Today's Horse Racing

[dragontrades]

proper yoyo market that

[Euler]

Not trading too bad for a Bank Holiday

[Euler]

Today's top meetings: -

Redc - £55.7k
Leic - £41.9k
Wind - £38.3k
Cart - £36.1k
Chel - £31.2k

Today's top races: -

16:10 - Redc - £28k
15:05 - Wind - £12.5k
15:30 - Leic - £9.7k
14:55 - Leic - £9.7k
15:20 - Cart - £9.5k
16:30 - Cart - £8.2k
15:55 - Cart - £8.2k
16:15 - Wind - £7.2k
15:15 - Hunt - £6.8k
16:45 - Redc - £6.7k

Gaps between races
5 Min : 34
10 Min :10

[Derek27]

These days bank holidays are more of quantity over quality. The Temple Stakes, now moved to Haydock, used to be run on this day at Sandown with a decent supporting card. Tennis makes more appeal.

[stueytrader]

Not sure if anyone else has experienced this today - seems like many no-hopers getting heavily backed in across markets.

At least after I've just layed them to trade!

As per, the horses themselves perform exactly as I thought though in the race - rubbish.

Laid two that practically came last in their races, yet both in sequence were plunged on in the market...sighs

[Derek27]

Not sure if anyone else has experienced this today - seems like many no-hopers getting heavily backed in across markets.

At least after I've just layed them to trade!

As per, the horses themselves perform exactly as I thought though in the race - rubbish.

Laid two that practically came last in their races, yet both in sequence were plunged on in the market...sighs

Your experience reminds me of when I made the transition from betting to trading, backing horses I thought were outstanding value, only to see them win after I had to trade for a loss and vice versa.

[stueytrader]

Not sure if anyone else has experienced this today - seems like many no-hopers getting heavily backed in across markets.

At least after I've just layed them to trade!

As per, the horses themselves perform exactly as I thought though in the race - rubbish.

Laid two that practically came last in their races, yet both in sequence were plunged on in the market...sighs

Your experience reminds me of when I made the transition from betting to trading, backing horses I thought were outstanding value, only to see them win after I had to trade for a loss and vice versa.

It's not entirely irrelevant the way I trade though - I always unbalance my book. Or usually at least. So the fact they did so bad did help partly for me.

[stueytrader]

I'm just wondering why punters are lumping their cash on complete dogs...

[stueytrader]

Exactly same just happened again - lay traded Parisien Artiste, due to lack of stamina, win/place.

Backed in on both markets quite heavy - finished last as predicted.

Days like these you feel like going back to simple laying again...

[eightbo]

Stuey you seem to have made the assumption that all heavy backing is justified.

Sometimes people just want the chance to win some money irrespective of value, including those with large net worth's.

[stueytrader]

I realise it's not justified, hence the horses' finishing positions, just wondered why that's all. Nearly all these ran exactly as in the form book, so nothing hidden.

[Derek27]

Going easy today but it hasn't been a bad day after all.

[Emmson]

A big gamble on Broad Appeal 5.15 Leics it jumped about 8 ticks in 1 go and never came back

[Derek27]

I realise it's not justified, hence the horses' finishing positions, just wondered why that's all. Nearly all these ran exactly as in the form book, so nothing hidden.

I've given up asking the question "why was that backed?" a long time ago.

Everywhere I go I meet people who are completely bonkers so I guess some of them are using the exchange.

[stueytrader]

A big gamble on Broad Appeal 5.15 Leics it jumped about 8 ticks in 1 go and never came back

That one was actually justified for once!