From the desk of Andrew David If you’re really serious about making betting profits, then don’t overlook the obvious. I recently had an email from a chap I will call ‘Peter’ who was having problems with continuing to bet when he encountered losing runs of 7 or 8 from the strategy he was following. I

Successful betting on racing – or indeed anything – relies on being able to accurately quantify, at least to some degree, the likelihood of something happening. There are myriad ways of doing this and, increasingly, punters are using data and statistics to isolate that most elusive of concepts, value. At the most basic level are

Matt Bisogno, creator of geegeez.co.uk and its premium racing form service, Geegeez Gold writes for us this month. A racing fan for more than 30 years, he has spent half of that time online sharing his experiences with like-minded bettors. The last seven years have been dedicated to creating the most intuitive and powerful set

From the Desk of Andrew David Narrowing the field. Many moons ago when mobile phones were the size of a brick I had regular contact with a pro-gambling friend who specialised in races with small field sizes, usually less than 8 runners. He would then use a process of elimination of each runner based on

Over the past few years, I have looked at in play betting in horse racing and I am returning to this topic for this article. I have looked at flat racing data in 2020 (UK racing) and decided to concentrate on my favoured type of race namely sprint handicaps. I consider 5 and 6 furlong

This is a hugely difficult time for you all, this country and indeed the world. For racing fans there is currently a huge void and I hope this article will in some small part fill that void albeit temporarily. At the time of writing I have no idea about when racing will start again. My

The 2020 Turf Flat Season was delayed due to the pandemic Coronavirus which caused all the racing in Great Britain to be postponed from Wednesday 18th March. We had the opportunity to savour the Cheltenham Festival but just a few days later it became apparent that it was necessary to stop racing and, although they

I’m writing this month’s article on what should have been the eve of Newmarket’s Craven Meeting. I should have been talking about the first two English Classics, Chester’s May Festival and York’s Dante Meeting. Sadly, the world is the grip of what looks like the worst pandemic since the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918. No

The 2020 Turf Flat Season is due to get underway on Saturday 28th March with the traditional curtain raising meeting at Doncaster. The Unibet sponsored meeting features the Lincoln heritage Handicap worth £100,000 in prize money. Given the status of the opening Big Handicap of the new season we will begin this edition with the

Without UK racing taking place, a lot of people have turned to U.S. racing to place their bets. It’s understandable, along with Australia it’s the only place in the world with horse racing taking place. I started my journey in betting on U.S. race tracks, and if you’re going to bet on them it’s important