horse racing

Trainers With 2 Runners In A Race – The Profitable Angle

Guest post by David Renham from Racing Trends One dilemma that faces punters from time to time is when a trainer runs two or more runners in a race. Do you take the obvious option and back the shortest priced runner? Or do you look for some ‘perceived value’ by backing the outsider of the pair? Whatever you decide I would…

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A Review Of The Reviewers

Today I would like to get your opinions. There are many betting system sellers and there are also many websites who test these systems. It is of course important to have people testing and reviewing the systems but who they are and is their opinion worth listening to? As far as I know there has never been a review of…

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The Truth About Purchased Betting Systems

Some of our loyal readers have got in touch and said that I should write a little bit about betting systems. When they first began to bet they started with systems. A lot of these systems failed and the few that worked then began to fail just a few months later! What is the truth about using purchased betting systems?…

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Automatic Betting

Guest article by Colin Magee from Betwise. I’d been interested in automating the betting process for some time prior to the emergence of the Betfair API and writing Automatic Exchange Betting, but making the process reliable was a challenge.  Betfair’s API created a robust way to programmatically access market data and place bets via the exchange, but there was still…

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Greyhound Tipster – A Betting School Review

Guest post from The Betting School. The Betting School provide reviews and handicapping information for both new and old bettors. I have known their editor Darren for a long time now and have also been writing regularly for them for a number of years. Product Name: Greyhound Tipster Sectional Timing Supplier/Author: Bobby Burns Website: http://www.greyhoundtipster.com Price: Initial 7 day trial…

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The Cheltenham Gold Cup Race Analysis

It seems like a long time ago that I posted an article The Gold Cup Trends but it was only a week ago and now the great race is upon us. The opinion is split on the rivalry between Kauto Star and Denman, whatever happens it is going to be the most exciting race of the season. Is it going…

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Backing Jockeys – A Bookies Benefit?

Guest post by David Renham from Racing Trends This week I am going to look at an area of racing I rarely look into …… multiple betting on jockeys. Most punters out there will appreciate that backing jockeys “blind” is almost always the way to the poor house. To help illustrate my point, below is a table showing the top…

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Making A Profit Automatically

Guest post by Malcolm from GHB Today we have a guest post from Malcolm at GreyHorse Bot. The GreyHorse Bot is software that allows you to automatically find selections or  to choose your own selections manually and have the bot place your bets throughout the day. It is one of the most comprehensive commercially available betting bots that I have seen…

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Systems, Let’s Make A Winning One! – Week 2

It is that time of the week again where we look at the system that we started last week and begin to build on it. In the last post we had two polls that were going to help us to decide whether we wanted to make a back or lay system and what way of analysing the main profit of…

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Using Formula 1 For A No Risk Profit

Gentlemen, start your engines! The start of the Formula 1 race season is soon to be upon us, with the first race taking place in Bahrain on the morning of March 12th. This time of year brings back many, many memories. Black and white footage of early Le Mans races and old Tony Curtis movies – well, at least that…

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Profiting From Trainer Trends In March

Guest post by Dave Renham from PunterProfits Each month I write an article based on past trainer performance over a particular month. I have stated many times before, trainers tend to be creatures of habit and tend to peak / trough at similar times each year. This article is based on National Hunt trainers in the month of March with…

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Profiting From The Champions League

Following from our article last week, the second half of first leg ties in the knockout stage of the Champions League take place next week, with some of the matches appearing fairly predictable and a really “special” one. We look ahead to the games being played on Tuesday and Wednesday and offer betting suggestions. Olympaikos v Bordeaux As we mentioned…

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1000 Points In One Year Of Laying, Is It Possible?

I had an email from a reader after writing the article on ‘How Important Are Recent Finish Positions’ suggesting the possibility of using this as the basis of a lay system. I thought that we would investigate this today using estimated Betfair prices to assess the profitability of the lay bets. In the last article we discovered that when betting…

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