THE BETTING STRATEGY

Year to date: +80.00 points

Saturday 01 January 2022

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL

Overall, I guess that 2021 wasn’t too bad a year though I’ll certainly be looking to improve on the performance over the next 12 months. A final profit of 80 points was probably acceptable but I do feel it could have been so much better. April and June both hit our profit figures hard otherwise we’d have been looking really good.

Anyway, onwards and upwards as we start a new year. Not too busy a day for us considering it’s a Saturday.

Just looking back to yesterday, Top Breeze made headway approaching the final furlong but that was as good as it got and he finished a well-beaten 5^th. Off You go didn’t run too well and has much better form than he showed.

LOSS OF 3.00 pointS

All Selections are settled to Betfair SP

2.00 Cheltenham

Galahad Quest             1.5 points ew (6 places)

Espoir De Teillee         0.5 points ew (6 places)

2.35 Cheltenham

Ask Dillon                      1.5 points ew (4 places)

3.10 Cheltenham

Brewin’upastorm        1 point win

Analysis

2.00 Cheltenham

This is a tough race to predict and I have rather reluctantly passed over the chances of Coole Cody and Simply The Betts, both of whom could well win this. I do however really fancy the chances of Galahad Quest who was going really well when falling at the ninth at Aintree four weeks ago. Nick Williams will have him spot on for this. As an alternative, I quite like the look of Espoir De Teillee who ran a great race at Newbury just over a month ago and is in with a decent shout here.

2.35 Cheltenham

A course and distance winner here last April, Ask Dillon is a pretty decent horse and although he has seemingly failed to fire so far this season, last time out, when finishing 3^rd at this course three weeks ago, saw a return to somewhere near his best form and hopefully, he can build on that and resume winning ways.

3.10 Cheltenham

Brewin’upastorm looked better than ever when winning on his Aintree reappearance and should be capable of confirming the form over McFabulous, who took this race last season (at Kempton) and should go well on his return after wind surgery. The only other danger I can see is the Willie Mullins raider, Stormy Ireland.

Statistics

2021

All the figures above are based on Betfair Starting Price.

Regards

Karl