Backing horses on soft and heavy going
Should You Back Horses on Soft or Heavy Ground, or Are These Races Best Avoided? One of the first things many experienced punters check when looking through the day’s racing isn’t the runners, the form or even the betting prices. It’s the going. And when they see ‘Soft’, ‘Heavy’ or perhaps ‘Soft, Heavy in Places’, […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
Where To Find Over 70% Of All Winners
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 […]
Jump Racing Tutorial
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 […]
Exacta Betting
If you have ever wondered about playing the exotic bets, those are the bets that are mostly placed at the Tote such as Trifectas and Placepots etc, then I have recently been looking at a way of making the Exacta bet pay and over the last few weeks, there have been a good few winning […]
Laying The Field
One trade you may consider on horse racing markets is to ‘lay the field at odds-on’. Take a look at how many horses get beaten these days at odds-on in-running – it means punters are over-reacting and losing, so why not be on the other side of that and profit from it? Objective To create […]