Cheltenham Festival 2015 race preview: Racing Post Arkle Challenge Trophy

Cheltenham Festival 2015: Racing Post Arkle

The practical realities of in-running betting

A link to the Racing Post's special report into the realities of on-course in-running betting operations and the pursuit of "as live" racing pictures:

Boxed in but ready to strike
http://www.racingpost.com/news/horse-racing/special-report-boxed-in-but-ready-to-strike/1802313/

If you’ve got it, flaunt it

I haven’t bought the Racing Post on a Saturday for a little while but got a copy today because it was a busy day of racing and I had time to watch it.

Reading through it, the classified pages made me chuckle.

Trainer Sophie Leech had taken an advert in the “trainers” section (I don’t know if it had appeared in previous weeks, not having bought the paper).

She was the trainer of Seven Summits, which was one of the four horses involved in Wednesday’s brilliantly audacious betting coup. Seven Summits’ last win was in 2010 and hadn’t raced since last June but was a game winner at Catterick last week.

The advert in the Racing Post was headed “proven record of rejuvenating horses who have lost their form”!

It listed several winners in her yard but not Seven Summits. I wonder when the deadline was for submitting the copy?

It would surely have given the gamble away to the newspaper’s copy editor  if a winner was included in the advert that had yet to win the race! People talk about “after timing”….

Still smiling at the bravado of the advert I turned the page and saw… an advert for an integrity analyst at the British Horseracing Authority.