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Cheltenham 2015 - Day 1 Tuesday 10/03/2015 *MOD WARNING IN OP AND POST #293*

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    #482
    battser
    Registered Users Posts: 711 ✭✭✭battser


    WoW is all I can say about today.

    Annie let me down on just about everything yet I am still up having the last there in my yankee with shaneshill and gallant oscar.

    Unreal Day punting


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    #483
    magicmoves
    Registered Users Posts: 471 ✭✭magicmoves


    Thanks for all the advice on this forum. I managed to make a small profit. Lets hope we can all make some cash tomorrow :)


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    #484
    supersean1999
    Registered Users Posts: 2,465 ✭✭✭supersean1999


    Is that 5/6 for the irish


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    #485
    Ben1994
    Registered Users Posts: 70 ✭✭Ben1994


    Apart from annie power twas a good day!


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    #486
    sham69
    Registered Users Posts: 2,321 ✭✭✭sham69


    Nice few early wins so have some money for tomorrow, cant complain, thanks all for the tips etc.


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    #487
    seanhynes
    Registered Users Posts: 7,513 ✭✭✭seanhynes


    I fully expect the bookies to fill their satchels back up come 5,30 tomorrow it can't get much better than that for the rest of the week


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    #488
    Miall108
    Registered Users Posts: 431 ✭✭Miall108


    Actually sunk to my knees when Annie Power fell going over the last meaning I lost a lot of money. Gutted


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    #489
    asteroids over berlin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,115 ✭✭✭asteroids over berlin


    Still in shock, going with all the big 4, adrenalin pumping then Ruby balls it on the very last fence, fcuk sake Ruby!


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    #490
    thelad95
    Registered Users Posts: 7,812 ✭✭✭thelad95


    Was in Paddy Powers and when Annie fell you could hear a pin drop. Somebody was actually in tears because they were in for a ~500 windfall.


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    #491
    gooseygander
    Registered Users Posts: 317 ✭✭gooseygander


    sitting watching with my dad, we both saying "just don't fall, just don't fall, just don't ....aggggghhhhhhhhhh. I felt the pain and I did not even have any money riding on it. Condolences to all that got burned by that little last hurdle.


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    #492
    LesVerts
    Registered Users Posts: 11 ✭LesVerts


    Chuffed I backed glens melody


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    #493
    mdwexford
    Registered Users Posts: 11,275 ✭✭✭✭mdwexford


    asteroids over berlin wrote: »
    Still in shock, going with all the big 4, adrenalin pumping then Ruby balls it on the very last fence, fcuk sake Ruby!

    How exactly did Ruby "balls it" on this so called last fence?


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    #494
    convert
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 9,338 Mod ✭✭✭✭convert


    Yet again I am having to remind people to stop after timing.


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    #495
    cashcarson
    Registered Users Posts: 27 ✭cashcarson


    PADDY POWER REFUNDING 4FOLD ACCUM DOUVAN,UDS,FAUGHEEN ANNIE POWER.HOPE IT SOFTENS THE BLOW.UNFORTUNAETLY I HAD HER IN A TREBLE.


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    #496
    Mountainlad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,851 ✭✭✭Mountainlad


    Burned badly by Annie Power as well.


    Just wanted to say though, Danny Mullins cops a lot of flack (most recently the insinuation that he may have been at fault for Our Conor being killed!!!) in this forum but what a great ride on Arctic Fire. Great to see, must have been a hard twelve months losing the retainer with Barry Connell.

    The fastest finishing horse, some training performance by Mullins to achieve what he achieved today.


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    #497
    A.Gorilla
    Registered Users Posts: 276 ✭✭A.Gorilla


    Just got an E-mail from Paddy Power saying I'm getting refunded my stake for the Mullins Acca today coz Annie fell....Bloody nice of them really :)


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    #498
    jamesbondings
    Registered Users Posts: 2,201 ✭✭✭jamesbondings


    any other gob****es do it with other bookies, wanna start flying off emails to them asking if they will also do that deal lol


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    #499
    Oscars Well.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,285 ✭✭✭Oscars Well.


    mdwexford wrote: »
    How exactly did Ruby "balls it" on this so called last fence?

    Even more difficult considering they were jumping hurdles :pac:


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    #500
    [Deleted User]
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    Oscars Well. wrote: »
    Even more difficult considering they were jumping hurdles :pac:

    I think you missed something there.....


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    #501
    Gregk961
    Registered Users Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭Gregk961


    Hilarious stuff in this thread today! Some of the aftertiming is genuinely funny, also people crying about ruby not winning after just riding a grade 1 Cheltenham treble!

    Really enjoyed today. blown away by Mullins team, didnt buy the hype in the run up, but 7 winners looks very likely. Wasn't winning anything but it was a great sight to see the promise delivered on all his horses today.

    Disappointed with Jezki not placing, really couldn't see either the Fly or Arctic Fire(most improved horse of the season?) finishing in front of him.


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    #502
    Cantonesque
    Registered Users Posts: 99 ✭✭Cantonesque


    Miall108 wrote: »
    Actually sunk to my knees when Annie Power fell going over the last meaning I lost a lot of money. Gutted

    I feel your pain... Was in the frame to collect big time. Was sitting in the office watching it on betfair, stood up before she jumped the last and smashed the table with my fist... Incredible highs and lows in the blink of an eye.

    Still blame my colleague who came into the office after he was told I was in the hunt for a nice return and exclaimed "jokingly" ... " I hope she falls"

    Wait till he sees his pay check on Thursday....

    Incredible... Only coming around from the shock now...

    Time to study some form now;)


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    #503
    Me_Grapes
    Registered Users Posts: 338 ✭✭Me_Grapes


    Great to see Hurricane Fly reverse the form of last year and beat both Jezki and TNO, at Cheltenham on good ground with no excuses for either. Faugheen is an absoloute machine, and looks pretty much bombproof, but fair fcuks the Fly and Arctic Fire as well. Between Faugheen, UDS and Douvan, there is some exciting times ahead for Irish jumps racing. I feel this fact is being lost amongst all this Annie Power talk....


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    #504
    Panrich
    Registered Users Posts: 3,788 ✭✭✭Panrich


    seanhynes wrote: »
    Did a 1ew acca on glens melody ,Druids ,faugheen,Jossies Hill got a 47 euro return absolutely gutted was sure I'd get almost 700,turned out once jossies hill lost ,the win part of the bets didn't count ,insult to get that return but I obviously didn't know they eliminate wins once one places,sickening thing is Un De Sceaux I would have put in but I thought ah il go for an outsider should place 7/2 won't be bad,sick as a parrot at that crap ,693/1 odds get 47 quid:rolleyes:

    The rules didn't change after you struck the bet. You have no grounds for complaint. The onus was on you to understand how the bet worked (or ask if you're not sure) prior to laying down your money.


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    #505
    Cantonesque
    Registered Users Posts: 99 ✭✭Cantonesque


    Gregk961 wrote: »
    Hilarious stuff in this thread today! Some of the aftertiming is genuinely funny, also people crying about ruby not winning after just riding a grade 1 Cheltenham treble!

    Really enjoyed today. blown away by Mullins team, didnt buy the hype in the run up, but 7 winners looks very likely. Wasn't winning anything but it was a great sight to see the promise delivered on all his horses today.

    Disappointed with Jezki not placing, really couldn't see either the Fly or Arctic Fire(most improved horse of the season?) finishing in front of him.

    It ain't that funny... Fine margins... Between right and wrong.

    AP didn't deliver on her promise because she was unlucky... Too good if anything, would have jumped the last if Ruby had to be pushing her along but he didn't have to and trusted her to ping it... The rest is history.

    Wow


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    #506
    Gregk961
    Registered Users Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭Gregk961


    Cantonesque wrote: »
    It ain't that funny... Fine margins... Between right and wrong.

    AP didn't deliver on her promise because she was unlucky... Too good if anything, would have jumped the last if Ruby had to be pushing her along but he didn't have to and trusted her to ping it... The rest is history.

    Wow

    The only doubt about Annie Power pre race was that she might not be race fit, and she certainly was. What happened at the last was just a freak accident and neither jockey, horse or trainer are at fault. Im not one to fawn over jockeys but I thought Ruby rode every race perfectly today and again it was sensational stuff from Mullins and his team.

    That poor guy who was on here yesterday saying he makes a fortune laying Favs must be under the duvet tonight, a bad day for it.


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    #507
    United Chester Men
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,915 ✭✭✭United Chester Men


    Thank god it was Ruby on Annie Power and not some other jockey e.g. Paddy Mullins or Townend. Could you imagine the hate brigade against them! Or the confidence drop. At least Ruby can take it on the chin (excuse the pun!)

    On another note big shout out to Paul Townend, massive day today. Think he only had one winner in Cheltenham up to now and he hits 2 on the first day.

    Can't see AP breaking his Cheltenham hoodoo and signing off in a heroic manner. May be unlucky enough not to even nab one winner, sadly.


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    #508
    Al_Coholic
    Registered Users Posts: 1,319 ✭✭✭Al_Coholic


    Saw this on twitter ...seems Annie power jumped the shadow of the hurdle when she fell.

    Apologies it this was posted earlier

    Ffs trying to attach a photo and can't


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    #509
    [Deleted User]
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    Thats what I thought earlier when I saw it. I think L'Unique suffered the same fate.


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    #510
    Andalucia
    Registered Users Posts: 553 ✭✭✭Andalucia


    Al_Coholic wrote: »
    Saw this on twitter ...seems Annie power jumped the shadow of the hurdle when she fell.

    Apologies it this was posted earlier

    Ffs trying to attach a photo and can't

    defo seems to be what has happened, photo clearly shows the shadow of about 4 feet in front of hurdle which is why Annie Power took off way too early, Mullins and Walsh very gracious in what happened - can't win them all with the first string sure.


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    #511
    Oscars Well.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,285 ✭✭✭Oscars Well.


    https://vine.co/v/O9zpwEv0Kt9


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