horses

How Many Factors Should I Use When Assessing A Horse Race

It’s very easy to get overloaded with information when looking at horse racing. There are loads of different ways to bet from laying, backing, dutching, trading and more. Then are hundreds of different approaches to finding selections to bet. Even if you decide to read form there are hundreds of different ways to do that as well. Can there possibly…

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Late Season Head Quarters Trio

Newmarket have a number of meetings over the remaining months of the turf flat season. The following three trainers have shown a propensity to take a number of prizes from September onward’s at flat racing’s HQ. First up is Charlie Appleby who has Goldolphin ammunition to fire. Having taken over from disgraced Mahmood al Zarooni, Appleby has targeted the juvenile…

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Weekly Eyecatchers

Not as many winners this week for the notebook but Karaka Jack won the Silver Cambridgeshire on Friday at 14/1. I had him in mind for a race next month at Redcar but this race cut up and it probably was about as competitive as the Redcar one will be. It’s been a long time between drinks for Shootingsta who…

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How To Make A Profit During Changing Seasons

We’re coming into that time when we move from flat to national hunt racing. Twice a year this is considered the time by pretty much everyone in the business to be amongst the hardest to make a profit. The reason? Because the flat horses are finishing up their last runs at the end of the season and the national hunt…

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Lucky 7 Naps Review

Lucky 7 Naps is a tipster service provided by a chap called Michael (not our own Race Advisor, Michael) and is available through Bet Kudos. Here’s the link to the webpage advertising this service Michael claims an average of 50 points profit per week since August 2012. His tips have been proofed by Bet Kudos since Feb 2014 and up…

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Weekly Eyecatchers

Last week was a good week if you’re a follower of the notebook horses: Emjayem, which I put up in last weeks column, won at Yarmouth 3/1, on Friday Fractal won at 5/2. On Saturday there were three winners at Newbury: The Corsican won at 4/1, Steps at 11/4 and then to cap it all What About Carlo won at…

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How To Calculate Going Allowance

I was recently browsing through some of the posts on the Race Advisor and I came across this one. In it I take a look at what exactly a going allowance is and why you would want to use one. It’s a pretty good read if I do say so myself 😉 If you create, or have been thinking of…

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Class Movement… Does It Make A Difference?

Do you think it makes a difference whether a horse is moving up or down in class? Before you read on, place you vote on the poll below. Then continue reading. [socialpoll id=”2292619″] Now that you’ve voted, I won’t know if you haven’t but you really should to see if you were correct in your thinking, it’s time to look…

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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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Information Overload… Where The Hell Do You Begin!

There’s a lot of information about how to make a profit from your betting. Heck, there’s 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… “Thanks for all the help but there is so…

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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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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 ‘eyecatchers’? –…

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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 haven’t 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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Weekly Eyecatchers

On what wasn’t the best of weeks for the column it has to be said. Chill The Kite was the standout performance, when winning at 20/1 at York and even if you had been backing all last weeks tracker horses blindly that win would have given you a healthy profit on the week. I have to say that I gave…

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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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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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Weekly Eyecatchers

Mullionheir 7/1 was a winner for the eyecatchers at Newbury and Farquhar was a good second at the Newmarket also at 7/1. Before I look at this week’s tracker horses, I did mention last week that I had a few more horses “drinking in the last chance saloon” and I would only be looking at them as bets under certain…

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How To Choose Factors That Predict Winners

When you start to analyse a race do you know what factors you should be using? Do you know which are the most important for the race you’re analysing? All races are not made equal. Which means every race is likely to have different factors that are important. If you think about factors you probably can initially only think of…

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