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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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Weekly EyeCatchers – Horse Racing

The Eyecatchers provided us with some nice winners over the festive horse racing period courtesy of Full Shift 6/1, Tea For Two 5/2 and The Last Samuri 13/2 and hopefully some of you will have been on the Gary Moore trained Ar Mad in the big novices chase at Kempton on Sunday. In my review of the Tingle Creek meeting…

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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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Weekly Eyecatchers – Horse Racing

A quiet week on the horse racing winner’s front but for those of you who subscribe to the Eyecatcher Pro software you would have been on Dolphin Village, one my eyecatcher extra’s, who won at 7/2 at Lingfield, 9/2 was available in the morning for those who take early prices. On Friday we had a really excellent 2nd place at…

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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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Weekly Eyecatchers – Horse Racing

A profitable Friday and Saturday for the Eycatchers as Woodford County, won Exeter’s Devon National on Friday at 8/1 and on Saturday Carole’s Destrier won the staying handicap at Sandown at an SP of 5/1, bigger was available early in the day for those who grabbed the early prices. I seem to be doing best in 3m+ handicap chases at…

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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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Weekly Eyecatchers – Horse Racing

After a frustrating run it was good to see Entihaa win at Wolverhampton on Monday. I got on at 4/1 this morning and the value of taking early prices was reinforced as the horse was well backed into 9/4 at the off. As I said in last weeks column he “can win again on his favourite surface” Last weekend we…

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Archive Betting Systems – Horse Racing (AW Investment)

Back in October I wrote the first post using archived betting systems. The idea was that we could take an old betting systems rules for horse racing, see if it worked or not and then discover whether we could make it turn a profit. It proved to be very popular and so in today’s post I thought we would look…

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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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Weekly Eyecatchers – Horse Racing

Not many runners last week but one of my recent eyecatchers Rich Again ran at Wolverhampton on Saturday evening and shaped well again when finishing 4th. The six year old is becoming a very well handicapped horse in horse racing and must be backed next time out in my opinion! Another eyecatcher to run last week was Compton Bird. The…

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Van Der Wilding: A Horse Racing Betting Strategy Part 2

In my last post on the Van Der Wilding method, I looked at how I’ve adjusted the original system to find contenders. The focus of today’s post is how to reduce those contenders into selections using form reading. To do this I’m going to be using the ratings inside the Racing Dossier to analyse this race. Form Reading with Racing…

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Weekly EyeCatchers – Horse Racing

Another three winners from the Eyecatcher horses last week coming courtesy of Izmir, Final Assault and King Massini! Like last week there were a few horses to catch my eye for this week’s article. Here are six that should provide you with some winning opportunities in the coming weeks through horse racing. As ever for those of you with Eyecatcher…

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Do Trainers With Only One Horse At A Meeting Make Profits?

Training a horse is a very expensive process as well as being incredibly hard work. Basic expenses include bedding, feed, stall rent, an exercise rider, supplements and a variety of other equipment. Then there is the small matter of transporting the horse to meetings and paying the jockey. In simple terms, trainers are dependent on purse winnings (and betting winnings)…

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