Harchibald back tonight at Dundalk

Harchibald (main pic) prepares for the Champion Hurdle with a spin round the all-weather at Dundalk.
The race is run over a mile and a half and old foe Al Eile is also in the line-up - with Declan McDonogh aboard we expect Harchibald to win the race.
To be honest I still think Harchibald will run a big race come March 11th in the Champion Hurdle and only a mug would rule him out.
Friday Selections
Another winning Nap, but still not good enough.
Good meeting at Newbury today and we have come up with 3 selections at the track.
Nap: Maraafeq: won well at Market Rasen on debut by 8 lenghts danger Alaghiraar
Double: Burren Legend: won with a bit in hand on Wednesday and is turned out quickly
Treble: Ask Again : won ptp race beating Red Brook Lad who won hacked up at Ludlow yesterday

Weekend Soccer Selections

We start with our banker and we have gone for EVERTON (10/11) in Sunday’s live game against Portsmouth.
The Toffees are up to fourth spot in the Premiership and look a solid outfit – hopefully they will take all points come Sunday. WALSALL (11/10) are another team in good form and we are taking them to get all points against lowly Luton.
MILLWALL (5/4) have got their act together at home and can claim three more vital points at home to Bristol Rovers. We have to wait to Monday if we are to be on a sweat for the PG Quad and we have gone for NOTTINGHAM FOREST (4/5) to beat Carlisle in the live game.
£81 back for a fiver
PG XXX: Barnsley v Sheffield Wednesday 21/10, Burnley v Watford, 21/10, Newcastle v Blackburn
(remember those doubles & treble).
Longshot Treble : Huddersfield 2/1, Queen of the South 8/5, Wrexham 11/10.
PG FIVEHIT: 1/1 Ross County, 1/2 MK Dons, 1/2 Peterboro, 4/5 Dunfermline, 7/10 Brechin.
MYTHICALS: Rotherham to beat Arsenal, Liverpool to beat Chelsea, Peterboro to beat MK Dons, Bradford to beat Bristol City (42/1 McGranaghans).
Weekend Bismarc: Man City (4/7) v Wigan I'll lay all bets on City

Friday Selections
Another winning Nap, but still not good enough.
Good meeting at Newbury today and we have come up with 3 selections at the track.
Nap: Maraafeq: won well at Market Rasen on debut by 8 lenghts danger Alaghiraar
Double: Burren Legend: won with a bit in hand on Wednesday and is turned out quickly
Treble: Ask Again : won ptp race beating Red Brook Lad who won hacked up at Ludlow yesterday

Harchibald prepares for the Champion Hurdle with a spin round the all-weather at Dundalk. The race is run over a mile and a half and old foe Al Eile is also in the line-up - with Declan McDonnogh we expect Harchibald to win the race.

the rest is up to you

Ulsterbus punter grabs big Saturday treble

None of our local punters could match the 50p eight timer that netted an English punter a cool million last Friday, but we do have some lovely bets to mention this week.
We start with Ulsterbus driver Gerard Hackett who touched with the bet of the week. Keen punter Gerard placed a £5 each-way treble on Saturday. It was originally a quad but we will come to that later.
Gerard is a stickler for early prices, which we at the PG call a gamble within a gamble. He took all early screen prices on – and the decision paid off in spades.
His first selection, Comply Or Die, won the Eider Chase at Newcastle at 11/1 to give the bet a dream start.
Gerard had to wait an hour for his next selection to run. Rayshan was well backed in to 13/2 from 12s and won with a bit in hand.
What a sweat! Gerard already had £780 riding on his last selection and that selection was also the subject of a gamble – our sweating punter had sixes and the horse was now as low as 7/2.
The second favourite – King of Dixie, a 9/2 shot – was withdrawn at the start but our punter wasn’t bothered as he was on the sweat of a lifetime. His well-backed horse, Atlantic Story, was given a terrific ride by Jamie Spencer to win with a bit in hand.
Our punter was in punting heaven – he thought he had won £5,619.38 after a quick count by his mates. But that Rule 4 was at the back of his mind and when he went to collect his windfall he was told the bad news – he had £4,664.25 off the docket; he had just lost a fifth of the bet. It took a wee bit of the gloss off it but, still, Gerard was delighted with the bet.
Now back to the start and Gerard had originally wanted to do a quad but saw the price of his fourth selection and promptly left it out.
Riverside Theatre (5/4) was the horse and it won at the last at Kempton at 5/4 – if only...
Joe Maguire was checking the scores coming in on Saturday on Sky Sports and was left devastated after Crystal Palace beat him out of £1,500. But despair turned to joy when he checked the Irish League scores. He lifted close to £600 off his bet thanks to that late, late Donegal Celtic goal at home to Linfield that even had the Reds fans cheering.
Another Andersonstown punter hit Sean Grahams for over two and a half grand.
The punter placed 3 x £2 doubles and a £4 treble.
The bet was up in the space of 20 minutes – Gungadu got the ball rolling, winning the Racing Post Chase at 4/1. The ride of the weekend from Sean Quinlan got Stop The Show up to win at 8/1.
The sweat was on and Comply or Die, who did our bus driver a favour, didn’t let him down, winning at 11/1.
The bet paid £2,586 – a great 20 minutes work by anybody’s reckoning.
Just room for one more and this one’s a kind of good and bad luck story.
A North Belfast punter placed a 50p Lucky 31 with Grahams – a bet that costs £15.50.
His first horse, Where’s Johnny, got the ball rolling, winning at 7/2, and 40 minutes later Josear won at 8/1. When Mondial Jack at 7/1 won the 4pm at Hereford our punter had a big sweat on his hands.
It got better when Our Jim won at 5/1 (7/2 SP) to give him an almighty sweat on his last selection.
That selection, Spud 11/4, could only manage fifth place to beat our punter out of an absolute fortune.
He still picked up £1,991.80 for his troubles – that’ll ease the pain.

We at last hit a winning nap yesterday when Lupanar won at 10/11 - we followed up withe a double when Topflight Wildbird won at 9/2 a 10/1 double was almost a 88/1 treble, whe Geography 15/2 loomed up at the last only to make a bad error that cost him the race. It would have been a free Cheltenham!!
Thursday selections
NAP: Hibiki 2.10 Ludlow (will not be a big price but boost course and distance win) Isaaf 33/1 live outsider
Double: Lindsay 3.50 (good second to to Mokum last time and he has since franked the form)
Treble: Donatessa 5.30 Taunton ( good conditional jock on board and a wee bit of money for it as well)

Dancer drifts in Gold Cup betting

Alarming news for ante-post punters that Exotic Dancer was on the big drift yesterday and apparently it was out to 39/1 with Betfair - Ladbrokes removed it from their list and went 5/4 both Kauto Star (main pic) and Denman - and a massive 33/1 the rest.
Other markert moves to hand is Silverburn has been cut into 7/1 from 10s for the Royal & SunAlliance Chase. The betting is still headed by Albertas Run and Air Force One still head the betting
6-1 Albertas Run, Air Force One, 7-1 Tidal Bay, 8-1 Silverburn (from10s), Pomme Tiepy,10-1 Starzaan, 12-1 Joe Lively, 14-1 Oscar Park, 16-1 Battlecry, Ornais,

THIS WEEKS PAPER: Punters Guide this week : Punter hits dreamy treble but loses 1/5 bet after big rule 4

I told punters about the special bets bookmakers put up - don't touch them (all the Eastwoods selections in their win quad bit the dust ( you would have thought, I picked them)
we'll be posting more today local layers specials today.

Today's selections - they need to get better... or we will be skint come March 11th
Our Nap: LUPANAR 2.10 Folkestone
Double: TOPFLIGHT WILDBIRD 2.40 Folkestone
Treble: GEOGRAPHY 3.40 Folkestone

the rest as usual, is up to you!

Cheltenham MOVERS

Binnocular was well touted for the Triumph prior to his Kempton run on Saturday and although he made hard work of it he has been trimmed to 7/1 from 8s.
Beau Michael went into my notebook at Christmas for the race and he won his third consective race at Fairyhouse and is now 16/1 from 25s.
Piegon Island earned a 20/1 quote for the Supreme Novices' and Ballymore Properties Hurdle following his oh so easy win at Kempton on Saturday.
Way De Solzen is out to 16/1 from 9s for the World Hurdle with after coming second at Fontwell on Sunday while winner Lough Derg has been clipped to 14/1 from 20s.
Galient won as expected on his hurdling bow and gets a 33/1 quote for the Ballymore Properties Novices' Hurdle.
The mystery punter who took William Hill for a million has still not called in to collect his winnings.. he's probably still wondering how he's going to spend it. Will he change his bets from 50p to a £1 after his million pound windafall? somehow I don't think so

Sean Graham Cheltenham Preview Night

The Sean Graham Chletenham Preview night will take place Monday 3rd March 2008 at the Europa Hotel
Tickets on sale at all Sean Graham bookmakers at £10 - Ticket HOTLINE 90963963

Spurs to grab cup glory

A Great weekend of live soccer ahead and we have the first trophy of the season up for grabs.
Chelsea and Spurs go head-to-head at Wembley on Sunday (3pm) for the Carling Cup as Juande Ramos looks to prise the cup away from Stamford Bridge.
Most layers put Chelsea in as the 11/10 favourites with Spurs priced around 5/2 and it’s 11/5 the draw.
The form team at the minute are Spurs who look a sharper, fitter team under Ramos, who has guided them to a cup final despite only having been there two minutes.
Strikers Dimitar Berbatov and Robbie Keane are probably the best pairing around and will cause the Chelsea backline all sorts of problems come Sunday – the pair have an impressive 36 goals between them already this season.
Chelsea are, as we know, a strong, solid outfit who don’t give much away and if they stop Spurs playing then it’s simple – the cup will be heading back to the Bridge. They have all their big guns back and will be very hard to beat.
In saying that, I just have a feeling for SPURS at 5/2 in this one and it’s hard to ignore Dimitar Berbatov (pictured above) for first goal at 5/1. We have opted for a MAN CITY (6/5) win at home to Everton in the big Monday evening match on Sky.
DONCASTER (7/4) are in great form and hopefully can get the ball rolling with a win at Carlisle on Saturday.
HUDDERSFIELD (7/4) don’t have Chelsea to play this week, it’s Gillingham, and we expect them to take all points.
The quad pays a whopping £291 for a fiver
XXX: Blackpool v Charlton, Colchester v Bristol City, QPR v Sheff Utd all at priced at 11/5
(remember those doubles and trebles on this one, folks.)

Friday Horse Selections
A winning NAP (7/4 Hold 'em) at last but YID ARMY is the man - he can't stop picking winners.. offering him a job soon.
On to today and we have opted fpr CALL OSCAR (4.05 Sandown) as our NAP HAND today - good second to Oh Crick and hopefully he can get the better of Scots Dragoon.
We have a liking for PETIT MARGOT in the 4.20 at Warwick which is run over 3 mile 5 furlongs and making the Friday treble up is TRIBAL VENTURE in the last at Warwick.

£20 BET winner
Del Boy
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LOCAL PUNTERS CLEAN UP

LOCAL bookmakers Eastwoods (now Ladbrokes) were hit with some cracking bets at the weekend by local punters,
On Monday morning we had our first punter through the door telling us of his weekend bet.
The lower Falls punter was still shaken up by the soccer bet he did at the weekend. The punter in question couldn’t believe he had touched for close to £4,000 (see right).
He placed a £10 bet on seven teams in Chapel Lane on Saturday afternoon. The first six results came in with Donegal Celtic (8/5), Distillery (1/1), West Brom (7/5), Northampton (9/10), Notts County (2/1) and Hereford (4/5) all touching.
Just the one result to come and he was waiting on Rochdale (13/8) to come in. It was 1-1 and the time was 4.53pm – our punter was hoping for a miracle.
The miracle duly arrived when Rochdale scored in the fourth minute of injury time to hand our punter the bet of a lifetime.
He picked up £3,901.70 all told, thanks to that late, late goal. What a great bet.
North Belfast punter Paul Porter was also in the money at the weekend. He placed £5 on the two from each section and when Linfield (4/7), Torquay (4/7), Ipswich (8/11), Rushden (8/11), Cardiff (5/4), Westerlo (Belgium, 5/4) and Wycombe (11/8) all won on Saturday our punter was waiting on three teams on Sunday for his boat to come in.
Rangers (4/7) won with ease at Kilmarnock and Turkish side Trabzonspor (8/5) squeezed home 2-1.
He was waiting on Belgian side Anderlecht (3/10) for the bet and had to wait to 7pm that night. They won 2-1, the other side missing a penalty.
Our punter picked up close to £2,400 for his multi-European bet – another great piece of punting.

...and so too were Sean Graham
THE winning didn’t stop there with Sean Graham also taking a bit of a battering.
A Falls Road punter placed a 50p Lucky 15 – and what a bet it turned out to be!
Alberta’s Run (9/2, tipped on our blog) ran out an impressive winner to get the bet off to a flyer when winning the 1.15 at Ascot. Backbord (11/2) won the 1.50 at the same track after collaring Peacock on the line.
Two from two and a half an hour later the bet was on one hell of a sweat when Smoothly Does It did just that in the 2.20 at Uttoxeter, winning at rewarding odds of 12/1. Our punter hardly got a sweat with his last horse Wanango (9/4) who won on the bridle in the 3.50 at Uttoxter. He picked up £1,739.38 – not a bad return for a £7.50 outlay.
It’s hard enough getting the odd double up at the geegees but a Whiterock punter hit Grahams for SEVEN on Saturday. The punter placed a £4 seven-timer and watched as they all came in – Silver Guest 5/4, Song Of Songs 5/6, Katchit 4/5, Wanango 9/4, Whiteoak 5/2, Elusive Dream 4/7, and Segal 1/2 made it the lucky seven on the day.
He picked up a cool £796.33 for his £4 bet – an excellent piece of picking.

Man Utd look bet of the night

Fair play to Liverpool last night.. a good solid 2-0 win, they at last got lucky with Milan losing their centre-halfs, one through injury and the other down stupidity.
Chelsea let a lot of punters down including Charlie The Gooner who took them in his free £46 treble on this Blog.
On to the action tonight and we are taking Arsenal 11/10 to beat ageing AC Milan. The Gunners will hope to bounce back from their weekend drubbing at Utd and wil give a wee bit more fight than they did on Saturday.
Fenerbahce (13/8) have surprised a lot of people this year and we are taking them to beat Seville- watchout for their striker Alex who is in great form.
Celtic have been in great form of late and we are taking them to grab a draw tonight at home to Barca at 11/5. Man Utd are hard to ignore and if Rangers can win at Lyon then Utd must be a penalty-kick at 11/10.

First Goalscorers
Alex 13/2
Rooney 5/1
Adebayor 9/2

Punt of the DAY
MATCH SPECIALS
MAN UNITED TO WIN &
TOTAL MATCH GOALS 3 OR MORE 4/1

WEDNESDAY TIPS
4.40 CARIBANNA (NAP)
3.35 MISTER COMPLETELY (NB)
6.20 KEMPSEY (TREBLE)

The rest up is to YOU

Pressure mounts on Liverpool and Benetiz

I tipped Inter Milan up at Christmas to win the Champions League at 8/1 and they can take one step closer to that tonight at Anfield. The Reds are still smarting from their FA Cup shocker and know a defeat tonight will see their gaffer sacked and rightly so. The only thing keeping Benetiz in his job is that he has actually won the Champions League (main pic) with Liverpool,
Inter will go to Anfield and like all Italian teams look for the draw and that looks good to us.
In fact we actually fancy draws in all off tonights games.

Liverpool v Inter Milan 11/5
Olympiacos v Chelsea 21/10
Schalke v Porto 2/1
Roma v Real Madrid 2/1

Nice YANKEE?

we'll be doing trebbles and a quad - a mans bet!

Charlie grabs the cash but will he gamble?

Charlie the Gooner won the £20 bet on Friday and picked 2 winners and 2 non-runners in his football quad.
He picks up £46 for his troubles but the big question is.. will ace punter Charlie let it ride on the midweek football?
Post here Charlie to tell us what you're made off.

Taking a chance at the all-weather

No National Hunt racing today and we head to the all-weather track for Mondays tips.
As punters well know they all take their turns at beating each other on the all-weather and it is racing I prefer to ignore especially when it's at Southwell and Kempton - more chance of a winner at Portman Park..
Here we go with our Monday selections....

Wizard Looking (db) has attracted a lot of money in the opener and that has attracted us as well
Mr Cellophone (NAP) looks the choice in the 3.00pm with Jim Crowley aboard and we have opted for my missus in the last race. Seductive Witch (treble) is in form and should grab the hat-tick.

Live Match on Sky tonight is the visit of Crystal Palace to high-flying Bristol City -
Palace had been flying but have hit a brick wall of late while City have risen to third in table thanks mainly to their home form.
We fancy a draw tonight priced at 11/5 - Morrison to open the scoring at 6/1 and 2-2 draw priced at 14/1.

The rest is up to you

Champions League bets tomorrow..

Wichita to make it a Super Saturday

A great day of racing today and we have the Gold Cup favourite Kauto Star turns up at Ascot - barring any mishaps the 2/5 shot should win. I like the look of Fair Along each-way at 20/1
Wichita Lineman (1.05 Haydock) returns to the track today and will take all the beating over his favoured three miles - he trades around 9/4.
Kicking King runs in the Red Mills Chase and will take all the beating therea and could be double joy for Barry Geraghty if Lounaos can win the Red Mills Hurdle.
Over at Ascot Air Force One will take all the beating in the opener - I like Albertas Run in this one.
The big race at Haydock is Red Square Blue Gold Cup and if Iris Raptor can get his jumping toegther then the 12/1 on offer looks a good bet.
Katchit should win the Kingwell Hurdle at Wincanton while we end with our nap which is UFFA FOX in the last at Ascot - a course and distance winner who beat the progressive Hold'em here last time out.

The rest is up to you

Squadron looks Friday banker

It's been a lean time and we hope to get the weekend of the to the ideal start with a winner or 3.
Good racing at Sandown this afternoon and we have opted for SQUADRON (2.05) as our Nap of the day. He was a course and distance winner on his debut round here and finished third behind Triumph favourite Frankochek last time out and is a general 2/1 shot.
THE DARK LORD (DB) (1.25) run home an easy winner at Fakenham last time out and looks the one they have to beat in the opener at the same track - he trades around 11/4.
Our Friday treble is made up PERFECT STORM (1.45 Lingfield) who looks to the best form in the race and the best jockey and is best priced 4/1.


the rest is up to you!

Tipsy punter has the last laugh

Try and picture this scene in your head.
Friday night in a local bar around 8.30, there are five guys huddled round a table with Racing Posts and form guides littered round them. They have been there since they knocked off work and have been punting and drinking for quite a while. Their punting day is reaching its end with just one race to come from Wolverhampton.
One of the party is a little the worse for wear and the rest of the lads decide to play a practical joke on him. “We just received a tip for Hope Everlasting in the 8.44 at Steepledowns,” they tell him.
A tip at the virtual racing I hear you say? Yes, our poor, tipsy punter fell for it hook, line and sinker. One of his mates filled the docket out for him and our tanked-up punter rushed next door to place his bet.
He placed £10 each-way on the horse and came back to the bar to watch the race – that’s how far gone the guy was. No, it’s not on TV, fella, his mates told him, it’s a virtual race, you can only watch it in the bookies. At that stage the penny dropped.
He called his so-called mates all the names under the sun and left abruptly – you can’t blame the poor guy. He called into the bookies anyhow to check out the bogus tip and had to look twice. Hope Everlasting had just won. He blinked at the price. No way, he thought – the horse had won at 100/1!
He returned to bar with a wad of notes, £1,270 to be precise, and his mates were dumbstruck.
Their practical joke had just won their mate over a grand and suddenly nobody was laughing any more. Except for one person, of course.

Weekend Soccer Predictions
What a bad lot Leicester are – we were waiting on them for our quad last week after Brechin 17/10, Preston 6/5, and Huddersfield 6/5 all did the business for us last Saturday afternoon.
The Foxes were outfoxed and outplayed by a Plymouth team who took all points to leave us a wee bit gutted.
As usual we will dust ourselves down and try to bounce back this weekend.
We are leaving the match of the weekend between Man Utd and Arsenal well alone after some Reds fans gave off that this column is anti-Man Utd, a claim that we reject. Go on the Gunners!
The weekend matches are dominated by the FA Cup matches. We start with our weekend banker bet and we have opted for MIDDLESBORO (5/4) who take on bookies’ team Sheffield Utd at Bramall Lane.
Sheffield Utd beat Bolton in the last round but are currently struggling in the Championship and a defeat against his old club could cost Bryan Robson his job.
Boro have been in good form of late and have a striker in Jeremie Aliadiere (above right) who at last has found the net after his transfer from Arsenal. His goals have won Middlesboro their last two games and we expect that run to continue on Sunday with the French striker priced at a tasty 11/2 for the first goal.
WEST BROM 11/8 can hopefully get the ball rolling by beating managerless Coventry on Saturday.
CHELTENHAM 11/10 are starting to string a few wins together at home and should beat Hartlepool.
NORTHAMPTON 1/1 are another team in-form and we are taking them to beat strugglers Gillingham.
The quad pays £112 for a fiver
XXX : Cardiff v Wolves, Inverness v Dundee Utd, Doncaster v Leeds, all at priced at 11/5
(remember those doubles and trebles)
EURO QUAD: Valencia 6/4, Villareal 5/6, Lazio 1/1, Marseille 11/0 (all Euro prices PP)

Punt of the Day
Bayern Munich (-1) 1/1

Horsewatch Thursday:
Crescent Island (2.50 Chepstow) NAP
Nadover ( 3.25 Chepstow) Double
Dickie Lewis (3.40 Kelso) treble

PUNTERS GUIDE THIS WEEK

Punter's drunken 100-1 Tip
Don't miss the funniest story of the year!

Listener backed after easy win

The Listener has been the big mover of the weekend and has been cut into 5/1 from 10/1 for the RyanAir Chase after his Hennessy romp at the weekend.
The Robert Alner trained horse bolted up and won with a bit in hand and rather than take Denman and Co back on – he looks set to take the easier route at the festival.
Denman has been cut to 7/4 from 9/4 for the Gold Cup by Grahams after his easy win at Newbury on Saturday and Kauto Star eased a fraction to 11/10.
Sean Graham report serious money for Zaritto in the Champion bumper after he trotted home at Naas to win his third race from three starts - he was as big as 20/1 prior to that run and is now as short as 6/1.
Won in the Dark run a second behind Personal Column at Leopardstown on Sunday and gets 16/1 pricing for the Triumph - his victor also gets the same pricing.
Group Captain was a very impressive winner at Taunton on Sunday and has been halved in price by Grahams for the festival - he is now an 8/1 for the Novice Hurdle.
Forpadydeplasterer was cut for the same race following his Grade 1 win in Leopardstown where he beat Cork All-Star who has drifted to 10/1.

Win tickets to the Sean Graham Preview Night

Right folks we are giving away two tickets per day this week to the Sean Graham Cheltenham Preview Night on Monday 3 March.
To enter, answer this question:, Who won the Totesport Hurdle, at Newbury on Saturday?
answers to puntersguide@irelandclick.com


On Friday we will be giving away a £25 quad on the weekend football

Be in! to WIN

Gunners set to move clear

Hope you were on our Sunday double - Celtic minus a goal at 6/4 looked the bet of the day while it was hard to split Chelsea and Liverpool - The double paid around 8/1.
As we all know Man Utd lost yesterday at home to City (No laughing now) and that has given Arsenal the chance to extend their advantage to five points IF they can beat Blackburn.
They are no 2/7 on shots that's for sure. Blackburn are no easy touches with Mark Hughes at the helm and the Gunners will have to be on their toes.
We are going for a 2-0 Arsenal win and it's hard to ignore Adebayor (main pic) for first goal at 7/2 -
I think the scorescast pays around 22s.

Racing
What a performance from The Listener yesterday at Leopardstown and that win enhances the form of Denman who absolutely slaughtered the Robert Alner trained horse at Christmas. Denman is a big threat to Kauto and the jumping could play a big part this Denman jumps for fun.

We have went for GIOVANNI today in the 4.15 at Wetherby - he's a general 10/3 price

Denman eases to victory

Denman was his usual awesome self today at Newbury and is still as high as 9/4 for the Gold Cup behind stablemate Kauto Star who remains the even money favourite.
We put Mohayer up as each-way steal in the Totesport Trophy and he finished a close-up fourth at 16/1- I got 40/1 on Wednesday so a nice 10/1 winner.
The action tomorrow see's The Listener trying to go one better than last year in the Hennessy..
With Mossbank OUT we have now sided with NICKNAME who gets a general 5/1 pricing and don't discount Snowy Morning who returns to chasing after facile hurdle wins.
Soccer bets that stand out for Sunday Celtic -1 goal 6/4, and Chelsea draw 9/4 looks a nice live double.

Mohayer cut to 20/1 from 40s

Let's hope we can hand out a few winners on the board this weekend.
Readers of this week's PG will know we put Mohayer up at 40/1 for the Totesport Trophy (Saturday/Newbury) - that has now gone folks, he is now as short as 20/1 after trainer Donald McCain gave an upbeat report on the horse.
Mossbank (4/1) looks a good bet in Sunday’s Hennessy and we expect Nickname to chase him home.
On the football front there is a game on tonight and we think CHARLTON 5/4 look a good bet to beat Crystal Palace at The Valley – a 2-1 win is priced at 9/1 and take Luke Varney to score first at 13/2.
The football tips for the weekend are
XXX: Liverpool v Chelsea, Hamilton v Dunfermline, Queen of the South v St Johnstone
P G QUAD: Brechin 17/10, Preston 11/10, Huddersfield 1/1, Leicester 6/5.
MYTHICALS : Sheffield Utd to beat Bristol City, Wycombe to beat Doncaster, Spurs to beat Everton (16/1 McGranaghans)
LA LIGA QUAD: Valencia 4/5, Mallorca 11/10,Espanyol 1/2, A Madrid (draw) 2/1

PG Daily Nap Slemish Invader (4.15) Kempton

EASTWOODS SELL UP in 135 MILLION DEAL

Eastwood Bookmakers in Northern Ireland has been taken over in one of the biggest property deals of its kind, it was revealed today.
ENGLISH BOOKMAKERS Ladbrokes bought 54 Eastwood shops for around £135 million to make it the largest gambling outlet in the North of Ireland.
Eastwood`s was started way bavk in the 50s by BJ and Frances Eastwood and has shops in every town - and will be missed by many a punter.
The £135 million purchase price (which seems low to me) includes goodwill payments and a leaseback of the freehold properties.

Adebayor cut after double

The title race is hotting as but so to is the Golden Boot betting as we enter into February’s fixtures.
Arsenal striker Emmanuel Adebayor is now as low as 7/4 from 3/1 to finish as the Premier League's top scorer this season after closing the gap on market leader Cristiano Ronaldo at the weekend.
The Togo hitman is now on 18 and is just one behind the Portuguese winger who failed to find the net at the weekend but Ronaldo is still odds-on in places.
Liverpool Spainish striker Fernando Torres added to his tally at the weekend and is now on 12 goals and gets a 10/1 quote from layers.