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[Quevega]

Was wanting to consult the great minds of the FJF before i let fly on Act of God in the Pertemps quali on Saturday.

He's 138 and i'd give him a right chance of being good enough off that sort of mark. My concern is will he be trying. Race is worth feck all but he's fit and been on the go for a while, so im trying to decide whether they'll be taking adv of his fitness edge, or getting him qualified, and off on his winter holidays.
Presumably if he won, he'd need to be winning off the same mark or near as Presenting Percy did, which i don't imagine he'd be up to.

Anyone gotta view?

Quevega you often come up with logical views on these types of things....go on

Tricky the qualifiers, for the obvious reason you've mentioned.
If I was having a bet in the race I'd have definitely looked at the Irish entry, and would still do after decs.
But I'd also be telling myself not to bet in the race unless something was on a low mark and looked well handicapped with potential. But this doesn't always pan out, as they're not all wanting to come back in March.
Having glanced over the current entries their does look some interesting runners off lower marks that look unexposed at the trip and well handicapped maybe.
Didtheyleaveououttwo
Remastered
South Terrace
and one or two others probably.
Probably best if he's not declared

[Odin]

Only would of been a cert if he'd of stayed(don't think he would of in something like a Hennessey), I'd given him 168 Sat was putting up a clear career best and was doing good work on the clock despite the rest of the field not running to their ratings that's more to do with some of them not staying well enough(30l slower than the 0-120 Cd hcap last off from 3 out, even accounting for strong tempo that's some stamina doubts right there for those finishing (Fusil I'm looking at you) Kitty ran as well as could have been expected and feck knows what Clondaw was doing bar a run out.

Will have to see how and when he remerges but the Betway Bowl would interest me for Shan this season.

Couldn't disagree with any of those points - crazy how slow the eventual 'winner' fusil ended up going in the last few furlongs.

An added 'bonus' of Shan blues absence could be that if he does only come back for aintree he's a fresh horse. Would definitely give clan something to think about in the bowl after he's had Cheltenham off anyway.

[TigerRolllllll]

How did you get a pass, tempted to go next year

Racing club

[Atlantic Viking]

New series of Road to Cheltenham starts next week.

[Saxon Warrior]

Great News AV.

[Dandrew99]

Nice little shout out for FJ from Cheltmental again today! A few of the guys who he has on there must be members... Surely?

[Spectre]

I still use a very basic spreadsheet for all my bets, It's one I've had so long that I was probably wearing flares when I first started using it. And whilst there's nothing particularly wrong with it there just has to be a much better and more efficient way of logging all my bets, and accessing and analysing all the combinations of multiples I have without doing an inordinate amount of work each time I need to.

Singles are still easy, although I'm sure I can improve on what I do at the moment, but logging and cross referencing my multiples is becoming almost impossible. I'm therefore looking for something that I can easily filter by horse and bet type that auto-calculates bets and returns. I'm not an excel whizz, and I rely on the very basics to make my current spreadsheet work, and I'd be fairly sure that a number of you guys on here with advanced excel skills have something that wipes the floor with what I currently use.

The question is, does anyone currently use something slick and reasonably sophisticated, that just needs the basic bet information input, that they'd be prepared to share?

Many thanks in advance.

Spec

[Dandrew99]

I still use a very basic spreadsheet for all my bets, It's one I've had so long that I was probably wearing flares when I first started using it. And whilst there's nothing particularly wrong with it there just has to be a much better and more efficient way of logging all my bets, and accessing and analysing all the combinations of multiples I have without doing an inordinate amount of work each time I need to.

Singles are still easy, although I'm sure I can improve on what I do at the moment, but logging and cross referencing my multiples is becoming almost impossible. I'm therefore looking for something that I can easily filter by horse and bet type that auto-calculates bets and returns. I'm not an excel whizz, and I rely on the very basics to make my current spreadsheet work, and I'd be fairly sure that a number of you guys on here with advanced excel skills have something that wipes the floor with what I currently use.

The question is, does anyone currently use something slick and reasonably sophisticated, that just needs the basic bet information input, that they'd be prepared to share?

Many thanks in advance.

Spec

Do you use Google Sheets or are you wanting to stick to Excel? And are you wanting a nice front end (like the Betloader thing that Cheltmental has used)?

I have a spreadsheet that I'm relatively happy with which I'd be happy to share with some select people if I made it a bit more user friendly I guess? But it has no front end, I guess I've just designed it to do what I want it to do, which I realise could well be different to what you want

[Spectre]

Just practical Dan. It doesn't need bells and whistles. A standard excel sheet is perfect.

I want to be able to track my singles and multiples separately but in the same document though.

What I really want to be able to do is slice and dice my multiples by horse so I can see where I'm perhaps too exposed and where I've missed the obvious. I've just realised I have a couple of major holes in my multiple strategy for the season, and it's taken an awful long time to figure it out. I can fix it, but prices have tumbled in the meantime. It's also possible there are other holes I haven't picked up on. If it auto calculates both the win and place multiple returns all the better

I need something better than I'm using right now so I don't make silly mistakes.

[Exar Essay]

Upping the ante back next Tuesday too … get your bets on quick before Gavin tips one and the odds are sliced.

[archie]

Anyone know if Cheltenham are planning to let people in on the Festival mornings to watch the Irish horses exercise?

[Quevega]

https://www.attheraces.com/news/2021/November/04/mullins-confirms-earlier-start-for-al-boum-photo

Willie mentioning several horses and being very positive.

[Istabraq]

Anyone know if Cheltenham are planning to let people in on the Festival mornings to watch the Irish horses exercise?

I thought they stopped that years ago.
Was a time anyone could walk the course between 7am-8am but that was many years ago...

[charlie]

Anyone know if Cheltenham are planning to let people in on the Festival mornings to watch the Irish horses exercise?

I'll find out

[Istabraq]

I'll find out

Don't they stop you walking your dog about a week before the festival ?
Or was that just last year for covid ?