I was reading through an old racing magazine last week and came a cross a ‘system’ that concerned betting favourites in an exacta bet and the person who wrote the peice believed that he had found a way of making a profit. His suggestion was to take all races of ten runners or less where the […]
There are many common ‘laws’ in reading racing form and one of those is to back horses with good recent form figures because the horse has obviously been running well, or fairly well at least.Another is to concentrate on those horses at the head of the betting market.After all approximately 70% or so of all […]
I was looking through the Racing Post paper a couple of days ago and in particular the brief description about each horse for every race called ‘Spotlight’. This three or four line paragraph is all the expert who is doing the race has to give us about the horses past form, overall profile and chance in the race […]
You hear a lot of talk these days about the betting market being stronger than ever down to the introduction of the exchanges, especially now they are firmly a part of betting with Betfair having been online and available for those in the know to back and lay since the year 2000. It is thought that […]
Open any newspaper or look at any racing web site on the internet and you will be flooded with horses, races, statistics, jockey names, trainer names, course stats, the going and a heck of a lot more. Even starting to try and filter the info into manageable chunks can seem quite daunting, in fact just […]
How do you avoid doing your money when betting on National Hunt horse racing? By definition jumps racing brings with it additional risk every time your horse leaves the ground. So to help you swerve those rushes of blood to the head you may wish to take a look at these ideas below. Sticking to […]
By Joe Takach When I was starting out gambling an old man in the betting shop once remarked to me that I would “have to learn how to lose” before I could ever learn how to win. At the time I didn’t understand what he meant but when I did, he was long gone and […]
