Love him or Loathe him ???

It was all about Jamie Spencer for me today as the top jockey gave me two wins that made up most of the p & l on a decent day at the office. I got some good prices about Dishdasha in the Great Leighs opener and brought up £2k for the day when Safebreaker took the 3.35. I was still backing that one at 1.2 on the line ! Thank you very much layers! :-)

I backed Dishdasha early when he was travelling well out at the back in a view to "green up" before the home turn. as it turned out, the horse always looked the winner behind the leaders and the rest were going nowhere, so i let the bet ride and submitted two more clicks when the horse was about to hit the front.

As for the Safebreaker race,I played a totally different game ! this time was more about patience, cause i needed to gauge from Jamie's riding style to give me the "signal" whether the horse will be able to maintain the lead when he hit the front, Luckily , i guessed it right and kept clicking :-)
I have said before it is important to study your jockeys (as well as your horses) and Jamie is definitely one of the more deceptive riders out there today. Sometimes he may look to have plenty of horse under him to the untrained eye but the horse then finds little. Other times he appears to be niggling the horse along but then it finds loads and wins! You will have to study him yourselves and see if you can spot the difference.

Lost £25 on football though :-(