I have not posted for a while as I have been trying to keep my betting bank afloat. Now I have time to count the wounded and bury the dead from my many skirmishes with the bookies and Betfairians, I thought I would post my thoughts on betting in...

Good drifters can pay dividends. Below is an example of a horse that is a bad drifter. Pre race the favourite Barq ticked all boxes in respect to recent form, stable/jockey, ratings etc etc. I was not planning to bet in the race as he was top of my...

As I mentioned in this post, I have spent significant time recently researching spread betting to expand my betting portfolio What I will say now is spread betting is not for the faint hearted. Not because most spread betting companies plaster...

It’s always folly to tempt the patience of the gambling gods but a pleasing set of results yesterday Southwell 9th March - Contenders 4:10 Kings Ace Louisiade 2nd Madison Belle 1st @ 7/1 4.40 Exit Smiling Mozayada Trans Sonic 1st @...

As normal my dog Muttley woke me up early for his morning constitutional and food. Border Terriers are a stomach on legs so can be persistent in the pursuit of a tasty morsel even at 6:30 am Sunday morning. Instead of firing up my Nokia E72 to...

Haven’t posted Decembers results, unfortunately they will tell me something I already know. The only benefit of spending all afternoon in Corals earlier this week was that it enabled me to observe each race on the Southwell card from early show to...

Not as bad as the nations finances, unfortunately my betting bank took a battering this month. My “when I become professional” fund is “invested” tucked away in physical gold for the interim therefore the relatively small sums I’m betting now...

For those of you who are not regular readers of my blog, the foundation stone of my handicapping is pace analysis. For the approach to work, one requires a knowledge of the prevailing track pace bias. Previous at Wolverhampton any horse drawn low...

Spent a far part of yesterday evening internalising my previous post and reading my past thoughts on the subject of contender selection in low grade races. In recognition that the fact that I am modifying my handicapping approach based on the grade of...