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Racehorse Ownership - Views & Experiences of a Syndicate Member

Racehorse Ownership - Views & Experiences of a Syndicate Member

Racehorse Ownership - Views & Experiences of a SyndicateMemberEver since my very first days of being on a racecourse aged around10 year olds whilst attending the St Leger at Doncaster with myfamily, I've always been greatly interested in & fascinated
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How To Secure The Best Value Bets During The Turf Flat Season

How To Secure The Best Value Bets During The Turf Flat Season

The purpose of this blog is to provide readers with some guidelineson assessing value wagers during the European turf flat racingseason.Millions of pounds will be won and lost by punters and thebookmakers during the turf flat season and it is
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Ante-Post betting - is it still a viable betting medium?

Ante-Post betting - is it still a viable betting medium?

It's 8am on the Tuesday morning of the Cheltenham festival, I'msitting down to watch "the morning line" before heading toCheltenham for the OLBG meet-up. Rich Ricci is on the show, andthey ask him about Vautour. Given Ricci had stated many
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Essential Guide To The Cheltenham Festival 2026

Essential Guide To The Cheltenham Festival 2026

Essential Guide To The Cheltenham Festival - Blog Links, Travel Tips and Betting Tips. It's all gone tips up! Four days a year, the chance of a lifetime and unique in the world of horse racing.
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25 Lessons to Help Improve Your Horse Racing Betting.

25 Lessons to Help Improve Your Horse Racing Betting.

With the Cheltenham Festival looming a reminder of members advice to improve your betting.At the beginning of the year we asked OLBG members for their Horse Racing Lessons. Below are some of their edited thoughts in no particular order.
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Cheltenham Festival - How To Secure The Best Value Bets

Cheltenham Festival - How To Secure The Best Value Bets

The purpose of this blog is to provide readers with some guidelines on assessing value wagers during the Cheltenham National Hunt Racing Festival. There are few events in the sporting calendar that offer as many betting opportunities as the Cheltenham Festival
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The Biggest Coup In Racing History

The Biggest Coup In Racing History

In these days of mobile phones and the internet,on course bookmakers being kept in the dark by a man monopolising a telephone box at a racecourse sounds almost like make believe, but on 26th June 1975 it happened.
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Cheltenham Staking Plans

Cheltenham Staking Plans

Many people go to these top class meetings and often think they canback every winner in every race, most of us go there with theintention of not backing in every race as we know it's almostimpossible to go through the
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In Defence Of Bookmakers - Part Two

In Defence Of Bookmakers - Part Two

In the first part of thisblog I set out the argument which is often given why bookmakersshouldn't close accounts; that argument goes that bookmakers canmake money with the help of winning punters, because winningpunters teach bookmakers where their odds are
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In Defence Of Bookmakers

In Defence Of Bookmakers

Much has been written about the closure ofaccounts by bookmakers recently, a good example is Jim Brown'sexcellent blog on this site. The issue was also covered on theradio by Five Live Investigates recently and is discussed at lengthin the final
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