Monday 26th February 2007

The Sports Trader's day was shorten due to having to take relatives back to Prestwick Airport. I only managed to trade in 3 UK horse races and on 1 Football match, however I had no losing trades and a decent result in the end.

My first race was the 15:40 at Hereford, I looked for a decent opportunity of backing the favourite, Officer De Reserve. This came as Water Taxi, the leader at the time, blundered and fell and I took all that was on offer on Officer De Reserve. I backed him for £1430 @ 1.34 and very quickly put up a lay for the full amount @ 1.21, this was taken and I ended the race with a profit of £188. Please take a look at the Hereford Racecourse website by clicking on the link as the owners have put together a decent promotional video of their facilities which is worth looking at.

My next trade was in the 16:50 at Plumpton where I started by laying The Hairy Lemon for £34 @ 6.10, then I backed for £30 @ 7.10. Later I laid him again for £25 @ 6.00 before backing him for £14 @ 8.60 to leave me with a profit of £15.

My best result was in my last race, the 17:00 at Wolverhampton, where I backed Our Kes for £259 @ 2.60 just as he challenged for the lead at about a furlong from the finish and looked to be going the best of the front runners. This resulted in a profit on the race of £414.

So my short race day had ended with a profit of £617 and still with no commission thanks to Betdaq's 0% commission on all UK in-running horse racing markets.

I had a look at the stats for the televised football match between Stoke and Barnsley on the SoccerStats.com website and decided to trade on the under 2.5 goals. It was predicted to be a low scoring match. I missed the start so my first trade was at around 8 minutes into the match where I backed the unders for £43 @ 1.75. I laid this off @ 1.65. I backed the unders again after the goal had been scored for £103 @ 1.72. I then laid off in £25 chunks @ 1.68,1.60,1.52 and 1.46, to result in a profit of £20.

With 3 minutes of the match left to play I also backed the under 1.5 goals for £7 @ 1.50 to result in a profit of £4. I therefore ended the match with a profit of £24 to bring my day's total profit to £641.

Comments

[Brian]

Ray

Just a quick reminder about asking Russ about ATR Extra. BF couldnt give a toss about their punters, so something from Russ would be a big step up in customer relations.

As you know this is the single biggest issue with the in running brigade so we need someone to fight our corner.

Thanks

Brian

[Ray]

Hi Brian,
I am trying to track him down at this moment, he isn't in the office but I will get to speak later today.
Ray

[Ray]

Hi Brian,
I have now spoken with Russ and he is meeting with ATR this afternoon and will ask the questions that we all need answering. Ofcourse he can not guarantee that ATR will want to make a comment but he will try.
Ray

[Chris]

do u ever lose

[Ray]

Hi Chris,
Yes, unfortunately, I have had 11 losing days this year, but I must admit I have had a great spell this last three weeks with just one losing day.
Ray