Saturday 17th March 2007

The Sports Trader has continued in a good vein of form. I traded in just 12 horse races and 3 football matches. I also watched the end of both of today's cricket World Cup matches but without trading. Well done to Ireland in beating Pakistan, that was a tremendous result.

I started the trading day off very slowly with 4 small winning trades. My best trade of the day came in the 15:15 at Uttoxeter where I laid Newbay Pop for £345 @ 6.63. I had been watching this horse throughout the race as there was an unusually large amount of money on offer and yet he was being held up at the back of the field. He made a mistake at the 14th fence and it was soon after that I placed my lay. He did start to make good headway and was chasing the leader but with around 3 furlongs to go he started to fall back to result in a profit on the race of £345. (Download 15-15-Uttoxeter.png ).

I followed up with a small winning trade and then in the 15:35 at Wetherby I started with a lay of £20 @ 6.00 on Loulou Nivernais, just before he made a mistake at the 11th fence. Later in the race I backed Undeniable for £1000 @ 1.21 and laid off @ 1.10 to result in a profit of £130.(Download 15-35-wetherby.png ).

I only had another 5 small trades and all but one resulted in a profit. At the end of today's racing I had managed to make a profit of £502.

After racing I switched to watching the Blackburn v West Ham football match. I backed the under 2.5 goals market for £100 @ 1.96 soon after the 2nd goal had been scored and put up a lay @  1.80. Within a few minutes a third goal had been scored and I had lost my £100. I did look to recover some or all of this on other markets in this match but just could not see anything worth taking so I took my loss.

Next I watched the Recreativo Huelva v Barcelona match and again traded on the under 2.5 goals market. I had missed the start of the game so my first trade came after the first goal had been scored when I backed the unders for £169  @ 3.26. I laid off at 3.05 for £69, 2.92 for £18 and 2.86 for £82. This left me with no liability if 3 or more goals were scored and a profit of £52 if less than 3 goal had been scored. When the 2nd goal was scored I decided to wait for a while before taking another position which was just as well as a third goal came very quickly. I therefore ended the game with neither a profit or a loss.

The last event I traded today was the Athletic Bilbao v Osasuna match. I traded in a different way on this match as I had an idea that Osasuna would go on and win the match. I decided not to trade in the first half of the match and then during the half time interval I put up a back for £145 @ 1.69. This was matched just as the second half kicked off and within a couple of minutes Osasuna had scored again. I then laid off @ 1.14 which left me with a profit on the match of £80.

My day had finished with a profit of £482.

Comments

[The Gambler.]

Excellent article by Paul Haigh in Racing Post today on the ATR Scandal.

[humble]

I didnt see the article has anyone got it saved and could put the link on here for us to read.thanks

[Brian]

Hi Ray

On the sunbject of ATR is there any chance of Russ ever getting back to you as promised.
I think it must be nearly 3 weeks since he had his meetings with ATR and promised you some feedback Ray.

Dont give up on this one Ray.

Brian

[Ray]

Hi John and Humble,

I haven't got the Racing Post and would also like to see the article if possible.

Ray

[Ray]

Hi Brain,

I will be speaking to Russ on Monday. I didn't want to bother him during his busiest week of the year at Cheltenham.

Ray