29pts profit, thanks to 6 winners from 68 bets. Complete stats here.

Those are the naked numbers. They mask what was a shambolic month, in truth. I didn’t deserve to turn a profit, no matter how small, in June. And did so by pure luck, not by skill.

As I upped the volume significantly (already started last month, which turned a profit thanks to one big winner) I was basically falling into a habit of gambling.

Not making good, informed decisions, weighing up chances for and against properly. And while still plenty of my eyecatchers won, I still couldn’t back the ‘right’ ones. It felt like trying to catch a fish in murky water.

68 bets in a single month: that’s an awful lot. I never had more bets in a single month, ever. Way too many. It diluted the quality of my selections.

While the facts for playing volume are clear and obvious, my way was always quality before quantity. Hence it’s unusual for me to endure subsequent series of 31 and 16 consecutive losing bets in one month.

Of cousre the “what if” always weighs on the mind. Including those six winners, there were 25 placed selections. That’s about 46% of selections finished in the first three, some at huge prices. If one of those wins, then I may have been inclined to feel more positive about June 2023.

But I shouldn’t, because the truth remains the same: too many bets, not enough quality. The fact selections only beat SP 31 times and BSP even less, tells a more accurate story.

Especially those horses in the 3/1-5/1 bracket did exceptionally poorly.

Saying that, I often struggle in the summer months because it’s just so much racing. Way too much. I can’t keep up, even with specialising only on sprint handicaps, to the most part.

But the bigger picture is always important. Four of six months have been green this year. 10 of the last 17. 17 of the last 28 (since 2021). It’s a long game. And in the long run it’s going up. I just need to find the right balance again. Quality over quantity.

As badly as June ended, with 16 conseqeuitive losers (standing at 20 currently), it was incredibly sweet when 33/1 shot Royal Champion ended my losing run of 31 at Royal Ascot in the most brilliant way.