Cheltenham Gold Cup 2012

It is the last day of the Cheltenham Festival. On the blog we have been analysing the major race each day and it has been a good year for the Race Advisor. I hope that we can finish the festival with some good profits in the biggest race of the festival, the Gold Cup! There are 15 runners taking part…

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Can Big Bucks Do It

The big discussion today is whether Big Bucks can win this race! So far we have managed to find a profit every single day of the festival, let’s hope that we can do it again today. As always we want to narrow down the field to begin with and I am going to be using all the features available to…

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Queen Mother Champion Chase 2012 Review

With the major race today having eight runners we are in a position to be able to take a bit longer looking at all the potential contenders for our bet. Yesterday we managed to find the winner of the major race and made a nice profit, hopefully we can do the same today! I am going to start the analysis…

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Cheltenham Festival – Champion Hurdle Challenge Trophy

Every day during Cheltenham I am going to be doing an analysis of the biggest race of the day. As we all know, picking the winner in these high class events is very difficult due to the overall standard of runners, but we are going to do our best to make you a profit during the festival. The first step…

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Using Different Ratings Is Good!

Following on from last weeks article, I thought we could continue down the path of ratings. Specifically why we shouldn’t use the same rating in all races! It is very easy to get used to using just a single rating for all the races that you look at. In fact, the way the major online racing sites such as the…

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Sandown Reviewed

Today there is a lot of poor racing but I thought, since there were so many races taking place, that I would do a review of all the races at Sandown. That being said, I am going to be using the RA members features to do the analysis and will jump straight in with the 2.20! 2.20 – Annington Amateur…

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Why Top Rated Is Not Necessarily Best

It is human nature to think that the top rated is the best. Usually the top rated is the largest numerical figure. In horse racing different horses may be top rated in different factors. This would indicate that different horses have strengths in different areas, a logical assumption. However as soon as you begin to look at ratings from a…

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Using Recent Form To Select Bets

Guest post written by Ricky Dowling Using the long term stats and history of a team is a great way of selecting bets, it provides insight into a teams abilities, strengths and weaknesses over time within a given tournament.  This approach can however be a time consuming task and many people like to go with their gut instinct, using their…

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Winning Races Or Winning Bets, Which Is Important?

More often than not you will find punters discussing how many winning bets they have found. Sales pages for betting systems state how many winning bets their systems or selections have found. But if you talk to professionals they almost never talk about winning bets! Could this be coincidence? Or because pro bettors are no longer in how many winning…

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Betting Less Than £2 On Betfair

Sometimes when you are testing selections either from a tipster or from your own system you may want to test them on very low stakes before increasing your bankroll and betting bigger. The minimum bet on Betfair is £2 which is not always low enough. However it is possible to bet below £2 on Betfair and I am going to…

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Betfair Ascot Chase Preview

Today at 3pm the Betfair Ascot Chase race takes place. At the Race Advisor this comes under our Big Race Trends and we have all the trends shown for the last 10 years. If you aren’t yet a member of the Race Advisor then you can join here. It has been a little while since I did a race preview…

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Calculating Lay Bet Return On Investment

It is important to know your return on investment (ROI), but when it comes to lay bets you must make sure that you calculate it properly. When calculating ROI you usually add to together all your bets and divide the amount of profit you have made by the amount you have bet. Unfortunately this does not work for lay bets…

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PIV is better than Impact Value

In my last post I talked about how you can use impact value to analyse the strength of pretty much any factor, rating or selections in any sport. Today I want to share with you an even more powerful way of doing this. It is called Pool Impact Value or A/E. I personally prefer Pool Impact Value, a term made…

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Why You Should Use Impact Values

If you are a regular at the Race Advisor or other betting forums then you may have heard of the term impact value before. It is unknown amongst the majority of the betting public and often its value is not understood. However for those who understand the power of impact values a complete knew way of analysing factors in sports…

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Do Trends Work?

It is not unusual to want to analyse the trends of previous races before a big race. Finding trends involve looking at the same race over the past 10 years or more to determine what type of horse wins the race. In fact it is a simpler form of something that is known as profiling. You can profile both horses…

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Home Advantage In English Football

Guest post written by Ricky Dowling We have now passed the half way point of the 2011/2012 English season which provides a nice opportunity to compare the season so far with last season in terms of the percentage of games won by home teams, and look at how some teams are performing in their own right. You would generally expect…

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Why Betting More Than One Horse In A Race Is Good

It is a common mistake to want to bet a single horse in each race. If you honestly only think that one horse can win the race then by all means bet a single horse. However how often do you think that there is only one horse with any possibility of winning the race? I would bet that it is…

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Why You Shouldn’t Listen To Racing Presenters

I was at a party the other night and was chatting with someone who is not only a profitable bettor but also has a love of the sport of horse racing. This love of the sport has lead him into contact with a some of the TV personalities that we see presenting on channels such as Racing UK. Not only…

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Backwards Handicapping

Happy New Year! I hope that you had a good New Years eve party and you enjoyed the racing on New Years day. Today I thought I would take a bit of different approach and look at a finding a selection in a race based on some unique features inside the Race Advisor members area. The race we are going…

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