The Aintree festival starts on Thursday and takes place over 3 days so is one day shorter than other festivals like Cheltenham and Royal Ascot etc and based on past years I\u2019d expect the turnover for the three days to be between \u00a340m – \u00a350m with around \u00a39m traded pre-race on the Grand National itself. Curiously last years pre-race volume was down nearly \u00a31m on the year before, while at the same time its in-running traded volume was well above average falling just short of \u00a31m and making it the 2nd<\/sup> highest traded in-running in a decade.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Unlike the Cheltenham festival you won\u2019t see large chunks of money stacked up waiting to be matched around the current price except on the Grand National itself, so you won\u2019t have the frustration you can sometimes get sitting and waiting for ages for your orders to be filled prior to the big race itself on Saturday afternoon. Generally, most races will trade like a regular Saturday afternoon feature race turning over around \u00a32m pre-off.<\/p>\n For such a large field the BSP can still be very will often still be very close to 100%, in fact in two of the recent years it has dipped below, so you could have backed all runners at SP and secured a profit before the runners at the back of the pack even set off.<\/p>\n Trading In Running<\/strong><\/p>\n If you’re looking to lay the field rather than doing so at less than 2.0 as you normally would you might want to look at doing so at slightly odds higher odds somewhere between 3.0-5.0. You will need to get more runners matched to lock in your profit, but the data does show that is more likely than laying at lower odds and that makes sense when you think of the distance and number of runners involved in this race.<\/p>\n Alternatively, you may want to look at DOBing, while none of the eventual winners have come from the top four in the betting since one of the joint-favourite won back in 2008 using a DOBing or back 2 lay strategy on the front 4 usually works quitee well. In seven of the last eight years 2 of the front 3 have traded at 50% there BSP or lower.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n All that\u2019s left for me to say is good luck to everyone who trades it and hope that we get to see a quality race to round this year\u2019s jumps season off.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.betangel.com\/blog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Traded-Volume-600x329.jpg\")
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