When Betfair trading on horse racing, I’d argue the opposite saying is true. Not for everybody, of course, we all have different trading strategies and every Betfair account will rise and fall with your favoured sport and strategy.

But I mourn the dawn of St Leger Day as it marks the end of a really busy period for me. Busy as in my ability to earn above-average profits from racing markets.

In terms of horse racing, I’ve reached the winning post. My entire year on racing markets will be defined by the top-class racing that takes place during the summer and, more or less, ends at the William Hill St Leger festival. If I do well over this period, I have a good year. If not, I’m not going to make that up in Q4.

There aren’t any significant reasons to be pessimistic, it’s just that the during the summer my trading software is busy trading stuff all day and evening. Whereas this week, the evening racing slips out of view and the racing results have a more mundane look as the all-weather racing returns to fill the odd gap in the evening schedule.

It’s a numbers thing. The more races there are, the more opportunities there are. If you are looking for that outlying fab result, it’s more likely to occur in the mix of hundreds of races in the summer schedule.