2025 Novice Hurdlers

[Faugheen_Machine]

Was anything ever said from connections about where Kopek would end up at Cheltenham before last week?
I don’t recall anything being said.

Nothing public. Just me and others trying to piece together the jigsaw and fucking it up spectacularly!

[Ice]

I've just realised i put kopek des bordes in the monthly yankee tor the turners, was happy with that bet for all of two days ! My apologies to whoever followed.

[JackieMoon33]

Haha yeah I think I'd go that way too - I thought you might both knock it on the head completely, but glad you haven't

You should both knock your big sexy brains together and pick 2 horses each for us peasants to follow

Closer to the time, or maybe sooner?

Well I had SM + KDB + FD and SM + KDB + HN trebles this year that have just shit out. So I'm done with AP now and won't bet until the day now.

Instead I'll be focus on my lists for next year. True to form, I've already got one for the AB

[Kevloaf]

The funny thing is, I've probably done less since hitting my big one. I've taken the view that it's not going to happen twice in my life time

Haha yeah I think I'd go that way too - I thought you might both knock it on the head completely, but glad you haven't

You should both knock your big sexy brains together and pick 2 horses each for us peasants to follow

Closer to the time, or maybe sooner?

[Carnage at Taunton]

Yeah, I was saying the same to jono last week

I think I got lucky with KDB as I'd missed the original price, so took any race


No set rule though going forward, we learn and have to make a call on a horse-by-horse basis .... a lot of times we get it right, the times we don't stick out (generally speaking)

If you went 'any race' you'd often lose a lot of value anywhere compared to half-stake and double-backing in my experience - especially with cashout

Yeah, because of funds I’ve had to do it a bit differently this year. Been backing small in a fair few wtaf with the intention of topping up as the season progresses(if I like what I’ve seen) and the funds issue changes. Some I’ve managed to get on each way some just win because of odds. And some I will wait till the day itself.
And of course I’ve lost some.
But overall I’m quite happy with it and may well look at doing similar next year.