Friday 16th March 2007

It was a day of First Class racing today to finish off a great week at Cheltenham and a Star was finally recognised for what he really is, Kauto Star that is. The highlight of my week was to see Ruby Walsh partner Kauto Star to win the Cheltenham Gold Cup. I have always admired Ruby's riding skills and it was great to see him win this big event in front of his father and many of the rest of his family.

The Sports Trader followed a similar path as in the rest of this week with not too many trades but a decent result. I ended up trading in just 10 horse races and 1 football match and had just one losing trade.

My day started slowly with 4 small winning trades followed by my only loss of the day in the 15:40 at Lingfield where I laid Lorikeet for £20 @ 3.00 to lose me £40 in a very close short head finish.

My next race, the 16:00 at Cheltenham, was my best result of the day and here I started with a lay of Whyso Mayo for £100 @ 4.00 before backing back £39 @ 5.00. I then laid him again for £64 @ 4.20 and in the final furlong backed him for £6 @ 1.50 to result in a profit of £119. I followed up with another small winning trade.

In the 16:25 at Lingfield I backed Lucayos for £15 @ 2.50 to result in a profit of £23. My next race was the 16:40 at Cheltenham where I laid Saintsaire for £40 @ 21.00 and laid Demi Beau for £39 @ 21.00. I did back back £4 @ 32.00 and £15 @ 5.00 on Demi Beau to leave me with a profit on the race of £60.

My last race trade of the day was in the 17:30 at Fakenham where I laid Ski Jump for £14 @ 3.50 and backed back £12 @ 4.00 to leave me with a small profit of £2.

At the end of my race trading for the day I had managed to make a profit of £177.

In the televised football match between Southampton and Colchester I waited until after the third goal had been scored before having a trade. I then put up a back of the under 3.5 goals for £50 @ 10.00 and was surprised to get matched for just over £40 @ 10.00. I started to lay off almost immediately with lays @ 9.00 for £5, 7.50 for £5, 7.00 for £5 and further lays to cover my liability down to 4.50. I then waited until the price had dropped to 2.70 before starting to green up my position. I ended the match with a profit of £94 and would have had £60 if another goal had been scored. This was a particularly good result as my maximum liability throughout the match was just £40 and yet I managed to make more than twice that in profit.

With 8 minutes left on the clock I saw what I thought were very good odds on offer to lay the correct score line of 2 - 2 @ 7.20 so I laid the score for £30. I backed back £8 @ 13.00 and then with less than 1 minute of injury time left to play I laid the same score line for £12 @ 17.80 to result in a profit of £34.

I had therefore finished my day with a total profit of £305.

It was good to see David at Horsegraphs.com come up with another day of excellent gains today by selecting Pedrobob in the final race of the Cheltenham card with an SP of 12/1. This brilliant system has produced a gain of 25 points over the 4 day Cheltenham Festival. David is introducing a new service to run alongside his original free service. This new Premium service will be by a daily, weekly or monthly subscription and if his results keep coming in the way they have over this last few weeks it should prove to be one of the most cost effective services available. Best of Luck David.

Comments

[mick wrende]

Hi Ray
Your blog is getting boring! A continuous success story whilst the rest of us fellow mortals are losing.
I am joking of course - just a tad envious. Well done
Mick
PS At least I was one of the millions on Kauto Star.

[Ray]

Hi Mick,

Thanks, I hope I can keep making this boring but no guarantees!

Well done with your Kauto Star wager and good luck today.

Ray

[Paul]

Hi Ray, Well done for your Chelts’ results. On Friday I finally found the strong liquidity that I was hoping for all week. My trading depends on high Betfair volume and it was there in force on Friday. I made +272 form the horses and +33 from the football. This is the first time I have made over 300 pounds in a day and it is my best ever week. It is all very irrelevant because I had horrendous news at work on Friday Morning. A colleague and friend’s two year old child was killed in a car accident, his sister was also badly injured. The poor little guy went to the same crèche as my youngest son. I thought long and hard about writing this on your blog, but I understand your ain is to find a community of work colleagues and share all our emotions. Betfair was un-tradable due to connection speed today so I was more than happy for a day off. We had 19 boys at the Luxembourg under 7s rugby training and it was a delight to be surrounded by such enthusiasm and passion. Give your kids a big hug tonight

Paul (in Lux)

[Ray]

Hi Paul,

Thanks for your comments. I am pleased you have had a good weeek of results and hope they continue for you.

I am really sorry to hear about your friends loss. I can only imagine the emotions that you and your friends are going through. That is the worst possible thing to happen to any person and my thoughts go out to you all. I know I am very lucky to have 6 brilliant children and do not know how people cope with such a huge loss.

Are broadband connections often bad in Luxembourg or was it just a one off today?

Good Luck.

Ray

[Paul]

Yes , this kind of experience puts things in perspective. I always try to trade around the family rather than family around the trading. THIS WILL CONTINUE. The connection in Luxembourg is normally fine and I know this was a Betfair problem today. There was a post on the Betfair forum explaining the generic problem from Scripophilist who, as I am sure your know, is Peter Webb from Bet Angel. Trading from Luxembourg is normally just fine and you might be interested to know all sky pictures are broadcast via Luxembourg. I think I am right in saying that sky pictures you see broadcast from Lingfield, for example,go to space, then via Luxembourg (http://www.luxsat.eu/superlux/) then back to space and then back to you in Glasgow. I have a friend who works for Luxsat but I don’t think he will let me intercept the signal.