2.05 Market Rasen today.

Only just beaten by 86 lengths.

finished 4th 86 lengths behind winner - 4 finished

Wins £971 prize money.

Well Chappy pulled it off picking up the crumbs.
1 of the 5 pulls up, Fast Deal tailed off but gets over the line 97 lengths adrift at 300/1.

I think the years are showing now and the knackers yard is drawing closer, much to the disappointment of William Hill, Ladbrokes et al.

Bless him.  

(86 Length behind the horse that came 3rd.)

Backed a horse at 10/1 at down royal last week


Came in at half two


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You also used to get £400 appearance money for running your horse on a Sunday. This is on top of any prizemoney that may be won and was to help compensate for the perceived extra costs involved in running a horse on a Sunday. When you have literally walked the horse across the road to compete, those extra costs won't exist in this instance, so more reasons to be cheerful as far as Mr Chapman is concerned. He is well known for spotting every little trick in the book to eek out a few quid wherever he can.

Quoted from Shipwrecked In Gainsborough

You also used to get £400 appearance money for running your horse on a Sunday. This is on top of any prizemoney that may be won and was to help compensate for the perceived extra costs involved in running a horse on a Sunday. When you have literally walked the horse across the road to compete, those extra costs won't exist in this instance, so more reasons to be cheerful as far as Mr Chapman is concerned. He is well known for spotting every little trick in the book to eek out a few quid wherever he can.

He played that card at Cartmel no end of times although I don't know if it still applies.

Quoted from paul1717

He played that card at Cartmel no end of times although I don't know if it still applies.

Cartmel was his regular festival of Tricks. Think his whole string was entered for races up there for the August bank holiday weekend. Beautiful part of the country and a fantastic weekend if you ever get the chance to go. Loved by Mr C  and aesthetically i can see why. But being a tiny racecourse in the middle of nowhere, with poor transport links and traditionally not having the luxury of a watering system(maybe they do now but doubt it), lets just call the ground they raced on usually on the lively side. So they would sometimes struggle for runners. This was their biggest fear, tens of thousands of paying customers(big holiday crowds at that time of year) wanting competitive racing, but not bothering to go as they had only managed to get a few horses to enter each race. Their solution was to offer generous subsidies/payments to connections who would be prepared to run their horses. The trainer and owner would be treat like kings and some of em loved this. Mr C would often run his twice over the weekend to fill his boots with the handouts. The equine opposition was let's say at the slower end of the racehorse population(being generous here), so in addition to all the subsidy money, he might even get his annual winner !!. Reasons to be cheerful part 3 !

I believe his wife is from Cartmel.

Don't tell me the result yet - going to watch it on catchup. Michael said it's going places so who am I to dispute- had £10K to finish in the first 3. Whatever I win will donate to JSF's retirement party.