When you lose some confidence in the game, In fact Going to the race is the perfect tonic.
This is precisely what happened when I attended a wonderful day of racing in Perth.
An entry fee of £ 22 on Wednesday to undoubtedly see the best card that the picturesque track has ever staged was a real treat.
See fun fun in the parade ring was worth the cost of a ticket alone.
It is easy to be disillusioned from afar, especially in a period of unhappiness in the arbor when everything you try continues to go wrong.
Maybe you were fooled by a description of the inaccurate march, that you felt hard with a bad walk, your horse was not in chance and you were more second than Jimmy White in a world snooker championship.
Kiss Will Will won the obstacle of novices listed in Perth but was a source of regret of blows
Funny pleasure is a beautiful horse that also won for Willie Mullins in Perth
Each graying hard -facing racing bettor was there.
You just can’t take a break. But when the calculation sheet is painted with a little too much red, there is really only one place to look for the blame – and it’s downright in the mirror.
Despite the fact of taking advantage of the action in Perth, whatever, whatever or lose, I knew that my boots during the day had been incredibly poor. Read all the signals badly in the card. I took a look at Kiss Will in the paddock and I thought: “Hmmm, not much size to that.”
On the road, I essentially left the features race alone to reflect it through in -depth. I came to two conclusions. The first was that Kiss Will would win and remain three miles because his Cheltenham Festival effort could be forgiven because it was such a warm race.
Willie Mullins won the British coach championship for the second successive season
Paul Townend selecting him from the Willie Mullins trio was important and Loughlynn finished second of this year – a type of stay at Dour and I thought about whether the Closutton coach wanted one of his more classic types with a footing to win this important price in the race for coaches.
Unfortunately, I threw all this reasoning reasoning through the window on a glance in the paddock where my first impression on Kiss Will was quite negative. He looked quite thin in truth compared to other runners. A look has prevented reasonable racing hours. One of the easiest winners 5-1 went.
The danger is now aggravated errors like this and frustration is built, which leads you to hunt losses and make more bad decisions. Sometimes the best option is to draw strains for the day.
I feel like I do all the homework, behave in class, not miss a lesson and study very hard to get a big fat F on the final exam. All the work has done for no reward.
The other conclusion of Perth that I had nailed in advance was to support everything that is driven by Olly Murphy and mounted by Sean Bowen was a very good idea. His record for this festival was exemplary, but the combination did not draw in the first six races.
Coach Lucinda Russell (right) was kind enough to give a quick update on El Elefante
I spotted Murphy the rather upset air on the phone at the end of the paddock after Vocito, another horse that I had supported the day, was a well -beaten favorite.
There was a look of perplexity on him, which made me think that the reliable combination of Murphy-Bowen may not be the way to follow. The coach won the penultimate race on the map, who was the only Murphy runner whom I did not support the day.
It’s if you don’t laugh, you greet things by the last one. I was on the Murphy Runner and it finished third. The only fun fun, an obvious winner of ratings was a small source of profit a deadly day.
Supporting Murphy and Bowen was actually a good policy in Perth. On Thursday and Friday, Murphy formed seven winners.
Bowen, champion Jumps Jockey, also had seven winners. Six of them with Murphy and he put the national highland in a superb walk on Fairlawn Flyer for Father Peter and his brother Michael.
There is value to trust your instinct, but it is a fine line between keeping faith and overcompensor permeable results. It is a dilemma that each bettor must walk very carefully.
This is where the registers holding is really important. It is easy to bury yourself and deny complete on a heavy day of loss. Updating the spreadsheet can be a source of pain, but it allows you to cope, to draw a line under it and to move to the next opportunity.
It also maintains the routine and maintains control. It helps you prevent you from falling into the traps of the pursuit of losses and to mark too much. We have seen all the advertisements of Paris responsible and there is nothing more sensible than to keep track of what you do – to win, lose or shoot.
You can learn a lot in defeat and there have been a lot for me this season. All you can do is dust off, restore some confidence and leave when you are ready. Everyone in sport experiences defeat at some point. It also happens in betting.
Not just having lessons to learn in Perth …
There was a scary incident in the pursuit of mares listed in Perth when El Elefante was quickly landed after jumping a few fences.
The incident occurred just 200 meters from the winning post and in front of the lounge area in Perth. The screens were erected, connections sprained to the horse and the horse’s ambulance arrived.
Everyone took the worst. I caught coach Lucinda Russell when I came back from the track to the paddock and she told me that Elefante was fine and entered the horse’s ambulance.
It should not be for Dan Skelton who finished second in Mullins Gain in the title race of the coaches
It was great news to hear and I quickly published on social networks an update on El Elefante.
There was a delay in the following race for the veterinary and medical teams to get back in the AP position.
What was not mentioned on this advertisement of the AP is that Elefante was fine. There was a lot of chatter in the stands and I spent 15 to 20 minutes to hear conversations on El Elefante and say as many people as I could.
There would have been people who left Perth that day thinking that Elefante was dead on the right track when it was not the case.
The screens that increases are no longer the death sentence that it is presumed – and the race must communicate this better.
The screens concern a large part of the intimacy and respect for the horse as well as immediate treatments.
The race was caught up by this fall of Broadway Boy in the Grand National. Many assumed that he had died when he had not done so. And an update on his condition could have been received much faster.
El Elefante received quick and brilliant care. The coach, the jockey Patrick Wadge, the veterinarians, the doctors and all the professionals on the right track deserve a huge credit in this situation. It is a shame that it went largely unnoticed and many people who have gone in the dark despite the fact that it is an excellent advertisement for the improved well-being standards of Racing.
