Short priced favourites win a heck of a lot of races. In fact as you will see in the short video below, in the past two years, backing horses at 1/3 or shorter would have given you close to an 80% strike rate of winning bets.However, this stat is significantly neutralised when you see that […]
I recently sent out an email suggesting a number of things you can do when you are struggling a little bit with your betting.Way back in 2015 I wrote another post on a similar subject which I referenced in my email called, ‘Five ways to review and improve your betting’ and you may want to […]
Just over a week or so ago I came up with a simple idea that I thought would provide the basis of a profitable laying system using the Inform Racing speed ratings.After a full 7 days trial, a level stakes profit of 18.75 points and a 90% strike rate of success, I am keen to […]
Speed Ratings Systems For Profit This post contains an update of our recent system idea called The Selected Ratings System. With a little tweaking and betting just for the place, this looks a steady and profitable idea for those who want some action but are happy to start with small stakes and build slowly.Please read […]
On my last post, 11th July ‘The Inform Racing Race Cards’, I discussed three methods that had recently provided good winning bets using the ratings and one of these was following top distance winners. On the Inform Racing race cards, there is a Distance column (Dis) and this gives the best speed rating for each […]
Since All Weather racing (AW) began back in 1989 it has had its ups and downs and changes over the years, but now with six AW tracks up and down the country and more soon to follow I believe, UK ‘dirt racing’ is now as popular as ever. With the increase in quality horses running […]
Why do we bet? There must be a good reason because there are thousands and thousands of punters who constantly give their money away like they would hate to do in other areas of their life. ‘I just got charged nearly £12 for two pints, I was robbed!’ they scream, yet they quite happily whack twenty quid […]
Van Der Wheil ratings or VDW ratings as they are usually known are a way of rating a horse by its class or ability and form. It was created quite a few years ago by the mysterious writer, Che Van Der Wheil and nicknamed the Flying Dutchman, who wrote his notes in the old Sporting Chronicle […]
There are times when we all need to review our betting and going over some of the most important things once or twice a year can never be a bad thing.Here are five things that you may want to look at and see if you can improve on any of these to help your betting, […]
If you find a system or betting method that doesn’t win every time but doesn’t often have long losing runs, you may be keen to use a recovery staking plan that involves increasing your stakes to recover all losses. You may also want to take yourself down to the doctors at the same time and […]