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Wednesday 30 September 2009

1st October 2009 Wolverhampton

5.45 BETDAQ THE BETTING EXCHANGE MAIDEN STAKES (CLASS 5)(3-4yo) Winner £3,238 12 runners 7f32y
99.3% Anagram 2nd 6-1
99.2% Totalitarian
98.4% Fine Art Collector

6.15 STAY AT THE WOLVERHAMPTON HOLIDAY INN CLAIMING STAKES (CLASS 6)(2yo) Winner £2,388 13 runners 1m141y
100.6% Underworld Dandy
99.8% Al Khimiya 3rd 6-4
98.3% Gold Fix 2nd 5-1

6.45 WOLVERHAMPTON - THE BLACK COUNTRY´S ONLY RACECOURSE HANDICAP (CLASS 5)(3yo+ 0-70) Winner £3,238 13 runners 2m119y
101.5% Baan
101.3% Mymateeric
101.1% Black Or Red

7.15 BETDAQ.CO.UK HANDICAP (CLASS 6)(3yo+ 0-52) Winner £2,388 13 runners 5f216y
100.6% Briannsta 1st 10-1
99.8% Dancing Welcome
99.7% Scruffy Skip
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1st October 2009 Wolverhampton (Cont’d)

7.45 GREAT OFFERS AT WOLVERHAMPTON-RACECOURSE.CO.UK HANDICAP (CLASS 4)(3yo+ 0-80) Winner £5,046 13 runners 5f216y
102.1% Bahamian Lad
101.7% Dvinsky
100.7% Lochan Mor 2nd 7-2

8.15 BET CAMBRIDGESHIRE HANDICAP - BETDAQ HANDICAP (CLASS 4)(3yo+ 0-85) Winner £5,046 13 runners 1m1f103y
103.1% Farleigh House 1st 7-2
102.1% Stand Guard
101.6% Penchesco

8.45 EUROPEAN BREEDERS´ FUND MAIDEN FILLIES´ STAKES (CLASS 5)(2yo) Winner £3,562 12 runners 7f32y
99.5% Pictures 2nd 8-1
98.7% Arte Viva
98.1% Alice Alleyne 1st 2-1

9.15 HOTEL & CONFERENCING AT WOLVERHAMPTON HANDICAP (CLASS 6)(3yo+ 0-65) Winner £2,388 12 runners 7f32y
101.9% Peper Harow 1st 8-1
101.6% Chief Red Cloud
101.6% Just Timmy Marcus
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Horse Racing - Trip Down Memory Lane

As there is no AWT racing until Monday 13th I decided to do some research and while thumbing through some old racing books found an old page from Raceform which bought back a great memory from my past carefully folded within the pages.

How attractive a proposition was Pipssalio. Still a Maiden after 4 outings, its 3 outings as a 2yo read beaten 16 lengths in Class 5 3k Novice, beaten 16 lengths in a Class 6 2k Maiden, Beaten 14 lengths in a Class 4 3k Maiden. 1 outing as a 3yo beaten ½ length in a Class 4 4k Handicap. Looked to be way out of its depth being entered in a Class 3 14k Handicap. Pipssalio was 10lb out of the handicap and the jockey (Francis Norton) was putting up 2lb over weight.

My speed figures told me a different story. In fact I can remember being so bullish I was nailing my colours to the mast on all the forums and to the Raceform. This for me was the outstanding bet of the following day, the outstanding bet of the week and of the month. I went to bed unable to sleep with anticipation for the following day fully confident I would be making a lot of money. As soon as I got up on the day of the race I started checking the prices to ensure the tissue given the evening before was correct. Pipssalio was still 20-1.

The time of the race had arrived and in horror I watched as Pipssalio fell out of the stalls. By the time they had reached half-way in the 1 mile contest it was flat to the boards well adrift of the rest of the field with Franny Norton rowing away and beating the horse to death!

My feelings at the time were partly embarrassment due to the comments I had made on various forums , partly anger and all confidence in my ability to create meaningful speed figures gone in 60 seconds but being the eternal optimist still a slither of hope.

With 2 furlongs to go Pipssalio started to reduce the gap. With a furlong to go the rest of the field started to paddle and Pipssalio appeared to have sprouted wings and was closing on the leaders at an unbelievable rate. As they flashed passed the post Franny Norton had driven Pipssalio between the two leaders to make a three way photo finish. Even though I believed Pipssalio had got there it was going to be on the nod. Pipssalio got the verdict beating 2nd Everest by a short-head who in turn had beaten 3rd Tumbleweed Tor by a short-head.

That is the margin of winning and losing. The difference between the feeling of abject failure and believing you can walk on water.