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Looking Back To The Future

With the Cheltenham Festival having recently finished, and I hope you were following our previews as we came out with a tidy profit, I thought it was appropriate to look at what we need to review in order to improve our betting. By looking back over our past results we can improve our future results. Doing this we learn what…

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Seabass Fans Better Backing A Female Jockey

The 2013 Grand National draws ever closer and the field of confirmed runners gradually grows with each passing week. Among the 40-horse field is Seabass, who finished third in last year’s big race at Aintree. Already seen as one of the main contenders, it’s understandable that many punters are willing to back the 10-year-old, but could they find better value…

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Start With Contenders

It’s common practice for punters to start their racing analysis about half way through the process. This is because it has become generally accepted that to make a profit at horse racing you need to find… …the winner! Don’t worry, I’m not going to argue that you don’t need to find the winner of the race (although that does depend…

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The Most Popular Articles

On the Race Advisor we have hundreds of articles to help you with your betting. It is very easy for some of these to get lost after they are originally posted and it can also be hard to sometimes find exactly what it is you like. So today I have decided to do a roundup of some of the most…

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It Doesn’t Have To Be Complicated

It’s very easy to over-complicate things in horse racing. In fact I could be accused of doing this myself. I often teach advanced methods and these can be complex, but you don’t need to have complex methods to make a profit. It’s harder to find profits using simpler methods but then the method is easier to use. It’s easier to…

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Creating Odds Lines – Episode 3 Multinomial Regression

In the last few weeks I have looked at a basic method of oddsline creation and an approach that uses fuzzy logic. Today I’m going to look at an approach that is used by a lot of betting teams around the world. It is a statistical method called multinomial logistic regression. This is a model that predicts the possibility of…

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What Is A Horse Racing Rating?

Ratings are a very mis-understood medium in betting. They are however exceptionally powerful if used correctly. Today I want to make sure that you don’t fall into the biggest trap that most punters do when using ratings. You cannot get away from ratings in horse racing. They are part and parcel of what horse racing is. If you look at…

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The Advantages and Disadvantages of Betting on Golf

When it comes to Betting on Golf, there are a range of both advantages and disadvantages and that is what we are going to look at today. Some people will not touch the golf markets, maybe because of their lack of knowledge and delving into the unknown… Hopefully after giving this article a read, you will have a little more…

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Winning Isn’t Everything…It’s The Only Thing

It probably goes without saying that thoroughbred horse racing is all about winning, but it’s especially true for wealthy owners who may spend tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands or even millions of pounds on the initial purchase, training and upkeep of their horses. Ideally, what these owners are looking for is “black type” or, in other words, for their…

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What Is A Book?

Following a question that was left on a recent article here I thought I would write on the subject of what a book is in sports betting. A book is what a bookmaker makes, hence the name. This is the method of creating a price on every selection in the race. With Betfair allowing us to take the place of the…

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Fixed Stake Or Fixed Liability Laying

When we look at laying horses we have the option to place our bets to a fixed stake or a fixed liability. What is the difference between these two types of staking and is there a benefit to using one or the other? These are questions that I’m going to answer in todays article. First of all I want to…

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Twister Season Profitable Angles

Guest post written by Ben Aitken. It is hardly a secret that the Nigel Twiston-Davies (NTD) bandwagon rolls into town in late Summer/Autumn time and sweeps all before it, it is a well know phenomenon and one that many a punter will be aware of. That, however, does not mean we can’t utilise it to our benefit and add a…

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Why Speed Ratings Are Powerful

Recently I launched a piece of software called Betting Speed Evolution, which not only finds winners on auto-selection but is also a speed based analysis tool. So, I thought that it would be appropriate to write an article about why speed ratings are so powerful. In the UK it’s commonly thought that speed ratings are only effective on the flat…

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Horse Racing Betting Angles

I thought it was time for something a little bit different. It has been a while since I wrote an article that focused on strategy rather than other aspects of betting. Today it is time for a look at some strategies! As bettors we are always looking for new strategies, systems or betting angles. In fact this is probably what…

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The Common Sense Approach

I have something a bit different today. For once I am going to stop talking about making sure you can deal with the emotional side of betting, bankrolls and more for a different look at the problem of finding winners in racing. In fact this can be related to finding winners in any form of sports betting. This is something…

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Emotion Will Lose You Money!

There are a few things that prevent the majority of punters from being successful in their betting. Without a doubt one of the biggest causes of losing is emotion. Betting with emotion is dangerous! That is the only way of putting it. It is not only in sports betting where the most successful can prevent their emotions from influencing their…

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WOM – It can be dangerous if you are just starting!

If you have ever thought about getting involved in trading on horse racing, then you have almost certainly heard of WOM. For those of you who haven’t done any sports trading then WOM stands for Weight Of Money. When Betfair launched and sports trading became an easy way to make money, then using WOM was king. In fact, for a…

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How To Measure Class…Differently

Last week I wrote about understanding the classes in horse racing. It is important to understand the classes because once you understand how they work then you will be able to use this knowledge to find a profit. You can check out that article here. Today I want to look at how we can measure class differently and use this…

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Newmarket (July) 2012 – Day 3 (we made an 82% profit yesterday!)

After struggling on the first day of Newmarket, we certainly came back with a bang yesterday. I hope that you were following us, because we made an 82% profit! That would have been £65 to £10 bets or £650 to £100 bets. In fact, there was only one race that we didn’t get the winner or place on. I am…

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Newmarket (July) 2012 – Day 3

After a a bad start to the festival we managed to turn it around yesterday and make a superb profit. In fact we only didn’t have a winning race once! We placed 8 units in stakes and make 6.5 units profit. A return of 82%! Let’s hope that we can continue this for the final meeting of the festival. 1:40…

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