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Portfolio Corner

As we enter June, the flat turf season kicks in to overdrive with a host of big meetings and festivals following one after the other. When I first started to plan this article I was intent on providing stats and trends for the Epsom Derby and Oaks meeting but looking through my portfolio I have very little to offer that…

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Weekly Eyecatcher Report

Weekly Eyecatcher’s Report It was Guineas weekend in Ireland and Gleneagles proved he is the best three year old mile colt in the UK & Ireland when he won the Irish 2000 Guineas. The more interesting of the two classics was the fillies’ version which I think was a cracking race and will prove to be very solid form. It…

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Why You Are The Most Important Part Of Being A Successful Bettor

As a group of people, bettors spend far too long trying to find the next best thing. We’re always on the hunt for the dream. The dream where you can sit back and do very little work, place bets and make very big profits. It’s a dream that is very tempting. But it’s also a dream that is never going…

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Saturday Preview

A usual Saturday’s fare with a feast of top class racing today at Haydock, Newmarket and York including the Royal Ascot bound Limato who puts his 100% record on the line in the Sandy Lane Stakes at the Merseyside track this afternoon. You can be nothing but be impressed with the way that this Henry Candy trained 3 year old…

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How To Keep Bookmakers Accounts Open

I’ve been asked quiet a few times in the last two weeks by our readers how is the best way to avoid closures by bookmakers and about shifting their betting over to Betfair. In all honesty although I’ve had many accounts closed I wish I’d known what I know now in order for this to never of happened. Of course…

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Turn Your Power Ratings Into Odds Lines

A few weeks ago I wrote this post about how to make your own power ratings using a slightly different approach. At the end I promised that I would write another article following on that showed you how to get from what you finished with in that post to your oddslines. And that’s what I’m going to do today. If…

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Saturday Preview

I am not a great fan of the early part of the flat season as I like to see the form settle down a bit with horses having a run or two under their belts and the results having a more reliable look about them. The Epsom Derby meeting is my usual indicator that the season has moved in to…

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Saturday’s Preview – Two To Side With Today

“Could do better” is my take on my system selections on the flat recently so I have spent a few hours this week analysing and tweaking the criteria and scoring data slightly so to hopefully show some improvement on the current selections and returns. Although results are by no means a disaster I have now introduced a new race rating…

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The Dante Stakes – A Preview

The Dante Stakes is a Group 2 which is run over a distance of 1m 2f 88yds and has been traditionally seen as a key trial for the Epsom Derby. The race is named after Dante who was the last Northern trained horse to win the Derby way back in 1945. The race was first run in 1958 and since…

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Portfolio Corner – A Trainer To Follow Right Now

Welcome to ‘Portfolio Corner’ I have been betting horses and sports for a living for a good few years now and my bets are based around systems, profiles, trends and stats. I have over 250 systems. I know that may appear a lot to some, but many are based around individual trainers and operate for perhaps one or two months…

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Finding The Three Best Horses Using PIV’s

I’ve been writing a fair bit about impact, and pool impact, values recently. Last week, on my blog post about creating power ratings, Michael asked me how to go about finding the best three horses using PIV’s (pool impact values), otherwise known as a/e ratios. If you’d like to learn how to make PIV’s then you should check out this…

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Totescoop6 Victoria Cup

What a disaster last week was with my selection Ol Man River running no sort of race and finishing a long way tailed off last, there was something clearly amiss with him! To add insult to injury my top rated horse Gleneagles which didn’t meet my price criteria and was therefore overlooked won like a very good animal indeed and…

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The Dante Festival: Three Days of Top Springtime Racing in York

If you’re looking for a way to usher in springtime and warm weather racing, head to York in May for the Dante Festival, where top trainers, jockeys and horses will gather for race results that set the tone for the rest of the season. The three-day festival, held May 13-15 in 2015 will feature exciting sprint and staying flat races,…

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Power Ratings, A Different Approach

Following my article about working out the minimum odds you should bet at last week there were a lot of requests for a follow up about how to calculate power ratings. The truth is, there are loads of ways to calculate power ratings ranging from overly simplistic to overly complex. Which is the best? Well, to be honest… none. At…

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How To Make A Power Rating

There’s no doubt that ratings are a great way for you to analyse a race. In fact, they’re probably one of the best ways. But I’m a self-admitted ratings fanatic! So with the admission that I love ratings. The question is… is there anything better than a rating? And the answer is yes. A power rating Power ratings are combinations…

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BET 365 GOLD CUP SANDOWN 3.50

My first Saturday writing for the Race Advisor team and I have been given a real teaser as my opening gambit the Bet 365 Gold Cup over nearly three and three quarter miles of the tough but fair Sandown course. You need to get every yard of this trip as having been to the Esher venue on many occasions I…

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Work Out The Minimum Odds You Should Take In Less Than 5 Minutes

Recently I’ve been reading through some old betting magazines. And it was during one of these forays into a magazine that I read Alan Coldricks article on how to convert ratings into odds. It’s very difficult to determine whether a horse is offering value odds, even if you are using a reliable set of ratings. There are a variety of…

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Lookout for Buffalo in Scottish Grand National

It’s onto Scotland for their Grand National this weekend where I believe David Pipe’s Broadway Buffalo has a cracking chance of winning! David’s father Martin won the race back in 2002 with Take Control under Ruby Walsh so it’s been a while since the Pipe team landed this big prize. Broadway Buffalo ran an amazing race (I don’t use that…

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Lieutenant Can Finish First!

It’s Grand National Day and what an exciting race to enjoy. If you cannot get “revved up” for this race where luck plays as big a part as your handicap mark then ask your doctor to check if there is any blood running through your veins.  As there are 40 runners we will take the unusual step of selecting 3…

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Staying Races – How You Can Come Out a Winner

While a lot of hoopla gets made over the U.Ks and Australia’s Thoroughbred turf sprints, it’s still the staying races like the Melbourne Cup that offer the top purses and bring in the biggest crowds. Staying races can be just as exciting as sprints in different ways. Whether the winner goes wire-to-wire or closes in the stretch from behind, a…

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