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I’ve never been a serial bettor and feel no compulsion to bet in a race to make the event more ‘interesting’. As with any other business I only indulge in betting in order to return a long term profit. A means to an end, no more no less.
Like watching a cricket match
sans
betting slip I find a race meeting an engrossing spectacle in its own right be that Hexham or Epsom, though I have a preference for the former nowadays.
Don’t go racing much at all these days but even when I did regularly I’d only bet in – at most – half the races and frequently none at all. Just being on-course is entertainment enough.
As for betting itself I find the process of tissue compilation as fulfilling as any of the bets generated. Two handicap chases a day dissected, priced-up and maybe punted is quite sufficient. If and only if I’m in the mood which is by no means every day.
I class Summer Jumps as the period May to end September. May is usually an active month betting-wise as there are plenty of meetings due to the advent of evening racing, but meetings become sparse after that and I just bet occasionally, on a whim. Too many other diversions over summer anyway, one reason I don’t miss Flat betting one jot; that and the not unimportant fact I couldn’t make it pay long term.
May I be so bold as to offer the advice:
specialise
In your case I see no reason for you to bother betting NH. Southwell AW over the winter and turf Flat over the summer would IMO supply more than enough ‘action’
Edit
: looking through the Wetherby card tomorrow I’m very pleased to see two five-runner handicap chases: my ideal betting fodder, everything else will be ignored
what a boring pillock I am
But Drone, I DO specialise!
I’ve cut down on claimers…and sellers…amateur rider handicaps…2-y-o’s before Ascot…well, not on Saturdays, just in the week…unless they’re the getting out stakes…or there’s a horse I follow nestling down the bottom of the card on a tasty weight…or the favourite looks a don…you get the picture.
Love it. More racing the better.
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