After the first day of the 2105 Cheltenham Festival, Newstalk's own Sorcha Heron has galloped ahead in our most profitable punters experiment.
Sorcha's tactic of picking her winners by her favourite horse-name shows there can be method behind madness.
So we should perhaps qualify our rules at this juncture, just before all hell breaks lose in the office.
While we're normally not ones for moving the goal-posts as we go along, it's been decided to slightly alter the target of the competition from being the most-profitable punter to being the one that brings home the most winnings.
There is a difference, and it just makes things a lot more easy to manage.
Also, it's based on betting €1 per race and always to win. None of that each-way nonsense around here.
So with day two's opener just 30 minutes away, let's have a quick review of yesterday's results and how they leave our winnings league table after Day 1:
€14.00: The I-like-the-horse's-name-and-that's-good-enough-for-me punter
€8.00: The oh-I-like-the-colour-of-those-silks aficionado
€3.73: The Tipster
€3.73: The former bookie-turned-broadcaster
€3.73: The shout-at-the-tele-in-office-during-races-like-I'm-ITK favourite-backer
€0: The loyal, Lotto-playing, long-odds merchant.
And here are Day 2's selections from our esteemed punters:
The Tipster
(Tommy Lyons, Irish Examiner - Winnings so far from selection of newspaper tipsters: €3.73)
1.30 Outlander (4/1)
2.05 Don Poli (7/4)
2.40 Activial (10/1)
3.20 Sprinter Sacre (3/1)
4.00 Toutancarmont (13/2)
4.40 Hostile Fire (10/1)
5.15 Bordini (6/1)
The I-like-the-horse's-name-and-that's-good-enough-for-me punter
(Newstalk's Sorcha Heron - Winnings so far: €14)
1.30 Outlander (4/1)
2.05 The Young Master (11/2)
2.40 Rolling Star (40/1)
3.20 Dodging Bullets (4/1)
4.00 Are Ya Right Chief (33/1)
4.40 All Yours (12/1)
5.15 Always Lion (100/1)
The former bookie-turned-broadcaster
(Newstalk's Ivan Yates - Winnings so far: €3.73)
1.30 Outlander (4/1)
2.05 Don Poli (7/4)
2.40 PASS
3.20 Sire De Grugy (5/2)
4.00 Duke Of Lucca (6/1)
4.40 PASS
5.15 General Principal (10/1)
The shout-at-the-tele-in-office-during-races-like-I'm-ITK favourite-backer
(Newstalk's Shane Hegarty - Winnings so far: €3.73)
1.30 Nichols Canyon (7/2)
2.05 Don Poli (7/4)
2.40 Activial (10/1)
3.20 Sire De Grugy (5/2)
4.00 Sire Collonges (11/2)
4.40 Arabian Revolution (9/1)
5.15 Bordini (6/1)
The loyal, Lotto-playing, long-odds merchant
(Newstalk's Richie McCormack - Winnings so far: €0)
1.30 Snow Falcon (28/1)
2.05 Adriana Des Mottes (25/1)
2.40 Ttebbob (33/1)
3.20 Sizing Europe (28/1)
4.00 Dogora (20/1)
4.40 Souriyan (25/1)
5.15 O O Seven (50/1)
The oh-I-like-the-colour-of-those-silks aficionado
(Newstalk's Luke Benson - Winnings so far: €8)
1.30 Nichols Canyon (7/2) [LB: 'I got images of Two Face from Batman']
2.05 Southfield Theatre (15/2) [LB: 'Reminds me of a Croatian Paul Revere']
2.40 Lyvius (33/1) [LB: 'The same design as an old school Man Utd kit']
3.20 Dodging Bullets (4/1) [LB: 'Digging the Christmas Theme']
4.00 Dogora (20/1) [LB: 'I got an image of a cow's udders. Not sure what that means']
4.40 Baron Alco (18/1) [LB: 'Celtic. Boring I know']
5.15 Ghost River (33/1) [LB: 'At first glance I thought it was a Swiss Army Knife']
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