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Feb- 2017 -28 FebruaryAdvice
Weekly Eye-catchers – Horse Racing
Morning all, As I write this it’s just 15 days to the start of the Cheltenham Festival and four of the best days horse racing you will see either flat or jumps in anywhere in the world. I am sure like me you have started your form study for Cheltenham and mines coming along well and I have managed to…
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21 FebruaryAdvice
Weekly Eye-catchers – Horse Racing
Morning all, This week’s and next week’s column are slightly different to normal as I will be taking a few days of this week and next week I will be doing an in-depth analysis of the Cheltenham Festival which is now just three weeks away. Where has this winter jumps season gone? In this week’s column looking at horse racing…
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20 FebruaryAdvice
The Tortoise and the Hare
One of the most famous Aesop’s fable is the Tortoise and the Hare. It tells the story of a race between a tortoise and a hare. The hare mocks and ridicules the tortoise for moving so slowly. Comfortable in the knowledge that he will win, the hare soon leaves the tortoise behind and is so far ahead he decides to…
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16 FebruaryAdvice
Horses After A Layoff, Profitable Or Not?
“I find that horses having their first start after a layoff are worth opposing because most winners are those which raced recently therefore to accept short odds about horses who are statistically less likely to win is madness.” That was a comment left on this post by Bob the other day. This is a great comment, and I thought it…
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13 FebruaryAdvice
Confirming Your Selection For Today
Do you ever find a horse you like and then worry about whether it’s strong enough to warrant a bet? If you’re anything like me, this happens to you on almost a daily basis. In horse racing, we need to confirm your decisions. For example, today’s Free Guest Tip comes from Yard Info, and the selection is: 14:30 Plumpton –…
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7 FebruaryAdvice
Dark Horses
One of the best ways to find winners is to track horses. You used to be able to purchase a ‘dark horses’ book once a year, it’s pages contained the horses which had been tracked over the last year and were worthy of following in the coming year. At the Race Advisor, we call these horses ‘EyeCatchers’ because they’ve caught…
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7 FebruaryAdvice
Weekly Eye-Catchers – Horse Racing
Good morning all, In this week’s column looking at horse racing eyecatchers, you will find the following: • My performances of the weekend; • Last week’s horses for your tracker; • A look ahead to Saturday’s big handicap the Betfair Hurdle at Newbury and a 16/1 shot that can go well for his small stable. With Monday’s news that Faugheen…
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6 FebruaryAdvice
Inside Racing Data (what you’d never expect!)
Back in 2010, I wrote a series of articles about how to build your own racing database. It was pointed out to me recently, that I’d forgotten to finish it with part four. Part four is about where you should get your racing data from. But the chances are, you haven’t read the first three parts, so this is where you can…
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3 FebruaryAdvice
This is making me kinda nervous!
I’ve been asked if I will speak at a small betting event in March. After a lot of thought, I decided to say yes. If you’d like to pop along, I’ll let you know when the tickets become available. For this talk, I’m going to be giving an overview of betting, and how to become successful at it. Obviously, my…
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Jan- 2017 -31 JanuaryAdvice
Weekly Eye-catchers – Horse Racing
Hi all, This week’s column you will find the following: • The best performances from the weekend’s horse racing; • The third part of my Cheltenham Festival Briefing, looking at the Albert Bartlett Novice Hurdle picture; • My Cheltenham Festival ante-post betting portfolio; • This week’s horses for your notebooks. • The horse that I think is handicapped to go…
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27 JanuaryAdvice
The forecast is…
…that the weather is going to be milder tomorrow at Cheltenham. Which is exactly the news we wanted to hear because tomorrow is… Cheltenham Trials Day This is the last day of racing to prepare horses for the big event at the Cheltenham Festival. And, to celebrate it, we’ve got our festival specialist to analyse all the races, and provide…
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25 JanuaryAdvice
This could be your golden ticket
As I was walking the dog at 6.30am this morning, I was considering the various things I could write about in the daily newsletter. I had a bunch of ideas, but a conversation with a friend yesterday had me thinking about trainers. Personally, I don’t use trainers much in my analysis, but I know a lot of people who do.…
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24 JanuaryAdvice
Weekly Eye-catchers – Horse Racing
This week’s column contains the following: • The best equine and human performances from the weekend’s horse racing; • The second part of my Cheltenham Festival Briefing, looking at the Neptune Novice Hurdle picture, with a 20/1 shot looking a bit of each way value; • A brief look ahead to Thursday’s Thyestes Handicap Chase at Gowran Park and some…
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23 JanuaryAdvice
The Notes That Made ÂŁ23,657
“There are many ways to skin a cat.” A phrase that, as far as anybody knows, was coined by Seba Smith in 1884. It’s also a phrase that’s truer for horse racing, than almost anything else. There is no right way or wrong way. As long as you make a long-term profit, whatever way you choose to take is perfect…
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19 JanuaryAdvice
All Weather Favourites (the inside track!)
2016 was an interesting year for favourites on the All Weather. During last year, they only made a small loss of -1.20% (to Betfair SP after commission), while winning 32.83% of their races. Betting them to place would have generated an even smaller loss of -0.38%, and given you 62.80% winning bets. While we know, from having previously tried, it…
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18 JanuaryNews
Crowd control to Major Ben
It’s been a while since I shared the free tip we post on the blog every day with you via email. Each day, one of the services we proof provides us with one of their tips to give you for free! You can see them at: http://www.raceadvisor.co.uk/category/horse-racing-tips/ Today’s selection comes from Early Odds. This is a service that’s made +58.45…
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17 JanuaryAdvice
Boom… You just hit a bullseye!
“Lo Michael, Have you ever looked into: Distance WON by. Distance behind winner (irrespective of its official position) ie a horse could finish 6th or 7th and only be 1-1/2 lengths behind the winner; as opposed to a horse finishing 3rd beaten 5 Lengths. Only considering “like for like races in the above”” Tom left this comment on the blog…
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17 JanuaryAdvice
Weekly Eye-catchers – Horse Racing
Arthur Races into National Picture at Warwick There was some good horse racing last Saturday, with the highlight for me being the win of the Lucinda Russell-trained One For Arthur in the Betfred Classic Handicap Chase at Warwick. The race over 3m 5f is a definite test of stamina but even more so when the ground is as soft as…
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16 January
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16 JanuaryAdvice
Weekly Eye-catchers – Horse Racing
Last week I mentioned that I would be beginning a series examining the state of the ante-post market for the main non-handicap races at the Cheltenham Festival. Well, today I will be taking a look at the Skybet Supreme Novices Hurdle which gets the meeting underway on Tuesday. But first, let’s start by looking back at last week horse racing…
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