I was at the London Racing Club in Gloucester Road last night. So were the Hill's: Lawney, National Hunt (mainly) trainer; husband, Alan, point/hunter trainer; and, son Joe, amateur rider and doubtless someday trainer. Very pleasant company they were too. Coaxed and cajoled - not that much of either was needed - by Racing UK's […]
Backing winners is about more than just horse form. As runners get more experience, and become more exposed, so they become more quantifiable in their own right. But for the first part of a horse's career the modus operandi of its trainer is often a more effective barometer of win probability than what a particular […]
What makes a good bet? Obviously, after the event, any winner is ostensibly a good bet, but many winners are still more 'lucky' than 'good'. In this post, I want to share an approach to finding good bets which has served me very well down the years, and which has been built right into the […]
In this latest instalment of the Oc-Tote-ber series, let's take a look at the exacta, a bet which requires the player to nominate the first and second placed horses in the correct order. The exacta is a pool bet, which means the dividend is declared by dividing the total number of winning tickets by the […]
In the first part of an Oc-TOTE-ber series of articles on tote betting, I'm going to look at multi-race tactics. This post is specifically focused on selection methods, whereas part 2 - which will follow tomorrow - will look into optimal staking strategies. Both hemispheres will improve your ability to navigate the choppy waters of a […]
How To Use The New Speed Ratings Unless you've had your eyes closed and your fingers in your ears, you'll have heard me talking about the new speed ratings we've added to the Geegeez Gold package. They sit right within the card itself - and we're working on adding them to the pace tab too, […]
In the good old days, punters used to talk about 'the three D's'. These were discipline, discipline and discipline. Many of you - like me - will relate to that readily enough, as selectivity is generally the key to success in betting. But in the modern day betting supermarket, where the exact same product (i.e. […]
ColossusBets Review: Win £10,000,000 A bet with a £10,000,000 jackpot is always going to capture the imagination. And I've spent the last couple of weeks playing around with the site that offers that bet, and plenty of other less headline-grabbing ones, ColossusBets. Who are ColossusBets? Colossus Bets are a fairly new company, who started trading last year. […]
Last weekend saw the third and fourth Classics of the British flat season run at Epsom, with both the Oaks and Derby winners making headlines with their successes. But the TV audience was lower - strikingly lower - than for the same pair of races last year, and just half of the figures of a […]
There are some racing jurisdictions in the racing world where pace is as fundamental a 'handicapping' tool as you can get. In places like America, even beginner bettors understand the concepts of pace and its likely effect on race outcomes. Strange, then, that for so long pace has been completely overlooked by UK punters. The […]
The Cheltenham Festival 2014 is almost upon us and, with the unending bombardment of data, stats, bookie offers, stable whispers, preview nights, and tips (many of them emanating from these virtual pages, it should be added!), it can be hard to see the winning wood from the information overload trees. So, in this post, I'll […]
A tweet by an American racing scribe last night piqued my interest regarding the equivalent issue of field size here in the UK. @o_crunk posted the following: Stateside, the year on year (y-o-y) decline from an average of 8.16 runners per race to an average of 7.86 equates to just shy of a 4% reduction. […]
This is the end, beautiful friend This is the end, my only friend, the end Of our elaborate plans, the end Jim Morrison had it about right, when he warbled the above with The Doors. After deep consideration, and with a very heavy heart, I've decided that it's time for me to walk away from […]
I've been reading a book by a young Irish fellow called Kevin Blake. It's about betting on horses, and specifically it's about how he made over £40,000 from betting on horses this year on Irish flat racing. The keys, you may not be surprised to learn, were discipline, selectivity, discipline, form study, discipline, specialization, and […]
As of the end of February 2014, there are now numerous new - and very cool - features within the geegeez racecards. Below is a video which explains how the main features work. It's well worth a watch. SUBSCRIBERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO DOWNLOAD THE LATEST VERSION OF THE USER GUIDE HERE The New Geegeez Racecards Beneath […]
