Me bad then, I had a look on tom.

Paul or anyone who remembers, who was DodgyDave. His name is the first one on Tom Registration but I have no idea who he was.

DodgyDave was one of the top players when I started back in SO2, I think he was among the first group of online players and was heavily involved in getting the league off the ground. Iirc he was the guy who created the first version of TOM which probably explains why his name appears first on the list.

Kev.

It confused me because it said 2013 and I thought I had joined the league by then and I don't remember ( perhaps old age) him at all. Perhaps I joined the next season.

A little before 2013 John, I think the first league season was around 2004/5.

Thank you mates, but I had only one Online Season this was in SO4. Wasn't really good but like a wonder I could win the Melbourne Cup in these days, Handicaps like the medium players!

Week 8 - Wednesday

My best day ever in the so6 league, probably my best week also.

Flat

Breaking Glass - 1st he was off low weights but out stayed the rest when it mattered

Storm Rising - 5th outpaced by better at the business end

Fine Puzzle - 2nd solid run for second receiving a stack of weight from the deserving winner

Clash on Rock - 6th stayed well but beaten for pace. De Niro was impressive in this company

Disposed Ingleby - 1st showed a lovely change of gear off top weight and stayed well up the hill

Rescue Diver - 7th not in the same class today, need to find value at a lower grade

Hugh Jengine - 1st his huge engine was firing today, been waiting for this kind of form.


Jump

The Estate - 5th stayed well as he usually does but not enough pace to really lay down a challenge. His offspring will be better next season

Chess - 3rd great debute over hurdles, likely where she will stay now with an eye on the champion hurdle, if she breaks earlier she may need to be respected

National Sensation - 9th terrible horse far too highly rated Mr Handicapper . Weight did for him and really needs 4m+

Great White Hope - 3rd stayed on soundly, but there was no beating Febo Photo today

Disposing Quiz - 5th not a fan of the ground, may switch to chases to fill the team gap left by chess. Montcrief Maid was top class today

Around DBX - pulled up. Did not think she would last the trip

Trashman - 1st fought for his win today, remains my best bet in the triumph if the ground goes his way, very decent at 5yo also for next season

Battleship - 1st won now at 2.6 and 3m so gives me options and likely a handicap entry issue kept running on when others began to tire

The Tortoise - 1st she is certainly no hare, just outstayed the competition, and show how little I know, was convinced her jumping was not good enough to chase.

Josh

Only able to read the results on TOM as i am currently in work, great to see Morning Dip has won the Cleeve Hurdle for the 2nd year in a row! He's been a bit below form this season and thought age was catching up with him, but he just clearly loves Cheltenham.

Sandringham Scholar also won the 3m Novice Hurdle so could follow in the footsteps of Morning Dip. If it comes up Good or Good To Firm at Cheltenham, he will have a good chance in the Albert Bartlett.

Morning Dip mighty impressive

not as impressive as your NH string mate. One negative to Morning Dip is that he is a hold up horse, and over 3 miles there is a 50/50 chance he will get Pulled Up.

Drew a blank today which was largely expected, lots in races they are way short of class to enter.

Flat

Fine Puzzle - 9th outpaced when it mattered

Access Denied - 14th I am reminded why he is lightly raced

The Prisoner - 12th hit a wall of horse flesh when made his run, never really recovered and faded in last 1f

Crystalline - 15th not a group class horse

Disposed Ingleby - 5th decent late headway but left all to do


Jump

Trashman - 4th decent run but a little snatchy which did not aid

Translucent - 9th just not very good

Great White Hope - fell

William Coconut - 10th having to run graded due to a few decent handicapped outings, is no grade level horse

Battleship - 11th another rated out of the handicaps for now after a win at a lower level, no g2 horse

Dominion of Saints - 4th stayed well, too much to do at this weight. I now hate this horse

Chess - 5th outpaced, left to last min as per normal, have run out of ideas with her

Emergence - 4th ever the bridesmaid, always in the mix for graded novice races always beaten by 2 or 3, rated out of handicap consideration

Slim chance - 8th horrible last jump, went backwards after that

The Ghost - 11th or last, but then he is a 2.4f chaser no 3m hurdle horse, just wanted a mark.

Josh

Well done Kev on u Cotsworld win. And Martyn it's good to see the old dogs like Morning Dip + Rogers Princess have great second seasons.

Crazy Horse 1st, Another solid win but not sure if he will go for the triumph next week.

My Princess Laura 3rd, needs a fast run race and soft ground and will probably miss next weeks Gold Cup unless there's a load of front runners.

Solwhit 2nd, loves a battle and runs in the Neptune unless there's quick ground.

Shinko Dancer 1st, Gives the trainer kittens by coming from last, has a monster last furlong kick.

Shady Heights 2nd, another 2nd in a group1 but has run much better than I thought he could.

Dushyator 1st, Another group win for my 1m4 furlong horses. I've spent no time on them the last year and yet I'm having my best season with them. Sometimes u just have to scratch u head.

A poor Monday for the stable. One 3rd on the flat and one 4th in NH.

I had two horses running today who won last week and had high hopes this week for them. One finished 7th and the other 9th. I guess that is the vagaries of horse racing.

I expect Tuesday to be not much better as most of my NH horses are entered into handicaps this week and are running off quite high handicap marks. The flat horses always run in lower level handicaps, so they will have the same chance as always.

Well I got a nice 3rd in the Hunt AND finally cracked my first win of the season with Noverre Koo!
I was quite confident when I saw it drew the inside box and then very nervous at the furlong pole as most of my stable start dropping off at this stage but The Koo held on and lucky I had no customers in my shop so I could cheer it home
Just gotta click on my name/stable in TOM to see how frustrating this season has been for me compared to last season.