Boxing day
So we are at Christmas and the sports schedule in the UK thinned out into the run up to Christmas day. Everything, apart from your wallet probably, took a break. Now it’s back with a bang on Boxing day.
Last year, even with two meetings abandoned there were still a total of 11 race meetings in the UK and Ireland and a total of 720 runners over 72 races! This year we face a total of 79 races, 24 of which will certainly clash.
The problem you have on days like this is that the races fall all over each other and before one has finished another has already started. They are also generally lower quality and less interesting as betting markets, so overall the markets can be very weak. The races are longer today as they are over jumps, this increases the likelihood of a clash. These two factors combine to make for very difficult trading markets.
But there is hope, of course. We have some bigger meetings around, none more so than Kempton. So on a day like, if you choose to trade, you should sift through the card to pick off key targets. An easy way to do this is to use Bet Angel. Nothing in Bet Angel was created without a purpose and Guardian is very useful on days like this. I tend to populate all the markets into Guardian and then sort by volume. This gives me a very quick over view of where the money is and which markets to target.
More money is traded on early markets, so you need to take that into account but I do this each day to quickly see where my focus should be and boxing is a critical day to do this. Of course you can do this on any sports, so on a busy day like today you can do this on football as well.
If you are trading then take solace from the fact that last year was too bad, boxing day hasn’t produced some bad results: –
https://www.betangel.com/blog_wp/2013/12/27/mission-not-impossible/
But, of course, don’t sacrifice the comfort of a day with the family if you are in any doubt about what to do. But if you are trading good luck!
Category: Horse Racing
