Michael Wilding
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Apr- 2015 -27 AprilAdvice
How To Make A Power Rating
There’s no doubt that ratings are a great way for you to analyse a race. In fact, they’re probably one of the best ways. But I’m a self-admitted ratings fanatic! So with the admission that I love ratings. The question is… is there anything better than a rating? And the answer is yes. A power rating Power ratings are combinations…
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20 AprilAdvice
Work Out The Minimum Odds You Should Take In Less Than 5 Minutes
Recently I’ve been reading through some old betting magazines. And it was during one of these forays into a magazine that I read Alan Coldricks article on how to convert ratings into odds. It’s very difficult to determine whether a horse is offering value odds, even if you are using a reliable set of ratings. There are a variety of…
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13 AprilAdvice
Become a Master of Disguise
You’ve finally cracked it. After years spent funding the bookie bigwigs’ summer holidays, you’ve become a member of the 1% that actually makes money from sports betting. Perhaps that was down to help from Race Advisor, perhaps you simply learned from your own mistakes – it doesn’t really matter how you achieved it, the fact is that you now generate…
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10 AprilAdvice
Who Will Win The Grand National 2015?
For the first time in years I’m not able to analyse the Grand National because I have to pick my mum up from the airport, and so I want to ask you for your help. Please let me know who you’re going to be betting on by selecting as many runners as you like below. I’m going to pull up in my…
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6 AprilAdvice
The Cause of 99% of Betting System Failures
Using betting systems is probably the most popular form of finding selections. Also, amongst horse racing fans, the actual building of the systems is very popular. The only problem is that most betting systems fail to make the profits that they’ve promised to deliver. And the primary reason for this is… backfitting. Well, that’s the name that most people use.…
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Mar- 2015 -30 MarchAdvice
The Mindset Of A Losing Punter
Becoming long term profitable as a bettor means that you need to change your mindset. There’s no doubt it’s very tough to do, but for most people it’s essential. The psychological shift from looking for winners and profit on a day to day, or even week to week, basis to focusing on profits over three, six and twelve months is…
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23 MarchAdvice
Do You Have What It Takes?
If I told you that finding winners is the easiest part of being a profitable sports bettor, you’d probably laugh at me right? After all, how can that possibly be true. Without winners you don’t make any profit. It’s a simple equation… Find winners = making money Well there’s one thing that’s true. 99% of punters would agree with this…
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15 MarchStrategies
Make Yourself A Contender Finding Spreadsheet For Betting
I wanted to share something with you today that you could put into immediate effect. Something hands on. And, with that in mind, I started to make a list of everything that would be a useful tool for you to use in your betting. By the end, the list was pretty big, so I would start at the top with…
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9 MarchAdvice
Cheltenham Festival 2015 Live Blog
Welcome to the Race Advisor’s live blog for the Cheltenham Festival 2015 Day 1. From 12:30pm on Tuesday 10th March I will be blogging live race analysis and conversation to see if we can find the winners at Cheltenham throughout the days racing. We also have Eddie who will be posting updates live from the paddock at Cheltenham to give…
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9 MarchAdvice
Racing Post Tipsters – Do They Make A Profit?
The Racing Post is by far the most well known racing newspaper in the UK. It’s the go to resource for thousands of punters and that means, their tipsters are the go to tipsters for thousands of punters. But… nowhere does the Racing Post say whether their tipsters make a profit or not. So we decided to do some investigating…
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2 MarchAdvice
Automated Betting: A Goldmine or A Poorhouse?
Not long after Betfair opened automated betting became the biggest thing in the gambling world. For the first time a regular punter could get software that would place their bets automatically. Everybody began making software to automate betting. And then, as always, realisation set in that it wasn’t going to be as easy as turning the software on and becoming…
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Feb- 2015 -23 FebruaryAdvice
Are You Missing Out On These?
With 1339 posts on the Race Advisor, it can be pretty easy to miss some of the best ones. So today I want to do a round-up of some of the most popular and best posts in different categories. Let’s start with… The Most Popular Posts Daily Stat Pack – It’s not surprising that our Daily Stat Pack is regularly amongst the most popular posts on…
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17 FebruaryAdvice
What Is Your Opinion
NOTE: To vote more than once please refresh the page. [socialpoll id=”2253629″] If there’s anything that would be useful to you and isn’t on this list, please let me know by leaving a comment below.
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16 FebruaryAdvice
Calculating Drawdowns
I’ve had a lot of emails about staking recently. Primarily due to the comments over on our Betfair ATM review here. This has made me think about staking plans and the size of bankroll that you should be using. You may know that I always recommend using flat staking. Staking plans are often misunderstood as a way to turn losing…
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9 FebruaryStrategies
Trading – The Simple Approach
There’s no doubt about it that if you’re averse to risk and want to make money from your betting… trading is almost certainly the best route for you to take. Over the years I’ve read pretty much every guide that’s been released and they all follow similar approaches. I know some very high-turnover traders who work in different ways to…
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2 FebruaryAdvice
Patterns And Using Them To Win
It doesn’t matter if you’re building a betting system, form reading, using trainers or some other approach. When you are looking for your betting selections you are doing one thing… …looking for patterns. You’re looking for patterns in historical data to estimate what is likely to happen in future data. The better you are at separating the relevant patterns from…
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Jan- 2015 -26 January
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19 JanuaryStrategies
Winner Finding Without Thinking – A Strategy
Last week I received an email that was just asking a question but, felt more like a challenge. The question was… “Is it possible to find strong contenders using only a horses lifetime earnings, finish position last time out, performance in last three starts and the horses age” You can see why I thought it was a challenge, and it…
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12 JanuaryStrategies
Finding Winners From The Daily Stat Pack
Every day on the Race Advisor we publish the Daily Stat Pack here. In it you will find all the jockeys and trainers that have achieved a strike rate of 17% or higher on the course that they’re racing at today. This in itself is a very useful report to have every day for a shortlist of jockeys and trainers…
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5 JanuaryAdvice
Are You Ready To Make More Profits?
Happy New Year. This is the first post of 2015. 2015. Wow… that sounds so futuristic! I’m only a little bit disappointed that we haven’t got flying cars yet, but I’ll get over it. However, more importantly. It’s a new year and that means we can look back over the previous year to determine how we did in our betting…
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