Racing Tips - A Very Profitable Betting Strategy

This is a very profitable betting system and staking strategy that is one of the mainstay's of my betting portfolio. I discovered it many years ago and it has consistently made good steady profits for me over the years. There are many varying copies of this horse racing system which you will be charged for but they all stem from this basic method. If you have good form knowledge or a good racing tips provider you will reap some substantial rewards if you follow this betting system carefully.

The Selection Method

For the purpose of this article we will assume that we are making our own form selections and not using horse racing tips from a service provider.

The Criteria

• Non-Handicap horse races only
• Maximum number of runners=10

Make a list of the races that meet the criteria above. We will now be looking for a single race from this list, so, we need to narrow the list down. In order to do this we will check the forecast SP's of the Favourites in each race. The race that has the highest priced SP Favourite will be our qualifying race provided that the forecast SP lies in the range of 2/1 to 4/1. If it does, we have our race, if it doesn't don't be tempted to force the issue. 15/8 is not 2/1 and 9/2 is not 4/1... you have been warned!

There will be occassions when there is more than one qualifying race from your list. In this instance we will use the race with the fewest runners. On the rare occassion when there is still more than one race our final criteria would be the lowest prize value to the winner. All this info can be found in the Racing Post or at one of the many online horse racing sites that produce race cards.

By now we should have our race for the day.

We will be backing the 1st and 2nd Favourite in the race. If you are not sure how to do this see the article I posted on Dutching betting systems. N.B. If there are joint forecast favourites, these are the two selections. If there is a clear favourite and joint second favourites, the selections are the forecast favourite and whichever of the joint forecast second favourites has the higher form rating, and, if these are equal, we will use the horse which ran most recently. You can again find all this information in the Racing Post or one of the many online horse racing sites.

And there you have it, a simple but very sweet betting system. You should now have identified the selected horse race for the day and the selections we will be backing.

I will deal with the Staking System we will employ in my next post. So until then practice your selection process. It is really easy after a few run throughs.