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Apr- 2010 -12 April
The Changing Seasons
The title of this article doesn’t refer to the change from winter to spring but rather the change from the National Hunt season to the Flat season. This happens around April every year and means a turbulent time for people who use form as a guide for their selections. I always think that the change over effect actually starts in…
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9 April
The Grand National Race Analysis
It doesn’t seem long ago that I was looking at an analysis of the Gold Cup. Like the Gold Cup analysing the Grand National is a very hard task as all of the runners are of a high quality. Earlier this week I looked at a few of the trends of the Grand National. When I opened the race card…
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8 April
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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5 April
Past Statistics Of The Grand National
A few weeks ago it was the Cheltenham Gold Cup and now it is the John Smiths Grand National. What an exciting week ahead! As with the Cheltenham Gold Cup I am going to look at some past statistics today and then will publish an article on Friday reviewing the big race at 4.15pm on Saturday in detail. There is…
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2 AprilAdvice
POWER HORSE RACING RATINGS: Winning With Your Own In 5 Simple Steps
I first wrote this blog post nearly a decade ago based on an experience I had with Dave Schwarz, someone who had a profound impact on the way I look at horse racing, and who’s advice and ideas I’ve often taken into my own approaches. It began with this blog post about making a power rating using a fuzzy logic…
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Mar- 2010 -26 MarchAdvice
VALUE BETTING: Knowing When The Odds Are On Your Side!
Everybody talks about value betting being the only way to make a long-term profit. If you’re not sure what value betting is, this article will clear it up. So you’ve found your selections, but how do you now know if the odds on your selection are you on your side and offering betting value? There are a lot of different…
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24 MarchStrategies
HOW TO: Make Your Own Horse Racing Power Ratings
We are all used to horse racing ratings, but what about horse racing power ratings. At it’s most complex, a horse racing power rating is a figure that contains all the information necessary to analyse a race. It’s a combination of all the factors needed to assess a race. However, any rating that has combined multiple ratings, or pieces of…
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18 March
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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15 March
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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12 March
The Cheltenham Festival 2010 – Gold Cup Trends
The build up to the Cheltenham Festival has been going on for a few weeks now and there are just a few days to go before the festival begins. I wanted to very much write something about the festival this year but I wasn’t sure what. I have seen lots of posts about free bets and how to maximise these…
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11 March
System, Let’s Make A Winning One! – The Final
It is the third week of our system build and things have been going well. If you haven’t had a chance to read what we did in week 1 and week 2 then please have a look and send in your thoughts. Last week we ran a poll to see whether you would prefer backing favourites or non-favourites. 68% of…
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9 MarchAdvice
5 STEPS: Step-by-Step Guide To Knowing When A Losing Streak A Broken Betting System
Trying to determine whether your betting system is broken or just in a losing streak is the stuff of a bettors nightmare. Questions start spinning around you mind. Should the losing streak be this long? I’ve lost most of my profit, should I stop now? Has the system stopped working? What I hear most frequently is that bettors lose all…
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8 March
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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4 March
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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Feb- 2010 -27 February
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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25 FebruaryAdvice
BETTING SYSTEMS: Can They Make Me A Profit
Originally written in 2010, the focus of this article was to teach new horse racing bettors how to create a simple betting system, which allows you to find selections quickly. The aim wasn’t to create huge profits, but to show how to build a betting system quickly and easily, to get you started at a small profit or break-even. Once…
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18 February
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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15 FebruaryAdvice
STOP: 5 Easy Tweaks You Can Use When Betting Systems Are Confusing You
If you use any kind of betting system, then you’re almost certain to have experienced that moment where different systems are giving you different selections in the same race. Even worse… You may have had a moment where most of the horses in the race have been selected by different betting systems. Or… One betting system tells you to back…
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10 FebruaryAdvice
A Horse’s True Chance Of Winning, Is It Possible To Know?
Is it possible to know what a horses true chance of winning is? Whatever anybody tells you, the answer is no. We can estimate a horse’s true chance of winning, but we won’t ever know it. When I first started betting on horses, I was told to stop trying to get the exact probability of a horse’s chance of winning…
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3 FebruaryAdvice
Back Betting or Lay Betting in Horse Racing
We all start by thinking that we can make a lot of money from horse racing, whether it’s back betting or lay betting. Then, after we’ve tried a few tipster, and a few betting systems, and realised it’s not as easy as we first thought, we begin to look for how to really make a profit from your betting. Everybody…
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