Strategies
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Discover How A Horses AW Form Can Be Used On Turf
I believe that one of the best recent advances in horse racing is the increase in all-weather tracks that can be used year-round. Not only does it provide more racing, but it also provides a consistent surface that can be analysed on all year round. But, there is always the same question: “Can I use all-weather form on turf racing?”…
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How Often Do Odds-On Horses Lose?
I was asked this question recently: “How often do odds-on horses lose, and how much?” And I thought, what better way than to investigate! So, I got all the data from 2013 for odds-on horses and began to dig in. There were 2054 runners who had an SP of less than 2.00, and 1208 of these won. That gives odds-on…
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Using Betting Systems As A Shortlist
There are two inherent truths in betting systems and these are: They produce a low ROI They have generic rules In fact these are only true for betting systems built using the standard approach, which I like to call the IF AND OR approach. IF number of runners is less than twelve AND the race type is all weather AND…
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Selections For Exotic Bets – Part Two
In part one we covered the selection process, and went into understanding the concept, for pool betting. In part two, today, due to a number of requests I’m going to cover one of my favourite bets… The PlacePot If you missed Part One then you can read that here – http://www.raceadvisor.co.uk/selection-of-exotic-bets-part-one/ The placepot is a bet where the first six races of a…
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How To Find Winners In An Hour A Day
There are many bettors who simply don’t have the time to bet. It’s a hobby, an enjoyable past time that can also generate some extra income. Sometimes the goal may be to become full time but in a lot of situations this isn’t the case. It’s the pleasure of horse racing and making profits from a pastime that keeps the interest rather than the desire to…
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How To Use The Racing Post Race Predictor
[box type=”note” align=”aligncenter” class=”” width=””]IMPORTANT NOTE: The Racing Post have removed the functionality of adjusting the settings. However, thank you to Greg, who has shared that if you go to https://www.punters.com.au/ choose Form Guide and select a race, on the left-hand menu is a Predictor where you can change the settings.[/box] Today I want to look at a tool that…
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A Method For Using Van Der Wheil
Please click play on the video above to begin watching. You can get access to the VDW ratings inside the Racing Dossier software. If you have any comments or questions, please leave them below.
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Selection Of Exotic Bets – Part One
EXOTIC bets can be an attractive proposition for punters as they can offer some big payouts for small stakes but can they really be made profitable? Absolutely they can and this article is here to help you understand the nature of the bet and hopefully how you can extrapolate some value from them. First and foremost then the reason I…
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The Van Der Wheil Method
In a recent post I discussed the use of the VDW (Van Der Wheil) ratings that are included in the Racing Dossier software. This was a very popular approach in the 1980’s and has a cult following. It seems to be a marmite relationship, you either love the principles and use of the VDW ratings and method or you hate…
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The Each-Way Betfair Arming Strategy
Today I wanted to write about a strategy that will make a nice addition to your portfolio. In order to use this strategy you have to be available during the day to place your bets. This strategy will always work because it relies on the fact that bookmakers have to use 1/4 or 1/5 of the win odds for the place part of…
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Horses For Courses (The Strategy Cracked Open)
Horses for courses is a phrase that I’m sure you’ve heard of before. It’s a well known phrase amongst horse racing bettors which indicates that some horses prefer certain courses and when they’re on a course they like they’re going to win (probably). In todays post I want to look into whether this is true. Personally, if there is a preference, I…
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All Weather Racing Statistics For 2014
Back in 2010 I wrote this post about All Weather Racing statistics. I’ve had a number of requests to update it and so, I thought that I would do this today. To do this I’m going to use data from 2013 and then I’ll test it on the data currently available from 2014. In 2013 there was All Weather racing at Dundalk, Kempton, Lingfield,…
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How To Get Started With ÂŁ2 Bets
A couple of weeks ago I received an email that really struck a chord with me. It was asking about how to get started using just ÂŁ2 stakes. We’ve all started placing the lowest stakes that Betfair will allow, but very seldom does anybody write about how to do it. And I’m equally as guilty as everyone else. You see we all talk…
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Early Birds And First Shows Strategy
As I’m sure you’re aware a bookmaker makes his profit by adjusting odds and making sure that the whole book is covered by an over-round. This over-round secures his long term profit. In today’s article I’ll explain how this works, and show you a trick you can use that will allow you to secure small margins in your favour. Let’s…
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A Method For The Monte Carlo Manifest
At the end of 2013 I made the Monte Carlo Manifest as a gift to you for reading my blog. If you haven’t had a chance to download it yet, then you can grab it here. The name of this software is the key to what it does. It uses a technique known as a monte carlo simulation to determine…
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Picking A Winner From Watching Races
There are several well known people that find their winners by watching replays of races, and two in particular are very successful using it. These two are  Pricewise and Patrick Veitch. Both use replays to fine tune their selection process and go about selecting their wagers. It’s a very diverse method, and extremely subjective, but to get a true angle…
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The Secret To Winning 70% Of Your Bets
I was sent a question recently about how often odds-on horses lose, and how much money they lose. When you bet odds-on you’re getting a very small return on investment if the horse wins, but… the idea is that they win very often! Here at the Race Advisor we don’t want to guess, we dig into the statistics to find…
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Finding Winners In Handicap Racing
In today’s ever evolving technological environment, the letters “www” are better known as the world wide web and quite rightly so. So, when going through one of my many notepads that include tissues, horses to follow and possible betting strategies, I often see the letters www next to a horses name. It’s not that they’re part of this massively growing…
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The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Regular readers of the Race Advisor will know that I spend a lot of time talking about specialisation. I’m a firm believer that if you want to see profits quickly, then you need to specialise. Finding a profit from horse racing is like a finding a solution to a very complex puzzle. The first thing we want to do when…
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The Top Ten Betting Strategies
We’ve got a lot of posts on the Race Advisor and included in them are numerous betting strategies and angles. However with nearly 500 articles it can be quite hard to find them. And so today, I’ve decided to put together a list of the top ten betting strategies/angles based on the number of views that they’ve had. So without…
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