Laying Horses At Big Prices
This blog post is an updated version that was first posted in 2024 and has been updated with new ideas and results.Laying horses is completely different to backing horses of course and carries quite a large risk, especially if you are laying horses at fairly big prices. Depending on the price of an unsuccessful lay, it […]
How To Make Money When Backing Favourites
I was looking at the stats regarding the favourites recently and as you will probably be aware, they generally win about 35% of all races.This figure has increased over the past few years, probably down to how accurate the odds have become on the betting exchanges and predominantly Betfair.I say accurate, but of course this […]
What is Dutch Betting?
Dutching or Dutch Betting, is a betting expression that means to back more than one horse or outcome rather than just bet on the one.Before the betting exchanges emerged, dutch betting was used as a way of laying horses, by simply backing everything else in the race against the horse you wanted to ‘lay’.Now it […]
Top Distance Winners
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Are Market Movers Worth Following
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 […]
