horse racing
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Jul- 2010 -16 July
The Psychology of Gambling – Myth 3
I have already looked at two common myths in gambling, that it is possible to turn ÂŁ10 into ÂŁ1000’s and that bookmakers use inside information so you can’t beat them. Today I am going to look at another myth: The favourite has the best chance of winning so my best chance of profit is by betting the favourite This could…
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12 July
The 5% Pro Cumulative Staking Plan – Ignoring this WILL cost you!
Guest post written by Peter Sackville There is much advice from many sources on a daily basis when it comes to horse selections and those that are given out as tips. Consider however that a professional staking plan is what separates most punters from success. Using the right staking plan can help to turn a hobby in to a second…
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9 July
Finding Favourites Quickly and Easily
Guest strategy written by Glen This strategy is designed to find the favourites that win. Using your daily paper you look to find how the favourite has performed over the past 6 running’s of that race. You are looking for races that have a clear bias for the favourite. An example would be if you had two races, one with…
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7 July
Computer Betting Systems – Friend or Foe?
Guest post written by Paul Micelli Sports betting has been a consistent marketplace for individuals with a trained eye for easy profits. Somewhat surprisingly, many of those who make the largest sums of money rarely place bets or wagers of their own. In fact, the market is currently jammed with former jockey, trainers, sport stars and pundits who promise untold…
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Jun- 2010 -30 June
Can Formula 1 be profitable?
Motor racing actually presents a multitude of different betting possibilities. Enthusiasts in the United Kingdom will be more familiar with the world of Formula One and increased public interest in the sport owes much to the recent successes of British drivers Jenson Button, the reigning Formula One World Champion, and Lewis Hamilton, who secured the title in 2008. In terms…
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25 June
The Psychology of Gambling – Myth 2
Myth 2 – Bookmakers use inside information to calculate their betting odds and you can’t beat them. This is a very common miss-conception and today I would like to try and prove to you why it is not true. To do this I am going to begin at the end (so to speak). You can clearly beat a bookmaker. In…
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16 June
Creating a Racing Database – Getting The Data
This is the fourth part in the series where we have been looking at creating your own racing database. If you haven’t read the first three parts then you can do so using the links below. Creating a Racing Database Part 1 Creating a Racing Database Part 2 Creating a Racing Database Part 3 In today’s post we are going…
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9 June
Long Distance Travellers – Do They Make Money?
Guest post by David Renham from Racing Trends Each day the Racing Post and most daily newspapers highlight horses that have travelled a long distance to race. Why are these horses noted each day? The reasoning behind it is almost certainly this – if a trainer and/or owner are keen to travel a long way to race their horse(s) then the…
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9 June
Guide To Profitable Dutching
I believe that value is the most important part of betting. As I am sure you have heard many times, you can select as many winners as you want but if you aren’t getting good value in the odds then you will still lose money. I have been looking at new ways of getting good value in the odds and…
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8 June
What do the Racing Post Ability Ratings mean?
A number of weeks ago a reader asked me what the ability ratings that are available to Racing Post members actually mean. These are usually in the form of one, two or three ticks. As so often seems to be the case with the Racing Post, when you actually try and find information on how they make their ratings through…
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1 June
Creating a Database for Racing – Part 3
There has been a little bit of a break since I finished writing part one and part two of how to create a database for racing. Carrying on from where we left off puts us at the stage of designing the table layouts. A database is made of different tables and each table contains data. For example a Trainer table…
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May- 2010 -21 MayAdvice
How To Use A Horse’s Draw To Profit
Earlier this week I wrote a review of Nick Mordin’s Winning Without Thinking. While I was re-reading the book to write the review there was a section on betting the draw and a strategy that he used. I thought that it would be a good idea to re-analyse this strategy and look at how we might be able to use…
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18 May
Winning Without Thinking – Book Review
Winning Without Thinking is one of Nick Mordin’s books and is designed as a guide to betting systems. It was a book I read very early on when I first started to take my betting seriously. With 21 chapters and just over 300 pages there is certainly a lot of information to take in. Nick Mordin has a very nice…
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13 May
The Betfair Winning Greyhound System
Guest article written by Paul Micelli While many sports betting enthusiasts continue to make a respectable profit from laying horses, the world of greyhound racing continues to be clouded by uncertainty and inexperience. The utilisation of successful horse racing systems have worked for many years on the UK’s main betting exchanges but can profits actually be gleaned from greyhound racing…
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5 May
Profitable Trainers In May
Guest post by David Renham from Racing Trends This month I am looking at trainer performance in May on the flat. Trainers tend to be creatures of habit and tend to peak / trough at similar times each year. This article is based on Flat trainers in the month of May with data taken from 2004 to 2009. May sees the…
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4 May
Outright Tennis Betting – The Winning Strategy (Part Three – Understanding Form)
Guest article written by Paul Micelli Last week we started to look at a winning strategy for betting on tennis. The first part was an introduction into how we were going to find winners and the second part looked at the draw. The third part of the Outright Tennis Betting Winning Strategy takes a look at the one major influencing…
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3 May
Building Your Own Racing Database – Part 2
Last week we started looking at the process of building your own horse racing database. While I am focussing on horse racing, this guide could be easily modified to help you build any kind of sports betting database. By now you will have decided exactly how you want to use your database and what information you will need to extract…
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Apr- 2010 -30 AprilAdvice
Is This Race Better For The Backer Or The Layer?
Which races are better for the backer or layer is a question that I have been asked many times. It is time that we start to de-mystify this question and look at some of the statistical facts behind which race types may provide better opportunities for the backer and the layer. I have limited the horses that I am looking…
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27 April
Building Your Own Racing Database – Part 1
I have had a lot of requests from readers who are interested in building their own database and are not sure how to go about it. In response to these requests I am going to write a series of articles outlining the process that I used to design and build my database. This is by no means the best way…
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19 April
The Monthly Book Review – Braddock’s Complete Guide
This is going to be a new feature at the Race Advisor. I have an arsenal of racing literature, some excellent and some not so good. There is always more to read and as you may have guessed I like to read as much as I can. If I can get even the beginning of an idea from a book…
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