Category: Horse Racing
Post Cheltenham blues
Well Cheltenham is in the past and we are now back to the regular mix of all sorts of stuff on the horse racing. Suddenly you have to get used to earning in a day what you could have achieved in one race last week! But don’t despair as we are now in the ramp up to the flat season. Between now and then though, typically a tougher period awaits.
Not all doom and gloom, just around the corner we …
“Windy hedge” for Cheltenham
If I ever buy a horse this would be a good name! But this isn’t the name of a horse. Regular readers will know that Cheltenham last year was a bit of a mare. They abadoned racing on Wednesday then bundled in those races to the Thursday and Friday. That made things mighty tough. Sky bet have offered up a bet this year for odds that racing will be abandoned in the event of a windy day. Odds offered were …
Hoovering
Nope, I’m not referring to that Queen video with Freddie Mercury. I am talking about this months edition of Racing Ahead magazine. This month I discuss this controversial tactic and its impact on how you trade in play. Racing Ahead is available at all good news agents.
I am also in Gambling on line magazine this month but with a much smaller article, a guide to the basics of horse racing.
Expecting Ebor
Where opportunties are created…
17:30 Thirsk today
Sir nod and Toy top are racing with pretty much the same coloured silks. So much so that the commentator makes it clear to viewers to look at the horses and not the silks. Near the off Sir Nod starts messing around and it’s obvious he will not load. Off they go without Sir Nod. Bizarrely the commentator messes up and calls Toy Top as Sir Nod. On this occasion there wasn’t a great opportunity but on …
Betfair’s SP mechanism appears flawed
I’ve spent a lot of time looking at Betfair SP and trying to find a useful way to utilise it. Having found a couple of useful ways of putting it to use I also discovered a fairly critical flaw. It turns out that SP or “starting price” to give it its full name is actually nothing like a starting price it should called an “early furlong price”.
The issue revolves around the time delay between a race getting underway and …
The colour of money
One of the things I do often is get a grip on the colours and numbers of a horse. The reason I do so is because if one of them bolts I would like to know very quickly which horse it is. I would have thought in running punters would do the same but it doesn’t appears all of them do. Of if they do they let a quick profit cloud their vision.
Last night at Windsor the commentator called …
Steaming summer
You could be forgiven for thinking that I was talking about the summer weather, then again if you are from the UK you know that I couldn’t possibly be talking about the weather! What I am referring to is the enormous amount of gambled on horses we have seen recently. I can’t remember anything similar in recent memory. Most days there are some significant moves and some days its almost as though every other race contains a big mover.
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