Starting from this season, I am discontinuing the practice of posting a 'Nap' selection in the yellow box on the Roy Waterhouse Steeplechasing home page.

However, you'll still be able to access my outright selections, plus my analysis and shortlists for selected races, on my free PDF Race Previews, which you can see if you have Adobe Reader on your PC (click here for free download). I'll just no longer be singling one out for every day's racing I work on: at the end of the day all my ideas are as strong, or as weak, as each other.

So, in the peak period of the National Hunt season, Roy Waterhouse Steeplechasing will be publishing Race Previews for selected races at selected meetings, in PDF format. You'll still need to look in the yellow box to click on their links. These appeared on rwsteeplechasing.co.uk for the first time for the 2008 Cheltenham Festival, and some emailers got in touch to say how useful they'd found them and I published more during April of that year.

I ran PDF Previews throughout 2008/09 and I'll be bringing them back when the 2009/10 season proper gets going. In them, you can expect analysis, my shortlists for races and outright selections for others where I'm confident of picking one at the overnight stage.

By no means do I always get it right, so please understand that to start with: but here are a few examples of when I did during 2008/09 - all these were published on rwsteeplechasing.co.uk.

Mares' only novices' hurdle, Ludlow, 16th October 2008:
Tootsie Too won, 9/2

Macer Gifford Handicap Chase, Huntingdon, 5th November 2008:
Master Medic won, 8/1

(By the way, I should explain the typo in that Master Medic piece. I meant to put 'ridden 3 out', not '23 out'. If the typing's rotten, don't worry, because the info you're getting is still good, and I'm usually better than that on the keyboard!)

Novices' chase, Market Rasen, 20th November 2008:
Will Be Done won, 17/2

Handicap hurdle, Folkestone, 27th January 2009:
Ballinderry Park won, 3/1

Grand Annual Handicap Chase, the Cheltenham Festival, 13th March 2009:
Oh Crick won, 12/1 in the morning (SP 7/1)

I'm going for more of that in the 2009/10 National Hunt season, so get the platters that matter with PDF Race Previews for jump racing on rwsteeplechasing.co.uk.

It's not what the masses think, and there are too many of them who'll give you a Nicholls-trained odds-on shot in an Exeter novice hurdle in five seconds flat - it's what I think...

 

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