Betting to win
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
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 […]
Recovery Staking And How To Flip It For A Profit
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 […]
Each Way Betting
Having posted a few each way bets lately myself I thought it may be a worthwhile exercise to look a little deeper into these bets and to see if there are any ways to improve the success rate overall or whether ditching the bet as a waste of time would be better.To those who don’t […]
Decrease Your Expectations And Increase Your Success
When we start betting the majority of us start reading about the professional gamblers who make a living from their betting and we start to dream about making thousands of pounds every week. Unfortunately this can be a major problem before we even start because the expectation has been set too high. Do you think that […]
Betting The Favourites For A Profit
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 […]
Use The Experts Views To Find Winners – Stats Reveal 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 […]