The FJ Weekly Punt

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Thanks mate. My first choice has just been backed from 16s into 9s. So might have to fall back to the 2nd choice, or maybe wait for Sunday if that one...

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That's the plan. Was going to do some polls (if possible) to see what sort of format people would prefer, but seemed like a lot of fuss over nothing,...

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We can still have "winner stays on" if your selection places, but I feel like on this we would have to agree on a minimum price limit. A 6/1...

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Initially I had it as winner gets another two weeks, a place gets you one week. But that was with the minimum price, like a 10/1+ chance placing.
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I just think the excitement over the chance of a big price winner with a not very obvious selection is a big part of the draw with these things.
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There's a few interesting ones in there alright. But I'd say it's unlikely enough my pick will be from that race, I'll see ...

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Guidelines have been updated in post one. Still open to change of course.

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This is all obviously very new so I think we'll be tinkering with the "rules" for a while until we settle on the best format.

Having...

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Yep, if you pick a winner you get to stay on for another two weeks. if your selection places, then you get one more week. That's the plan currently. The...

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Yeah I get what you mean. My thinking would just be how quick can a shower of rain change the going description? It maybe only takes 20 minutes or so,...

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Good point. Maybe two hours before the race may be better. I don't want to shorten it much more than that as ideally want to leave plenty of time for...

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From what I've seen, the single seems to be preferred to the multiple so far, so I think we'll probably go with that for the time being.

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From the few replies I've gotten, it seems like the single bet might be more popular than a yankee/lucky 15 type bet, so we should probably stick with...

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That could be a better idea, I don't really know to be honest. I've seen a good few "monthly yankee" threads around so I wanted to make sure...

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This is something that I've taken a bit of inspiration from the naiad for, and I want to see whether it would prove popular throughout the flat season,...

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A lot of points were on the premise that the majority would be laying off for a free hit weekly once the price crashes. But if that is problematic and...

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Ah right yeah, I suppose the liquidity could be an issue.
it's the sort of thing where I'm not really sure how much of an issue it would be exactly...

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Yeah im sure there would be issues for some people that I haven't thought of.
Theres no issues of any kind for myself so i could be overlooking...

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I've brought up this idea before in passing but without going into huge detail, but I want to see how much interest there would be, and also see if there...

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Fast forward about 11.5 months from now:

"you got constitution hill, state man, kopek/anzadam/munny/new lion etc in the champion hurdle,...