Our final day in betfair. After a long and extremely fascinating and enjoyable week we only had 1 day left the week seemed to go very fast. We spent the morning of our final day polishing off and finalising our interviews and blog entries. Throughout the week we both found blogging an enjoyable experience, whilst learning about the significance of …
George & Ned Diary Day 4
Continuing from yesterday, we still had to do one final interview, which was the main task we were working on today. We spent the morning typing up the interviews from yesterday. It was a difficult job having to listen to an interview repeatedly on a Dictaphone. After a long period of writing and typing, we had yet another top …
George & Ned Diary Day 3
We spent the day preparing questions that we were going to put forward to some of the more senior members of Betfair. It was challenging as we had to do a bit of research on their background and had to think of suitable questions; we were kindly helped with some of the questions that we were going to ask. We …
George & Ned Diary Day 2
We began our second day at betfair with market research, in which we were given a task to help improve Betfairs€™ website. We spent the following hour completing the task by comparing betfair with its twelve closest competitors. We put forward our ideas to see if our input led to any changes. Our afternoon consisted of two meetings, the first …
George & Ned Diary Day 1
We began our first day with a tour of the office. We were amazed by the sheer size of the Betfair offices since they covered six floors. Visiting every department of the company we received a brief description of what each department did. It was bewildering. We then later had a second tour given by Bert in which we learnt …
Wimbledon
Outside of racing there’s only one sport I consider myself capable of commenting on, and that’s tennis. I grew up in Wimbledon and I used to be pretty obsessed with the tennis when it came around – I’d get my programme early and fill in all the matches as the tournament went on. There was a time when I thought Wimbledon …
The George and Ned show
From today I have two 16 year old boys in the office – Ned and George – who are on a week’s work experience. They are spending time in different departments helping out and hopefully learning a bit about how a company like Betfair operates. I thought it would be a good idea to give them a guest spot on my blog for the …
Ascot post mortem
I went to Ascot on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Winker was obviously the high point, but I managed to find one winner each day, including Binanti on the Friday which I backed at 44. There still seems to be a lot of talk about the new stand and the redesign of the course, and a lot of people don’t like …
The rains
The heavy rain of the past few days have got into the ground pretty much everywhere, and this changes my betting strategy. I won’t be placing any big bets for a while, but I’ll have a few small ones on outsiders with the right sort of breeding. Today I’ll back Indian Days in the 7.10 at Windsor and Chunky’s Choice …
Elementary my dear Watson…
What a day!! We thought he was up to it and we were right. It’s a great thrill and also a relief as I’d got a lot of people onto him who don’t often bet. I was quietly happy after the race but also a little melancholy. I don’t take a lot of credit for the horse – I didn’t …