Northumberland Plate Last seasons Northumberland Plate was a bit of an anomaly, with horses rated as low as 84 getting into the race. Usually, you would need to be in the 90s to make the cut, so that’s where I’m focusing my attention. The one sticking out to me off a mark of 94 is

I’ve been testing a system recently and it’s been emotional, a bit of a roller coaster. Do you get that feeling when you follow something that seems to work, it keeps making profit, but you just keep expecting it to fail. I’m quite positive about most things but have to be cynical about betting systems

Years of gambling have instilled in me an automatic response to always look for edges and solve problems. That mindset has spilled over into non-gambling areas of my life, too. For example, one of my major gripes in life – and no doubt one of yours – is queuing. It is particularly annoying at supermarkets

Queen Mary The juvenile races can be quite tricky to size up at this stage, but when horses grab you, I like to take advantage. Clive Cox’s Get Ahead was very professional on her debut when she won at Ascot, beating a horse with previous experience. She wasn’t keen, knew her job well and asserted

After a prolonged dry spell, it is fair to say mother nature is getting her own back, typified by the abandonment of Chepstow and Newton Abbot in the second week of May due to standing water. We have had some joy as well over the last few weeks with some horses and riders featured in

It has been around six months since I looked at ‘in play’ betting in horse racing and I am returning to this idea for my latest piece. I have used UK flat racing data from the last four full seasons (2017 to 2020). This is a more general piece than my last one and I

I just want to touch on market drifters and what to make of a ‘drift’ in terms of whether they should be avoided? There is a saying in regards to live betting shows in that ‘the market gets it wrong more than it gets it right’. This is certainly the case when observing traditional bookmakers

Bet365 Gold Cup The final day of the UK jumps season is often a great one to watch – especially if the sun is beaming down. It is no surprise that the bet365 Gold Cup is the big betting race of the day, being a classic staying handicap chase. You often have to expect long

Luckily for us we had some success in my previous column with Thomas Cochrane winning at Kempton and Flyin’ Solo and Maketh Believeth showing up very well in defeat, the latter at a huge price in novice company. I’m very much looking forward to seeing him in handicap company on the grass this summer, as