Posts Tagged cheltenham
Only a few seconds..
Posted by Peter Webb in Bet Angel on February 15th, 2010
Amazing how a few seconds can make such a difference.
Ahead of the Eon chase we were speculating in the office at how short a price Denman was. In fact it was more like moaning, because we knew it would make getting anything out of the race pretty difficult. Our conclusion was that the incredibly skinny odds of 1.17 or thereabouts really represented the fact that Denman was going to win easy, except if he fell. We watched the race and witnessed Denman just trotting around the Newbury circuit with ease. We still continued our discussions as the race was underway. At which point I piped up and said, “I’m going to lay him”. I already had a reasonable, though not spectacular, profit on the race and just fancied my chances. No sooner had I said that than he stumbled, I never got filled at 1.05. Then he clattered into the next and it was all over. A few seconds early and I could have possibly had my biggest ever single daily total! Isn’t hindsight a wonderful thing.
I switched quickly to the gold cup market but it seems many others had already and his price had already drifted enough.
Welcome back Cheltenham
Posted by Peter Webb in Bet Angel on October 16th, 2009
Delighted to see decent cards at Newmarket and Cheltenham today, with the champions meeting underway at Newmarket I am hopeful for a busy weekend. All the racing is on Racing UK today so that is helpful as wel. The coverage on this channel is so much better than on ‘At the adverts’.
There is a good mixture of different types of racing this weekend so you should be able to witness most types of markets over the next two days and this should allow just about everybody to put one strategy or another to use.
Enjoy!
Post Cheltenham blues
Posted by Peter Webb in Bet Angel on March 17th, 2009
Well Cheltenham is in the past and we are now back to the regular mix of all sorts of stuff on the horse racing. Suddenly you have to get used to earning in a day what you could have achieved in one race last week! But don’t despair as we are now in the ramp up to the flat season. Between now and then though, typically a tougher period awaits.
Not all doom and gloom, just around the corner we have the Aintree grand national meeting and that will throw up interesting opportunities and then a few weeks later we will kick off the flat season with the Guineas meeting. In short there is plenty ahead of us to get excited about, even if this high profile festival is now history for another year.
Don’t look back, look forward.
Golden day ahead
Posted by Peter Webb in Bet Angel on March 13th, 2009
After what has been an excellent week we can look forward to the big day today. Thanks to all the users who have emailed me this with some excellent results and it’s great to see some exceptional totals out there. I’ve always been reluctant to post my figures up as I think they can often set false expectations but it’s great to see I was humbled on Tuesday!
Looking at the structure of the Gold Cup today it looks like it could be a significant race today from all perspectives. So I’ll be doing my best to pull something out the hat today across the card and on this race. Cheltenham has ‘felt’ much better this year after last years debacle. I still did better last year on the previous but this year has proved much better than expectations. Lets hope today tops off an excellent week.
Best of luck whatever you are doing and however you are doing it!
Solid start despite cock up!
Posted by Peter Webb in Bet Angel on March 10th, 2009
Got off to a solid start on the Cheltenham festival despite a bit of a cock up. Was busy trading the big race of the day when I figured out a lot of my orders were not going in the market. It took me ages to realise that the account I was using didn’t have the correct exposure limit! Doh!
It was too late to get the issue fully sorted at that moment in time so I just needed to do the best I could and sort out the issue after the race. It was frustrating as it was going well and I no doubt lost a lot of ground through my inability to put new orders through. Such is life. Ended up on a decent total for the day which gives me confidence for the week. But it could have been so much better! I’d obviously had the same issue up to that point but never realised.
“Windy hedge” for Cheltenham
Posted by Peter Webb in Bet Angel on February 26th, 2009
If I ever buy a horse this would be a good name! But this isn’t the name of a horse. Regular readers will know that Cheltenham last year was a bit of a mare. They abadoned racing on Wednesday then bundled in those races to the Thursday and Friday. That made things mighty tough. Sky bet have offered up a bet this year for odds that racing will be abandoned in the event of a windy day. Odds offered were 150-1. Based upon how much it cost me last year I may have a few quid on that. That said, it shows how unlikely a repeat performance is!
Cheltenham volume
Posted by Peter Webb in Bet Angel on January 24th, 2009
Just traded the 13:30 at Cheltenham and I have to say it had some of the worst volume for a Cheltenham race I have ever seen on Betfair. Hopefully it will improve during the day but the total was worse than some of the poorer quality fare I have seen and nothing near what it should be for a quality race. Not sure what to interpret on that count.