11th June 2026

Start £359.91 (Betdaq £273.90/Matchbook £86.01)

P&L £210.08 (Betdaq £171.28/Matchbook £59.80)

End £569.01 (Betdaq £440.66/Matchbook £128.35)

Total P&L £451.99 (£999,549 remaining)

Daily Notes – goal today is to get back on track; not in terms of P&L necessarily (though that would be nice), but in terms of execution of MO. There were some lovely bets to be had at Nottingham dogs today what with that really hard-to-get-through ground. Incredibly I messed up most of them before coming back late. Laying inexperienced dogs in these conditions is where you should be making money because it doesn’t matter how good the dog is, oftentimes it simply cannot win due to conditions. That’s kind of like having a reverse moat in financial parlance.

Wow, what a performance by Forty Years On FTO for season in the 3.30 at Newbury in Soft ground. Pooowwwerfuuul…..Group written all over it. On another note…who buys horses for Peter Harris? Cos most of them cost around £200k and many are rubbish. I’d definitely be swapping bloodstock agents. Or does he do it on his own…? To wit – Halliwell Stream £140k poor, Upper Hendersyde £220k poor, Bemersyde £120k probs 90 so good, The Joker £120k 7 runs still a Mdn, Lovers Leap £450k rated 70, Makerstoun £500k my notes say, ‘Is simply small, ignore’, Merton £100k rated 52 after 5 runs, though Ladykirk £580k has potential to be good.

On the flip side, Peter Harris is a very successful multi millionaire businessman and I’m writing a blog.

At Yarmouth…backed Rockafeller Skank again after his success yesterday. Total bridle job today, jockey motionless. After yesterday my notes read, ‘10 Jun – Yarmouth, cut, 200 days off, waaaay the least experienced, hit trouble? Shoulda never been able. Fcuking 30lb better than this lot. Keep smashing. Could be an 85 horse.’ And he’s currently (before being reassessed after the past two days) racing off 50.

I watched Blooming Rose’s barrier trial prior to the 6.00 at Leopardstown. 4^th foal from a mare that’s already produced Bay City Roller (125) and Botanical (117). She looked like an absolute beast in that trial so backed her at 4.1 prior to the race. I’d made notes already about the 1.6 favourite, Cromac Quay, being naturally pacey. But there’s a distinct possibility she needs Good ground to show those gears so was happy to take her on. But fcuk me she was impressive. That ground’s clearly nowhere near as Soft as advertised. And Blooming Rose will clearly be best in proper Soft, just like Bay City Roller.

As for the wheels and the bus….firmly back on. Happy bunny.

12th June 2026

Start £569.01 (Betdaq £440.66/Matchbook £128.35)

P&L £2.59 (Betdaq £7.97/Matchbook -£5.38)

End £571.60 (Betdaq £448.63/Matchbook £122.97)

Total P&L £454.58 (£999,546 remaining)

Daily Notes – with 6 Flat meetings and 24 horses in the Horse Tracker running today there’s ample opportunity for screwing things up. Thankfully there’s also the flip side…opportunity.

Three words….Lady Of Kara. I have it in my notes as ‘a tiny POS’ and a big lay with a double penalty in the 5.13 at Newton Abbot. All looked to be going tickety boo when it was easily passed by about 5 horses, ridden along. It has zero physical scope and traded 11.0 IR (in-running) and then, somehow, the jockey scrubbed it along, pulled it 5 wide and it just flew, getting up near the line. How the actual fcuk?! That was my biggest bet of the day, which is great.

Before that the dogs went well in the morning and the horses started okay before slowly being frittered away as the day wore on. And then a pull back in the afternoon slash evening to finish slightly (ever so slightly!) ahead for the day.

The downturn was poor but the response was excellent. It’s so weird. Whenever I paint myself into a corner it narrows my focus and I respond. It would be interesting to work with a mind coach. Ha….of which I’m sure I’ll get plenty of offers once I’ve got this to £1m and become OPM Mark.

13th June 2026

Start £571.60 (Betdaq £448.63/Matchbook £122.97)

P&L –£196.65 (Betdaq -£130.63/Matchbook -66.02)

End £374.95 (Betdaq £318.00/Matchbook £56.95)

Total P&L £257.93 (£999,742 remaining)

Daily Notes – 3.55 Sandown…Sticktoyourguns – jeesus what a performance. What a physique!! Huge MF….but a shed load of athleticism about him. Which is rare in one both so big and so inexperienced. Fcuking loves a hill. That’s a multiple Sandown Group race certainty, if ever I’ve seen one. Speaking of physiques….Mohaaraj in the 1.32 at Sandown. As he faded up the hill the commentator noted, ‘Mohaaraj simply didn’t turn up today’. Which is abject nonsense. He’s simply a huge horse with an awesome ground-devouring stride, with the least amount of experience, that was sat at the back of a 5 runner field at a moderate pace and essentially ridden for a turn of foot. It’s physics, mate. If the race had been run at a searing pace he would have finished first or second. But it wasn’t. So keep him in mind NTO (next time out). Because the talent remains but the conditions simply weren’t suitable this time.

Wonderful bet that I found during the day was Sue’s Last Chance in the 4.15 at York. This is written two minutes before the off. I’ve backed it in the win at 14.0, top 2 at 3.55 and top 3 at 1.92. Literally since I started typing that sentence it went from 14.0 to 32. Like wtf?? Sooo weird. Faaaaaaark. He was travelling….why did the jockey not get at him??! What’s he waiting for…to finish a Mdn at York on the bridle?? Everybody knows you have to get at them at York. If he’d have front-run that he could have won. Cos then you use your valuable racecourse experience and make the career debutants come to you AND pass you. Gaaah.

Okay, rant over. He finished a stupidly close up 5^th, by the way. We also had a repeat of The Joker in Mohaaraj’s race when Turty Tree (similar number of runs and Topspeed v hcp figures as The Joker) performed exactly the same, holding off the huuugely promising ground-devouring beast Humphrey in the 4.32. Jeeesus…the second looks Group already.

14th June 2026

Start £374.95 (Betdaq £318.00/Matchbook £56.95)

P&L –£335.02 (Betdaq -£278.07/Matchbook -56.95)

End £39.93 (Betdaq £39.93/Matchbook £0)

Total P&L -£77.09 (£1,000,077 remaining)

Daily Notes – well, I did say this was going to be warts and all. I’ve zeroed the Matchbook account. Just sat there, unhappily pressing buttons and clicking the mouse. To be brutal I’m not unhappy because trading two exchanges at the same time is ridiculous. The amount of clicking it was taking was extreme to the point where my wrist and hand ache. There’s still no excuse for it but there we have it. I was mentally tired today, out of shape and lacking discipline and a plan. And I paid for it. Something needs to change.

15th June 2026

Start £39.93

P&L £239.66

End £297.83

Total P&L £180 (£999,820 remaining)

Daily Notes – bit of a reality check at the start of today as I looked around me and saw a few clearly unsuccessful guys of roughly my age that are on their uppers. And whether I like to admit it or not, if I’ve got no assets, no passive income, no cash pile and no regular income then I myself am a loser. That’s it, said it. I’m a loser. And THAT chimed so discordantly with my own view of myself that it fair took my breath away. And put coals on the fire.

So I started today with renewed vigour. It’s time for me to bring my reality into line with my view of myself. Which means to bank profits consistently and withdraw along the way in order to create a small cash pile. Then withdraw more and invest in something (stocks, property, digital products) that generates passive income.

Btw sometimes the P&L figures are a bit off. I don’t know how. Betdaq seems to have slight inconsistencies when things move over from one day to the next as I’ll often trade American horse racing. I’m sure they’d tell me otherwise, of course, but if anybody notices things aren’t quite perfect it’s because of that. Plus there’s not enough time in the world to worry over a few quid here and there. The ‘End’ balance is really all that matters as that is always correct. This has been a party political broadcast by the Accountancy Party.

A spanking good day. Catalysed by the mental kick in the gonads this morning. The day was fluffed by 28/1 joint outsider Seeking Charles in the Top 3 (8.6) and Top 4 (4.6) in the 8.30 at Windsor. Then the 40/1 second outsider Flyta in the Top 2 (18.5) and Top 3 (9.2) in the 9.00 at Windsor. They’re my kind of bets, those. I’ll do a post about outsiders on its own sometime but they’re very much me.