The Punting Confessional: More on Non-Triers
The Punting Confessional , Wednesday, June 12th Last week I looked at some ideas around non-triers and inside information and before exploring the issue further it’s worth mentioning a couple of tweets I received on the subject since. Declan Meagher (@declanmeagher76), an Irish professional gambler, mentioned that it is only the ‘dunces’ who get caught [...]
The Punting Confessional – Wednesday, June 5th – The Non-Triers Recent weeks have been black for racing with a high-profile corruption case and the Al Zarooni/Sungate steroid scandal; the latter is certainly the darker cloud at present and there remains a strong suspicion we’re nowhere near the bottom of it yet. This column aims however [...]
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The Punting Confessional – Wednesday, May 22nd – The Power of the Negative (part 2) If asked who my favourite horse is, I wouldn’t reply Frankel, Sea The Stars or even Wrekin Rock (a Jim Gorman-trained handicapper who landed me a nice few quid at a Curragh May Bank Holiday meeting last year; you had [...]
Continue reading …The Punting Confessional – Wednesday, May 15th – The Power of the Negative Probably the best book I’ve read in the past year had nothing to do with gambling. In ‘The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking’, The Guardian’s psychology correspondent Oliver Burkeman dissects what he calls the ‘cult of optimism’ and [...]
Continue reading …The Punting Confessional – May 8th, 2013 Looking at trainers over the past two weeks, I focussed mainly on the bigger yards and how they carry out their operations; let’s now turn our attentions to the less known yards. One punting angle that stands the test of time is grabbing onto the coattails of a [...]
Continue reading …The Punting Confessional – May 1st 2013 To continue last week’s discussion of the role of the trainer as a punting angle, it’s probably fair to say that the bigger names are doing an entirely different job to those at the bottom end of racing’s food-chain; the top yards have the luxury of long-term planning [...]
Continue reading …The Punting Confessional – April 24th, 2013 In the equine/human equation that makes up any horse race, the animal is always the most important factor; their talent, much more so than any preference for ground, trip or otherwise reigns supreme. Of the Homo Sapiens involved however, the trainer is the vital person, more so than [...]
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The Punting Confessional – Wednesday, April 10th 2013 Curragh – March 24th I thought I might take a periodic look at an individual day’s racing over the next few months, taking in the betting shape of the card as a whole, and where better to start than the opening day of the flat turf season [...]
Continue reading …Everyone has their own particular favoured type of racing, many people prefer the gritty battles of winter jumps racing, watching the old warriors plough through miles and miles of mud sodden races. Yet for others, the almost serene appeal of the flat season is their preference. Tony Keenan prefers the latter and he now explains [...]
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Prior to this year’s excellent Cheltenham Festival, Tony Keenan gave us a fascinating insight into how he prepares for and ultimately tackles the UK’s centrepiece of the jumping calendar. Today, Tony takes a retrospective look at how the festival panned out for him and he played it in… …The Punting Confessional – 20th March, 2013 [...]
Continue reading …Last week Tony Keenan set about showing us how he approaches the Cheltenham Festival and began to work out whether or not we should treat this meeting any different to the thousands of other meetings we see each year. He concludes those thoughts this week by summing up his own feelings about the Festival in… [...]
Continue reading …Much is (quite rightly, of course!) made of the four-day racing jamboree better known as The Cheltenham Festival. After all, it is jumps racing’s Wembley or Wimbledon and this leads Tony Keenan to ponder whether or not we should approach this meeting any different to our normal betting approach in… …The Punting Confessional – March [...]
Continue reading …Today sees the third and final instalment of Tony Keenan’s efforts to dispel some of the myths surrounding racing as he sets about debunking another five falsedoms in… …The Punting Confessional – February 20th, 2013 Let’s conclude this mini-series with a few more clichés, starting with: ‘It suited to be up with the pace on [...]
Continue reading …In last week’s Punting Confessional, Tony Keenan began to explain why much of what we hear about racing from (usually) self-appointed “experts” should be taken with a pinch (or two) of salt. He expands on that topic this week, as he sets about exploding some more common clichés often heard around the race courses in… [...]
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Tony Keenan believes that the vast majority of advice doled out by racing “experts” should at least come with a caveat or taken with a pinch of salt at best and that we need to apply our own thoughts to what we get told, as he explains here in… …The Punting Confessional – February 6th, [...]
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