This is Superinjunction. As you will no doubt have guessed by now, she is a horse not a dull legal document that we aren’t allowed to mention.

Superinjunction is a two-year old girl horse. She is just about to start her career as a racehorse.

We are inviting 200 readers to join us in Popbitch Racing Club as owners of Superinjunction.

* Perks will include tickets to see her race, a chance to saunter around the paddock and the owners and trainers posh bits like a nob

* Trip to see Superinjunction at home – feed her carrots, watch her stand around etc

* Meet your fellow owners at drinks parties

* Share in the prize money she is bound to win us (* disclaimer, there might not be any)

* Weekly update on the horse and what she’s been up to, plus some racing news and betting tips exclusively for members of the Popbitch Racing Club

* Signed photograph of Superinjunction

* Joining Fee  – £100. For that you get to be a racehorse owner!

Please register your interest by emailing us your details at superinjunctionthehorse@gmail.com

We went to meet Superinjunction recently: this is her practicing to be a racehorse (or “on the gallops” in proper racing parlance)

(Superinjunction is the one in the foreground, ridden by Derby-winning jockey Martin Dwyer, no less. We’re told that the fact that her head is down shows that she is a serious racer.)

Don’t forget if you open an account with us at Corals and put in a tenner they will credit your account with another £20 so you can lose, i mean bet, on Grand National, Eurovision, Dancing On Ice.. whatever you want!

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Or if you’re a big(ger) spender and want to put in £30 they’ll credit you with £60 to waste on this week’s racing/whatever you want.

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We asked some racing industry tipsters to give us the benefit of their wisdom. And we’ve also rather unwisely jumped in with some tips too.

Rosella Short is a very in-form tipster and she’s doing a Cheltenham blog every morning of the festival. Check it out here: lovetheraces.com

She told us that Khyber Kim (at 11-1) is a good each week bet for the Champion Hurdle.

Robin Mounsey and Richard Russell from lovetheraces.com have bravely stepped up to give us their selections. Follow their progress day by day:

Tuesday. All the odds are from coral.co.uk this morning

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13.30 Spirit Son w 6-1

14.05 Rock Noir e/w 12-1

15.20 Peddlers Cross w 7/2

*w = win e/w = each-way. See below if you need a description of what each bet means

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13.30 Recession Proof e/w 10-1

14.05 West With The Wind e/w 33-1

15.20 Oscar Whisky w 15/2

Only for the mentalists – follow Popbitch today

13.30 Magen’s Star* e/w 16-1

14.05 Dan Breen e/w 12-1

15.20 Menorah w 100-30

(*It was 33-1 yesterday which means it’s being heavily backed by a load of people so we presume they know what they are doing and we’re jumping on the bandwagon)

Helpful Info

Odds/Betting
These show how likely it is for the horse to win the race. Usually in the form of a fraction –  eg 5-1, which would mean the bookmaker thinks it has got 5 times as many chances of losing as winning.
– “Evens” means it’s got as good a chance of winning as losing
– 1-5 means it is thought to be very likely to win. (Five times as likely to win as lose.)
– The favourite is the horse that the bookies/people think has most chance of winning. He will have the shortest odds.
It works like this:
Win — If you bet five pounds to win at 5-1 and your horse comes first, you win 5 x 5 pounds – 25 pounds – plus you get the fiver that you originally bet (or “staked”) back.
Each way – You can bet on a horse to finish first, second or third in the race – you get 1/4 of the odds if it comes in.  This is effectively two bets — one ‘win’ bet and one ‘place’ bet. If you bet five pounds each way on a 8-1 horse, you have to give over ten pounds  in total – 5 pounds which backs it to win, and 5 pounds to back it for a place.
(In some races you will win an each way bet if the horse finishes fourth or fifth – but it depends on the total number of horses in the race.)

Owner: The rich person who pays for the horse and gets to collect the trophy and prize money if he/she is lucky.
Trainer: He owns the stables where the horse lives, and looks after the horse so it learns to race and is kept in the right condition for the race.
Jockey: The little fella on the horse’s back.
Silks: The colours of the owner the jockey is wearing (a bit like a football strip).
Starter: The horses line up behind a line of tape at the start. The race begins when the Starter (usually standing nearby on a platform) waves them off. You might associate horse races with those weird boxes they put the horses in but they only use them in summer flat races.
Form: What the horses have done in previous races and where they finished in the race.
Racecard: This has all the information about the race, from the names of the horses competing, to their owners.

READ IT ONLINE HERE

Here is a selection of the ones we had made…

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