There are no Dee Dee Lays today.
My fun bet today is 3 doubles and a treble
2.35 Newmarket   Memory
3.10 Newmarket  Lily Langtry
5.15 Lingfield Goldtrek

Today is the start of the 3 day Newmarket July Meeting> There is an opportunity to see some of the top 2 year olds in the Group 2 Cherry Hinton. On what we have seen so far Memory looks to have an outstanding chance of coming away with the prize.
In the following Race the Group 1 Falmouth fillies and Mares race the 3 year olds get an opportunity to take on older runners. I was recently reading that in breeding much more emphasis is being placed on speed than stamina. The writer argued that this had the effect of giving the younger horses the advantage with their weight for age allowance in the first half of the season. After July however, this advantage tended to disappear. My own thought is a 3 year old will win this afternoon Read More…

There is no selection today.
Yesterday’s Selection
7.40 Windsor  Desert Poppy  8.0 Won
The days loss 7.0points

As someone who spends a lot of time trying to develop and test horse racing systems I find it can be very frustrating at times. It all starts off with an idea which can take weeks or months to formulate into a workable system. After all this work you begin the testing phase with each successful selection convincing you that you have found the holy grail and each failure sending you back to the drawing board again.
When developing a system it is important to analyse all unsuccessful bets to try and see if there is any common denominator.  If it can be identified, is there a filter that can be added to the new system to improve it. The other problem is that the longer you work on an embryonic system the more attached to it you become. Read More…

Today there is only 1 Dee Dee Lay Selection
7.40 Windsor  Desert Poppy
These are Lay Bets on Betfaior. Maximum odds 7/1 or 8.0 on the Exchange
Saturdays Selections were
3.15 Beverley       Roman Glory  Lost 9/2
5.00 Beverley      Brink                   Lost 7/1 Over the Limit on Betfair so No Bet
8.55 Carlisle          Bubbles            Lost 8/1 Over Limit NO Bet
1.55 Leicester      Grand Zafeen   Lost 9/1 Over Limit No Bet
Days Profit 0.95 points

Recently I was talking to a horse racing system expert who was telling me that he had excluded evening races from his selections as he considered the results were too unpredictable. His systems specialise in pinpointing winning bets and he has generally had a good record over the years. Therefore I was a little surprised when another expert who lays horse to lose on the Betfair Exchange told me exactly the same thing.
I have noticed that with my own favourite lay system that if a horse does win it is often in one of the later evening racing. Usually this is either the penultimate or final races of the evening. In consequence I now discard the last two races at evening meetings from my calculations.
I cannot help wondering if horses are a little like people, there are some Read More…

3rd July
Todays Dee Dee Lays are:
3.15 Beverley       Roman Glory
5.00 Beverley      Brink
8.55 Carlisle          Bubbles
1.55 Leicester      Grand Zafeen
Each horse should be laid to lose on Betfair providing maximum odds are 8.0 or less. Level Stakes.
Yesterdays Selections
4.20  Warkwick      Street Runner  8/1 lost
7.55 Beverley          City Vaults Girl   14/1 lost
Both Lay bets outside of our limits so no bet
Profit/Loss on the Day   nil  points

Recently there have been a number of horse racing systems produced that rely on either a trainer or jockeys performances on specific courses. I cannot help wondering if these are really true systems and whether they warrant the price that some people are asking for them.
Most of the information can be easily obtained from either the form books or the online version of the Racing Post. I also question how relevant the information is in the long term. I accept that if you had backed every John Gosden 3 year old that runs over a mile to
1½ miles on the Newmarket July course you would have made a profit. He is currently having a 25% success rate in the races and showing a 57 point profit. But there is no guarantee that this rate of success will continue Read More…

Todays Dee Dee Lays are:
4.20  Warkwick      Street Runner
7.55 Beverley          City Vaults Girl
Each horse should be laid to lose on Betfair providing maximum odds are 8.0 or less. Level Stakes.
Yesterdays Selections
3.20 Perth   Cinaman  Non Runner
3.50 Perth        Del Rio   4/1 Lost
3.10 Yarm        Medici Palace  11/2  Lost
4.40 Yarm        Before the War   3/1 Lost
Profit on the Day   2.85 points

How many times have you received a letter or email offering to let you into “the secret” only known to a few that can make you wealthy? Often it will go on to explain that this “secret” was stumbled across by accident but has made the person who discovered it very rich. In racing circles this “secret” will be wrapped up in some sort of racing “system” that is guaranteed to show you a big profit.
If you want to know what this “secret” is all you have to do is send this already very rich man some money which can vary from £5 up to several thousand depending on how greedy this very rich man is. The theory is that when you have learnt the secret you will also become a very rich man (or woman). Great idea, Read More…