{"id":10245,"date":"2014-10-01T15:15:14","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T14:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.betangel.com\/blog_wp\/?p=10245"},"modified":"2014-10-01T15:15:14","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T14:15:14","slug":"salisbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betfairtradingblog.com\/blog_wp\/2014\/10\/01\/salisbury\/","title":{"rendered":"Salisbury"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whenever I see Salisbury on the card it reminds me of a document that Betfair published many moons ago.<\/span><\/p>\n

I saw Salisbury on the card today and the same bell rang in my head, but also a bit of alarm at the two and three runner races on the card! How poor is that? But back to the main topic.<\/span><\/p>\n

Back in 2004 Betfair issued a document that actually clearly laid out what a market looked like. In the document they looked at a horse race and showed how many people placed back bets only, how many laid only and how many did both; trading in other words. The market they looked at was a race at Salisbury on 4th September 2003, the 16:15.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the Betfair document, on this particular race\u00a03154\u00a0people had been active on the race and staked matched bets of \u00a3676k. The interesting thing is that 17% of accounts did both, they traded it. By volume it accounted for nearly 50% of the entire market. It would be really interesting to see what the figured is nowadays, but I doubt we’ll ever get to know.<\/span><\/p>\n

This year the same race was a group three and turned over \u00a3836k. It’s difficult to work out exactly how the improved status of the race has affected matched bet turnover, but you may want to lop off 20% for that. Doing this would bring it back down to the level a decade ago. That’s a little subjective, but probably fair.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyhow, I thought I’d share this information with you. Now, back to these tiny fields!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Whenever I see Salisbury on the card it reminds me of a document that Betfair published many moons ago. I saw Salisbury on the card today and the same bell rang in my head, but also a bit of alarm at the two and three runner races on the card! How poor is that? But […]<\/p>\n

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