The BTC Horse Racing Thread

John Folan

John Folan

@robert-cooke said in The BTC Horse Racing Thread:

@john-folan hi John . Is the flat pace strategy still good
to use? Thanks

Bit swingy. But if that’s your thing it should be ok. The longest losing run is worth considering though

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@john-folan hi John . Is the flat pace strategy still good
to use? Thanks

Dan MacKinnon

Looking at this there are only 4 tomorrow and I know I've excluded Doncaster and Ffos Las from a few of my strategies so expect slim pickings then

https://www.racingpost.com/racecards/tomorrow

Adam

@john-folan said in The BTC Horse Racing Thread:

@dan-mackinnon You will appreciate this then An oldie but a goldie.

That is classic!

Rick Watson

@john-folan top man thanks im glad i never botherd adam

John Folan

@rick-watson said in The BTC Horse Racing Thread:

Hi all over the past week or so i have been getting fewer and fewer selections come up on stratergies im following. i also saw a few others mention this and also saw adams comment . now question for the regular / old school horse racing gurus. is this because of the types of races on at the mo and how few they are or shall i bother adam. id rather not bother adam at the mo as looking forward to the back testing on the new footy software being developed. cheers in advance

There isn’t many meets at the moment. All Weather is on a break(except Dundalk in Ireland running as normal and Wolves this Saturday) until the 27th.

Will be slim pickings until then.

I can’t wait for the meltdown at the number of races on Boxing Day though. Busy day that.

Rick Watson

@martin i do this is why i put it out there rather than bothering adam. im really looking for someone who knows horse racing seasons as i suspect that the seasons not matching criteria on strats,

Martin

@rick-watson do you filter out courses or race types in your strategies?

Rick Watson

Hi all over the past week or so i have been getting fewer and fewer selections come up on stratergies im following. i also saw a few others mention this and also saw adams comment . now question for the regular / old school horse racing gurus. is this because of the types of races on at the mo and how few they are or shall i bother adam. id rather not bother adam at the mo as looking forward to the back testing on the new footy software being developed. cheers in advance

John Folan

@angus-macleod it’s addictive as well. It rears its head at least once a year

Angus Macleod

@john-folan said in The BTC Horse Racing Thread:

@dan-mackinnon You will appreciate this then An oldie but a goldie.

" ...I'm lovin' it, lovin' it lovin' it... this made my morning

John Folan

John Folan

@dan-mackinnon You will appreciate this then An oldie but a goldie.

Dan MacKinnon

Don't know about anyone else but loads of horse racing today.

Something else that I never truly appreciated is the inventiveness of naming horses. "Bob Malhey is trailing AvAnotherOne by 2 lengths"

Greg Mitchell

@dan-mackinnon said in The BTC Horse Racing Thread:

Something that I've really enjoyed looking at is the lay strategies on the software. I think it suits my trading style more having lots of small wins and the occasional big loss, but (hopefully) overall heading in the right direction.

I had a mess around with Martin's Beaten Favourite. The filter is here 0_1668523149182_rules_export-laybeatenfav.json

It has a really decent strike rate and when I went through the individual results there were only 251 losing trades from c.2,900

Using £1 flat stakes this is what I got

But after listening to Martin's YouTube Q&A video he mentioned wanting to know your liability. This is something I never really thought about as I see this as a hobby. I then thought what if I changed it to a fixed liability so I went into every trade like it was a placing a bet and I've written off my £14 from a worst-case scenario.

This is using £14 liability from a £100 bank.

The software is really good at running the numbers on a thought experiment like that!