Laytown races – Laying on the Beach
The races Since 1868 Laytown, Ireland, has hosted a once a year event, a race meeting like no other. With no formal racecourse to host the equine competitors, these horses are raced on the beach. Beach racing at Laytown catches the attention of a wide range of racing and non-racing goers each year. Laytown races…
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York Ebor or Ebore?
The Yorkshire Ebor festival We are at another key point on our journey through the year, as we head just south of the North York moors to York Racecourse. The Ebor Festival starts on Wednesday and runs through to Saturday with the big race at the weekend. It’s by far the biggest meeting at York…
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Trading the Goodwood & Galway festivals
Here is a blog post about how to trade GoodWay on Betfair. No that’s not a typo! There are two race meetings that should get your attention during this busy week. The feature meeting of the week is the Qatar Goodwood festival, or Glorious Goodwood, whichever you prefer. This is a race meeting that should…
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Behind the scenes of British horse racing
A few weeks ago I was fortunate to be invited to Newmarket (the birthplace and spiritual home of British horseracing) by a fellow Bet Angel forum member who is an ex-jockey that rode for Sir Mark Prescott for many years. Newmarket itself is steeped in history and is built around horse racing with approx. 3000…
Newmarket July Meeting
The Newmarket July meeting starts today and is a decent highlight on the journey through the Month. A decent highlight in summer middling markets I’ve had mixed results over the years and is the sort of meeting where you want to do well, but you can’t push it as hard as at other meetings. If…
Aintree Festival and the Grand National
Cheltenham is behind us, and the flat season is officially underway and this weekend we have the last major jumps meeting of the year which is, of course, nations favourite race – The Grand National.
While Cheltenham attracts the more serious and…
Betfair trading – Preparing for a major race meeting – Cheltenham
Big meetings are generally mean big opportunities for me, so I take a lot of care to carefully prepare for each one. Cheltenham is one of the biggest.
Last year the big meetings accounted for just short of 20% of my entire year. That’s why I put …
Melbourne cup – The race that stops a nation
The Melbourne and I cup go back a few years now. Many moons ago, in the early days of my trading career, I got interested in the ‘race that stops a nation’ and learned that it really did stop the nation, they have a national holiday today in Victoria.
So, intrigued, I got up at 4am one dark winter Tuesday to see what all the fuss was about. Nothing really happened apart from a lack of sleep and I returned …
Melbourne cup – The race that stops a nation
The Melbourne and I cup go back a few years now. Many moons ago, in the early days of my trading career, I got interested in the ‘race that stops a nation’ and learned that it really did stop the nation, they have a national holiday today in Victoria.
So, intrigued, I got up at 4am one dark winter Tuesday to see what all the fuss was about. Nothing really happened apart from a lack of sleep and I returned …
Melbourne cup – The race that stops a nation
The Melbourne and I cup go back a few years now. Many moons ago, in the early days of my trading career, I got interested in the ‘race that stops a nation’ and learned that it really did stop the nation, they have a national holiday today in Victoria.
So, intrigued, I got up at 4am one dark winter Tuesday to see what all the fuss was about. Nothing really happened apart from a lack of sleep and I returned …