One aspect of horse racing that has had little coverage over the years from a stats based perspective is the performance of female horses. Female horses make up around a third of all racehorses and their age determines whether they are known as fillies or mares. Fillies are female horses aged 4 or younger; mares…
My latest draw bias research (turf and all weather) The flat season starts in roughly a month’s time and this article looks at some of the draw bias research I have done over the winter. It is important to not leave your research to the last minute, as one wants to be fully primed, with…
I am looking at staying handicap chases and whether there are any patterns and trends that will give us, the punter, some sort of edge over the ‘crowd’. For a staying chase I have decided on a race distance of at least 3 miles. I have looked at just under 6 years of data from…
One dilemma that faces punters from time to time is when a trainer runs two or more runners in a race. Which one to you pick? Do you split your stake and back all their runners? Do you leave the race alone? Do you just pick the most fancied runner? This article will hopefully help…
Are you ready to create a laying system? I remember when the betting exchanges, most notably Betfair, took off and it was not long before the schemers and scammers were flooding the online betting product markets with laying systems. With the exchanges being a relatively novel idea, these products sold well with people being sucked…