Fiddlesticks!

A very disappointing and upsetting week for me. It's not so much the £314.45 loss incurred this week but the news that Adrian Massey's fantastic horse racing ratings will cease to exist from Saturday next week. The majority of my horse racing system (5 out of my 8) use the ratings directly therefore in a sense 5/8th of my proposed horse racing bets for the year become totally redundant. Therefore my hope that "things will pick up" later in the year seem so much more unlikely now these system have become unexpectedly taken away due to the ending of the ratings. This means I'm going to have to do a lot of re-thinking over the next week or so. My proposal at the beginning of the year to potentially go "full-time" now looks a rather wacky pipe dream on my behalf and I shall just concentrate on getting back into profit for the time being. It's true you don't really appreciate something until its taken away, and that has to go for Adrian's fantastic ratings. I was unable to access the rating for two days and I felt totally lost and unequipped without them for the day's racing and thus didn't bet at all. I must however take this time to thank Adrian for all the time, work and effort he's put into offering such a fantastic site for absolutely free when many people (probably including myself) would have deemed it more than acceptable to pay some sort of fee for access.

Although I'd like to put things into perspective, I'm sure everyone has seen the endless news coverage of the earthquake/Tsunami natural disaster in Japan. Seems to be an awful lot of these acts of "mother nature" recently what with the earthquake in New Zealand only a few week backs and numerous under such incidents seem much more common over the past five years or so. It sort of makes me moaning about the loss of a few numbers for gambling ventures look a bit feeble. People have had their lives ripped apart by recent events in Japan and I think everyone's thoughts should be with them now.

Oh well that was a nice and jolly update wasn't it! or maybe I've just got a bout of depressive realism. Anyway it's Cheltenham next week, that will cheer me up yeah! Probably lose some more money but at least I'll be doing so watching some top quality racing. I'll probably post my "Cheltenham tips" up on my blog for what it's worth. Right time to go for a long walk off a short pier.. i mean ermm for a shower.