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What Type Of Bettor Are You?

Something that most people don’t do, in regards to their betting, is to classify what type of bettor they are and what type of bettor they want to become. Doing this will enable you to not only make more profits, but to also enjoy the sport of horse racing a lot more. We can group bettors in to main categories:…

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Making Profits From Forecasts

A forecast bet is one where you have to predict the horse that are going to come first and second in the race in the correct order. In other words, you need to select the horse that wins as the winner and the horse that comes second as the placer. There is also a bet known as the reverse forecast…

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The Circular Form Reading Method

I was recently explaining to someone about form reading. They were struggling with the enormity of what this can potentially entail. And they’re not alone with this struggle. It’s something that causes a lot of people difficulty when they are form reading. The big question is always… Where do I begin? Unfortunately the questions don’t end there because once you’ve…

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Make Money From Monte Carlo

I’m not talking about the place, I’m talking about the method. You may not have heard of this phrase before, and if you haven’t then you would be easily forgiven. It’s usually only talked about by geeks with statistical degrees. But when it comes to betting, we should listen to them and this method can be very powerful when employed…

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Racing Post Betting Forecast – Should You Trust It?

Today I am writing about something a little bit different. This article has come about from a number of emails that I’ve received recently from punters who are using betting systems that use the Racing Post Betting Forecast. Have you ever used it? The chances are you probably have, after all it is used in a lot of systems. But,…

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From Betting System To Analysis

I’ve got something different for you today. This is something I was inspired to write about after a pro-betting friend of mine was talking about how he uses this approach to find his selections. It is actually something that I used to do as well before moving to database handicapping. The approach I am about to share with you is…

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Maintaining Emotional Control With Your Betting

We all get those bad days in our betting. It doesn’t matter how successful you are, it is part and parcel of the nature of the business. Like any trader there are swings and these can last from a few days to a few months. Within those swings we get bad days and good days. Sometimes, we get runs of…

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Using Betting Team Knowledge In Your Own Betting

I wanted to write about something a bit different today. How betting teams work. A betting team is a business that is setup with the sole purpose of making profits from betting. The most famous in the UK is probably the Veitch team and in the world Bill Benter (was based in Hong Kong)  is probably the best known. There…

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Saturday Ascot Special

It is my stag party today and I am being taken to Ascot where everyone will be betting on the selections that I have chosen. I have also been told that I cannot use my normal processes, there is a limited amount of time in which I have to find the selections and I can only use the Racing Post…

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Finding A Profit From Stats

This is a guest article by Eddie Lloyd. There are many ways of finding winners and if we’re really clever there are many more ways of which we can make a profit. In this article I thought I’d take a look at one of the ways in which we can use the Racing Post to find a few profitable statistics.…

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Dust Off Your Old Betting Systems

I have noticed that over the last six to twelve months the quantity of betting systems that have been released seem to be getting lower and lower. It got me thinking about the reasons why. The most obvious reason is that the groups that published betting system after betting system on Clickbank are no longer making any money from selling…

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Using Betting Systems As A Starting Point

I did a radio show for the Craven Festival and on the show I had a couple of guest pro punters, one of whom was Eddie Lloyd. A few of the things he mentioned brought up subjects that I haven’t discussed for a while and I think are important to bring up again. I’m sure that you have come across…

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Using Trainer Comments For Profit

I am going to write about something that I don’t often write about today… trainer comments! The reason I don’t write about the connections of race horses very much is that I don’t use them very often anymore. I do follow certain trends and patterns but I don’t follow the trainer/jockey comments. Is that because I couldn’t get them to…

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Racing Post Secrets

Today I want to share with you a quick way to find strong runners from fields using nothing but the Racing Post. But… we are going to be doing this in a way you have probably never seen before. Doing this highlights horses that are underbet in the market and can produce a positive profit. Of course, you should always…

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Aintree Festival – Grand National And Day 3 Preview

Yesterday was another profitable day for us finishing with Legacy Gold at an SP of 9/1. This selection has brought us into profit whatever happens today and it is nice to know going in that we are going to be walking away with something extra in our pockets after the 2013 Aintree Festival. Today is of course the biggest day…

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Aintree Festival – Day 2 Preview

We came out with a nice profit yesterday, you may have come out with more if you took advantage of special offers and better odds. Today we want to come out with some more profit so lets get stuck in and see what we can find! 2.00 – ROSE APPEAL SUPPORTS ALDER HEY TOP NOVICES´ HURDLE GRADE 2 We start with…

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Aintree Festival – Day 1 Preview

The first day of the Aintree festival, that highlights with the Grand National on Saturday, starts today. We are going to be looking at the races throughout this festival to see if we can find the winners and walk away with a profit. I will be following my festival betting approach and if you haven’t read it then you should…

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What Is Class?

You don’t have to be involved in horse racing before very long until you start to hear the word “class” being talked about everywhere that you go. “The horse wasn’t up to the class of the others” “It’s a classy horse and we expect it to run well in this race” But what actually is class? There have only been…

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Looking Back To The Future

With the Cheltenham Festival having recently finished, and I hope you were following our previews as we came out with a tidy profit, I thought it was appropriate to look at what we need to review in order to improve our betting. By looking back over our past results we can improve our future results. Doing this we learn what…

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Your Guide To Picking A Grand National Winner

Conventional wisdom states that the Grand National is a lottery of a race. How many times have you heard someone repeat this mantra ‘Anyone could win it – you might as well stick a pin in the newspaper’? Well, I can tell you it’s simply not true! That’s not to say the Nationals’ unique course does not throw up the…

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