Christmas chaos

Well that was a pretty manic time! Manic for a number of reasons but at least it did turn out to be worthwhile.

I didn't perform as well as last year, but that is no surprise as I had a lot on my plate. My Dad's consultant gave us the news that his illness was terminal on the 22nd so that sort of shook things up a bit. As a consequence, I spent a fair bit of time at my Dad's house and that caused me to have to adapt to a different set up. A rather old PC, a slow broadband connection and slightly less than suitable surroundings made for an interesting trading experience. Nothing that my travel case and my favourite laptop couldn't sort out. This is where a sling box comes in handy. As it turned out I didn't do too badly. My Dad's PC was up to coping with Bet Angel and the usual hammering I give it so I decided to stream pictures to my laptop on the same connection. I only had a 2Mb connection to work with but it seemed fine.

The highlight of the Christmas meetings was the King George the VI. I pulled in a decent total on the race, below last years, but it wasn't a bad result. The day went ok as well despite the chaos of eight meetings all kicking off all over the place. I tried hard to get something out of all of them but it was pretty tough with volume barely reaching £300 p/s on a lot of them. Not great trading fodder, but no disasters. I nipped in to some of the Irish racing to top things up as well. If you choose carefully a number of Irish meetings are perfectly tradable. Overall, especially given the circumstances, I am pretty happy with the results over Christmas.