Tag: horse racing
Horse genome unlocked
Link to the full article below. So this begs the question, could we be on the verge of extra nighttime racing when scientists produce horses that glow in the dark?
https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8345578.stm
Some interesting charts
In these very dull UK markets excitement is hard to come by, but here are some interesting charts for you.
First a weird one from Fairyhouse yesterday. It’s fairly obvious that the Irish racing is quite likely to be more volatile than the UK racing, this race in particular was always going to see the odds move around a fair bit. But I didn’t expect to see what happened here.
This next chart was certainly more readable. Tons of money …
Shocking winner in Melbourne cup
Well that went well! I hadn’t expected anything given my failure in previous years to get a decent sum from this race. So it was a pleasant surprise to do well on this race, just a shame you only see this sort of liquidity on one Australian race a year. Even then, just about everything went right this morning. So I definitely feel lucky to have got such a flattering result.
Congratulations to those that joined me in the early …
Big backer back
I’m sure you have seen this from time to time, but it appears a big backer is back in the market. Southwell was subject to some unusual moves yesterday but it was at Catterick that the unusual activity stuck out like a sore thumb. Despite studying the moves yesterday, I couldn’t really see a pattern. You can see in the chart below the two big volumes spikes that occurred when the price was smashed in.
Whether you trade the favourite …
The one in blue is going to win
It’s not very often you can say this, but you could yesterday when it was assured. The 15:00 at Kempton was a four runner field and each of the jockeys had blue silks on! OK there were some distinguishing marks between them, but I can think of a better construction for people trying to trade in-running.
In the end the possibility of fun and games in running came true. Tactic traded as low as 1.37, Copperbeach 1.40, Ezdiyaad 2.89 and …
Sure fire winner
Good ole Curley leisure. Whenever I see that hat with red stripes I know we are in for a fun time. Sometimes unpredictable, but always fun. These horses have the potential to throw up some really good trades. Yesterday the horse ‘Sure fire’ that was the big gamble for the Curley yard. Its chance of winning the race improved a ‘theoretical’ 20%+ over the afternoon session. You could have either backed this horses or laid the original favourite for a …
So close….
Almost a blockbuster start on Saturday when Lady Jinks, priced at 1000, almost won the first race at Chepstow.
If I make something on a race, I’ll often put a little on the outsiders, generally in the jumps season, in the hope of catching a big one. In this race Lady Jinks put in a great show and surprised everybody by shortening to as little as 5’s before fluffing the last fence. It was agonising to watch as she just …
Commerçant de dix livres
Ten pound trader joined me for the Arc yesterday and shuffled in with a £2.23 profit, so his stakes go up to £17.81 today.
It was a very impressive run by ‘Sea the stars’. I think each sport needs its highlights and I racing appears to have found a new hero. It should add more interest to the racing markets. Unfortunately we are about to go head long into the jumps season, but at least we have the Denman / …
Ten pound trader – Day two
Using maximum stakes of £11.76, ten pound trader managed to make £3.73 yesterday. That’s represents a 31.72% return on stake size on the day. Sounds impressive! Well it is, but it isn’t, but I hope my point will come across over the course of this post.
If I asked if you could return the same percentage on the day, you would probably be hesitant. But if I asked you if you could make 11p a race you would probably have …
Ten pound trader – Day one
After a great September I had considered posting up the P&L for last month and also the last three months in total as they are absolute stonkers. But as I went to prepare the image for upload I paused for thought.
I guess they show what is possible, but having been around for so long you would suspect that I should be able to pull in something special, especially with bigger amounts of capital to hand. So I had another …
Racing wants more cash
Really very interesting piece on the racing industry yesterday on the BBC web site. You can view the article here: –
https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8280227.stm
You can download the entire Deloitte report by clicking this text, it’s a 7Mb file.
I won’t attempt to summarise or make an opinion on the report but I do think they are slightly off with their figures. Amounts wagered and the levy amount can’t really be compared across such different markets, but I do concede that …
That was weird
Some odd betting patterns at Warwick today, Abhainn was unexpectedly backed before the off from 8’s into 3’s. You can see from the price chart that the price asked was very definite. At the time I thought, ‘That was weird’. But you are never going to get upset at laying something for much less than you expected. That was only half the story, in running £10k was matched at 2.36. It won!
Make hay
Never was a phrase so true as in the horse racing markets than, ‘Make hay while the sun shines’ literally. During the summer we have wall to wall racing and a lot of quality then as we transition through to late August into September that just falls away.
The evening racing grinds to a halt and a card that could provide a top up to a good day or a serve you a get out of jail card, suddenly isn’t …
Quiet end to Ebor
The Ebor meeting closed with a quiet day, no fireworks or anything particularly special, but it’s been a good meeting.
I made a couple of cock ups today. Went too aggressive on one market and couldn’t turn it around when it went against me, but I did manage to restrict the loss to only -£50. Then I completely messed up the last and lost £120, not the ideal way to end, but the other races were OK. I managed to …
How many racing traders are there?
I often get asked how many traders are on the exchanges, how much volume do they do etc? The honest answer is that I currently don’t know, but I can confirm roughly how many existed a few years ago.
Back in 2003 Betfair issued a document that actually clearly laid out what a market looked like. In the document they looked at a horse race and showed how many people placed back bets only, how many laid only and how …
Being contrary
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.
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