Today was the first day of this New Year that I have been able to concentrate fully on my job of Sports Trading. No parties, no visitors, sky fully working, my twins at nursery school, Au pair back at work to look after Zoe, and a reasonable afternoon of racing.
I ended up trading in 13 races and started with the 12:40 at Fontwell where I had a very small profitable trade on the favourite and winner Benetwood. My next race was the 12:55 at Thurles and here I had a big lay on Lace your Boots of £523 @ 4.50 when making the second of his three mistakes over the fences. I then backed him for £100 @ 5.50, £100 @ 5.40, £75 @ 5.03 and a further £52 @ 4.10, before he made his final mistake an unseated his jockey, to leave me with a very good profit of £195.
I then had a small, profitable trade in the 13:00 at Lingfield before my only losing trade of the day at Thurles in the 13:25 where I had backed Our Ben for £45 @ 1.20, when well in the lead, and just before the final fence, when he fell and cost me my £45.
In the 13:30 at Lingfield I laid Climate Change for £50 @ 3.40 when weakening out of contention between the last two hurdles to give me a profit of £50. I then had another five small winning trades.
Next up was the 15:40 at Fontwell where I laid the favourite, Owlesbury Dream for £387 at about a furlong out when being caught by the eventual, and easy, winner Princess Flame to give me another very good profit of £387. I followed this up with my final trade in the next race, the 15:50, at Wolverhampton, where I laid Shrewd Dude for £153 @ 4.80 whilst being overtaken by the Favourite Global Traffic to round my good day off with a further £153 profit. In total I finished the day with a profit of £757.
With no football on tv tonight my attention was caught by the trading on the new Glasgow Rangers Manager. After the very early departure of Paul Le Guen, the shortest serving manager for the club. The bookies favourite for the position at present is Walter Smith. I like Walter a lot as most Rangers and now Scotland supporters do. My own personal opinion, for what it is worth, is that Walter will not be taking over the reigns again. I can not see him wanting to, or being allowed to, leave his Scotland job when he has done such a good job for the SFA. There is a lot of talk about Ally McCoist being involved, but I think he realises he is doing very well where he is with several part time jobs in the media and with the SFA. I would like to see Terry Butcher come back to the club, but that will probably not happen either. Anyway I have laid Walter Smith for £300 with the view of backing him when the price gets up to 3.00. Wish me luck.
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