Saturday 9th June 2007

The Sports Trader had a good day and traded in 16 horse races and 1 football match.

My day started with the 14:15 at Musselburgh where I backed Victorian Beauty for £54 @ 1.30 for a profit of £16. In the 14:30 at Windsor I laid Determined Stand for £11 @ 6.20 to result in a profit of £11.

My next trade was in the 14:35 at Haydock where I laid Mr Ed for 321 @ 15.00 to give me another £21 profit. Next was the 14:50 at Goodwood where I backed Munsef for £100 @ 1.85 before laying off @ 1.65 and then, with the race in the bag, I backed him again for £852 @ 1.10 to result in a profit of £105. I followed this with a small winning trade and then a small losing trade.

In the 16:05 at Windsor I laid Gulf Express for £38 @ 3.00 for a profit of £38. Next was the 16;20 at Musselburgh where I laid Stark Contrast for £11 @ 3.95 before backing back £8 @ 5.00 and then I backed the eventual winner for £500 @ 1.02 to result in a profit of £13. Next came another small winning trade.

The best result of my day came next in the 16:40 at Windsor where I didn't have a trade in the actual race but managed to back the winner, Gongidas for £431 @ 1.50 in the photo finish market to give me a profit of £216. It always helps if the commentators pick the wrong winner in a photo finish.

My next 4 trades where all small winning trades. The worst race trade of my day came in the 19:50 at Lingfield where I backed Fiefdom for £26 @ 2.00 to leave me with a loss of £26. My final race trade of the day came next and it resulted in a small profit.

My race trading had finished with a decent profit of £395.

After racing I traded on the Real Zaragoza v Real Madrid football match. I started off backing the under 2.5 goals market for £255 @ 2.16, with the score at 1 -1, and had laid off £223 @ 2.05 when the third goal came to cost me £32.

I then backed the under 3.5 goals for £150 @ 1.82 and had laid off £53 @ 1.63 and £39 @ 1.50 when the 4th goal was scored which cost me another £61.

In the final few minutes of the match I backed the draw for £122 @ 1.35 and had laid off just 313 @ 1.16 when I cancelled the rest of my lays and finished the match with a profit of £41 on the correct result.

So my day had finished with a profit of £343.