Cheveley Park Stakes There has only been one winning favourite in the past six years and so even though Sacred Bridge will be coming into this unbeaten, it pays to look beyond the obvious in this contest. Sandrine lost her unbeaten record to Zain Claudette in the Lowther Stakes and back off level weights, there

Four long days ahead of us, then, as we arrive in good time on Wednesday for the first of the week’s “picks” to decide where we’ll be betting. It’s something new for me this week – normally at York I’m either on the rail, or working on the front line, but the firm have bought

I have said before and repeat again here that backing in multiples is just as valid a staking method as singles. The math’s work out the same except, of course, the strike rate goes down and so, therefore, must the unit stake.  E.g., you have two even money winners. In the one case you bet £1 single win on each so your return is

Many have struggled with the meaning of the word ‘Value’: in particular how to spot value in various markets. So let’s look at some practical comparisons that may help you to fully understand and spot it more easily. Many have their own take on it but here’s mine; In a non-betting setting, we all know

A fair bit is made of the ground for the Sprint Cup, mainly because we know how soft it can get underfoot at Haydock. So, in the past five renewals, the ground has officially been soft or worse. But in the seven years prior, it was no worse than good to soft, including multiple running’s

Losing lots of money is never much fun but, in all experiences, there are usually lessons to learn and how you bounce back from set-backs is what shapes the future. In this article I’m briefly going back in time to talk about how one bad experience helped shape my future as a horse racing fan

In your quest to make betting profits never overlook the power and simplicity of each-way staking as part of your armoury for bookie bashing. Only recently it came in mighty handy for me with a recent run of seconds that I thought was never going to end. I had no less than 7, yes 7

The internet has been great for betting. We now have so many tools at our disposal as bettors – sites like Oddschecker that let us compare the bookies’ odds at the touch of a button, vast information resources like Timeform and the Racing Post, betting exchanges that allow us to set the odds and bet

The Racing Horse offers their Newmarket July Racecourse Template for Friday 6 August 2021. The going is expected to be good to firm.  BEST CATEGORY FAVOURITE: Juveniles (2yo & 3yo) favourites in non-handicaps fare best at this course showing 82-194 for 42.27% (-5.87 to SP). Good housekeeping could easily turn this small loss into a