The New Year has seen snow, and where I am, a fair bit of it. I don’t know about you but once the initial “Oooh, that’s pretty” when you wake up and first see a white blanket lying over your garden, has worn off – a process that takes about two minutes – it becomes a bit of a pain in the arse.
Slippery roads, brown slush, and most importantly, the effect on horse racing, with meetings being cancelled left, right, and centre. Like I say, a pain in the arse.
And so it has been this weekend, with horse racing turnover down to a minimum. The year has not got off to the flier I had hoped for.
Friday was actually a really strong day and I was thinking we had lift off for 2025. Saturday and Sunday however, has seen all that profit given straight back to the bookmakers again.
As well as the drop off in bets on the nags, it was a strangely quiet weekend for WinnerOdds Football too. I don’t think we can be blaming snow for this when bets are covering teams playing in placed like Mauritius and Jamaica. It was also a rare losing weekend for my bets with one or two teams carrying big stakes not producing the goods.
The first golf tournament of 2025 was similarly frustrating. My Bookie Bashing Golf Tracker bets all finished out of the places, two of the players by just one stroke. Nob heads!
And the there was the racing. Not one bet yesterday from The Value Machine due to postponed meetings, and sadly after a good winner on Friday, a blank for Sys Analyst on Saturday and Sunday.
The one brighter spot has been a couple of winning Value Bets from the various Bookie Bashing Tools, but again not many bets that I could find. It has just been a particularly quiet start to the year.
All in all, a weekend to forget. Now all I want is for it to get a bit milder, get the racing back on, and press on. Not too much to ask, is it?
Here are the figures for January so far:
January figures to Date (stakes normalised):
Bookie Bashing Tools: Staked 299.25pts, +9.66pts, ROI 3.22%, ROC 0.64%, Drawdown -4.31pts, Max DD -6.27pts
Bookie Bashing Golf Tracker/WGV: Staked 125pts, -125pts, ROI -100%, ROC -6.25%, Drawdown -125pts, Max DD -125pts
Sys Analyst: Staked 115pts, +27pts, ROI 23.47%, ROC 1.35%, Drawdown -60pts, Max DD -60pts
The Value Machine: Staked 520pts, -100.11pts, ROI -19.25%, ROC -3.33%, Drawdown -114.97pts, Max DD -114.97pts
WinnerOdds Football: Staked 1,279pts, -7.71pts, ROI -0.6%, ROC -0.25%, Drawdown -134.3pts, Max DD -134.3pts
TOTAL: Staked 2,346.25pts, -182.19pts, ROI -7.76%, ROC -2.02%, Drawdown -334.71pts, Max DD -334.71pts
