The BTC Horse Racing Thread

Tony Hastie

@Martin Im not sure where to start! Somewhere I guess....Is it something best used for a single course(ive seen chester mentioned a bit) or can it be added to a strategy. And what does the draw bias number actually mean? We should be backing a horse running from that stall? I really have no idea! An explanation would make a good vid for youtube

Martin

@Tony-Hastie @Adam is looking at adding weather in, what are you struggling with on draw bias? may be able to help!

Tony Hastie

@Martin Ive not got my head around how to incorporate draw bias in the software....and I plain cant find the hot, cold, wet, dry options to evaluate a horses performance in a particular weather either

Martin

@John-Folan how was it mate? how are the new teeth?

Was chatting with @Adam earlier and one thing we are finding in common with our strategies is that two of the biggest influences to results seem to be draw bias and weather.

Interested in everyone's thoughts on those!

John Folan

@Martin said in The BTC Horse Racing Thread:

@Adam think John has stayed in Turkey

Finally back

Martin

Interested in when people consider the end of the flat season and move to jumps? Is there a particular week, day even?

I know October and April are considered the crossovers just interested in how people approach these.

Martin

@Adam think John has stayed in Turkey

Adam

@Martin Definitely had a few unexpected winners from my perspective.

We should definitely add a weather strategy rule to the software. Surprised @John-Folan hasn't suggested it already tbh...

Martin

How have people been trading the bad weather days recently? Interested to know if you change anything on those days.

Martin

@Tony-Hastie agree just about getting used to that kind of variance!

Tony Hastie

@Martin Ive just put something together at high odds too. Just happened to watch the race the first selection was in and it was pipped at the post! Been laying so many horses felt I needed to back something

Martin

@Tony-Hastie I've got a C&D winner that is down this month but it backs at high odds so lot of variance, not sure I love those kinds of strategies tbh

Tony Hastie

@Martin Since the monday from hell its been business as usual for my Lay 3rd fav. My DOB is treading water. Think I mentioned it was 10 points up about a week ago...its still 10 points up!

Martin

@Tony-Hastie lay 3rd fav doing well for me still making up for a bit of a downturn from the dobs at the moment.

Martin

@Tony-Hastie days of the week always an interesting one to look at! Often thought Tuesday's racing is rubbish usually.

Tony Hastie

@Martin It was, then monday happened

Just about to hit a milestone and raise the stakes and Im right back to where I began the month! Was going so well too...had about 20 wins in a row before that...

Edit to add- just had a look at mondays performance in the software. ROI is 1.74(rest of week is sitting between 3s and 7s)...£50 odd profit over 600 trades. Could quite easily drop that...

Martin

Lay 3rd fav doing well for everyone else this month?

Tony Hastie

@Adam Pretty much UK wide then

Adam

@Arran-Shackell said in The BTC Horse Racing Thread:

@Tony-Hastie

I can confirm the term steaming, is also very widely used here in Wales, especially on a saturday night!

Can also confirm, except in Newport it's pretty much every night of the week!

Martin

@Tony-Hastie said in The BTC Horse Racing Thread:

I asked where the term "steaming" came from a while back and noone seemed to know(or care!) I learned that it was a common term in Glasgow for getting drunk and that was it, conversation over!

Well, Ive been asking chat gpt to help me with a back the fave racing strategy and it mentioned steaming prices. So I asked, Where did the term come from? Its answer...

This term is thought to be derived from the idea of something "gaining momentum" or "picking up steam," similar to how a steam engine builds speed as pressure increases.

I will sleep tonight

That's a great fact!