Contents Introduction: Value Betting — The Most Misunderstood Goldmine in Horse Racing Let’s get one thing straight before we even start: Value betting is not about finding winners. It’s about finding bets where the odds are in your favour. That’s a big difference—and if you can get your head around it, you’ll already be miles…
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Contents Why Do You Bet? Well that’s an obvious question, you bet because you’re trying to win money. Really? So think about that time when you bet your mates you could climb a tree, there was no financial gain, it was about proving a point. Or when you bet them that the girl at the…
Contents Does Cheating in Horse Racing Exist? You’ve probably heard the apocryphal story from decades ago, a punter is leaning on the rails at the unsaddling enclosure after a 2 year old maiden race. As the jockey dismounts the trainer enquires how the horse had shaped in the race. “Well I could’ve beaten those in…
Dutching has become a go-to strategy for savvy bettors today. Though its origins are fascinating, Dutching’s real charm lies in its simplicity. Dutching allows you to spread your risk by backing multiple horses in a race. With calculated stakes, you can secure a profit regardless of the winner—perfect for the risk-averse. This method appeals to…
I remember it like it was yesterday, the launch of Betfair in 2000. You never see a poor bookie, the bookie always wins, well this was the chance to log on to Betfair, lay odds on favourites that you didn’t fancy and nick a few quid laying the rags that stood no chance. Of course,…
Horses wear headgear in races to improve their racing. It may be to block vision, or to hold the tongue in position to prevent it blocking an airway, or any number of other reasons. There are seven types of headgear in use in horse racing, and these are: It may improve the racing for the…
Introduction Welcome to this article on laying the favourites in horse racing. This guide has taken multiple people hundreds of hours to compile. Whilst we are only showing some of the statistics found through the research process, there was a huge amount of data analysis to find these. If you’re interested in analysing this data…
Also known as speed figures, speed ratings are numbers used to denote the ability of a horse on a given day. There are different types of ratings and calculations which are all considered to be speed ratings, just different versions. For a long time, the belief was that speed ratings were mainly useful in American…
There are two ratings available on the Race Advisor website, the PR (Power Rating) rating and the VDW (Van Der Wheil) rating. You can access them by registering or logging in to your account. To access these ratings for every race is just £0.87 per day, and you can access them on a day-by-day basis,…
Humankind has engaged in horse racing for millennia. There are records of chariot racing dating back to ancient times, with the sport a feature of the Greek Olympics in the 7th century BC. While UK racecourses such as Newmarket were established in the 1600s, it wasn’t until the second half of the 1700s that horse…