As small improvement from Sir George at Ascot this afternoon. But we\u2019ll let him tell the story\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sir George Paddock Bt writes\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Well, that\u2019s racing for you! Today\u00a0 we had one winner at 12\/1 and a place at 8\/1, resulting in a return of \u00a313.92, a small loss of \u00a31.08 on a total bet of\u00a315. One of our two losing horses, Mighty Gurkha, missed out on the place money by a smidgen. So not an entirely bad result for Team Paddock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I defy the editor chappie\u2019s scorn by pointing out that the Royal meeting pitches the best bred and trained horses in the world against each other in fiercely competitive racing. Picking one winner is hard enough, let alone four, don\u2019tcha know?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Being above all a gentleman, I might also point out that our selection Mighty Gurkha politely and loyally made way for her majesty\u2019s Horse, Tactical, who achieved a popular win in the 4.10. God Bless your Majesty!<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019ll be back tomorrow with some more Ascot selections. Third time lucky<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thank you Sir George See you tomorrow -Ed<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As small improvement from Sir George at Ascot this afternoon. But we\u2019ll let him tell the story\u2026 Sir George Paddock Bt writes\u2026 Well, that\u2019s racing for you! Today\u00a0 we had one winner at 12\/1 and a place at 8\/1, resulting in a return of \u00a313.92, a small loss of \u00a31.08 on a total bet of\u00a315. … Continue reading “Marginal loss at Ascot”<\/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-6418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6glYD-1Fw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6418","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=6418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6419,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6418\/revisions\/6419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}