horse racing
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Sep- 2015 -12 SeptemberAdvice
What Happened To Horse Racing During World War II
My mother called last week to tell me about some possessions of my late Grandfather she had found. Whilst reminiscing about the âgood old daysâ of traveling to Australia and living there for 6 years, being taken to Brighton on seaside jollies on their return and going to the track with her father, my mother exclaimed that sheâd like me…
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8 SeptemberTips
Weekly Eye-catchers
Another couple of winners last week for the eyecatchers with What About Carlo winning at Epsom at 13/2 and Whitman a 11/4 winner at Ripon. I tend to split the Turf Flat season into three sections: Spring horses (March to May). Summer horses (June to August) and the autumn horses (September & October). I do something similar for the National…
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7 SeptemberAdvice
Information Overload⊠Where The Hell Do You Begin!
Thereâs a lot of information about how to make a profit from your betting. Heck, thereâs thousands of articles on the Race Advisor alone and hundreds of them contain different strategies. A few weeks ago I wrote up a strategy that we use and I was left a very pertinent comment⊠âThanks for all the help but there is so…
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4 SeptemberReviews
Nap Investor Review
Nap Investor is a tipster service provided by Nathan Price and is available through the Winning Information Network. Here’s the link to the webpage advertising this service There’s no need for me to repeat too much from the sales page, but briefly, Nathan is “an experienced racing fan who has been working with a network of other racing professionals to…
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1 SeptemberTips
Weekly Eyecatchers
Eccleston was a well backed winner at 5/1 at Thirsk for the column last week on what was a fairly quiet week for the Eyecatchers. I am going to start by answering a couple of popular questions that I have been sent in recently by readers: 1. Do you have a view on how best to utilise your âeyecatchersâ? –…
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Aug- 2015 -31 AugustAdvice
Testing Your Factors To Find The Best (in the same way as the pros)
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about how to choose factors that predict winners. If you havenât had a chance to read that then you can here. One of the ways that you can determine the most important factors to use for a set of race conditions is by using a chi score. The question is⊠How…
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24 AugustAdvice
Where The Heck Do I Start To Be A Profitable Bettor?!
It was a comment on a recent blog post that has inspired today’s post. There are many strategy based articles amongst the couple of thousands published here on the Race Advisor and his question was⊠Where do I start? There are so many possible avenues, things to investigate and different ways to approach your betting then it can be very…
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19 AugustAdvice
York Meeting Trainer Stats
The Ebor Festival is a four-day race meeting held at York, each August. The 2015 Ebor Festival is due to take place from Wednesday 19th to Saturday 22nd August. Each of the four days has big races: Wednesday feature race the Group 1 Juddmonte International over 1m 2f, and is considered by some the best race in the world and in 2012 was won…
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11 AugustTips
Weekly Eyecatchers
Another couple of winners came out of the notebook last week from only a handful of runners Bop It 4/1 at Haydock and Sharp Sailor 4/1 at Newmarket on Saturday, there was plenty of 7/1 available on Saturday morning about the latter. Once again it showed the importance of taking early prices about these horses if you are backing them.…
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10 AugustAdvice
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 youâre 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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4 AugustTips
Weekly Eyecatchers
A couple of nice winners last week at Goodwood in Mount Logan 8/1, So Beloved 10/1 the latter being backed in from much bigger odds in the morning and Baraweez at Galway on Sunday. I have been asked do I back my tracker horses blind or do I set out some qualifying criteria? The simple answer is yes but with…
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3 AugustAdvice
Look For The Worst And Make More Profit
All of us want to pick winners in the best races. Thereâs no greater feeling than having your pick in the Grand National come storming and taking the race. Itâs an awesome feeling. But the truth is these races are horse racing at itâs hardest! Think about it. The best trainers in the world want their horses to run in…
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Jul- 2015 -28 JulyTips
Glorious Goodwood Festival Trainer Pointers
The end of July and the beginning of August see two of the seasonâs great racing festivals at âGlorious Goodwoodâ and over the Irish Sea at Galway. The âGloriousâ comes off the festival name this year with the start of a ten year sponsorship of the meeting by Qatar whose sponsorship is the biggest single deal in British horse…
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27 JulyAdvice
The Top Ten Posts of 2015
There are thousands of articles on the Race Advisor, and that means it can be quite easy to miss some of them. So today⊠I thought I would share with you the top ten most popular posts of 2015 so far. 1. Finding Winners From The Daily Stat Pack – This does what it says on the tin⊠how to…
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27 JulyTips
Galway Festival Trainer Pointers
The Irish do like their summer racing festivals and the Galway Festival is clearly the biggest of the lot. There are 7 days of racing both on the flat and over jumps. Some intrepid punters go for the whole seven days which is some achievement given the amount of Guinness that will be drunk both during the races and after…
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20 JulyStrategies
How To Find Selections With No-Form Reading In Less Than 2 Minutes
Thereâs no doubt about it, form reading can be tough. Not only can it be tough, but it can also take quite a bit of time. Imagine if there was a way to find selections with no form reading. And you could do it in less than two minutes. Well there is, although I would still recommend you take these…
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18 JulyAdvice
Saturday Preview
Some days racing really stand out although we have probably been spoilt over the last few weeks with the classy races on offer, however today it seems a little bit like a non-event in comparison to me although thatâs not to say that there is not a bet or two to be had! If you read my posts (and I…
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14 JulyAdvice
Weekly Eyecatchers
More winners flowed out of the notebook last week with Bashiba winning at Doncaster on Thursday at 9/2 and Kimberella winning ay York on Friday at 7/1, there was plenty of 10s around in the morning for that one and I got on at 11/1. There was so much quality racing around from last Thursday that itâs been difficult to…
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13 JulyAdvice
How To Laser Target Winners
Iâm going to be honest, the subject of today’s post is forefront in my mind because Iâve been developing a tool to make one of the strategies I use a lot easier. I think of it as pattern finding, but patterns may not even be the right word. Iâll leave you to let me know what you think the right…
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11 JulyTips
July Festival – Day Three Preview
Like a child at Christmas I have been up since 3.00 this morning studying and analysing the form of todayâs racing and what a day we have with big field handicaps at Newmarket, York and Ascot which are manna from heaven for me! I know you will probably think that I am really sad getting up at this ungodly hour…
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