Over The Line

This week Tom reckons Chelsea will murder United?

We’ve got a VIP Trip for two to give away for the Paddy Power Gold Cup Day at Cheltenham on Saturday, 14th November. We are the sponsors, so we’re a bit biased, but it’s going to be the best day of racing this side of Christmas and if it’s not, you’’e going to get VIP treatment so who really cares? The fantabulous prize includes:
 
- Club Badges for Cheltenham Racecourse on Saturday 14th November for winner and a guest
- Champagne Reception
- VIP lunch in the Paddy Power hospitality suite
- £100 Free Bet on the Paddy Power Gold Cup
- Friday night hotel stay in Cheltenham
 
You’re going to be rubbing shoulders with some pretty high brow people [and the Paddy Power Marketing Department], so if we’re going to be sending you, we need to know you’ll be able to hold your own in grey matter department. Obviously, this test of intellect doesn’t apply to our marketing department or else there’d be no-one there to run up a massive bill at the bar.
 
We’ve borrowed a bit from a certain word based gameshow and added our very own Paddy Power-mind in-the-gutter slant to it. We need all three answers (don’t just send in the one you got and forget about the other two), so when you’ve used your noggin to work it send all three answers and your username to competitions@paddypower.com
 
The brainteaser:
Which of the horses likely to run in the Paddy Power Gold Cup are anagrams of the following?
(you might want to look at the betting for this)

(a) Nan Teet
(b) Anal Rhino Lectern (or Carnal Neon Hitler)
(c) Press Hob Bra
 
This is kind of important:
**Entries in the comments section won’t count as official entries, but you can use it for general gamesmanship and gameswomanship etc.**
 
Conditiony stuff
In the likely event more than one person gets it right, the winner will be drawn at random. Paddy Power decision is final. Competition closes at midday on Tuesday 10th November 2009.

“It’s always everybody else’s fault.”

Any one who backed 4/1 joint favourite to win the 2.20 Wetherby might be feeling that way right now. She looked almost certain to claim victory heading into the home straight, but the jockey pointed her the wrong way and she snatched instant disqualification out of the jaws of triumph. Blame your bookie, blame the jockey, blame the horse for not saying something sooner, but you can’t blame Paddy Power. We’re refunding all single bets on My Petra to win the race.

This week Tom’s tipping Arsenal to beat Spurs by at least a goal!

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He’s back! No not shady…but the devilishly handsome showbiz expert himself – Mr Paul Martin (it’s good to inflate these media types egos every once in a while! )

There was no messin’ about this week – we got straight down to business – ‘Jedward’ the terrible twins, have been slashed to 12/1 to win X Factor and Paul reckons the boys could do the job – and I won’t disagree – this year’s betting is all over the shop – Joe is 3/1 while Danyl (as Paul kind of exclusively revealed ) is not liked by the judges OR the contestants and has slipped all the way down the ranks to 9/2! Even Lucie Jones, our early favourite is gone off the radar at 6/1.

Outright tips:
You gotta have a sneaky fiver on Jedward especially now that Paddy Power are offering each way betting but Olly Murs (thanks to his dance moves) is the only man for me! Let’s see how the next week pans out!

As for this week’s elimination:
Rachel is the favourite but Paul “Showbiz” Martin reckons Danyl could be in the bottom two again. If you fancy his chances of getting the boot you can have a juicy 12/1. For me, it’s Lloyd Daniels who could be in trouble this week and he’s 9/4 to get the chop. We shall see!

And finally, to fillies of the two-legged variety – Miss Puerto Rico is the steamer of the day – backed in to 11/10. Can any of this years lovelies beat her to the post…hmm unlikely me thinks…

Turrah… ‘til next time

S x