Racing Testing Lab

Selections for Wednesday 27th August 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

7 740 ballinrobe Betting forecast: 10/11 Rough Justice, 2/1 Definite Ruby, 9/2 Please Talk, 1st 1.27
5 340 ripon Betting forecast: 5/4 Snap Shots, 11/8 Zeb Un Nisa, 13/2 Miss Mullberry, 3rd 1.62
11 455 sedgefield Betting forecast: 2/1 Admiral Hawke, 5/2 Questioning, 11/2 Apollo Eleven, 1st 1.27

Today

9 210 catterick Betting forecast: 11/8 Burning The Clocks, 5/2 You´re My Cracker, 7/1 Compton River,
8 655 kempton Betting forecast: 5/4 Allegation, 6/4 Limousine, 12/1 Graffiti Art,
5 220 lingfield Betting forecast: 6/4 Turning Times, 9/4 Galileano, 9/2 Lexi´s Red Devil,
6 605 worcester Betting forecast: 8/13 Street Entertainer, 3/1 Kyles Faith, 6/1 In The Crowd,
4 705 worcester Betting forecast: 11/10 In The Rough, 7/4 Barizan, 6/1 Darroun,
8 735 worcester Betting forecast: 6/4 Discay, 2/1 A Tail Of Intrigue, 4/1 Bathwick Street,