Melbourne Cup. Which races are worth trading?

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Trader_Tom
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Hi everyone. I'm considering trading the Melbourne cup tonight/tomorrow morning. Is every race at Flemington worth trading or just specific ones? Obviously the group 1 at 4am is worth trading (900k matched already :o ) but are the others all good quality races?

All the best,

Tom
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nick11
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23.40 Flem Australia will be my first trade ever on Aussie horses, in-play trading i will try,will do a few other trades til 1am then some sleep.
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Naffman
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Betfair down lets hope it sorts itself out before then :lol:
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magwitch78
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trust it to go down before one of the biggest races of the year. :x
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Naffman
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"The Betfair matcher is not healthy" no shit :lol:
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Euler
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Just tuned in to get going, can't believe it's down!
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31/10/2016 22:59:55: Market changed to Flem (AUS) 1st Nov - 04:00 To Be Placed
31/10/2016 23:01:10: APING Exception: HTTP,The underlying connection was closed: A connection that was expected to be kept alive was closed by the server.

==> This what you mean by down?
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Trader_Tom
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Just got up to get cracking. You couldn't make this up...

So happy I didn't fly all the way to Australia for this...unlike someone :?
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Euler
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Trader_Tom wrote:Hi everyone. I'm considering trading the Melbourne cup tonight/tomorrow morning. Is every race at Flemington worth trading or just specific ones? Obviously the group 1 at 4am is worth trading (900k matched already :o ) but are the others all good quality races?

All the best,

Tom
Most of the Flemington races should be OK. Tuesdays are an odd day during the carnival as only Flemington really sticks out today and the feature races is surrounded by other stuff. But some of the other days have higher quality surrounding the key races.
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Euler
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Randwick and Eagle Farm will probably be worth looking at in closer detail. Morphetville is the Wolverhampton of Australia in terms of how it trades. I'll happily ignore the rest.
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Trader_Tom
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Cheers Pete. I'll take a looksy =]

I'm just waiting now but thinking about going back to sleep for half an hour...
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Korattt
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Morning all, Betfair down, well there's a shock.. still waiting for a refund for the 15:50 at Kempton from yesterday, was really looking forward to trying Australia this morning
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Euler
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Trader_Tom wrote:Cheers Pete. I'll take a looksy =]

I'm just waiting now but thinking about going back to sleep for half an hour...
When I first did this I would kip between races.
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Trader_Tom
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What window do you typically trade? Is it pretty much the same as the UK races? I'm well practiced in the art of the power nap haha.
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Dallas
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Good luck with those giving it a bash tonight dont quiet have the energy for it myself, just hope Betfair sorts its self out for you's!
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