yeah ta, not big odds but winners nonetheless.

Will have updated table posted here shortly.

OK well this Saturday saw some pretty average tipping by EVERYONE, with just one very, very notable exception:

Well done to Raw Instinct, who found within his six selecions the winner of the 7th race at Flemington, Songs of Vienna. As most would know however Songs of Vienna actually crossed the line in second place and had to win the race in the stewards room on protest. For that reason, I am disallowing his victory on Songs of Vienna and the tip will stand as a losing one.

Just kidding! Well done Raw Instinct. What a gruelling twenty minutes that must have been, pacing up and down, gnawing your finger nails to the nub, swigging straight from the scotch bottle, muttering under your breath, "damn jockeys, I'll show them!" until finally, blessedly, they upheld it!

For the rest of us, for shame.... We were hopeless. The only other person who made a profit on the day was Seeker11 by finding Command and Conquer in Melbourne, well done Seeker you weren't hopeless, but the rest of us were. The rest of us did manage to find 17 winners but a lot of shorties were tipped, like the winner of the first in Sydney which was tipped three times, paying $1.40. Would you actually take the $1.40 if betting? Well, it won I suppose anyway.

Here for the perusal is the updated ladder. It now certainly makes for an interesting comp, with Raw about $10 ahead of the second place. I am glad we can tip any day of the week now, get a chance to catch him!

Here it is. I am going to post another table in a few minutes, updated for Sunday's tips, which starts the new week of the comp, in which we can tip on any day. There were only two of us who tipped yesterday, myself and Chuck. If you want to tip any of the days this week, just post at your leisure!

OK here's the new table below, after yesterday's results. A slight change only since Saturday.

I have also put in two new columns in the "ranked" sheet, s/r and ave div, showing everyone's strike rate and their average dividend, for a little more interest.

Enjoy, and good tipping during the week, I'll update as I go if I get time, or do a wholesale update later in the week.

I'll try a few today.

Monday April 18
Nowra R5-2 Either Or
Yarra Valley R7-1 Fantabulous
Yarra Valley R8-1 Mint Royal

Thanks Sportz - I was going to tip three horses also, then completely forgot lol. I would've only had one winner as well, and it was actually the same horse as your winner!

Below is the updated table.

As I said, feel free to tip at will. If there's people tipping every day then this comp will be really fluid and continuous. I see it really going well like that, with people chasing the leader, and the leader unable to sit back on his haunches, as any day someone could pounce and claim leadership!

So, feel free to tip madly. I am going to extend the 20 tip maximum to 30 also, as of say right now, to allow more action. That's what the punt is about - action!!!

Yeah, I was quite keen on yesterday's racing. I actually bet in 6 races which is about 2 or 3 times what I'd normally have on a Monday. I couldn't really have 6 bets in this comp on a Monday though or I might have none of my 20 bets left come the weekend. So I picked out what I thought were the 3 best. Of course 2 of my other 3 top picks won, at $4.90 & $8.30. They would have been handy. Anyway, I had real money on them, so no worries. :)

Just a note to say that work committments are imposing on my time and so I'll only be able to compete in the current Group comp for the time being

OK no worries Seeker. I'll keep your name there in case you find time to throw some in - only have to find five a week, so give it a crack but if you cannot I understand.

Trying some new/old longshot ideas.

Ipswich

R 1 H 5 Marikal
R 2 H 12 Special Lyric
R 4 H 2 Craiglea Scene
R 7 H 3 Bay Of Secrets

Murray Bridge

R 1 H 1 Equation
R 2 H 12 Teppanyaki

SR1-1 AMELIENBORG
SR2-3 CIMAROSA
SR6-1 ANWAAR
SR7-3 ISLAND SWING
MR5-1 REGAL OAMARU
MR6-9 EDGY AFFAIR
PR2-11 KIM JOY

Is that 6-2 Bay Of Secrets or 7-3 Admiral Nelson???

Wednesday April 20:

Canterbury

R5 (3) Neat Work.
R7 (3) Island Swing.

Sandown

R4 (6) Emergence.
R6 (9) Edgy Affair.

Ipswich

R8 (10) Thorpe.
R9 (4) Snow Prince.

Murray Bridge

R6 (6) Painted Rose.
R7 (2) Lambruk.
R8 (15) In Light.

Wednesday Apr 20

I've gone a bit crazy. This will probably send me to the bottom of the comp, but what the heck.

IPSW R2-6 Grinnezz
IPSW R2-7 Mates Rates
CANT R4-3 Prince Nimrod
SAND R3-13 Miss Debonair
SAND R5-1 Regal Oamaru
SAND R5-5 Shackled Rose
SAND R6-5 Gibernau
SAND R6-9 Edgy Affair
SAND R7-1 Lamparo
SAND R7-4 Ali Benbara
M.BR R8-14 Goodie Two Shoes
M.BR R8-15 In Light

WELL DONE!!!

Hey Kiwi, are you going to have a go with Stable Challenge version 2. I don't want it to be just me!!! Even though that's probably the only way I can win. :)

G'day Spotrz i did it again thanks for spotting it.Cost me plenty in one of the comps last time.

The ammendment is:


Trying some new/old longshot ideas.

Ipswich

R 1 H 5 Marikal
R 2 H 12 Special Lyric
R 4 H 2 Craiglea Scene
R 6 H 2 Bay Of Secrets
R 7 H 3 Admiral Nelson

Murray Bridge

R 1 H 1 Equation
R 2 H 12 Teppanyaki

I have revived one of my long shot systems and if it continues to win will post the selections on here.

Yesterday it scored these:

Three selections and two collects.

Queensland r4 h 11 $17.60 and $3.40

Queensland r7 h 12 $22.70 3rd place

I will join you on the stable challange, still working on some runners that will compete for the next three months.:)

Hmmm, not sure what that system is, but it seems to work.

Hmmm, lucky I got you to have a look at that!!! ;)

Testa & Kiwi,

You're both doing brilliantly today. Well done.

Not doin to bad yourself Sportz!!!!

Testa,

I think I made a small profit in the comp. Would have done a bit better if we could have different amounts on our selections. Not complaining though. I'm going to stick to picking the two horses per race like I do with my own betting. Hopefully I'll manage to go forward. Don't think I'll be able to catch you or Kiwi after today though.

These were my actual win bets today:

BRIS R2 - 6 (1unit) 7 (1unit)
MELB R3 - 13 (3units) 1 (1unit)
MELB R5 - 5 (2units) 1 (2units)
MELB R6 - 9 (3units) 5 (1unit)
MELB R7 - 4 (2units) 1 (2units)
ADEL R8 - 14 (1unit) 15 (1unit)

For the comp, I probably should have just picked out the ones that I bet 2 or 3 units on.

Yep, thanks Sportz.Did you get my email, have a couple of ideas for you if your interested.:)

Could you try again?

Does it still begin sportznut67?

Yep.

Ok that is what i,m sending.Try this charlieed@xtra.co.nz

Mackay

R 1 H 7 Tio Rama

R 7 H 10 Pride Of Sequalo

Thursday Apr 21

WYNG R3-4 Zamurd
WYNG R3-6 Waimea
BEND R3-1 Blue Collar Jack
BEND R3-5 Octrivia
P.LIN R6-1 Mr Iceman
P.LIN R6-8 Winthorpe
BUNB R6-2 Joachimstaler

Well, any money I might have won yesterday, I think I'm going to give that and some more back today. :(

Geez i've got 5 wins and seven places from 13 races ot R&S DC and only backed the winner of the first race at Port Lincoln as i didn't feel confident about the rest..:)

Well done.

My only saving grace has been a few multiple bets today. In R3 at Bendigo and Wyong, I tried boxing the top 4 horses on the unitab ratings in an any2 bet and got a couple of handy collects. Should have actually backed all 4 of them for a win, because in each case the top 4 ratings found the winner, one at $12, the other at $65!!!

22 DC races gone 9 wins seven places.Mackay R7 No10 is paying plenty have a little 5/10 on it.:)

G'Day all sorry haven't been around the last few days, had some other committments.

Below is the updated table.

Good to see action on Wednesday with 4 tipsters (I'd have joined you if I could), and well done to the four of you. Kiwi tipped 2 of 6 collecting 21.50, best POT for a day for the comp so far. Testa wasn't far behind with 4 of 9 and a collect of 18.30, also very good tipping combining s/r and POT. Feather was right on the mark tipping 4 of 7, collect 11.60. Feather has the best S/R of any tipster in the comp, and of course the prolific Sportz did well too tipping 4 of 12 for a return of 16.50.

Not so good on Thursday I am afraid, with Sportz giving some of his profit from Wednesday back, and Kiwi tipping just twice for two non-winners. Feather and Testa wisely left it in the account.

Good luck over the weekend all, I'll probably have a tip today, got itchy fingers without any action from the past few days, I'll probably be online and posting during the day too while I do the form for tomorrow if anyone's having a bet.

Cheers.

PS - Is everyone OK with me submitting the table as an excel file like this? If not, I can always post the table here it's just that it gets out of line, and there's more info in the spreadsheet. Is everyone able to access/read/understand it?

Yeah, I definitely should have stayed out yesterday after doing okay on Wednesday. In future I might just stick to Wednesdays and Saturdays. I think I've got 8 bets left for Saturday. Is that right Duritz?

Why not simply post just a very basic table with only our profit/loss figures, and you can include that file as well for those that want to look at it in more detail.

Yeah that's a good idea, I'll do that, ta.

Sportz you have 8 bets left. You can check on that at any time by clicking on the "this week" tab at the bottom of the excel spreadsheet. That also tells you how you're going for this week etc.

Here's that simple table as the results stand right at this very second right now.

player Profit/loss
raw instinct $13.6
sirpent $4.8
Duritz $3.8
zorro $1.8
testarossa $0.4
Chuck -$2.0
Goldcoaster -$3.4
mercurial -$3.8
Sportz -$4.1
Seeker11 -$5.4
bl4dez -$5.5
feather -$6.2
kiwi -$8.1
Svenvlad -$8.3
Heavyweight -$10.5
Random -$15.2

Friday 22nd

wondonga
r2-10 violet pounds
r4-5 bubbles and brew

canberra
r6-1 bartoss

Canberra

R.6 No9 Overall Prince

Ballina

R.6 No 5 King Of Spain
r.7 No 4 Impregnable

Gold Coast

R.5 No 11 Lion Lady
R.6 No 7 Crystal Lane

The spreadsheet format is perfect thanks Duritz.

Yeah I'll have a dip too - just one selection

Bris race 7 # 8

LOL sorry I think I have Kiwi's disease from Wednesday - that selection is meant to be Wodonga R6#3, NOT Bris 7-8. I have no idea why I did that....

Good luck all.

Saturday:

Randwick -
4-3 Bazaars

Caulfield -
3-3 Marmottan
4-14 Furaat
5-9 Captain Clipper
6-9 Botero
7-1 Mummify

Cheltenham -
7-4 Alizes

Doomben
4-7 Mameluke

Updated after todays, here's the short list, then the file below.

Good luck to all tomorrow, (including me).

player Profit/loss
raw instinct $13.6
sirpent $4.8
Duritz $2.8
zorro $1.8
testarossa $0.4
Chuck -$2.0
Goldcoaster -$3.4
mercurial -$3.8
Sportz -$4.1
feather -$4.7
Seeker11 -$5.4
bl4dez -$5.5
Svenvlad -$8.3
kiwi -$9.6
Heavyweight -$10.5
Random -$15.2