The profit margin built into prices on day one of racing’s return to action was kept within very respectable limits
One of the interesting aspects of Monday’s resumption at Newcastle was the sight of bookmakers behaving themselves. Well, ‘sight’ is wrong because all the betting action occurred online but the evidence is there for all to see in the results section of Tuesday morning’s Racing Post, which shows that the profit margin built into bookies’ prices on day one was kept within very respectable limits.
This matters because Starting Prices cannot be determined by on-course trade, the familiar, tested and mostly trusted system that has been in place for eons. The public can’t get into racecourses just now, so racecourse bookmakers are sidelined.
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