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1. Sometimes the clock lies
2. Racing is like psychology – always pay attention to a horses behaviour pre-race
3. The better the race the more info you have
1. 99% of people involved in racing know next to nothing about it.
2. Never believe anything you read in the Racing Post.
3. Never take form at face value.1. An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
2. People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.
3. Bears are more scared of you, than you are of them (except some dancing bears who have Bad-Boy attitude’s).Everyday is a learning day…
1. Competitive handicap Sprints really are a lottery.
2. Do not dismiss the obvious and avoid over simplifying.
3. Going is a significant factor in winner finding and should never be overlooked.
Gambling Only Pays When You're Winning
1. If you cant handle losing runs you are DOOMED to failure as a gambler.
2. The RAW ability of the horse is the most important factor and often overlooked.
3. Bookmakers are the most successful gamblers of the lot, we can learn so much from their methods.1) Trust only what you see with your own eyes.
2) Heed the advice of others at your own peril and do
NOT
, under any circumstances, complain when their advice proves to be flawed. You only have yourself to blame for following it in the first place.
3) If you bet is a losing bet it is your fault and nobody elses – nobody forced you to make the bet in the first place. If a bet wins accept the good fortune with ggod grace. If it loses, nobody wants to hear your "hard luck" story.
Mine are as follows
1 Trust your own instinct and judgement when analysing a race, you will be amazed how many times you can get it right.
2 Bookmakers are never broke and never get poor, They know more about accounting and finance than the current Government.
3 You DONT have to get an ANGLE on every single race.
1. Never change your mind once you have picked which horse(s) you are going to back.
2. If you like the look of something, don’t be put off by what it says in the racecard/paper/anybody else’s opinion
3a If you don’t like the jockey but like the horse, back it anyway – the horse will get the idiot on board out of trouble most of the time. And if not that time, stick with the horse in the future.
3b 99.9% of people involved in racing know next to nothing about it.
3. Bears are more scared of you, than you are of them
Early on in the American Civil War, Ulysses S Grant was a little bit nervous about a battle that was going to happen the next day over the hill.
Well, next morning when they got there he found out that the opposing commander had moved his troops away.
After that, Grant didn’t worry too much for the rest of the War, as the other guy is just as scared of you, as you are of him.
1) Watch races with the sound off when betting in running.
2) Never bet more than you can afford to lose.
3) Trust your own judgement, so don’t be tempted to changed your mind cos a tipster states something.1) Check form of horse and if successful over distance, ground, similar course, with same jockey, ignore recent duck eggs.
2) Look for patterns and also combinations of owner/trainer/jockey.
3) Don’t bet more than you can afford to lose.
– Trust your own instinct
– Find out what type of races you do best in and stick to these
– Follow Mullins & Walsh
You can read form, figures, etc… on the internet, but either seeing the run of a horse with your own eye at a racecourse, or online via a replay, is so much better as you can judge it with your own approach.
The ground is one of the most important factors in deciding if a horse will run well or not.
There is a fine line between what is classed as ‘in it’s breeding’ and what previous generations have been trained to do, in terms of distances.
1. If you cant handle losing runs you are DOOMED to failure as a gambler.
2. The RAW ability of the horse is the most important factor and often overlooked.
3. Bookmakers are the most successful gamblers of the lot, we can learn so much from their methods.Interesting stuff CR- can you expand a bit on what you mean by a horse’s raw ability and how that might be measured?
Question absolutely everything you hear/read/watch in racing. Never accept that because somebody has ridden a horse, owned a horse or trained a horse they know more than you.
If you’re a punter, accept that a large number of individuals working within the sport of horse-racing think you’re vermin.
Keep out of the black, and in of the red, there’s nothing in this game….
…sorry, wrong bit of advice
Don’t be scared off by a big price and as cyril stein’s dad told me 35 years ago, punters walk home ,bookies are chauffeur driven.
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1. Visual form (Video) is better than any form book
2. It’s not the quailty of a race a horse wins that counts it’s the quality of the opposition it beats and how he did it.
3. Cheltenham: Most early season form isn’t worth a pinch of salt and leads to false AP favs. If you don’t have definite fancy before the start of the season don’t bet AP until Xmas or after.
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