Very quiet today. Little of interest at all.

As they say you can’t make it as a tailor without the material Quite opportune today so it’s a period to be patient and not get involved with some of these ludicrous Maiden Handicaps, Class 6 ‘Your turn today’ stuff, 4 runner fields etc. We have a jumps meet at Newton Abbot where there may be an opportunity or two there but I feel the layers will come in with brown envelopes to wreck the superb looking 445 frame though.

Be careful today. VERY trappy. None of the 3 main bets advised.

The new Big Mike Season starts 1st September 2009 and I will lead up to that date with certain changes which will be made.

In simple terms as we are still in the Credit Crunch all prices have been frozen.

I think the new site has been absolutely tremendous and I cant think of another service now offering the depth of assistance given to members as I try to do. I am indebted to the likes of Starsky, Dean, Andy, Shaun, Nick and others for their input. For 2009/10 by the way I have more help in areas where I am weak and I will be announcing the arrival of a Tennis Betting & Trading specialist shortly.

There will be three levels of membership and I will enlarge on that in the weeks to come but at this stage I am planning a Hughie Only membership, a Sports Bets Only membership and of course a full service which will incorporate everything. All you need to make a profit from betting.

So just one small Live Blog Bet from me today a £4 Hughie (A bet on the horse to finish placed i.e. 1^st, 2^nd or 3^rd and is played via Betfair’s place markets)

£4 place only on Soviet Sceptre 215 NA (A Seller and a poor one too and many mules in the field. Safest option in my view is to go with Horses for Courses and this one trained by the mercurial Tim Vaughan just about fits the bill.) pitched at 1.66

Price at the end is price to take or if pitching and not taken then bet 5 mins pre race at best. Obviously take care & adjust when drifting substantially or if horses taken out.

As always to access my full daily column of bets and trades please visit my main site at www.bigmikebetting.co.uk or to sign up as a free member enabling you to receive the occasional complimentary daily column from me, contact my Gal Friday – Luan at luan7677@hotmail.com and she will set this up for you.
Mike

Sports bets were OK but Racing bets were insipid over the weekend and a good reason to have a divergence of bets when its tricky as I have warned just now. Hopefully you managed stake retrieval on Nina’s mount as the Mullins Bumper machine continued unabated. What I did for hedging purposes was to Dutch the front four without Bacher Boy. I think whichever way you decided to hedge showed the importance of being a ‘reverse bookmaker’ as they of course would have done the same thing. Never risk losing the lot.

The Rugby League bet completed a good weekend in the sport and I do know many members piled in when Sean Long failed his fitness test on his broken jaw. How you do that God only knows. A new one on me. Nice to see 2 ‘unfashionable’ sides at Wembley as new spectators and supporters will be attracted that way.

The Turbo saved the place bet on Buck Mulligan (very, very poor ride by Ruby and would have been stood down in GB if he had had the gall to employ the same tactics over here) but the other two never reached a challenging position.

In the Test Australia completed a facile victory and our position now can be hedged at The Oval if required BUT I will still be trading the Test as it’s the most important these lads will be facing for years. If picked Messrs Harmison, Collingwood, Bell etc will be playing for their Test futures whereas Messrs Broad, Onions & Bopara face particular vicious scrutiny. Fred HAS to play for England to have the remotest chance and as it’s a One Test Series I would bring in Ramps & also the Yorkshire leg spinner. Of course changes won’t be made by the establishment as its not ‘done’ is it? We really should change our focus.

Today sees the start of the All Weather Season. Of course not officially but as far as I am concerned it does. The two afternoon ‘Headline’ meetings are both AW – typical planning of course. Newcomers to Racing (yes I have quite a few I am pleased to say, as hopefully they will be playing with other peoples money shortly (for ever as well) should remember also that the form at Southwell in particular is SO different to any other AW meeting. Please always remember that fact. Very important.

Not much in the way of crafty betting today even though I have a blog bet for you.

Just One Live Blog Bet from me today an £8 Hughie (A bet on the horse to finish placed i.e. 1^st, 2^nd or 3^rd and is played via Betfair’s place markets)

£8 place only on Bonheurs Art 6.20 Wind (Fav has been well touted but Mr Hughes is on board so we have a chance with this one – given a very soft ride by this jock at Goodwood and as usual there should be more to come tonight.) pitching at 1.26

Price at the end is price to take or if pitching and not taken then bet 5 mins pre race at best. Obviously take care & adjust when drifting substantially or if horses taken out

As always to access my full daily column of bets and trades please visit my main site at www.bigmikebetting.co.uk or to sign up as a free member enabling you to receive the occasional complimentary daily column from me, contact my Gal Friday – Luan at luan7677@hotmail.com and she set this up for you.

Mike