horse racing

Cheltenham….early thoughts. from gpcove 630 days old

With only three weeks to go before the opening day of this years Festival, early thoughts would seem slightly inappropriate as I would normally hope ...

"How to turn £84 into £7.97 in 3 easy steps" and other stories from gpcove 957 days old

Step 1 – Before the match starts, back Australia to beat the West Indies in the World Cup Super Eights at 1.42. A £200 bet will yield a nice £84 return. Step ...

Cheltenham, Day 4 Results from gpcove 969 days old

Day 4 of this years Festival put me through the wringer far more than any others day’s racing that I can remember for a long time. It’s hard to explain ...

Cheltenham, Day 4 Updates and Cricket World Cup from gpcove 970 days old

Let’s start with yesterdays cricket match between Ireland and Zimbabwe. The match must have been a thrilling one as the result was declared a tie, not ...

Cheltenham, Day 3 Results from gpcove 970 days old

Today was a day for playing around. It was also a day for rolling with the punches. Finally, it was a day for basking in the glow of a small profit, ...

Cheltenham, Day 3 Updates Pt. 2 from gpcove 971 days old

I've started to crap myself with Inglis Drever. The ground has come for him and he is the leading fancy with the press tipsters, but at the time I backed ...

Cheltenham, Day 3 Updates from gpcove 971 days old

Although Taranis appeals to me as a French bred in the Ryanair today, I couldn’t resist taking advantage of Ladbrokes price of 3-1 about Monets Garden ...

Cheltenham, Day 2 Results from gpcove 971 days old

Day 1 was always going to be my ‘banker’ day and I was expecting Day 2 to be quite a minefield. The day started badly when I checked my Day 1 maths ...

Cheltenham, Day 1 Results from gpcove 973 days old

Well, if anyone out there is actually reading this and followed my advice, they’d have done quite well for themselves and my own profit on the day was ...

Cheltenham, Day 4 from gpcove 973 days old

The final day kicks off with the Triumph Hurdle which is usually the last race that I look through the form for. It’s a somewhat easier task than it ...