The BTC Horse Racing Thread

[Martin]

@John-Folan interesting so short odd lays going well, I know the one I had tanked a bit last year.

[John Folan]

@Martin said in The BTC Horse Racing Thread:

@John-Folan what are you go to strategy types at the moment?

Short odds lays. All weather lays and my dob/trobs I am testing

[Martin]

@John-Folan what are you go to strategy types at the moment?

[Martin]

@Tony-Hastie take it you are using a bot?

[Tony Hastie]

@John-Folan My DOB strategy has been going quite well too...then suddenly, a few weeks ago I stopped getting the volume of selections I was. Ive had about 4 selections in 3 weeks! Must be the all weather tracks...

My lay the 3rd fav variant is having a blinder too, 40 points up since I posted it on the forward testing thread. The graph(in the software) says Im 13 points down this month but thats not the case...and I dont really want to look into why that is

[John Folan]

Short odds good today plus profit on the dobs and trobs. Cannot argue with that. Another month and I’ll share the dobs and trobs properly. Want to continue real money testing for a bit.

[John Folan]

Bit of a slow January. Developing a dobbing strategy that seems to be ok. Will post once tested properly.

Short odds lays ticking over can’t moan too much

Really need a decent backing strategy

[Adam]

@John-Folan said in The BTC Horse Racing Thread:

Busy day today. Thank you Jesus for the gift of automation

Boxing Day has to be my favourite day of the year for racing.

[John Folan]

[John Folan]

The absolute mad recovery on the lay the beaten favourite preset. Good strategy. Just too swingy for us I think

[John Folan]

Busy day today. Thank you Jesus for the gift of automation

[John Folan]

@Adam said in The BTC Horse Racing Thread:

@John-Folan said in The BTC Horse Racing Thread:

I’ve got myself out of many a spot thanks to delays

And in

Yep

[Adam]

@John-Folan said in The BTC Horse Racing Thread:

I’ve got myself out of many a spot thanks to delays

And in

[John Folan]

@Martin said in The BTC Horse Racing Thread:

@John-Folan I watched a few but have often seen they don't move that much last couple of mins so this is good to know.

I’ve got myself out of many a spot thanks to delays

[Martin]

@John-Folan I watched a few but have often seen they don't move that much last couple of mins so this is good to know.

[Martin]

@Adam cheers that's a really informative response!

[John Folan]

@Martin said in The BTC Horse Racing Thread:

Interested in people's thoughts on 'official start time' and 'actual start time' do you think that the odds change much in this period?

Yep. Deffo. Just watch a few races with the Betfair odds up. Scalpers paradise

[Adam]

@Martin said in The BTC Horse Racing Thread:

Interested in people's thoughts on 'official start time' and 'actual start time' do you think that the odds change much in this period?

Depends on the reason for the delay I think. If it's just stall handlers faffing around not managing to get the horses loaded up even though they've done it 24984398* times, or it's one of the courses where they have to do a 354* mile hike just to get to the start, like Cheltenham or Newmarket, not much changes and the same few horses will carry on mirroring each other, etc.

If a particular horse really starts playing up, it can change things.

There can definitely be a lot of money traded during that time between the official and actual start. I did some analysis on this once from our database, wish I could find the post now!

*Some figures may have been exaggerated for effect

[Martin]

Interested in people's thoughts on 'official start time' and 'actual start time' do you think that the odds change much in this period?

[John Folan]

Racing is so boring at the moment with all these cancelled meetings and horses being withdrawn. Still I’d rather that than an injured animal.