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I've always fancied being a curmudgeon, but I've found that being a malcontented bellyaching sourpuss takes up all my time :confusion:
 
Read through a few this morning and came to the same conclusion on some. Cheltenham completely pointless to some surely. Must be millionaires from the roll up bets already!

Not sure I really agree with the term / principal of roll ups in general to be honest. But any that aren't put up before the event is completely ridiculous to record. If they're genuine just keep them offline, simple.

There's also some that have very good content though. So harsh to judge the whole section imo. A few are extremely useful and a few others are an interesting read. But as Quevega has said, reading some actually annoys me an unreasonable amount as well
 
Ice said:
Does all this mean nobody wants to hear about my 6 timer yesterday rolling on to Facile vega @ 999,999/1 !? :congratulatory:
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Means nothing if you picked the wrong race for Facile Vega :highly_amused:
 
Ice said:
I forgot to mention i did two separate accumulators, one for Supreme and one for ballymore ! :welcoming:
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Schoolboy error forgetting to do one with any race :welcoming:
 
Benjy23 said:
Not sure I really agree with the term / principal of roll ups in general to be honest.
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It's come to mean any multiple bet but it was never meant to be just a double.

I've a vague memory of the first time I heard the term being used. I'm pretty sure it was in the 60s or 70s and the tipster, Robin Goodfellow, nominated a horse each day where, if it won, the winnings were rolled up on to the next day's selection. Clearly, you could stop whenever you wanted but the Mail always carried on until it lost. They were always very short prices but I seem to remember they got over 20 on one occasion. I think it was actually called the Daily Mail Roll Up.
 
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Quevega said:
didn't know you could do that.
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Click on the Members Only sub forum and at the bottom of the index page there's an invitation to 'Mark This Channel Read'. Clicking that saves you hours of misery. You can do the same for the whole forum from the main index page.
 
Another useful post on prixdelahorse by Adam - 100 French imports to IRE/UK this year. As expected Willies stable looks to be jam packed.

https://www.prixdelahorse.com/post/f...-2022-the-list

wee reminder if you want to rewatch any French replays, French Gallops is your site. Sign up is free, drop the horses name into the search bar and you can go from there. Google translate is native on most devices these days so language barrier shouldn’t be an issue for the old timers!
 
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….for anybody interested, I’ve popped a link to the Joe Tizzard stable tour in the stable tour thread.
 
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archie said:
It's come to mean any multiple bet but it was never meant to be just a double.

I've a vague memory of the first time I heard the term being used. I'm pretty sure it was in the 60s or 70s and the tipster, Robin Goodfellow, nominated a horse each day where, if it won, the winnings were rolled up on to the next day's selection. Clearly, you could stop whenever you wanted but the Mail always carried on until it lost. They were always very short prices but I seem to remember they got over 20 on one occasion. I think it was actually called the Daily Mail Roll Up.
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Good knowledge this. Make a bit more sense in the old context.

Vaguely remember ATC being a common thing a while back. I'm very much an outsider these days but not sure that's too common place anymore.

A straight double, or even upwards with no relationship and the non Cheltenham events all being today (with only one Cheltenham selection) makes very little sense imo. But of course, as long as they're put up before the race, that's just a personal betting preference from me.
 
Odd comments from nicky on CH, "He's a Great big chaser".

Always struck me as a relatively small horse and Jonbon dwarves him. Just seemed odd.
 
Myflutters said:
Odd comments from nicky on CH, "He's a Great big chaser".

Always struck me as a relatively small horse and Jonbon dwarves him. Just seemed odd.
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Sounds like he's a had a serious growth spurt
 
Quevega said:
:highly_amused: A curmudgeon is not far off an 'old fashioned twat' but with a touch of grouchiness.
Pretty sure you're too cheerful for full blown curmudgeon status :applause:
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I'm definitely not a full blown Curmudgeon , Maybe a Happy Curmudgeon or is that a contradiction of terms ??. :smile-new:.
 
Anyone watch " the Finishing Line " last night ?? /. Any Thoughts ??.
 
BigChaang said:
Anyone watch " the Finishing Line " last night ?? /. Any Thoughts ??.
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Gave it a go couldn’t finish it, find it more of a casual pub talk between the 3 lads than anything else. Tipping Vega for the supreme at the start, not too unique.
 
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