / improvers

...and the Grand Annual had Croco Bay win at 13 years old which bamboozled me and is now over a new 'track' essentially so we have less to go on that ever





What is the plan

hahaha it could be an absolute blood bath for the bookies! HOORAH!

You're right, could be a lot of shorties and not the good type that 50 cent raps about.

So I reckon the first point of discussion is do we want a win only yankee with some bankers or do we want an EW yankee with some lively horses who we think will be there or there abouts.

Leaning towards an ew yankee

but open to ideas....

[Kevloaf]

I'm not sure.....I think usually we tend to lean away from the favs because people don't want to look like they're shit at tipping.... in reality, would the muggy win approach on 4 favourites be the worst thing ever?

It would have copped at the DRF and although not for huge amounts, we want to win.





However, most people will probably do the above themselves, so it is more fun and potentially more lucrative to not look at the obvious.


So all in all, back to square one - I don't mind

[Istabraq]

I'm not sure.....I think usually we tend to lean away from the favs because people don't want to look like they're shit at tipping.... in reality, would the muggy win approach on 4 favourites be the worst thing ever?
:

Possibly already covered in the monthly yankees...

[Kevloaf]

Possibly already covered in the monthly yankees...

I don't mind getting paid twice?




To be fair though, there isn't much point in NOT at least looking to make an E/W yankee ..... as if you decide to do win only, we all just sit in silence hoping nothing gets injured and wait to see which ones you put up

[charlie]

If you elect for the EW option Hardy then (as per the Grand Annual thread) I'd like to throw Zanza into the mix @ 25/1. Explained below:

The fall three out LTO at Cheltenham is a proper catch-22 situation. It happened too early to confidently state outcome or be punished by the handicapper (especially given how the winner has won), but late enough to at least try and make the case IMO.

As they come down the hill towards three out Charlie is niggling away on Ibleo (154), Harry is niggling on Capeland (153) and Richard Johnson is sat motionless tanking on Zanza who was carrying 8lbs more than Ibleo, and 11lbs more than Sky Pirate. It's impossible to know how the race would have unfolded from the fall because plenty tank down the hill and then fail to get up it, I just love the way he jumped and travelled into the race - it was eye catching to say the least.

He hacked up (albeit in a race that fell apart) prior to that at Newbury, hitting the line hard in a good time and did everything right that day. He's clearly a chaser learning his trade and I love how he is improving. On debut he was fairly ordinary, then he took a big step forward IMO next time up at Warwick reversing the form with Stolen Silver easily, and picking up strongly to finish 13L behind Allmankind. That doesn't look great but he was giving Allmankind 7lbs that day and we know Allmankind is a high 150's horse.

Going into the festival with an F next to your name is never ideal, but its factored into the price, and he's almost certain to secure the services of Richard Johnson. I love Richard on horses that can really be harnessed to deliver their best work late, and that's what Zanza did at Warwick and Newbury, but we failed to see at Cheltenham. If he stays off 145 then I think he can be competitive with lots of the horses priced far shorter.

[The King Pimm]

I think there is plenty of each way value in the Festive Novice Bake behind Monkfish. I think this will be the most competitive novice Chase race of the festival and possibly the most competitive novice race. Monkfish has been brilliant so far but he’s taking on a number of horses for the first time who are capable of ensuring he can’t afford to have an off day. Next Destination, The Big Breakaway, Eklat De Rire and Fiddler on the Roof if at there best are big odds to win and have solid place claims. I would personally propose TBB & Eklat at E/W prices and think Fiddlerontheroof might be the surprise in the field.