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Horse racing, betting, researchers, tipsters. Our who’s who.
What do punters, bookies, professors, and programmers increasingly have in common? Data R is for Racing is a longstanding book project dedicated to analysing British horse racing using R, the powerful and accessible statistical programming language. I started working on it with Professor Jay Emerson of Yale University a number of years ago, with the…
We asked the winner of our Summer Tipster Competition, Paul Slattery, to tell us a little about himself and where his love for horse racing came from, his working day, and his opinion on tipping and those bookmakers. Hi, thanks very much! My name is Paul, and I am very pleased to have won the…
This month we are going to try something a little different and the bad news is, it means a touch more work for you (sorry about that). Now we all have very different ways of trying to hunt down some winners, but many of us look at the “holy trinity” of going, distance and class…
In last month’s article, we examined whether the BHA’s official handicap race ratings offered more meaningful insight than the broad-brush class labels (Class 1 to 6). Handicap ratings, such as 0–105, define eligibility thresholds and implicitly signal the standard of competition. By segmenting these rating bands within each class and tracking movement between them, we…
Intelligent Filters A night out with a few of my trader/gambling buddies certainly shows how times change when it comes to finding angles to keep ahead of the game. One fundamental rule never changes however and that is to look for markets where value may be overlooked by the masses. One way of doing this…