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After qualifying I took a look at the race win market and noticed someone had used the new ‘keep bet’ function and there were bets ready to be taken when the market re-opened. I’ve never used keep bet because it wouldn’t really help with my style of betting and I can only see it as bad thing such as in this example.

I was hovering over the odds with my one-click software (I use Fairbot) refreshing at a high rate, ready to pounce, but someone beat me to it. (unless the bet was cancelled while the market was suspended – if you can do that – looking at the graph I think it was matched though)

So the question is why on earth you would use keep bet in this instance. The only way the bet would have been matched is if Kimi had put in a real poor show in qualy, but then why accept those odds? As Kimi had technical problems his odds immediately went far higher. Some lucky person with a quicker internet connection than me managed to lay £85 @ 2.42. Some unlucky (or sloppy) person(s) could have had their £85 backed @ 27.