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Jul- 2010 -2 July
Class Horse Rating System
Guest strategy written by Glen The idea of this system is to find the class horse with the highest ability in the race. We rate two areas of the horse’s performance. The first area is the Ability: Take the horse’s total win money (not money awarded for place finishes) Divide this by the number of winning races multiplied by 100…
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Jun- 2010 -30 June
Can Formula 1 be profitable?
Motor racing actually presents a multitude of different betting possibilities. Enthusiasts in the United Kingdom will be more familiar with the world of Formula One and increased public interest in the sport owes much to the recent successes of British drivers Jenson Button, the reigning Formula One World Champion, and Lewis Hamilton, who secured the title in 2008. In terms…
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25 June
The Psychology of Gambling – Myth 2
Myth 2 – Bookmakers use inside information to calculate their betting odds and you can’t beat them. This is a very common miss-conception and today I would like to try and prove to you why it is not true. To do this I am going to begin at the end (so to speak). You can clearly beat a bookmaker. In…
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24 June
What Has Happened To Our System Test?
Guest article by Malcolm Pett from Greyhorse Bot Hi all, This month I would like to update from the trial I started last month using the Grey Horse Bot. You can read the last article here: http://www.raceadvisor.co.uk/making-a-profit-automatically/ I mentioned in the above article that I was being a bit “wacky” and using a progressive staking system which laid the place markets…
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16 June
Creating a Racing Database – Getting The Data
This is the fourth part in the series where we have been looking at creating your own racing database. If you haven’t read the first three parts then you can do so using the links below. Creating a Racing Database Part 1 Creating a Racing Database Part 2 Creating a Racing Database Part 3 In today’s post we are going…
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15 June
A Versatile Automated Betting Bot
You may remember that we ran a feature a short while ago to find out which were your favoured system testing websites and the two leaders by a long way were The Betting School and Betting System Truths. Following your requests I got in touch with Darren Power and James Fitzmaurice and both have kindly agreed to provide the Race…
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9 June
Long Distance Travellers – Do They Make Money?
Guest post by David Renham from Racing Trends Each day the Racing Post and most daily newspapers highlight horses that have travelled a long distance to race. Why are these horses noted each day? The reasoning behind it is almost certainly this – if a trainer and/or owner are keen to travel a long way to race their horse(s) then the…
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9 June
Guide To Profitable Dutching
I believe that value is the most important part of betting. As I am sure you have heard many times, you can select as many winners as you want but if you aren’t getting good value in the odds then you will still lose money. I have been looking at new ways of getting good value in the odds and…
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8 June
What do the Racing Post Ability Ratings mean?
A number of weeks ago a reader asked me what the ability ratings that are available to Racing Post members actually mean. These are usually in the form of one, two or three ticks. As so often seems to be the case with the Racing Post, when you actually try and find information on how they make their ratings through…
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4 June
Using Official Rating To Estimate Class – The Written Version
I was asked last week if I would provide a written version of exactly what I did in the video so that the steps could be followed while the video was being watched. Today that is exactly what I have done. I used the Sporting Life website for no other reason than it is 100% free and the information is…
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1 June
Creating a Database for Racing – Part 3
There has been a little bit of a break since I finished writing part one and part two of how to create a database for racing. Carrying on from where we left off puts us at the stage of designing the table layouts. A database is made of different tables and each table contains data. For example a Trainer table…
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May- 2010 -21 MayAdvice
How To Use A Horse’s Draw To Profit
Earlier this week I wrote a review of Nick Mordin’s Winning Without Thinking. While I was re-reading the book to write the review there was a section on betting the draw and a strategy that he used. I thought that it would be a good idea to re-analyse this strategy and look at how we might be able to use…
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19 May
Testing A New System
Guest article by Malcolm Pett from Greyhorse Bot One of my great loves is trying to figure out betting systems. Yes I know that there are people that think they don’t work and there are others that think they only work short term etc, etc. To be honest…I sort of…don’t care what people think! I just like trying to find…
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18 May
Winning Without Thinking – Book Review
Winning Without Thinking is one of Nick Mordin’s books and is designed as a guide to betting systems. It was a book I read very early on when I first started to take my betting seriously. With 21 chapters and just over 300 pages there is certainly a lot of information to take in. Nick Mordin has a very nice…
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13 May
The Betfair Winning Greyhound System
Guest article written by Paul Micelli While many sports betting enthusiasts continue to make a respectable profit from laying horses, the world of greyhound racing continues to be clouded by uncertainty and inexperience. The utilisation of successful horse racing systems have worked for many years on the UK’s main betting exchanges but can profits actually be gleaned from greyhound racing…
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7 May
Is This Race Better For The Backer Or The Layer? – Laying
This time last week we looked at which races may provide the backer with a better opportunity for making a profit. This week we are going to do the same for the layer. We split all the races up by classification last week to see the best place to start for the backer or the layer. The odds were also…
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5 May
Profitable Trainers In May
Guest post by David Renham from Racing Trends This month I am looking at trainer performance in May on the flat. Trainers tend to be creatures of habit and tend to peak / trough at similar times each year. This article is based on Flat trainers in the month of May with data taken from 2004 to 2009. May sees the…
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4 May
Outright Tennis Betting – The Winning Strategy (Part Three – Understanding Form)
Guest article written by Paul Micelli Last week we started to look at a winning strategy for betting on tennis. The first part was an introduction into how we were going to find winners and the second part looked at the draw. The third part of the Outright Tennis Betting Winning Strategy takes a look at the one major influencing…
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3 May
Building Your Own Racing Database – Part 2
Last week we started looking at the process of building your own horse racing database. While I am focussing on horse racing, this guide could be easily modified to help you build any kind of sports betting database. By now you will have decided exactly how you want to use your database and what information you will need to extract…
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Apr- 2010 -30 AprilAdvice
Is This Race Better For The Backer Or The Layer?
Which races are better for the backer or layer is a question that I have been asked many times. It is time that we start to de-mystify this question and look at some of the statistical facts behind which race types may provide better opportunities for the backer and the layer. I have limited the horses that I am looking…
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