Today's Horse Racing

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ShaunWhite
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Dallas wrote:
Thu Oct 19, 2017 10:10 am
ShaunWhite wrote:
Thu Oct 19, 2017 1:36 am
Is it that they know/pray the bets will be canceled and its designed to force the rest of the field out to mad prices so they can back them?
That's it exactly
Cheers buddy.
wilf
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Is BF live video not working?

Never mind it's working now.
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Hard day for working
Markets are strange
wilf
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Think I'll quit while I'm ahead I don't like the look of Newcastle.
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Newcastle was good for me.
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Quite poor quality racing for a Friday, on the eve of Champions (but only in name) Day.
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Derek27 wrote:
Fri Oct 20, 2017 12:11 pm
Quite poor quality racing for a Friday, on the eve of Champions (but only in name) Day.
Agree, what a contrast to tomorrow.
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ShaunWhite
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Today really feels like a POETS day. You can't beat being your own boss.
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gutuami
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looks like flashing big orders in 15:10 does not help the filling rate
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Derek27 wrote:
Wed Oct 18, 2017 2:36 pm
dragontrades wrote:
Wed Oct 18, 2017 2:26 pm
Euler wrote:
Wed Oct 18, 2017 2:24 pm
Heavily backed favourite losses at Lingers
Do things like this affect the following markets?
Punters having less money?
No, only punters who backed the loser will have less money and they won't have had their life savings on it!
Surely that's incorrect. Bookies win when favourites lose (generalisation), and if the fav was very short, some of the odds on boys will be losing lumps. The 100/1 outsider might only have had a tenner on it and the 1.2 shot will have 100s of 1000s. They'll cut and cut a popular fav because they don't want any more liability.

Are there any (ex)bookies here who can confirm that?

i'm judging it mainly by the amateur dramatics they do on a saturday after a string of favourites have landed, and by the way an afternoon can dry up after few losing shorties.

I also don't think Euler would have mentioned it unless it was going to have an effect. His comments are sometimes enigmatic but hardly ever just narrative.
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ShaunWhite wrote:
Sat Oct 21, 2017 4:47 am

i'm judging it mainly by the amateur dramatics they do on a saturday after a string of favourites have landed, and by the way an afternoon can dry up after few losing shorties.
I remember reading an article about this ages ago (no idea where) but someone had done some research into bookies profits if a string of short priced favs win. Their conclusion was (surprise surprise) it made very little difference to their bottom line, they still made a profit.

The bookies like us to think they have been hit in the pocket when a lot of favs win but if they are managing their books correctly they should still come out on top no matter the outcome of the race.
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The fav is a doubtful runner in the Wolves 8.15 race, but why's the race suspended on BA but not on betfair nor on other software?
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weemac wrote:
Sat Oct 21, 2017 12:50 pm
The fav is a doubtful runner in the Wolves 8.15 race, but why's the race suspended on BA but not on betfair nor on other software?
Its a streaming issue, switch to polling and it loads as normal
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weemac wrote:
Sat Oct 21, 2017 12:50 pm
The fav is a doubtful runner in the Wolves 8.15 race, but why's the race suspended on BA but not on betfair nor on other software?
What happens when you switch streaming on/off?
weemac
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Interesting - it's suspended with streaming on but not when it's off. Is that a bug do you think?
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