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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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Weekly Eyecatchers

On what wasn’t the best of weeks for the column it has to be said. Chill The Kite was the standout performance, when winning at 20/1 at York and even if you had been backing all last weeks tracker horses blindly that win would have given you a healthy profit on the week. I have to say that I gave…

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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

Mullionheir 7/1 was a winner for the eyecatchers at Newbury and Farquhar was a good second at the Newmarket also at 7/1. Before I look at this week’s tracker horses, I did mention last week that I had a few more horses “drinking in the last chance saloon” and I would only be looking at them as bets under certain…

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How To Choose Factors That Predict Winners

When you start to analyse a race do you know what factors you should be using? Do you know which are the most important for the race you’re analysing? All races are not made equal. Which means every race is likely to have different factors that are important. If you think about factors you probably can initially only think of…

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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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The Simple Guide To Making Profits From Racing

The fastest way to become a profitable bettor is to use common sense. Something about horse racing and sports betting makes most people lose all their ability to see clearly. Most people. If you’re reading this post then that already means you are not most people because those guys are in betting shops throwing their money away on a lucky…

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Weekly Eyecatchers

A couple of nice winners last week at Goodwood in Mount Logan 8/1, So Beloved 10/1 the latter being backed in from much bigger odds in the morning and Baraweez at Galway on Sunday. I have been asked do I back my tracker horses blind or do I set out some qualifying criteria? The simple answer is yes but with…

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Look For The Worst And Make More Profit

All of us want to pick winners in the best races. There’s no greater feeling than having your pick in the Grand National come storming and taking the race. It’s an awesome feeling. But the truth is these races are horse racing at it’s hardest! Think about it. The best trainers in the world want their horses to run in…

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Another Look At Placepots

Today, as it’s the last day of Glorious Goodwood, I thought I would go back over a popular post from last year where I looked at Placepots and how best to play them. Using this technique we can half the cost of doing a perm and yet still cover all of our fancied horses. Here’s the first bit…. The placepot is…

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Glorious Goodwood Festival Trainer Pointers

The end of July and the beginning of August see two of the season’s great racing festivals at ‘Glorious Goodwood’ and over the Irish Sea at Galway.   The ‘Glorious’ comes off the festival name this year with the start of a ten year sponsorship of the meeting by Qatar whose sponsorship is the biggest single deal in British horse…

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Weekly Eyecatchers

It’s the ninth eyecatcher article. How Time fly’s when you’re having fun. Last week was a good week for the column as we had five really good priced winners. On Monday it was Slip Sliding Away 6/1 at Windsor, on Thursday it was Disclosure at 11/2 at Doncaster. Great Park added to the profit on Friday at Ascot at 4/1.…

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Galway Festival Trainer Pointers

The Irish do like their summer racing festivals and the Galway Festival is clearly the biggest of the lot. There are 7 days of racing both on the flat and over jumps. Some intrepid punters go for the whole seven days which is some achievement given the amount of Guinness that will be drunk both during the races and after…

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The Top Ten Posts of 2015

There are thousands of articles on the Race Advisor, and that means it can be quite easy to miss some of them. So today… I thought I would share with you the top ten most popular posts of 2015 so far. 1. Finding Winners From The Daily Stat Pack – This does what it says on the tin… how to…

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Saturday Preview

After last week’s debacle on the tipping front which I can only apologise for I can only hope that today we see a turn in fortunes and that the coffers are replenished somewhat. That said although there are 2 televised races that really interest me the Gigaset International at Ascot and the Sky Bet Dash at York these are real…

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