Sandown 14.45 Friday 9th Sept

[beepbeep20]

I was just about to close the market when the horse got stuck under the stalls.

I glanced across at Sulis Minerva trading @ 20/21. I could see large amounts (considering the off time/price/class of race) being taken @ 20, infact every time money was put up @ 20 (and then later @ 21) it would immediatly be taken in full, in one chunk.

I think this went on for about 3-4 minutes. Amounts matched from £50->£300 each time whatever was at 20 or 21 was taken in one go. Rough guess from post time to actual off time I'd say about £15k+ was matched @ 20 + 21.

I assume it must have been a bot going mad (perhaps because it was past race time? or something to do with the BSP?).

That runner ended having £24k matched @ 21 and 12k matched @ 20 and went off BSP 20.815, £687 (six hundred) matched @ 19.5 for comparison.

I was concentrating on this runner (as you can imagine), so I'm not sure if other runners had similar stuff going on? Anyone else notice anything strange?

Does anyone have details of the money matched on this race between 14.45 & the off time ?

[hgodden]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcg527FR12E

Every runner from what I could see

[Iron]

Continuing the 'horse music' theme, a bit of retro:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiNnDpIW918

Jeff

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcg527FR12E

[Euler]

Volume at post time was £313k at off T-10 it was £1.15m

[spreadbetting]

It had a reduction factor of 9.5% against it's price of around 21-24. It was a no brainer to try and force the book overbroke and cash in on the overrounds once they finally removed it from the betting.

For some reason they left it in the betting for ages despite the fact it was obviously not going to run. I'm sure I wasn't the only one churning money through the market for what was pretty much a no risk 3%+ return.