Cotswold Racing - Talking Points From The World Of Horse Racing - Week 2
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Cotswold Racing – Talking Points From The World Of Horse Racing – Week 2
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This weeks blog.
Navigating Affordability checks and Supporting British Jockeys
The main headline this week has surely been the news about affordability checks on punters moving forwards. Anyone that knows me will realize how inept I find this current government who lunges from one disaster to another, and yet it still seems that half the population seem to think they’re doing a good job. This isn’t a political forum, so I will leave it there, but it seems everything that we enjoy is becoming taxed or Labour ministers constantly finding ways to take the fun from our pastimes, be it cost, regulation or threats of ID implementations. And that simply can’t be the future of a happy nation.
When it comes to betting and trying to avoid requests for information, thus far, I have kept myself under the radar. If I want to put on a reasonable sized bet, I normally have to put it on with between 10 and 15 different outlets. I used to have various family members who have accounts for me, but I have lost plenty of those(family) in the last year, so now I have to be even more “cute”. My dear wife would also appear to enjoy a bet, but “she” keeps stakes to a minimum. Max bets only any account I want to keep are £20,ew. I have found If you start going bigger, you will only get what you deserve. If you try and go for the big hit all in one go, you simply won’t get any lasting fun from this game if you are a winning punter, you have to be clever and play the game.
You sometimes have to take shorter prices. A lot of the time you have to accept a price on the exchange that won’t fluctuate, but at least you can still get on. I have plenty of friends that are similarly sized punters who are now down to a final couple of accounts because they persist in trying to get hundreds on in one go, and you simply can’t do it these days. If you want to bet big, you have to set aside time, effort and patience. The “oh fck it, I haven’t got time” attitude will soon see either questions asked or limits, even closed accounts pretty quickly.
I know the few number of members on this service that I know personally have taken on board my advice and try and split their stakes in order to get facilitated and more importantly, keep their accounts open for later dates.
Other little tricks that often help are logging onto a site and taking advantage of things like free spins offers on the casino.Whilst it might be mind-numbingly boring just taking advantage of things like that, for pennies reward, I have found it gives the bookie the hope that at some point you may well get involved in their casino. Sometimes if I have a big win, I will just put 10 or 20 quid on the casino. I have no interest in it whatsoever and if you do have a potential problem, this is not for you, but it’s an indicator to the bookie that I might one day become a mug punter and use it more.. Thankfully, as I said, they hold no interest to me and I’ve always been in control of my spending. But it does put a flag on their system that keeps your accounts open that little bit longer. That’s what I found anyway.
If a new bookie does come along, and there are bookies opening up all the time, open an account, deposit the minimum and take advantage of the free offer. I’m always staggered at how many different bookies there are at any one time sending me adverts. But don’t get highly involved. Keep your stakes to a bare minimum because if they do get hit and close their doors quickly, you don’t want to have thousands sat in an account. It might be time-consuming, it might be monotonous, but you need to protect what you’ve worked hard to get.
I’ve yet to find the need to get involved in any black market bookmaker, but if bookies start asking me for bank statements, it might be something that I’m forced to do. But it seems that all the while I am keeping under the radar, I’m keeping away from affordability checks.
One other little pointer is that I have my normal bank account and my gambling bank account seperate. Always make sure that there are sufficient funds in there, and that any bookmaker deposit always goes through smoothly. I suspect that at any time that you have a deposit declined because you forgot to transfer money to the correct account, that is the point at which it may well trigger an affordability check. So again, be sensible and do everything you can to avoid giving a bookmaker the excuse to ask questions and demand proof you can afford to bet.
I was disappointed to see that Laura Pearson, who rode such a great race for us on Sparks Fly at Epsom no more than a couple of months ago, is being forced to up sticks and ply her trade in Oz. I recall watching her on something last week, and whilst the horse didn’t win, she was always in the right position, and she always seems to be.
I find it incredible that some of the stable jockeys we all know that are completely inept, somehow manage to keep their jobs, and yet some of these younger kids just don’t seem to have a face that fits.
Our obsession with Irish jockeys seems overwhelming. I can almost imagine some of our less astute trainers hear an Irish accent and think they’ve got it made. You can almost count on one hand the number of high-level English jockeys, but there are some excellent ones at lower levels who ride well and talk well, and I’m amazed that some of these guys aren’t given more opportunities. Like everything, there is a fashion in racing, but this is one I fancy has been going on too long, and we need to give some of these British jockeys a fairer crack of the whip at more than just the lower levels.
That’s all from me for this week. I’ll be back next Monday. Have a great week in the sun.
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