{"id":6416,"date":"2020-06-17T07:35:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T07:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=6416"},"modified":"2020-06-17T07:36:34","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T07:36:34","slug":"more-ascot-action-from-sir-george-paddock-bt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=6416","title":{"rendered":"More Ascot action from Sir George Paddock Bt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Our exclusive racing correspondent Sir George Paddock continues to blunder and bluster his way through the Ascot card. Today he believes he can win you \u00a34000 for a modest outlay. Fools and their money ! -Ed<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have to take exception to your headline in yesterday\u2019s Blog. To my racing colleagues a mere \u00a37.50 loss against a \u00a39.50 return is akin to a victory. Think of the excitement, the thundering hooves and the lovely Francesca Cumani, all thrown in for nothing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, if you don\u2019t succeed, change your tactics, and that\u2019s what we\u2019ll do today. My selections yesterday were mainly favourites or second favourites, so today we\u2019ll be a little bolder and stalk some meatier odds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m &nbsp;still sticking with Frankie Dettori . We\u2019re only asking him to land one winner today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are my four lucky 15 selections \u2013 several bookies are paying extra places, so bet each way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1315 Alternative Fact<\/strong> (Frankie Dettori) 8\/1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1535 Dark Vision<\/strong> (William Buick) 12\/1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1610 Mighty Gurkha<\/strong> (Hollie Doyle) 15\/2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1640 Ranch Hand<\/strong> (David Probert ) 9\/2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A 50p each way lucky 15 will set you back \u00a315 and if all 4 come up you stand to win \u00a34400 \u2013 or around&nbsp; \u00a3100 if they are all placed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each of these is worth an individual each way bet, but be prepared to spend more than 50p!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As my colleague Mr Swinley Bottom observed, bet like a man!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>And as I observe,  Carey Street* is littered with failed betting geniuses -Ed<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>*Where the bankruptcy courts used to be, an address familiar to Sir George and his pals<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our exclusive racing correspondent Sir George Paddock continues to blunder and bluster his way through the Ascot card. Today he believes he can win you \u00a34000 for a modest outlay. Fools and their money ! -Ed I have to take exception to your headline in yesterday\u2019s Blog. To my racing colleagues a mere \u00a37.50 loss &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=6416\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More Ascot action from Sir George Paddock Bt&#8221;<\/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-6416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6glYD-1Fu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6416","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=6416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6417,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6416\/revisions\/6417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}