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Saturday Preview

I am not a great fan of the early part of the flat season as I like to see the form settle down a bit with horses having a run or two under their belts and the results having a more reliable look about them. The Epsom Derby meeting is my usual indicator that the season has moved in to…

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Saturday’s Preview – Two To Side With Today

“Could do better” is my take on my system selections on the flat recently so I have spent a few hours this week analysing and tweaking the criteria and scoring data slightly so to hopefully show some improvement on the current selections and returns. Although results are by no means a disaster I have now introduced a new race rating…

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The Dante Stakes – A Preview

The Dante Stakes is a Group 2 which is run over a distance of 1m 2f 88yds and has been traditionally seen as a key trial for the Epsom Derby. The race is named after Dante who was the last Northern trained horse to win the Derby way back in 1945. The race was first run in 1958 and since…

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Portfolio Corner – A Trainer To Follow Right Now

Welcome to ‘Portfolio Corner’ I have been betting horses and sports for a living for a good few years now and my bets are based around systems, profiles, trends and stats. I have over 250 systems. I know that may appear a lot to some, but many are based around individual trainers and operate for perhaps one or two months…

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Finding The Three Best Horses Using PIV’s

I’ve been writing a fair bit about impact, and pool impact, values recently. Last week, on my blog post about creating power ratings, Michael asked me how to go about finding the best three horses using PIV’s (pool impact values), otherwise known as a/e ratios. If you’d like to learn how to make PIV’s then you should check out this…

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Totescoop6 Victoria Cup

What a disaster last week was with my selection Ol Man River running no sort of race and finishing a long way tailed off last, there was something clearly amiss with him! To add insult to injury my top rated horse Gleneagles which didn’t meet my price criteria and was therefore overlooked won like a very good animal indeed and…

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The Dante Festival: Three Days of Top Springtime Racing in York

If you’re looking for a way to usher in springtime and warm weather racing, head to York in May for the Dante Festival, where top trainers, jockeys and horses will gather for race results that set the tone for the rest of the season. The three-day festival, held May 13-15 in 2015 will feature exciting sprint and staying flat races,…

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Power Ratings, A Different Approach

Following my article about working out the minimum odds you should bet at last week there were a lot of requests for a follow up about how to calculate power ratings. The truth is, there are loads of ways to calculate power ratings ranging from overly simplistic to overly complex. Which is the best? Well, to be honest… none. At…

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The Qipco 2000 Guineas

Well I thought my selection last week Le Reve was going to get me off to a flyer with my first advice writing on the Race Advisor website, in with every chance going to the last the notorious Sandown hill unfortunately caught out my charge and he finished a gallant but one paced third showing a small profit for the…

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How To Make A Power Rating

There’s no doubt that ratings are a great way for you to analyse a race. In fact, they’re probably one of the best ways. But I’m a self-admitted ratings fanatic! So with the admission that I love ratings. The question is… is there anything better than a rating? And the answer is yes. A power rating Power ratings are combinations…

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BET 365 GOLD CUP SANDOWN 3.50

My first Saturday writing for the Race Advisor team and I have been given a real teaser as my opening gambit the Bet 365 Gold Cup over nearly three and three quarter miles of the tough but fair Sandown course. You need to get every yard of this trip as having been to the Esher venue on many occasions I…

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Work Out The Minimum Odds You Should Take In Less Than 5 Minutes

Recently I’ve been reading through some old betting magazines. And it was during one of these forays into a magazine that I read Alan Coldricks article on how to convert ratings into odds. It’s very difficult to determine whether a horse is offering value odds, even if you are using a reliable set of ratings. There are a variety of…

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Lookout for Buffalo in Scottish Grand National

It’s onto Scotland for their Grand National this weekend where I believe David Pipe’s Broadway Buffalo has a cracking chance of winning! David’s father Martin won the race back in 2002 with Take Control under Ruby Walsh so it’s been a while since the Pipe team landed this big prize. Broadway Buffalo ran an amazing race (I don’t use that…

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Become a Master of Disguise

You’ve finally cracked it. After years spent funding the bookie bigwigs’ summer holidays, you’ve become a member of the 1% that actually makes money from sports betting. Perhaps that was down to help from Race Advisor, perhaps you simply learned from your own mistakes – it doesn’t really matter how you achieved it, the fact is that you now generate…

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Lieutenant Can Finish First!

It’s Grand National Day and what an exciting race to enjoy. If you cannot get “revved up” for this race where luck plays as big a part as your handicap mark then ask your doctor to check if there is any blood running through your veins.  As there are 40 runners we will take the unusual step of selecting 3…

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Staying Races – How You Can Come Out a Winner

While a lot of hoopla gets made over the U.Ks and Australia’s Thoroughbred turf sprints, it’s still the staying races like the Melbourne Cup that offer the top purses and bring in the biggest crowds. Staying races can be just as exciting as sprints in different ways. Whether the winner goes wire-to-wire or closes in the stretch from behind, a…

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The Cause of 99% of Betting System Failures

Using betting systems is probably the most popular form of finding selections. Also, amongst horse racing fans, the actual building of the systems is very popular. The only problem is that most betting systems fail to make the profits that they’ve promised to deliver. And the primary reason for this is… backfitting. Well, that’s the name that most people use.…

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Astigos to Claim First Chase Win

It’s back to jumping action at Haydock Park today following a great win by Gabrial in last weekend’s Lincoln. Haydock stages a couple of valuable handicaps and it’s the handicap chase that provides our selection. The rain that has softened the ground at Haydock Park is just what the doctor ordered for Astigos who relishes soft or worse ground. Astigos…

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Lincoln – A Brief History

Overview Horse racing is one of the most popular sports in the U.K today, and one that receives some of the highest volume action in sports wagering. One of the great aspects of horse racing is wagering on different horses, ranging from the favorite to the long shot. Horse racing odds work by taking the odds a horse is to…

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Gabrial is the Pick of Dr Koukash Gabrials’ in Lincoln

What! Yes, that heading would even confuse Confucius, but please let me explain. The flat season (turf) begins today with Richard Fahey saddling two runners for owner Dr Marwan Koukash in the Lincoln handicap. Dr Koukash likes to name many of his runners after his son Gabrial and in the Lincoln today his two runners are named Gabrial and Gabrial’s…

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