Boxing day - 80 races today!

[Euler]

With a bit of luck should be able to find a decent race in that lot, but lots of clashing on the card today, especially as nearly all of it is over jumps.

[Euler]

I've been sticking to mainly races shown on Racing UK and that's work well today.

[Iron]

How does the volume today compare with Boxing Day in previous years?

It seems incredibly low. There have been a couple of races I've noticed where less than £200K had been matched pre-off. Until one of the races went in-play, I assumed that it had been delayed, so low was the volume!

Jeff

[Euler]

Over all volumes feel very poor, even when you compare them to previous years. I'll have to look at it in more detail when there is more than 2 seconds to the next race!

[Euler]

A lot of races are terrible though, 2-5 runners of low quality. I'd imagine there is little betting interest in the vast majority of these races.

[Euler]

Turnover on the big race this year, on a similar field £3.3m vs £4.1m -20%.

[spreadbetting]

Luckily the end is in sight , been a hectic day. No idea how much I'm up so far haven't had chance to check. Reckon the courses deserve a bit of praise today with almost all races going off very close to time, makes you kinda wonder why they manage to cock up so much during other meetings.

[Photon]

4 races going off at the same time at 3.30pm. Difficult keeping track of the races especially with a hangover. Power quality races. I bet most decent horses are on boxing day hunt. Still rather have lot more races than not and it was good that not many were abandoned given poor weather.

[Euler]

I didn't particulary enjoy today TBH. It's not my favourite Bank Holiday, prefer the summer meetings. But usually do well on boxing day, usually. Bit of a non event for me this year. Got a decent result on the big race but that was about it. Looking forward to Cheltenham.

[steven1976]

That was hectic but enjoyable. I managed 37 of the 80 or so races. Thats if they are finished. I have for the day so enjoy if your still going.

[Iron]

Could the weather be to blame for the lower turnover?

Perhaps, due to rain and flooding, people are less likely to go to the racetrack or to their local bookies, meaning that the bookies have a lesser liability to lay off on Betfair.

Jeff

[steven1976]

In my opinion, I dont think bookies get involved in betfair. They were making money well before bf happened so why would they change their business model amd pay someone 60%?

[gutuami]

well today I tried the taste them all strategy. Traded 71 out of 78. I do not count the last 2 at Wolverhampton. The liquidity on some races was really poor but overall very scalping with quite big in-running gaps as well. Lots of lay the field opportunities. Managed to pull a decent result which is bigger than the biggest exposure/liability I had. Of course the few big races that we had do not count.

[Euler]

I took a quick scan across this versus last year on BF and overall volumes were 20% lower on a average race than last year. Not sure what to read into that.

Likely to be a few errors in data as it only exports at post time on a race that I am participating in. But it's a good rough measure.

[gutuami]

here are some data