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Boxing day bonanza?

Boxing day bonanza?

Hope you had a good Christmas, we are back with a bang today.

It’s a another boxing day holiday in the UK and the sports schedule will be stuffed full of fixtures, meetings and all manner of sporting events. On racing, even with one meeting abandoned there will be 80 race in the UK and Ireland today.

That’s sounds like heaven to sports traders, but it can be a bit of a nightmare. So many things happening at once often …

26/12/2012 | By | Reply More
Opportunity through adversity

Opportunity through adversity

OK, so it looks like there will be no ‘real’ racing in the UK for a while. But rather than bemoan your fortune use the opportunity to experiment, examine and look for new ideas or opportunities.

Quite a few years ago I got into the mode of taking time off in February. I learnt that it was the lowest yielding month of the year and part or all of it could easily be skipped without too much impact. So I …

08/02/2012 | By More
The week that wasn’t

The week that wasn’t

I picked a good week to be ill last week. Never will a chest infection and fever be so well timed!

It’s never fun to be ill but with so much racing cancelled last week and some football, there was little going on in the markets. It can be really tough making money sometimes but a complete absense of opportunity obviously isn’t going to help either. But I actually quite enjoy the lack of pressure to perform and the chance …

06/12/2010 | By More
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