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One Electric Saw, One Sofa = Improved Betting

At last my back is starting to ease up a bit. Of course it could be the painkillers, but I prefer to think that it’s easing up 🙂 We’re having a new sofa delivered today and we had to get the two old ones out of our flat. The first one had already been removed by myself… there’s suspicion that…

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Bayes Theorem in Horse Racing – A Beginners Guide

We see discussed many different types of betting strategies and a systems, including on this blog. But rarely do we see discussed how the big bettors build their models and how betting teams develop their odds lines. There are a couple of reasons for this. The first is that there are only a few people who actually know, and the…

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Seven Different Ways To Find Winners

There are many different ways of finding winners and there is no single one that is correct. The method that is correct is the one that works for you. This could be different to everyone else you know. It doesn’t matter. All that matters is that it works for you and it suits your style of betting. I try to…

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Finding Winners Step-By-Step

Everyone wants to find a winner, the difficult part is doing it with any form of regularity. I’m going to reveal a method that you may never have seen before which is going to help you pick winners time and time again. Some of the steps you may have come across before and others you may not. Either way they…

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Pedigree Handicapping – What is it?

There isn’t a day that goes past that an email doesn’t hit your inbox purporting to have a brand new incredible technique for making a fortune from horse racing. The truth is that there is very little which is totally new. There are new techniques, angles and methods but these are most often based on old techniques that have been…

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Pace Analysis Part 3 – Pace Ratings

Following my last two articles: Pace Analysis Pace Analysis Part 2 – Track Pace Bias I’m going to finish of this mini-series on pace today by looking at how we can create pace ratings. The previous two articles looked at how we can find selections from races by using pace and how we can determine if the bias on the…

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Pace Analysis Part 2 – Track Pace Bias

Following on from my last article about pace analysis, today we’re going to look at how we can use track pace bias to determine whether or not a horse should be a selection or not. This is an advanced method of handicapping which most people don’t use, which means that it can give us an excellent edge in our betting.…

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Pace Analysis

Today I want to share with you information on an area of race analysis that isn’t often written about in the UK, yet it is considered to be one of the most important factors everywhere else in the world. So why do we rarely see any information on it? Because in the UK it is a very difficult thing to…

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What Type Of Bettor Are You?

Something that most people don’t do, in regards to their betting, is to classify what type of bettor they are and what type of bettor they want to become. Doing this will enable you to not only make more profits, but to also enjoy the sport of horse racing a lot more. We can group bettors in to main categories:…

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Making Profits From Forecasts

A forecast bet is one where you have to predict the horse that are going to come first and second in the race in the correct order. In other words, you need to select the horse that wins as the winner and the horse that comes second as the placer. There is also a bet known as the reverse forecast…

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The Circular Form Reading Method

I was recently explaining to someone about form reading. They were struggling with the enormity of what this can potentially entail. And they’re not alone with this struggle. It’s something that causes a lot of people difficulty when they are form reading. The big question is always… Where do I begin? Unfortunately the questions don’t end there because once you’ve…

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Make Money From Monte Carlo

I’m not talking about the place, I’m talking about the method. You may not have heard of this phrase before, and if you haven’t then you would be easily forgiven. It’s usually only talked about by geeks with statistical degrees. But when it comes to betting, we should listen to them and this method can be very powerful when employed…

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Racing Post Betting Forecast – Should You Trust It?

Today I am writing about something a little bit different. This article has come about from a number of emails that I’ve received recently from punters who are using betting systems that use the Racing Post Betting Forecast. Have you ever used it? The chances are you probably have, after all it is used in a lot of systems. But,…

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From Betting System To Analysis

I’ve got something different for you today. This is something I was inspired to write about after a pro-betting friend of mine was talking about how he uses this approach to find his selections. It is actually something that I used to do as well before moving to database handicapping. The approach I am about to share with you is…

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Maintaining Emotional Control With Your Betting

We all get those bad days in our betting. It doesn’t matter how successful you are, it is part and parcel of the nature of the business. Like any trader there are swings and these can last from a few days to a few months. Within those swings we get bad days and good days. Sometimes, we get runs of…

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Using Betting Team Knowledge In Your Own Betting

I wanted to write about something a bit different today. How betting teams work. A betting team is a business that is setup with the sole purpose of making profits from betting. The most famous in the UK is probably the Veitch team and in the world Bill Benter (was based in Hong Kong)  is probably the best known. There…

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Saturday Ascot Special

It is my stag party today and I am being taken to Ascot where everyone will be betting on the selections that I have chosen. I have also been told that I cannot use my normal processes, there is a limited amount of time in which I have to find the selections and I can only use the Racing Post…

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Finding A Profit From Stats

This is a guest article by Eddie Lloyd. There are many ways of finding winners and if we’re really clever there are many more ways of which we can make a profit. In this article I thought I’d take a look at one of the ways in which we can use the Racing Post to find a few profitable statistics.…

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Dust Off Your Old Betting Systems

I have noticed that over the last six to twelve months the quantity of betting systems that have been released seem to be getting lower and lower. It got me thinking about the reasons why. The most obvious reason is that the groups that published betting system after betting system on Clickbank are no longer making any money from selling…

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Using Betting Systems As A Starting Point

I did a radio show for the Craven Festival and on the show I had a couple of guest pro punters, one of whom was Eddie Lloyd. A few of the things he mentioned brought up subjects that I haven’t discussed for a while and I think are important to bring up again. I’m sure that you have come across…

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