Thursday 26th April 2007

The Sports Trader has had a slow but profitable day. I only traded in 6 horse races and 1 darts match as I had a lot of jobs to do around the house.

I started with a small winning trade. My first significant trade was in the 15:05 at Perth where I laid Guymur for £190 @ 2.00 when in second place to result in a profit of £190. I followed this with another small winning trade.

In the 15:40 at Perth I backed Sir Jimmy Shand for £50 @ 2.50 and £31 @ 2.70 when leading and looking to be going well with 3 fences to go. He made a mess of the next fence and weakened quickly so my lays were not matched and I ended up losing £81.

In the 16:40 at Punchestown I laid Mighty Man for £146 @ 2.37 when leading and I laid him again for £43 @ 6.50 when he started to show signs of distress shortly before he was pulled up to result in a profit of £190.  It looks like he had suffered damage to a tendon and hopefully he will be back racing before too long.

Refinement  powers home under McCoy in th 16:40 at Punchestown

My last race trade was in the 19:00 at Yarmouth where I backed Sparkling eyes for £50 @ 1.50 in the photo finish and ended up with a loss of £12.50 as the race finished in a dead heat.

My race trading had finished with a profit of £296.

I only traded in the Peter Manley v Denis Priestley Premier League darts match in the evening where I laid the draw for £25 @ 4.00 to result in a profit of £25.

My day had finished with a profit of £321.

Comments

[Gareth]

Hi Ray,

Great to see you back trading and more importantly winning :)

Best Wishes

Gareth

[Ray]

Hi Gareth,

Thanks, It's good to be able to trade again. Good Luck.

Ray

[Paul]

Good to see you back to winning ways Ray. I suppose the Irish Festivals are good for you as Betdaq is quite popular in Ireland isn't it? So lots of cash flying about.

I am away this weekend so my month is finished. The scores on the doors are +£1525 in April. No losing weeks since Celebrity big brother in January although I am half expecting a big loss due to a site outage of typo error.

Have a great weekend.

Paul (in Lux)

[Ray]

Hi Paul,

Betdaq often has very large turnovers on the Irish events which is good for my trading.

I hope you have a good weekend, don't spend all those profits. I hope you can continue your winning run when you get back.

Good Luck.

Ray