With this post, I am looking at a number of laying strategies, and these tend to be focussed upon the all-weather. The first strategy is laying penalised horses on the all-weather. These horses tend to be “anchored” by an increase in weight and over time have proven to be profitable when we lay 6lb and 12lb penalty handicap winners..

Laying favourites in Irish bumpers is simplicity itself. What we do is, well, lay favourites in Irish National Hunt flat races.

I wrote an article on lay Ladders in May 2014’s edition of What Really Wins Money. This lay ladder article uses the lay selections found below in the”Lay the Favourite on the All Weather in Maidens Claimers and Sellers” section below. It has proven to be very profitable long-term. But if loss retrieval is not your thing ( and it won’t be for some because losses can be large, despite long, long winning runs), then leave this alone.

The last section is “Back the favourite in the worse performing races on the all weather.” This section needs www.stakingmachine.com or a knowledge of “rolling doubles ” staking plan. You can read about this staking plan at http://www.thestakingmachine.com/rolling_doubles.php

Handicap Top weights on the all-weather.

Laying handicap top weights ( not joint top weights) has been a profitable long term endeavour. I lay below the odds of 10. We do occasionally hit a big priced winner but it seems that the lost liability is negated quickly thanks to the consistent stream of winning lays. I post an update for the month in What Really Wins Money newsletter.

 Yesterday

1215 sthl cascadia 7th 3.3
120 sthl southern seas 2nd 8.08
335 sthl best tamayuz 2nd 9.51
710 chelmsford lamps 6th 20.46

Today

635 dundalk Stronger than me
705 dundalk ridestan
735 dundalk madameoisselle penny
410 wolves kingsley klarion
445 wolves bosham
515 wolves air of york
545 wolves secret look
715 wolves secret deputy
745 wolves shiela’s buddy

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Laying penalised horses on the all-weather. It seems these horses are vulnerable when given a 6 lb or 12 lb penalty

Yesterday

None

Today

410 wovles kingsley klarion
515 wolves air of york
715 wolves idol deputy

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Lay the Favourite in Irish Bumpers .

A bumper race is a National Hunt Flat Race. They are found in jumps meetings and usually are the last race of the day. These races has “flat race” or a derivative thereof in the title and laying the favourite to level stakes has proven to be very profitable over time.

Yesterday

None

Today

None

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Lay the Favourite on the All Weather in Maidens Claimers and Sellers

I have been crunching the numbers and will reveal a newer lower risk laying strategy using these selections. Expect an update next week.

The idea here is to focus on races on the All-weather ( you will see an AW in brackets at www.racingpost.com cards whenever there is an all-weather meeting.) I thought that targeting favourites in traditionally tough races ( maidens – horses who are starting out in their careers and have never won can be inconsistent), claimers ( open to upsets) and sellers( poor horses running and then being sold on) would produce a reasonable profit over time. This has proved the case so far.

I may have found an excellent staking plan to accompany this strategy. This betting strategy lays the favourites in the races listed below ONLY if they are 3.5 or higher in the Betfair market. We operate a 3 bet betting cycle, looking to retrieve losses and stake should the first lay lose.

It is high risk, but so far the longest losing sequence is 2. This is a strategy for quickly building up a betting bank.

I don’t include joint favourites when laying.

Yesterday

mdn 440 chelmsford 1st 1.92
mdn 510 chelms 5th 2.3
mdn 540 chelmsford 4th 3.44
mdn 155 shtl 6th 5.73
slr 230 sthl 3rd 3.12

Today

mdn 535 dundalk
mdn 805 dundalk
mdn 835 dundalk
mdn 615 wolves

Mdn = Maiden Slr = Seller clm = claimer

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Back the favourite in the worse performing races on the all weather.

Thisis actually making a profit as a backing system with a very specialist staking plan and backing all selections priced at 3.5 and under.

http://www.thestakingmachine.com/rolling_doubles.php is the staking plan and very interesting it is too. It seems perfectly suited to favourites

This staking plan and backing idea seems to be producing the goods!

Yesterday

1215 sthl 7th 3.3
1245 sthl 2nd 3.84
305 sthl 1st 3.67
335 sthl 5th 5.5

Today

605 dundalk
635 dundalk
705 dundalk
735 dundalk
905 dundalk