As my Cheltenham Festival Tips category has been around for a few years – and let’s face it, it truly deserves its place among the big-hitters of online tipping 😉 – it ranks quite nicely in Google for related search phrases.
Cheltenham Festival Tips
The Cheltenham Festival of National Hunt racing takes place at Prestbury Park (for those who don’t know, this is what Cheltenham Racecourse is called) each year in March, and features the biggest jumps horse races of the year, including the Champion Hurdle, The Gold Cup, the Champion Bumper and more.
I like to follow horses. Actually, this is an understatement, because I produce algorythmic horse ratings on a couple of powerful software programs. Back in 2006, when I was at Newcastle University, I won a business award for one of the derivative products I was selling online based on this data, a business I called, back then, Systemlays UK.
Since 2006, I’ve been honing the program, as an amateur handicapper, to keep my tools sharp.
When it comes to Cheltenham Festival, here in my personal website, for a bit of fun, I post up what my speed and going based ratings software calculates has a good chance under the conditions… if they win or they lose, no complaints or praise is necessary.
Just enjoy the sport, and if you do find a winner (with or without me) then high five whoever is next to you… failing that, leave a comment on one of the posts below :)
Seriously Good 😂 Cheltenham Festival 2020 Tips
Looking for the best* seriously good** Cheltenham Festival Tips?
I did this last year, and there’s nothing I like more than traditions — in fact, I saw some wit on Twitter the other day opine that
“tradition is just peer pressure from dead people”
Random Twitter Dude
So, on seeing this, as well as laughing really hard, I realised that it was very important to keep up with traditions.
* These very obviously might not be the best tips. There is no way of knowing until later. At which point, sling your arrows in the comments section, at the bottom. Note, I will moderate comments, so if you’re going to criticize, please do so with elaborate, floral, Shakespearean aplomb, or… you’re getting deleted 🙂
** Seriously good is obviously also highly subjective, too.
Gold Standard: Horse Racing on the Web
For those in the know, it’s Gold Cup week and the internet is a-flurry with coverage of the 2019 Cheltenham Festival meet where the cream of the horse racing world gather for top-class Group 1 racing.
Complete 2019 New Year’s Honours List
The 2019 New Year’s Honours List was published today, on 29 December 2019, and in case you wanted to see the full list, without it being in a PDF, I’ve published it below – minus all the ads and other slowness that mainstream news media will surround their honours list content with.
Navigating the Complete List:
This list is complete and searchable – for example, if you are on a desktop or laptop computer, hit CTRL + F and then type in a county or city (say “North Yorkshire” or “London”) or a surname (like “Wilkinson”) and you can then flip through the relevant items. Alternatively, there’s a table of contents so you can jump to the main sections of honours.
I was able to post this really quickly for the benefit of the world because I have the best broadband in Britain.