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How To Create Standard Times

A few weeks ago I wrote this post about how to calculate the going allowance. There was a lot of interest in how to create speed ratings, and so with that in mind I’m going to look at the first part (and probably most important) of creating your own speed ratings. That is how to create standard times. To start…

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Weekly Eyecatchers

Not many runners for the column last week although Arctic Feeling was a good winner at Catterick at 8/1 and Beautiful Romance was an excellent third in the Fillies & Mares on Champion’s Day at 20/1. I mentioned in the recent free report the importance of keeping trainer comments about a horses future targets and this is what I wrote…

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Weekly Eyecatchers

For those of you have subscribed to the Eyecatcher Pro tool you would have been delighted with a big winner at York as Shared Equity deservedly got his head in front, having run so consistently this summer. A 7/1 SP isn’t to be sniffed at but hopefully you were on at 20/1 that was available in the morning with a…

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Archive Systems Horse Racing (3FO Lay Betting): Can We Make Them Profit?

I’m going to do something a bit different today, and if it proves popular I will begin to do this more regularly. So if you enjoy this post and would like to see more then please let me know by leaving a comment at the bottom. Over the years I’ve collected literally hundreds (if not thousands) of betting systems that…

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Weekly Eyecatchers

On Saturday one of my previous eyecatchers, Thatcherite finally got the strong pace that he needs to get his head in front at Redcar. On a relatively quiet week on the eyecatchers front it was nice to get a 9/2 winner. As I mentioned last week the emphasis of my eyecatchers in October changes and this is reflected in this…

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How Many Factors Should I Use When Assessing A Horse Race

It’s very easy to get overloaded with information when looking at horse racing. There are loads of different ways to bet from laying, backing, dutching, trading and more. Then are hundreds of different approaches to finding selections to bet. Even if you decide to read form there are hundreds of different ways to do that as well. Can there possibly…

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Weekly Eyecatchers

Not as many winners this week for the notebook but Karaka Jack won the Silver Cambridgeshire on Friday at 14/1. I had him in mind for a race next month at Redcar but this race cut up and it probably was about as competitive as the Redcar one will be. It’s been a long time between drinks for Shootingsta who…

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How To Make A Profit During Changing Seasons

We’re coming into that time when we move from flat to national hunt racing. Twice a year this is considered the time by pretty much everyone in the business to be amongst the hardest to make a profit. The reason? Because the flat horses are finishing up their last runs at the end of the season and the national hunt…

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How To Calculate Going Allowance

I was recently browsing through some of the posts on the Race Advisor and I came across this one. In it I take a look at what exactly a going allowance is and why you would want to use one. It’s a pretty good read if I do say so myself 😉 If you create, or have been thinking of…

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Class Movement… Does It Make A Difference?

Do you think it makes a difference whether a horse is moving up or down in class? Before you read on, place you vote on the poll below. Then continue reading. [socialpoll id=”2292619″] Now that you’ve voted, I won’t know if you haven’t but you really should to see if you were correct in your thinking, it’s time to look…

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Weekly Eye-catchers

Another couple of winners last week for the eyecatchers with What About Carlo winning at Epsom at 13/2 and Whitman a 11/4 winner at Ripon. I tend to split the Turf Flat season into three sections: Spring horses (March to May). Summer horses (June to August) and the autumn horses (September & October). I do something similar for the National…

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Information Overload… Where The Hell Do You Begin!

There’s a lot of information about how to make a profit from your betting. Heck, there’s thousands of articles on the Race Advisor alone and hundreds of them contain different strategies. A few weeks ago I wrote up a strategy that we use and I was left a very pertinent comment… “Thanks for all the help but there is so…

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Nap Investor Review

Nap Investor is a tipster service provided by Nathan Price and is available through the Winning Information Network. Here’s the link to the webpage advertising this service There’s no need for me to repeat too much from the sales page, but briefly, Nathan is “an experienced racing fan who has been working with a network of other racing professionals to…

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Weekly Eyecatchers

Eccleston was a well backed winner at 5/1 at Thirsk for the column last week on what was a fairly quiet week for the Eyecatchers. I am going to start by answering a couple of popular questions that I have been sent in recently by readers: 1. Do you have a view on how best to utilise your ‘eyecatchers’? –…

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Testing Your Factors To Find The Best (in the same way as the pros)

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about how to choose factors that predict winners. If you haven’t had a chance to read that then you can here. One of the ways that you can determine the most important factors to use for a set of race conditions is by using a chi score. The question is… How…

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Where The Heck Do I Start To Be A Profitable Bettor?!

It was a comment on a recent blog post that has inspired today’s post. There are many strategy based articles amongst the couple of thousands published here on the Race Advisor and his question was… Where do I start? There are so many possible avenues, things to investigate and different ways to approach your betting then it can be very…

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York Meeting Trainer Stats

The Ebor Festival is a four-day race meeting held at York, each August. The 2015 Ebor Festival is due to take place from Wednesday 19th to Saturday 22nd August. Each of the four days has big races: Wednesday feature race the Group 1 Juddmonte International over 1m 2f, and is considered by some the best race in the world and in 2012 was won…

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Weekly Eyecatchers

Another couple of winners came out of the notebook last week from only a handful of runners Bop It 4/1 at Haydock and Sharp Sailor 4/1 at Newmarket on Saturday, there was plenty of 7/1 available on Saturday morning about the latter. Once again it showed the importance of taking early prices about these horses if you are backing them.…

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