What is a NAP? apart from a short sleep a Racing Nap is a tipsters best bet of the day. Derived from the card game Napoleon in which the best hand is a Napoleon or NAP. Its as simple as that so stop trying to work out the acronym.
The racing Post runs a “NAPS Table” for the racing press who are invited to submit their “best bet” of the day with points being given as the equivalent winnings at S.P. to a level £1.00 stake. For instance if the horse wins at odds of 4/1 then they will be awarded £4.00 and if it loses then a subtraction of £1.00. At the time of writing this Blog the current Leader is Templegate from the Sun newspaper with a positive balance of £46.68 and a losing streak of 4 days.
Everyone has their favourite tipster and you can make up your own mind who to follow if any at all but backing the NAP of a serious tipster means just 1 bet per day. When I say “serious Tipster” I say it with a certain amount of scepticism as I suspect that some journalists in the table are perhaps pinning the racing page up on the wall and chucking a dart at it and submitting the horse closest to the hole it made. I refer in particular to the lower end of the table where some 66/1 outsiders are being tipped! surely these cannot be their best bets of the day.
I am not an advocate of staking plans but in this case I will follow the Sporting Life Nap using the 10% method of staking just to make it interesting.
I started on July 12 (Monday) and as luck would have it the NAP won at 2.25 and working from an initial bank of £10.00 after day 1 my bank stood at £12.25! None have won yet since and the bank now stands at £8.37 with Pretty Green to run at Nottingham today with 84p riding on it at odds of 4.5 (7/2) and BOG if the price lengthens.
I ill try and update this post on a daily basis but work commitments may dictate otherwise.
Pretty Green lost and focus switched to Saturdays NAP which is Mountain Peak Running at Haydock and with my bank running at £7.53, 75p goes on the selection at odds of 3.5 (5/2)
5th Place is all it could manage which brings a losing streak of 5. Sundays NAP is Moneykenny and I am just waiting until 9am to ensure I get BOG
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