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Racing Post Trophy Festival Day 1 Preview

Over the next three days Doncaster is hosting the Racing Post Trophy festival meeting. Today I’m going through the feature race of the day, the Racing Post / SIS Betting Shop Manager Of Year Handicap at 3:15pm. There are 22 declared runners and the official going is soft, which the going stick has confirmed. The weather looks like there will be…

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National Hunt Jockeys: Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics

The autumn equinox has come and gone and the National Hunt season is well underway, so it’s time to take a look at the leading contenders for the British Jump Jockeys’ Championship and, specifically, when, where and for whom they do best during the season. At the time of writing, since the 2012/13 National Hunt season began on 29 April,…

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Studying Form: Part I

Guest post written by Willy Weasel The subject of studying form is, by its very nature, a complex one, but it’s important not to get bogged down in trifling details. If you do, you’re likely to be distracted from more important factors that influence the outcome of horse races. Studying form is a means to an end, not an end…

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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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Measuring The Class Of A Horse

The class of a horse is often discussed in previews and by presenters, but what exactly is it? This is something that is very difficult to measure. Is it the personality of the horse, the ability of the horse or it’s breeding? I would say that it is a combination of all these things and then probably a bit of…

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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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Ayr Gold Cup 2012 Preview

Today we have the Ayr Gold Cup to look forward to. At the time of writing this post there are 27 declared runners and the going will be heavy. Let’s see if we can find who the strongest contenders in this race are. I am going to start with the ten runners who have raced over exactly the same conditions…

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All Weather Favourites

We are coming towards the beginning of the National Hunt season and All Weather racing is going to start ramping up. With that in mind, I thought it was appropriate to take a look at the statistics of favourites on All Weather tracks today. Let’s start by taking a look at the different All Weather tracks over the last 10…

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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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Handicap ratings de-mystified…

I hope that you got the chance to watch the Olympic opening ceremony last night. Whether you are happy to have the Olympics in London or not, I don’t think that anybody could deny that it was an incredible show. Personally I am happy to have the Olympics here. Living in London, I do find that the road closures are…

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How Official Handicap Ratings Are Made

Why do we have handicap races and how are the handicap ratings created? Handicap races are designed around the principle that if you put weight on a horse then it will slow it down. By applying different weights to horses of different abilities, a handicap race tries to make the race as equal as possible. Theoretically, if a handicapper has…

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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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Newmarket (July) 2012 – Day 2

We are on to day two of the festival, and day one was certainly tough. The going is still soft on the ground and that is what I am going to be basing my analysis on. As with yesterday we shall be trying to take advantage of the Bet365 offer of a free bet if you have a winner of…

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Newmarket (July) 2012 – Day 1 Winners

Okay, so the title of this article may be pretty optimistic, but I hope to get some of the winners throughout the day. The weather has not made things any easier and the going conditions at the time of writing this post are good to soft and soft. I will be writing this from the assumption that these conditions are…

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