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Royal Ascot – Day Four Preview

I didn’t have a bet on the opener but was a little bit disappointed with King Of Rooks who came to win the race but wasn’t quite good enough and was beaten by a couple of better horses on the day. The Tercentenary saw my top two rated Time Test and Peacock come home first and second in that order,…

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A Day At The Races – Ascot Special

I wanted to look at Betting Bounty today. The team behind this service live and breath free bets and the best way to extrapolate money out of the bookmakers. By using clever staking and certain strategy’s the users of Betting Bounty are able to put themselves into positions that secure them a profit time and time again. Today we’re going…

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Royal Ascot – Day Two Preview

So with day one of the Royal meeting now well and truly over it’s time to take a look at the results and how the system performed. Starting with the opener and the ratings couldn’t split the two unbeaten animals Able Friend and Solow and it was the latter that came out well on top here with Able Friend trailing…

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Royal Ascot Racing Review

It’s Day 2 of the Royal Ascot. The meeting is of course the centrepiece of Ascot’s racing year but the meeting has always been traditionally a key element of the British summer social calendar alongside such events as Henley Regatta and Wimbledon. It is a gloriously eccentric ‘English’ event off the track and a conspicuous celebration of wealth and nowhere…

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Royal Ascot – Day One Preview

The best meeting of the year bar Cheltenham of course and I am going to be stuck behind a desk for the next few days undertaking an annual company audit which I couldn’t get out of, typical! As an accountant I have to keep my clients happy and I can usually do this without it impacting on my racing but…

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Weekly Eyecatchers

In this weeks notebook I have once again concentrated on horses that ran in some of last weeks big handicaps although there is a filly that ran well in the Oaks that is worth having in your trackers. Monday June 1st Windsor – Boomerang Bob (Charlie Hills) The six year old caught my eye when finishing a close up second…

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Profiting From The Shorties

Family commitments have restricted me in putting together an in depth stats and trends overview for Royal Ascot. But you won’t have missed anything because with a little bit of searching the main racing sites that produce micro sites for the festivals will have most of the information. One has to be careful when publishing stats and trends etc as…

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What You Should Expect In Downswings

I’m writing this post not long after having published a video walk-through review of the Racing Consultants. You can see the walk-through review here. This was actually a service that I recommended as being one worth your consideration, and a very good comment was left by David asking me about the downswings this service had encountered. And it is that…

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Saturday Preview

So where do I start today, some highly competitive handicaps that look very appealing indeed! Musselburgh for example hosts the William Hill Scottish Sprint Cup this afternoon where a field of 17 are due to go to post over the minimum trip. Despite the number of runners I can look no further than Red Baron who has been running oh…

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Betfair SP Portfolio

You may have seen the Race Advisor recently pushing its new service Tipster Portfolio. It’s a great service that shows you which tipsters to sign up to and add to your portfolio. So why is this so great? Using tipsters means that you are relying on an expert to give you tips and show you how to make a profit.…

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Weekly Eyecatchers

In this weeks notebook I have concentrated on horses that have run in some of last weeks big handicaps. Thursday 28th May Sandown – Master The World (David Elsworth) In a race where it paid to be up with the pace the four year old did best of those held up. Wearing blinkers for the first time and well backed into…

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A Complete Strategy From Rating Through To Odds Lines

Over the last few weeks I’ve written a post about creating power ratings and a post about turning those ratings into odds lines. There have been a few requests asking if I could combine them into a single example, and that’s exactly what I’m going to do now. This post assumes that you have read both the previous posts and…

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Saturday Preview

What more can a man want the sun is shining and I’m out today with a few of my buddies for a couple of pints to watch the Investec Derby at Epsom. All I need now is to bag a couple of winners and to overcome this run of secondi Tus that I am currently experiencing and I will be…

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Weekly Eyecatcher Report

Weekly Eyecatcher’s Report It was Guineas weekend in Ireland and Gleneagles proved he is the best three year old mile colt in the UK & Ireland when he won the Irish 2000 Guineas. The more interesting of the two classics was the fillies’ version which I think was a cracking race and will prove to be very solid form. It…

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Why You Are The Most Important Part Of Being A Successful Bettor

As a group of people, bettors spend far too long trying to find the next best thing. We’re always on the hunt for the dream. The dream where you can sit back and do very little work, place bets and make very big profits. It’s a dream that is very tempting. But it’s also a dream that is never going…

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Saturday Preview

A usual Saturday’s fare with a feast of top class racing today at Haydock, Newmarket and York including the Royal Ascot bound Limato who puts his 100% record on the line in the Sandy Lane Stakes at the Merseyside track this afternoon. You can be nothing but be impressed with the way that this Henry Candy trained 3 year old…

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How To Keep Bookmakers Accounts Open

I’ve been asked quiet a few times in the last two weeks by our readers how is the best way to avoid closures by bookmakers and about shifting their betting over to Betfair. In all honesty although I’ve had many accounts closed I wish I’d known what I know now in order for this to never of happened. Of course…

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Turn Your Power Ratings Into Odds Lines

A few weeks ago I wrote this post about how to make your own power ratings using a slightly different approach. At the end I promised that I would write another article following on that showed you how to get from what you finished with in that post to your oddslines. And that’s what I’m going to do today. If…

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