Blogs: Horse Racing

With only a couple of weeks to go before the start of theCheltenham festival bookmakers are beginning to fall overthemselves to attract business, and special offers will be flyingaround in the coming days. A couple of firms have already offeredthe

You cannot deny the Irish have been getting the upper hand at the Cheltenham Festival, we look back to see what their numbers are and where they have been excelling.

The jockey is an important part of a horse race but how much of our decision to back a horse should revolve around who will be riding it? Is the jockey as important to the race as other factors?

If you ask most horse racing fans what the biggest mug bets aresome of the most common answers you'll hear are forecasts andtricasts. I've found these two types of bet to be my biggest moneymakers in recent seasons and I'd

Does The Lead Up To The Cheltenham Festival Mean February Is ANo-Punting Zone?Thoughts Please! Today was one of those days at Kempton, myfirst strong each way fancy Comeonginger was an eyecatching fourth,just outside the places and my next strong fancy

Every year there are certain stats and trends which seem to repeatthemselves and often they are great pointers in finding winners atCheltenham. The National Hunt season has been disrupted frequentlythis season with the weather making it difficult for trainers tokeep

A lot of punters make many decisions based on market movements inhorse racing, a drift is enough to put some people off backing arunner whilst contracting odds are sometimes deemed enough of apositive to make someone back the horse at

This might seem a bit early for some but believe it or not the flatseason is just a couple of months away and the 3yo season hasalready begun on the all weather.I'm not sure if this is what everyone does

Daily the bookmakers price up the races and with those figures they create a percentage on the race. Each price equates to a percentage, these percentages then add up to a total for the runners in a race.

Punters can easily be misled or misinterpret the wealth of information that is available on sports betting. You always need to be wary and check the source of the information, the validity of the argument, and why it is even being spoken about.