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UKRN EARLY BIRD SELECTIONS

Welcome to the first in a new series of posts that I will be writing every other week. These posts are going to go through a race to show you how I go about finding selections. You can get a complete guide to finding your own selections here. I will be focusing on Leicester for today’s selection and have one trainer…

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Fairbot – Betfair Trading Software – Review

There are quite a few “trading software” programs on the market. They all have differences, but the common factor of them all is the speed that bets can be placed and the frequency that odds are displayed. We’ve all experienced the frustration on the Betfair exchange where the odds displayed are not met when we try to place a bet at…

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Second Favourite Horses… Making Them Pay

There’s a lot of information out there about how favourites in horse racing finish, but what about the second favourites? We know that the majority of winners come from the first four or five in the betting. But when people are looking for betting systems they always start with the favourite. Of course, there’s a few reasons for that. One…

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The Anatomy Of A Race Card

For those who like to bet on horse racing, the racecard is a crucial read because it contains all the information about the course, each race and the runners. If you are enjoying a day at the races, a racecard is an essential purchase but you can also read the details from the comfort of your home online. One of…

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Weekly Eye-Catchers – Horse Racing

I will begin this week’s column with a look at the weekend’s big horse racing action from the Cheltenham Trials Day and then have another look at a couple of horses that are worth having onside come March. Weekend Review: Smad Wins Place in Gold Cup! It was Cheltenham Trials Day on Saturday and I think most would agree that…

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Race Predictors… Do They Work?

The chances are you’ve seen the race predictors on the Racing Post, At The Races and Racing UK websites. But have you ever wondered how they’re predicting a race, whether they work and what is different between them? I certainly have, and today I’ve written up my thoughts on them. It’s important for me to clarify that the following are…

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How To Choose The Right Factor Every Time In Horse Racing

For the casual punter, it appears as if there are far too many factors to consider when attempting to pick the winner in horse racing. Bookmakers know this and profit handsomely from common errors such as blindly backing a favourite or being swayed by a certain tipster without any real knowledge of ‘why’ the tipster has chosen that particular horse.…

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The Insiders Guide To Using Horse Form To Make Profits

For the vast majority of punters, a horse’s form (its previous results) is the be-all and end-all of picking winners. If this was truly the case then all serious bettors would be wealthy. However, this doesn’t mean we can dismiss form because it is still the best way to choose value bets. The thing is, getting the most out of…

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Different Bet Types – What They Actually Mean

To the uninitiated, the sheer variety of bet types you can make in horse racing is utterly confusing. Whether you want to play it safe, have a wild punt or opt for something more ‘exotic’, there is a bet type for you! Below, we provide you with an overview of your betting options in horseracing along with a short and…

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Use Algorithmic Trading – Scale Up Your Sports Trading

My first five bets on the outcome of a sport event were all winners in horse racing and they were all each way bets on Red Rum in The Grand National. Three wins and two places by one of the greatest jump horses hardly made me a big shot in the gambling world. When I wasn’t taking horse race betting…

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Weekly EyeCatchers – Horse Racing

Plenty of winners flowed out of the horse racing notebook last week with wins by Keppols Queen 14/1, Boomerang Bob 3/1, and One Track Mind 11/8. Some of you might also have been on previous winning eyecatchers: Aristo du Plessis 5/2 and Buckland Beau 5/1 over the weekend. As we enter 2016, lets hope the winning run can continue! Thanks…

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Race Classifications & What They Mean

Once you understand the system of horse racing classifications in the UK, you will have another weapon in your arsenal in the eternal quest to pick winners. Regardless of whether factors such as distance, course and going are in a horse’s favour, if it is racing in too high a grade, it will simply be outclassed by faster horses. The…

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What Is A Neural Network & How Is It Used In Horse Racing?

The term ‘Neural Network’ can seem a bit daunting if it’s the first time you’ve ever heard it but in reality, it is simply a computerised system that learns which combination of inputs leads to a certain output. This is of course a remarkably simplistic way of describing a neural network but since full explanations tend to come in the…

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Horse Race Ratings… How Many Is Enough

There is no such thing as analysing a horse race without using horse race ratings. Whatever paper or website you open that horse racing information there will be ratings. The reason for that is… In order to assess something we need to make it tangible. Although we think we’re given a lot of information about horse racing, in fact we’re…

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How Are Topspeed Ratings Calculated?

Anyone who has ever attempted to analyse horse racing will know it’s all too easy to get buried beneath a cavalcade of statistical data; and not all of it is useful! Serious punters always look to have an edge on the bookie by creating various systems based on dozens of different racing criteria. As well as the Timeform Ratings, Racing…

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How A Race Horse Improves Its Class

Between National Hunt and Flat races there are a variety of classifications and unless you are an experienced horse racing enthusiast, the sheer number of conditions in each race can be off-putting. However, if you’re prepared to put the time and effort into analysing the ratings of each horse, you’re likely to be rewarded over the course of time. The…

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How To Get Out Of A Hole When Trading On Any Sport

Sports trading basically means the art of ‘backing’ and ‘laying’ betting odds in order to make a profit before the end of an event and more popularly used in horse racing. When you ‘back’ something you are hoping for that event to occur and when you ‘lay’ you are banking on that event NOT happening. For example: You bet £10…

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How Racecourses Are Graded In Horse Racing

How Racecourses Are Graded If you are relatively new to horse racing, all the talk about courses, grades and classes is more than a bit perplexing. For a start, jump races (also known as National Hunt) and flat races have separate ‘grades’ and ‘classes’ but don’t confuse the grade of a ‘race’ with the grade of an actual racecourse. In…

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