Cheltenham 2014

[hgodden]

Well I hope Cheltenham delivered for you guys what you wanted and that your head isn't spinning as much as mine is by now

[Euler]

I'm shattered after today. I'll pop back in tomorrow and summarise. It's a case of feast to famine tomorrow so I'm sure I'll have plenty more time to chat.

[steved271]

I had a great day until I forgot to close out a profit as I was watching the late off at chelt and got caught out at lingfield.... I am a newb so still trading small stakes... That kicked me in the ass for £77 overall loss on the day...

I started to panic and started fluffing it... Missing the moves and laying at the top and backing at the bottom.....

Will have myself a beer, chill out tonight and start a fresh tomorrow, chalk it up to experience and whittle away at the loss...

No point trying to chase the loss...

[Euler]

Just finished looking at the data from Chelts 2014

Pre off turnover was £94m vs £97m last year.

9/28 races had an SP of <100%

All but one winner came from the front nine, 6/28 favourites won.

Overall it was less volatile than previous years, but, the front two were more volatile than usual.

Dawalan moved from 10.5 to 4.70 which was a 35 tick range but this and last year we had 45 tick moves near the front of the book. This year it was Briar hill which had a range of 3.50 to 2.30.

[andyfuller]

About a 6% fall in turnover in real terms!

Any stats on Betdaq?

[Euler]

Any stats on Betdaq?

No reliable data unfortunately. I'm pretty sure Betdaq will be growing as I'm much more active on it now and so are a few others so we will pump many millions extra through it this year.

[hgodden]

I wonder how much business the sportsbook did and what the exchange liquidity figure would have been if the sportsbook hadn't been introduced