Racing Testing Lab

Selections for Tuesday 21st October 2014

Background

2013 saw this place only betting idea of mine profit by about 45 points. That’s a decent return given the short odds which prevail in place only betting markets.

Follow these steps below

1) the races listed here are chosen from www.racingpost.com because they feature ” apparent ” 2 horse races. This is in inverted commas because we are using the betting forecast which is simply just a journalist’s idea of how the race will fare.

2) we back in the to place only market at www.betfair.com , to Betfair SP, the bookmaker’s favourite in these races. I tried a number of different strategies such as following the betting forecast favourite, or 2nd favourite, and found over time that the bookmaker favourite placed 80+% of the time.

3) we back in the to place only market at odds of between 1.1 and 1.5 only. Anything under 1.1 is simply not worth it. A cut off point of 1.5 ensures the strike rate does not diminish as we move to higher place only odds.

Yesterday

9 410 pontefract Betting forecast: 6/4 Galuppi, 5/2 Shuriken, 5/1 The New Pharaoh, – 2nd 1.11
5 250 windsor Betting forecast: 11/10 Yeenaan, 5/2 Dark Kingdom, 11/2 Spindle, – 1st 1.2

Today

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