Last week we updated some of the features on the website race cards to help make the form reading of a race even easier than it was before. Pop Up #1 The main pop up is now colour coded so that you can easily distinguish between race codes. For flat racing, turf races are shown […]
As you know I am always looking for new system ideas when using the speed ratings that I can share with subscribers and another simple, yet so far effective idea came to me during the racing last Saturday afternoon, which has proved a profitable place betting system using the speed ratings. I started playing around […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]