It’s time to put my hands up and apologise.

I am very sorry for the duff tips over the weekend and any financial losses incurred by you, the readers.

It was due, almost entirely, to me completely screwing the draw up at Ayr and by the time the Silver Cup had been run and the bias was there for all to see….it was too late.

Well I say ‘for all to see’ but that’s not exactly true as in the race after the Silver Cup had taken place seven of the 13 jockeys decided that high was still best. IDIOTS! They must have been the only 7 people in Britain who didn’t know that LOW was best. Unfortunately for punters 3 of those 7 idiots were riding the front three in the betting!

This handed the race to 33/1 winner Distinctive who came home for a very, very unlikely victory. If Distinctive ever finishes in front of Beyond Desire again I’ll run down the 6f course at Ayr in my underpants.

Previous results at the track had shown that high numbers were favoured on the sprint track but never has the bias been so prominent or so blatantly apparent as what we saw over the last two days of the Ayr festival. To go from a slight advantage for high to a complete dominance of the low stalls leads me to think that perhaps there were other factors at play here. After the antics at Folkestone earlier in the season I wouldn’t put anything past these racecourse officials.

For those of you who missed the races, in the Bronze Cup the first 7 horses home were drawn 1-8, The Silver Cup saw 10 of the first 12 horses drawn under 12 and in the Gold Cup the first 5 home raced down the far side. Frankie Dettori did however make up for his mistake in the previous race by electing to go the right way out of the stalls from a tricky middle draw (15) and win the Gold Cup, better late than never!

It would not surprise me in the slightest if over the next few days something was to come to light about how the racecourse groundstaff had tried to rectify the high draw advantage but in the process completely screwed it up and handed the sprint races to those drawn on the far side.

But the bottom line is that I did my money and unfortunately so did anyone else following my advice. I’m very sorry and I hope we can get it back over the next few weeks.

There is one last thing on the subject and that is a horse to look out for on his next outing. He ran on the Friday of the meeting in the race immediately after the Bronze Cup. Drawn 8 of 14 the rider brought Grissom stands side to race with 5 others and was beaten only 3/4 length into second. He was the only one of the first six home to come stands side and probably ran the best race of any horse racing this side all weekend. He had won over course and distance the race before and a quick return to the winners enclosure is most likely.

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I’ll be back tomorrow afternoon with the latest news on this season’s TTS and how you can get your hands on some amazing FREE giveaways. I’ve got a different racing product to offer every day this week, they’re all up-to-date and relevant and none of them will cost you a single penny.

Be sure to come back tomorrow because you won’t want to miss this….

Good luck,

Gavin.

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