TIPSTERMANIA 18 WEEK 4 REPORT
THAT GET CARTER
CC seizes the day
MONKEY OFF METCALF’S BACK
Five-timer swings Tony into top 10
WE HIT THE BAR!
And other tales of woe
Maniacs,
one and all.
Good
form dictates that I structure these reports around the week’s success stories,
congratulating those of you blessed with the good fortune to have picked a
winner, giving them top-billing and working my way down the list. Trouble is, this week, all the good stuff
will be at the bottom of the glass, which was half empty to begin with.
My
oldest friend CHRIS CARTER was the
biggest winner of Week 4. That’s not to
say that he’s geriatric, more that I’ve known him since before I can now
recall. His Dad, Bert, won this very thing
a few years back and has passed his canny knack down to his son and heir. Chris won’t be scooping the pot in one go,
though. His horse treble of Balder Succes 9/4, Irving 4/6 and Aqalim
2/1 only gets him £32.50, but it
puts him in 5th spot and nicely placed for as we come towards the
halfway stage.
The
funny thing about the next couple of winners, and I use the words “funny” and
“winners” in the most generous of senses, is that they both managed to
successfully convert a five-timer, which is a rare feat indeed, whilst barely
troubling the winnings column. Firstly, TONY METCALF, a first time winner, put Arsenal 4/11, Man City 2/11 and Man Utd
8/13 together with the aforementioned Irving
and another odds-on fav Monkey
Kingdom 4/5 to collect the paltry sum of £15.62. Well done,
Tony.
Then
NIGEL “I’m not a funny man” THOMAS, who has never knowingly been
confused with Evel Knievel, trod his usual risk-free path by picking the same
low-hanging fruit of Arsenal and Man
City, with Chelsea 8/13, Derby 17/20 and Leicester 3/5. Not even Nige can make £15.41 look interesting.
Your
next low-roller is BOB BAKER, who
now has a 50% strike rate following his win in Week 1. Sadly for him, his chances of winning the
whole thing appear significantly less than that if he keeps picking
short-priced trebles like Preston Evens,
Orient 4/5 and Derby 3/5, which paid
out just £11.52. Slow and steady may win the race, but it
rarely wins Tipstermania.
The
next pair didn’t even break double figures, the crazy fools. PAUL
“Careful now” PRESCOTT had two winners and a non-runner in a treble so I
suppose I should cut him a small amount of slack. Lord knows I’ve given him enough grief over
the years, most of which he’s deserved, but the £8.55 he got from On His Own
11/8 and Grandeur 4/5 would hardly have rolled-up into anything significant
had the other one won. He is a two-time
champion, though, so I suppose he knows what he’s doing, although if you’d seen
him sauntering after the scorecard (mine) that he dropped yesterday at the
golf, barely breaking out of a stroll as it blew, in short bursts, a full 50
yards into a pond, you wouldn’t back him in a sprint finish.
Our
final success required a jeweller’s eye-piece to find. I will be gentle with STE “father of Lee” MARSH because,
let’s face it, he’s suffered enough already.
On top of the their Lee and being a fellow Evertonian, he’s had his own
struggle with cancer. So I won’t knock
him as hard as I could have for choosing Arsenal,
Man City and Chelsea for a piffling £3.81.
It’s all in a good cause and thanks for joining in, Ste.
None
of the above will be shedding any tears for the rest of us, expect from
laughing at the sheer ridiculousness of what you are about the read.
There
were so many hard luck stories this week I’m expecting Noel Edmonds to turn up
in his helicopter soon and send us all to Lapland. I was going to regale you with the full
horror of my own misfortune, but the pain is still too raw. It’s all on Twitter and Facebook anyway. It’s like Anne Franks diary if she had been
locked in a bookies, only with less laughs.
One after another of us got a sweat on, only to be molested by the
fickle fist of fate, and not in a good way.
My
thoughts at this difficult are with Michael Howard (3rd horse in a
treble beaten 3/4L), Chris Woodhead (4 from 5 acca), Alan Withe (5 from 6) and
Guy Ronald, who managed a magnificent 7 from 8, with his loser being Rangers at
1/12! What’s that, it serves him right
for picking such a pathetically short-priced fav? How dare you pick on my fellow sufferer, you
heartless wretch! (You’re absolutely
right, by the way).
So
it’s back to the drawing board for Week 5.
I’m to sleep, perchance to dream of that elusive winner. I just it’s not about Anne Frank in Noel
Edmonds helicopter, chasing Prec into a lake.
Keep
smiling
LAW
