S.P.Read Esq: #ThanksAP
Our daily columnist and pundit S.P. Read Esq. looks ahead to the final day of the jumps season at SANDOWN PARK and AP McCOY’s final rides and finds the best opportunities available on Star Spreads, the home of sports spread betting.
It’s one of those rare racing days. The chance to grab some value just because of the sense of occasion.
It many ways it typifies AP McCoy’s career – choosing to bow out in a 20 runner competitive handicap at Sandown rather than an odds-on shot that just needed steering home. He was never one to do things the easy way.
His final ride is Box Office – how appropriate for a day when Sandown Park are displaying the HOUSE FULL signs. Star Sports were quoting 3/1 about Box Office at lunchtime which at face value seems ridiculously short, though understandable.
I posed the question to Trevor Harris on the Star Sports fixed odds trading desk “What price would Box Office be if it wasn’t today?” His view was ‘at least 6/1’ so you are being asked to take at least half the true odds.
Of course he can still win. Fairytales (or nightmares for layers) can come true – turn the clock back to 1996 and Fujiyama Crest – the last leg of Frankie Dettori’s Magnificent Seven who went off a 2/1 chance having been priced up at 12/1 in the morning.
There’s not that kind of pressure on AP today – his career will be celebrated no matter what happens to Box Office (or his earlier ride Mr Mole in the A P McCoy Celebration Chase).
20 championships titles and records broken left right and centre says it all. Good luck AP for today and the future. #ThanksAP
As for a bet I’m a buyer of distances on Star Spreads at 27.5.
It’s quite a marginal call but would be surprised if we don’t see at least one 10 length winner on the card which would take the average down to 2.8 lengths in the remaining races.
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BUY DISTANCES for 30 points at around 27.5 with Star Spreads
Profit/loss since Sunday: -150 points
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