SIMON NOTT: Chunky Tuesday

It didn’t take long for the phone to ring on Tuesday with a big bet at the end of it. £50,000 on Ennistymon at 6/5 in the opening Irish Stallion Farms EBF Fillies Maiden. Ben Keith the boss doesn’t really watch the races. If he does it’s on course and even then very doubtful he’d even know the colours ‘What colour is McManus?’ once heard at Cheltenham. That strategy is good for the nerves. Ben will see that Ennistymon won and that he did his money but won’t have gone through the agony of watching it look beaten in running only to get back up again in the last stride for £110,000 turnaround.

Of course, the staff do some of the sweating for the boss. They’d have been be watching the Irish Stallion Farms EBF (C & G) Maiden with some trepidation after a high-rolling punter smashed into Dawn Patrol with a £110,000 – £80,000. Then breathed a sigh of relief and I dare say given a little cheer when the bogie was beaten by stablemate Tiger Moth. The fly in the ointment was Order Of Australia finishing third for the same yard having been the subject of bet of £60,000 – £10,000 each-way, though given the bigger picture they’d settle for that.

An hour later the 08000 521 321 hotline was zinging again when a bet of £120,000 – £20,000 Love Locket (pictured above), each-way was struck, and landed, in the Leopardstown Fillies Trial Stakes (Group 3). The firm was planted on its back foot again after that. Sadly, that’s how it stayed in the high stakes battle for the Irish card. Those punters must have decided to snap the metaphorical elastic band around their winnings. Given the results that followed, that was a real shame, but ‘that’, as Elvis said in Jailhouse Rock, ‘is how the mop flops.’

Chuck Berry also said ‘It goes to show you never can tell’, just as they were loading the stalls for the 5.45 at Chelmsford, the Bartholomew Green Handicap and the firm had relaxed somewhat, a punter called. No, not to say I love you, but asked for £250,000, yes you read that right, a quarter of a million on Sovereign Grant at 8/11. They got the bet, I’m reliably informed it wasn’t the owner. The horse finished 6th which meant a great result for the good guys, that’s us.

I don’t care what anyone says, that really was a whopper!

Simon Nott

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Skint Mob! Tales from the Betting Ring

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