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Jun- 2016 -28 JuneNews
Weekly Eyecatchers – Horse Racing
Plenty of racing this weekend but not much in the way of big races but on the other side of the Irish Sea, it was Irish Derby this weekend at the Curragh. I will have a brief look at the action from the Curragh later. Given the lack of top quality action in Britain I thought this was the ideal…
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27 JuneAdvice
Is It Possible To Make a Profit by Laying the Favourite?
As horse racing is notoriously difficult to predict, an increasing number of punters are looking to make a profit by laying favourites. In simple terms, you are betting against the favourite and if any other horse in the race wins, you also win. In theory, this seems like an excellent idea. From data I collected from all races from 2012-2016,…
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21 JuneAdvice
Weekly Eyecatchers – Horse Racing
That’s Royal Ascot’s horse racing spectacle out of the way for another year as have four or five of the English Classics and it’s not even the end of June. Still there is plenty of great racing to come with Newmarket’s July Meeting next month and then we have Galway, Goodwood and York Ebor Festival’s to look forward to. This…
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20 JuneAdvice
Using Graphs to Simplify Racing Analysis
If you’re an avid RaceAdvisor reader or else you simply enjoy sports betting, you’ll know the importance of statistical data when it comes to making your selections (or at least you should). Horse racing happens to be a statto’s paradise but can be a nightmare for those lacking a head for numbers. There are so many criteria to consider and…
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14 JuneNews
Weekly Eye-catchers – Horse Racing
Well it’s here, the best 5 days of flat racing in the world starts today at Royal Ascot. This week’s column is shorter than normal and you can guess why, as like probably most of you I have had just one thing on my mind in the past week and that’s the biggest flat turf festival of them all! More…
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13 JuneAdvice
Important Royal Ascot Trends
Day 1 Queen Anne Stakes The Queen Anne Stakes is a fine opening race and tends to start the festival off with a bang. It is a race for 4yo+ thoroughbreds and this Group One race takes place over 1 mile. This race seems to be Frankie Dettori’s specialty as the legendary jockey has won this event on no less…
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7 JuneNews
Weekly Eye-catchers – Horse Racing
Well the sun is shining here, as it is if you had being following the eyecatchers last week with Duke Cosimo, landing a bit of a gamble at Ripon, backed into 5/1 and the filly Elbereth winning the big fillies & mares listed race at Nottingham at a generous 8/1. It got even better on Saturday as Blaine (8/1) landed…
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6 JuneAdvice
Making a Profit from Favourites at All Weather Tracks
In this article I’ll look at the performances of favourites at All-Weather (AW) tracks in the UK. I will focus on Kempton, Wolverhampton, Lingfield and Southwell while leaving out Newcastle since it’s a relatively new AW track. AW tracks get a bad rap as punters have become convinced that they offer little or no value for money; particularly when backing…
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May- 2016 -31 MayAdvice
Weekly Eyecatchers – Horse Racing
Well another Bank Holiday is over and for England & Wales the next one isn’t till the end of August. Still there is a whole load of top class horse racing to look forward to in the coming weeks with the Oaks and of course the Derby at Epsom this weekend and Royal Ascot in the middle of the month.…
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24 MayAdvice
Weekly Eye-catchers – Horse Racing
Before looking at this week’s tracker horses I will have a look at last weekends big horse racing action. There was really top class racing in Britain on Saturday with action from Haydock Newmarket, Goodwood and York. At Haydock the feature race the Group 2 Temple Stakes was won by one of my recent eyecatchers in the Clive Cox trained…
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17 MayAdvice
Weekly Eye-Catchers – Horse Racing
Before looking at this week’s tracker horses I will have a brief look at last week’s Derby & Oaks Trials at York’s Dante Festival and a couple of performances from Saturday’s Newbury card. Wings of Desire one my recent horses to follow followed up his easy win in a Wolverhampton by taking the Dante Stakes in some style at a…
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10 MayNews
Weekly Eye-Catchers – Horse Racing
Well that’s Chester’s May Festival over for another year and this week it’s the turn of York to host its first meeting of the new turf season with the three day Dante Festival starting on Wednesday. The last week has seen Epsom Derby & Oaks trials at Chester and on Saturday at Lingfield. There has been almost too much good…
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9 MayAdvice
Horse Racing – Where Does The Prize Money Go?
In financial terms, it appears as if UK horse racing is in rude health. For example, at the start of 2015, the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) announced record prize money of ÂŁ130.8 million. This was a 6.2% increase on the 2014 figure which in itself was a record. At the same time, the number of runners decreased from almost 91,000…
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6 May
Villa’s New-found Freedom Can Lead To Goals
Trying to find value on Premier league markets is hard at the best of times. If it’s true that we know what every player eats for breakfast, what sort of injuries they’re carrying, who had a training ground row with who, how one side will line up against another and what their head-to-head record is against this week’s opposition going…
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3 MayAdvice
Donations
Thank you to everybody who donated to the three retired race horse charities last week. We split the amount donated into three and then added £25 to each charity from the Race Advisor. This meant £81 was donated to each charity and a total of £243, which is great news. Please find the donation slips below.
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3 MayNews
Weekly EyeCatchers – Horse Racing
We can safely say the horse racing turf flat season is kicking into gear as the first two British Classics the 1000 & 2000 Guineas are now behind us and with Chester’s May Festival coming up this week and York’s Dante Meeting also coming up in the next week or so there will be plenty of horses that you will…
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2 MayAdvice
The History of UK Triple Crown Races
The English Triple Crown Series refers to the 2,000 Guineas, Epsom Derby and St. Leger races that take place annually. Winning one of these races is tough enough; if a horse wins all three in the same calendar year then its name is guaranteed to go down in the annals of racing history. There are Triple Crown events all over…
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Apr- 2016 -26 AprilNews
Weekly Eye-Catchers – Horse Racing
A much shorter than normal column this week, only three horse racing eyecatchers, as I am in the process of moving house which has had to take priority. There is no weekend review but if you are an Eycatcher Pro subscriber you would have been delighted with the win of the The Young Master in the Bet365 Gold Cup at…
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25 AprilNews
What Happens When A RaceHorse Retires?
We typically only ever see racehorses when they are galloping in all their glory at tracks around the country. Serious horse enthusiasts may occasionally visit a stable to see how racehorses live but for most punters, interest in a horse wanes once it is retired. Approximately 5,000 racehorses are retired in the UK each year; this can be due to…
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20 AprilAdvice
Fairbot – Review
Fairbot Advanced Automation – Strategy Editor Today I’m going to show how you can program Betfair to place and trade your bets given certain criteria. You can do this using an Excel spreadsheet and link the spreadsheet into Betfair trading software, but, frankly, doing this is quite complicated and requires quite a bit of knowledge. Recently I reviewed Fairbot and…
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