Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Fast pictures cause layers to slip up

I really thought we had got the worst of the weather behind us. But today it came back to mess up the racing again. Newcastle was too frosty and Lingfield too foggy! Newbury was left as normal and was OK, but I really wanted to get a decent week in the bag. Today was a very annoying interruption to that task.

At Newbury in running punters laid a horse heavily when they incorrectly called the false start. Backers were matched at odds of up to 60 vs an SP of 16.50! As soon as the market realised the race hadn't started the price crashed back to more normal levels. Just goes to show you there are opportunities everywhere for the astute.