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Weekly Eye-Catchers – Horse Racing

It’s always nice when a plan comes together in horse racing and it did on Saturday with the rescheduled Coral Welsh Grand National. Hopefully you were on one of my eye-catchers in the shape of Mountainous. This is what I had written about Kerry Lee’s trained runner in a previous column: “Is well handicapped on his best form. Fair reappearance…

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Weekly Eyecatchers

For those of you have subscribed to the Eyecatcher Pro tool you would have been delighted with a big winner at York as Shared Equity deservedly got his head in front, having run so consistently this summer. A 7/1 SP isn’t to be sniffed at but hopefully you were on at 20/1 that was available in the morning with a…

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The Simple Guide To Making Profits From Racing

The fastest way to become a profitable bettor is to use common sense. Something about horse racing and sports betting makes most people lose all their ability to see clearly. Most people. If you’re reading this post then that already means you are not most people because those guys are in betting shops throwing their money away on a lucky…

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Look For The Worst And Make More Profit

All of us want to pick winners in the best races. There’s no greater feeling than having your pick in the Grand National come storming and taking the race. It’s an awesome feeling. But the truth is these races are horse racing at it’s hardest! Think about it. The best trainers in the world want their horses to run in…

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BET 365 GOLD CUP SANDOWN 3.50

My first Saturday writing for the Race Advisor team and I have been given a real teaser as my opening gambit the Bet 365 Gold Cup over nearly three and three quarter miles of the tough but fair Sandown course. You need to get every yard of this trip as having been to the Esher venue on many occasions I…

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Lookout for Buffalo in Scottish Grand National

It’s onto Scotland for their Grand National this weekend where I believe David Pipe’s Broadway Buffalo has a cracking chance of winning! David’s father Martin won the race back in 2002 with Take Control under Ruby Walsh so it’s been a while since the Pipe team landed this big prize. Broadway Buffalo ran an amazing race (I don’t use that…

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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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