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.