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In-Running Week: Betting strategies for a trio of National Hunt horses

Neil Munro / 30 September 2010 / Leave a comment

UK racing expert Neil Munro turns his attention to the winter game...Read more »

Simon Rowlands' Betting Masterclass: Understand sectionals and gain an edge!

Simon Rowlands / 31 August 2010 / 16 Comments

Britain is the only 'major' racing jurisdiction not to publish sectionals and, while this is lamentable, it gives you the chance to get ahead of the masses. Provided you can put the work in......Read more »

Summer Jumpers To Follow: Time To Get It On!

Rory Delargy / 30 August 2010 / Leave a comment

Another week of summer jumping has thrown up another few reluctant heroes, but there are always angles with winners, whether good, bad or indifferent, writes Rory Delargy....Read more »

Summer Jumpers To Follow: Weekend Review

Rory Delargy / 25 August 2010 / Leave a comment

I moaned that the lack of decent races had made the summer jumps season a bit of a let down outside of the top 2 or 3 days, but Newton Abbot's Saturday card reminded us all how good the top days can be, and provided us with plenty to cheer....Read more »

Summer Jumpers To Follow: Newton Abbot Preview

Rory Delargy / 21 August 2010 / Leave a comment

It's been hard work on the summer jumping front of late, with the quality and location of racing (every other meeting seems to be at Worcester) meaning it's been hard to find horses capable of winning more than a couple of races without either being murdered by the handicapper or kept aside for the better class racing in the autumn. This weekend sees us spoilt for choice, however with a quality mini-festival at Newton Abbot supported by action from Perth...Read more »

Betting Strategy: Converting ratings to odds

Simon Rowlands / 04 August 2010 / 7 Comments

Our 'god of odds', Simon Rowlands, shares his thoughts on judging a horse's price based on its rating...Read more »

Summer Jumpers To Follow: A spate of winners?

Rory Delargy / 01 August 2010 / Leave a comment

Rory Delargy digs out another three to follow (or avoid) over the sticks in this week's instalment....Read more »

Betting Strategy: Translating draw and form into a back/lay price

Simon Rowlands / 31 July 2010 / 1 Comments

We all make mistakes in life and unfortunately for Simon Rowlands, we BB editors dropped a massive clanger this week when we failed to publish the following article before Friday's action at Goodwood. Typically our midweek master blogger called the first three in the totesport Handicap. Some will call this classic aftertiming, they are wrong and we won't publish any comments suggesting it. Plainly put, it is idiocy on our parts, and we will publish comments saying as much....Read more »

In-Running Week: Why trainer form matters

Neil Munro / 22 July 2010 / Leave a comment

Neil Munro contrasts the recent fortunes of two leading trainers to explain why the form of the men behind the runners and riders must be considered by in-running punters....Read more »

Betting Strategy: Know your own ratings, trust your own ratings

Simon Rowlands / 20 July 2010 / 7 Comments

Simon Rowlands rounds off his series of pieces about creating your own ratings and uses Saturday's big race, The Betfair King George VI, to illustrate his findings......Read more »

Summer Jumpers To Follow: Mid-season Update

Rory Delargy / 14 July 2010 / Leave a comment

As we approach the end of July, it seems an appropriate time to recap on recent results and find some fresh jumping blood with which to go to war....Read more »

Simon Rowlands on Race Standardisation: Handicaps explained

Simon Rowlands / 14 July 2010 / 2 Comments

Our expert blogger continues his series on race standardisation with an in-depth look at assessing handicaps...Read more »

Summer Jumpers To Follow: Summer Plate Special

Rory Delargy / 12 July 2010 / Leave a comment

It's been a quiet couple of weeks on the summer jumping front, with quantity running out a comfortable winner over quality, but Saturday sees one of the highlights of the season when Market Rasen hosts a card featuring the totescoop6 Summer Hurdle and the totesport.com Summer Plate. Rory Delargy has been poring over the entries....Read more »

Simon Rowlands on Race Standardisation: A tried and trusted way to read form

Simon Rowlands / 06 July 2010 / 2 Comments

BB's top racing bblogger gets technical again in the first part of a three week series - prepare for Fibonacci Sequences, Zipf's Laws and more...Read more »

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