Betfair Horse Racing Trading: A Beginner’s Guide
In recent years, Betfair horse racing trading has become an increasingly popular alternative to traditional horse racing betting. Rather than simply backing a horse and waiting for the result, trading involves analysing price movements and attempting to take advantage of changes in the market. For somebody new to trading, it can initially seem daunting. Terms […]
How Can Horse Racing Betting Strategies Improve Your Approach to Race Analysis?
Horse racing is a sport in which many different factors can affect the outcome of a race. Punters have a considerable amount of information to assess, from recent form and speed ratings to race distance, jockey performance, trainer statistics and movements in the betting market. The real difficulty isn’t necessarily finding the information. It’s knowing […]
How Can a Betting Forecast Tool Improve Horse Racing Analysis?
Betting on horse racing can involve analysing a considerable amount of information before deciding whether a selection is worth further consideration. Recent form, speed ratings, race conditions, trainer and jockey statistics, market prices and historical performance can all play a role when assessing a race. With so much information to consider, organising and analysing it […]
Building Your First Betting System That Survives Contact With Reality
Building a profitable horse racing betting system sounds easy enough. Find something that appears to work, test it against previous results, add a few filters to improve the profit and then start betting the selections. Unfortunately, this is also how some very impressive-looking betting systems are created that subsequently fall apart as soon as they’re […]
Pace Maps and Draw Bias: Reading a Race Before It Is Run
Every runner has a habitual run style: led, prominent, mid-division or held up. Plot those styles across the field and you get a pace map — a picture of how the early part of the race is likely to unfold.
How to Read Speed Ratings and Spot a Horse the Market Has Missed
Speed figures tell you what a horse actually did, not what the handicapper thinks it can do. Here is how to read last, best and average figures together.
Backing Favourites and Short Priced Horses
The reality is that favourites and short priced horses are responsible for more damaged betting banks than outsiders ever will be. The reason is simple. Winning and making a profit are not the same thing. A favourite only needs to lose occasionally to cause serious damage if the price is short enough. Take a horse […]
The Epsom ‘Dash’ – The Worlds Fastest 5f Sprint
The Epsom Dash is one of the most unique and exciting sprint races in British racing. Run over just 5 furlongs at Epsom Downs Racecourse during Derby weekend, it is widely regarded as the fastest five furlongs in the world because of the severe downhill nature of the track. Horses race downhill for almost the […]
Recording Your Bets
One of the best things any punter can do – whether you place one £2 each way bet on a Saturday or take your racing very seriously – is record every single bet they place. Not just the winning bets.Not just the big priced winners.All of them. Because memory is one of the biggest liars […]
Thoughts from a professional gambler
Can this advice help you gain more from your betting? Paul has just turned 21 and likes a flutter at the weekends. He isn’t silly with his betting but over time he loses what he has won and ends up a little frustrated. His uncled Bernard is a full time pro gambler. Whilst this doesn’t […]