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Santa Anita Park This is the first of a set of featured posts detailing the trends of Favourites racing on the U.S. Race Tracks taking into account just the distances and race types.In the UK the considered average strike rate for winning favourites hovers around the 33% mark. This figure for Santa Anita Park, In January 2026 is an Impressive 44% with an average BSP of 2.75. Backing to a £1.00…

Most Horseracing websites that offer tips or insights usually give profit figures that are set to a level stake plan such as £1.00 level stakes or 1 point level stakes where 1 point equals your set stake like £1.00, £2.00, £5.00 etc. Unless you have a high strike rate with reasonable odds then this is usually unprofitable. Backing favourites is a classic example of this where in UK racing the…

Putting my research into practice I set aside a £10.00 “Bank” and at the start of the tournament started laying the top 10 seeded players for a liability of £1.00. These were in order of seeding:1. Sabalenka2. Gauff3. Pegula4. Paolini5. Zheng6. Keys7. Andreeva8. Swiatek9. Badosa10. Navarro Round 1 The 1st round saw 4 of the top 10 seeds lose, namely Gauff, Pegula, Zheng, and Badosa. Gauff, the…

The ASB Classic is the first WTA 250 tournament of the year on the WTA 250 Tour. Comprising of 32 players competing for tour points and prize money that will advance their world standings as the points accumulate. As with other posts in this series I will be looking at the fate of the top eight seeded players for each tournament furthering my own research into making small profits by laying these…

The Eastbourne Open is held each year at Devonshire Park in the week preceding the Wimbledon Grand Slam Tournament and is part of the WTA 250 tour. Open to 32 players in the singles tournament, I will be looking at the fates this year of the top 8 seeds in my ongoing research into laying seeded players on the WTA tour. This year the top 8 seeded players…

Before the year 2000 you would have to go back to 1962 to find a player out of the top 5 seeding in the ladies tournament that won. Since and including 2000 there have only been 10 players that were within the top 5 seeding that have won the ladies tournament. Where did these players fall by the wayside and what odds on the exchange could you lay them off at?2024 saw 31 seed Krejcikova winning…

I have recently subscribed to the Sun’s Templegate tipline where I get his next day tips before 6pm the previous day to running. This costs just £3.00 per month which is a whole lot cheaper than buying the paper everyday. Using the secure staking plan on TSM (The Staking Machine) and editing the settings to a £10.00 Bank and a Maximum stake percentage of 10%. This staking plan graduates the…

Yesterday I showed you how to create a basic query in TSMs’ Selection Hunter to find some likely winners using the back test mode to discover any trends and it came up with the following 3 horsesThe selections are 13:50 Stage Star14:25 Copperhead15:00 Sunray Shadow.If you missed it you can read the post here13:50 Stage Star Stage Star met the provisional odds criteria of between 2.00 and 2.99 but…

There is a new addition to the TSM armoury called the Selection Hunter and it does exactly what it says! By entering criteria in a series of easy to use drop boxes in its user interface you can quickly build a module/query that shows the runners for today. As a demonstration I will build a query for todays racing at Aintree using the backtest mode and then post the selections before racing…

I have 3 wins and 1 place on @itv7 – where do you place? https://itv7.itv.com/results #ITV7. 18+ T&Cs apply.

The “Percentage” staking plan is different to level stakes in the way you link the stake to your profit. With “The Staking Machine” software you can do some very clever things such as applying a different percentage to any profit and adding it to the base stake. In this post I will explore the myriad of settings to discover whether or not we can improve on the level stakes debarcle outlined in…

There are many “get rich quick” schemes flying around and to many staking plans are typical of these and to others the holy grail of betting. In this feature I am going to look at and back test just some of the miriad of plans that are available, some you may have heard of and some you most definitely haven’t. As with any thing that is potentially damaging to your bank balance rigorous testing…

I just picked my seven winners for @itv7. Don’t miss your free chance to win the jackpot #ITV7 https://itv7.itv.com/play. 18+ T&Cs apply.

Timeform is a respected and well followed source of racing form and they rate each horse for each race by using a star rating. You may have read my post on using this rating system to pick your horses for the ITV 7 well what if you were to back each 5 star rated horse in every race for a day.Below is a PDF of the 5 star Runners for 8th June 2024 and how they faired. The figures are based upon the…

7 races – 7 winners how hard can it be?The criteria for this exercise in losing money is that I selected Timeforms 5 star runners and where these were non runners as in race 3 and 7 the next best 4 star runner with the lowest odds.Race 1:14:05 BeverleyMaw Lam backed at 3/1 for a stake of £1.67 Lost Running P/L -£1.67 Race 2 14:15 Bangor on DeeCan’t beat history backed at 4.5 for…

Today I have backed each of my ITV 7 selections at available odds for a target profit of £5.00 for each winner. Each selection is timeform’s 5 star rated horse for that raceThe first one is Maw Lam in the 14:05 at Beverley Backed for a Stake of £1.67 at odds of 4.0 Next is Can’t Beat History in the 14:15 at Bangor-on-Dee Backed for a stake of £1.42 at odds of 4.50 This I have backed with Coral…

While sat waiting for yet another customer to come and unload their meat I quickly did the ITV 7 on Wednesday 5th of June. My criteria was simple – I just selected the 7 horses that Timeform rated with 5 stars. Not rocket science but nothing to lose. I had 2 winners from the 7 – this equates to a 28.5% strike rate.I then got to thinking what if I had backed these 7 selections individually for a…