{"id":4361,"date":"2015-12-24T13:51:58","date_gmt":"2015-12-24T13:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=4361"},"modified":"2015-12-24T16:07:06","modified_gmt":"2015-12-24T16:07:06","slug":"winterborne-longjohns-make-a-bid-for-boxing-day-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=4361","title":{"rendered":"Winterborne Longjohns makes a bid for Boxing Day success"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Blog’s exclusive racing correspondent has sent this dispatch for the encouragement of the dwindling band of punters who see profit in horse racing.<\/em><\/p>\n

Unseasonal weather, heavy going and uncertain form lines all make for hazardous punting unless perhaps one follows my colleague Swinley Bottom’s taste\u00a0 for afternoon and early evening diversions on the all weather tracks at such unlikely places as Chelmsford, Lingfield , Southwell and Wolverhampton.<\/p>\n

The absence of reliable information from the Harry Fry yard\u00a0 has meant that our previous money making trainer cannot be profitably followed this season. Although this stables strike rate is almost a very commendable 25% with 24 winners coming from 107 runners since the beginning of September this months\u00a0 impressive 8 winners from 22 runners\u00a0 has only rewarded Fry’s starting price supporters with a 2.25% profit after 22 bets. As a friend of mine once so succintly pit it, Blow that for a Game of Soldiers !<\/p>\n

Small solace too for the\u00a0 followers of Kim Baileys excellent and consistently award winning Blog <\/a>that so regularly provides its readers with good information, updated photographs and a good joke to start the day. So what to do ?<\/p>\n

-Difficult I know but supporting local trainers might be the answer. Fry has only one possible runner at Wincanton. SIR IVAN, who tailed off at Newbury last time out while four other possibles with much better form are at present entered at Kempton . My own inclinatioin is to look long and hard at anything trained by CUE CARD’s South Somerset \u00a0handlers, the father and son Tizzard team\u00a0 ,and also at anything coming from Frys near neighbour Anthony Honeyball of Potwell Farm, – nice name !- near Beaminister.<\/p>\n

As for my own principal bets this Christmas, I am nominating CUE CARD on the King George at Kempton ,and AL FEROF, surely outstanding value at 18\/1,\u00a0 SIZING GOLD and HEATHFIELD\u00a0 in the Paddy Power Chase and finally DON POLI for the Lexus chase at Leopardstown.<\/p>\n

On New Years Day I am advised by my social secretary, not Mrs Badger incidentally,\u00a0 that I am invited to lunch with Willie Mullins sister on board the narrow boat Ariadne. Lets hope something comes of this. Apologies for the late appearance of this bulletin but our editor has been incommunicado for some now,\u00a0 probably recovering from his overindulgence in Lidl;s 2014 Chianti, a real snip at \u00a37.49p a bottle\u00a0 and a strong recommendation which he so so selfishly witheld from my readers in my last racing newsletter.<\/p>\n

We find Lidl’s \u00a34.50 Chianti, now no longer available sadly, to be so good, that we need not look further afield. Their Barolo at a tenner a bottle also looks like an excellent buy. -Ed.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Blog’s exclusive racing correspondent has sent this dispatch for the encouragement of the dwindling band of punters who see profit in horse racing. Unseasonal weather, heavy going and uncertain form lines all make for hazardous punting unless perhaps one follows my colleague Swinley Bottom’s taste\u00a0 for afternoon and early evening diversions on the all … Continue reading “Winterborne Longjohns makes a bid for Boxing Day success”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2757],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6glYD-18l","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4361"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4365,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361\/revisions\/4365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}