As with Cheltenham last year we will run a World Cup at Ascot. Trainers marked as UK need to advise me which country they are in. With Thunderspark having no runners again Canada are not represented so 13 countries in it. Priced up by Honest Joe Bookie as follows:

England 2/1
Wales 9/4
Ireland 5/2
Scotland 5/1
USA 100/1
Australia 100/1
Spain 100/1
Germany 100/1
Norway 100/1
France 500/1
South Africa 500/1
New Zealand 500/1
India 500/1

Individual Trainer

Paul Rhodes 1/3
John Morgan 11/4
James Shea 4/1
David Robertson 12/1
Jim Murray 12/1
Leon Van Rensburg 33/1
Joshua Sutherland 50/1
Martyn Cairns 66/1
Darren Thompson 66/1

Others on request

Great idea! Probably the only time I will participate in a world cup

Martin i will email tony .. thundersparks and ask him if still in league

Good work Hollywood

Jaysus no value there 1/3

Martin,

Maybe be better to do England, Scotland & Wales versus the ROW would even numbers up...

Stu

I was looking at a way to make it a match event but with England having the bulk of trainers in the second wave, Wales having John, Gray and Leon and Scotland having Jim and David Robertson it would have made it a cakewalk for the UK. With Thunderspark not involved Paul would have been the only big gun in the ROW team. If anyone can come up with a good split we can change it for Cheltenham.

Scores and revised prices after day one.

Wales 4
England 3
Scotland 3
Australia 1
Ireland 1

Latest Odds:

England 2/1
Wales 2/1
Ireland 7/2
Scotland 7/2
Australia 100/1
1000/1 Bar

Trainers:

John Morgan 4
Jim Murray 2
Paul Rhodes, Alex Cherrie, Rod McClure, Darren Thompson, Martyn Cairns, Martin Leedham 1

Paul Rhodes 4/5
John Morgan 11/8
Jim Murray 6/1
James Shea 12/1
David Robertson 33/1
Martyn Cairns 50/1
Darren Thompson 66/1
Joshua Sutherland 100/1
Grayham Clutterbuck 150/1
Leon Van Rensburg 150/1
Rod McClure 250/1
Alex Cherrie 500/1
Martin Leedham 500/1
Any other trainer 1000/1

Your quite right difficult to make it interesting for anyone outside the UK.... not enough of us or good enough, other than the "Special One" of course

Martin,

Maybe be better to do England, Scotland & Wales versus the ROW would even numbers up...

Stu[/quote]

I was looking at a way to make it a match event but with England having the bulk of trainers in the second wave, Wales having John, Gray and Leon and Scotland having Jim and David Robertson it would have made it a cakewalk for the UK. With Thunderspark not involved Paul would have been the only big gun in the ROW team. If anyone can come up with a good split we can change it for Cheltenham.[/quote]

Your quite right difficult to make it interesting for anyone outside the UK.... not enough of us or good enough, other than the "Special One" of course[/quote]

Maybe England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, ROW might work with all the other European countries, Australia, USA etc representing ROW

That could work, we have a few handicaps the ROW could pick up and is it just the "Special One" from the emerald isle ?

One of the new chaps is from Ireland and maybe Peter Cahill may come cack next season. Also Mike is missing this season from US. We'll trial it at Cheltenham and see how it goes.

Update after Day 2 with 8 Ascot races to go

John Morgan 7
Paul Rhodes 4
Jim Murray 2
Sirius Chill 2
Alex Cherrie, Darren Thompson, Rod McClure, Martyn Cairns, Martin Leedham, David Robertson, Joshua Sotherland 1

John Morgan 2/7
Paul Rhodes 100/30
Anyone Else 5000/1

Wales 7
England 4
Scotland 4
Ireland 4
USA 2
Australia 1

Wales 4/11
Ireland 7/2
England 8/1
Scotland 10/1
USA 500/1
Australia 10,000/1
Anywhere else 50,000/1

Think i only have 3 runners left tonight