Horse Racing Advice Article # 3

An important part of my research into providing my members with the best horse racing tips I can, involves studying a horse’s form. In order to do this, I will normally consult The Racing Post and a couple of specialist horse racing websites, as they will normally give me the key information that I need.

Together with information that I am able to obtain from other sources, this means that I am able to assess the suitability (or not) of a particular horse, and in turn whether or not it is worthy of becoming one of my racing tips for that particular day.

If low risk betting on horses was fairly simple, all we would do is back favourites the majority of the time, however statistics tell us that this is just not viable. Favourites win races less than 50% of the time, and with the lower odds that these horses offer us punters, as far as betting on horses is concerned you will soon lose your money if you implement this strategy.

One of the keys to success is to look for horses who are currently in form, or at the very least are running well despite the fact that they may not have won. It is possible for a horse to have ran well and to have progressed – without necessarily winning, so this is something to look out for.

A horse’s form is an indicator of how it has performed at different courses and in different conditions. It will tell us just how effective that horse was given the competition, the jockey on board and the weight it was carrying – all important things to consider when betting on horses.

Some of the other factors that I look for when assessing suitable racing tips, is to see when a horse last ran and when it last won (if at all). I prefer to look at horses who have ran at least in the last four to five weeks, as although having a long rest may be considered a good thing, I am a firm believer that it can take a competitive run or two to get back into the groove.

In fact, I will confess that I have to have extremely solid, concrete, overriding information to even consider betting on horses who have not had a recent outing. It has happened one or twice in the past, but no more than that.

Is the horse carrying less weight than its previous outing? If it is, and the horse is showing favourable indicators elsewhere, this can often be a trigger to selecting a horse, at least onto a short-list. My racing tips would never solely be based on this alone, however it does form part of the jigsaw puzzle and is a positive tick in the box.

I hope that this gives you a small flavour of what to look out for. I have other racing tips featured in other articles within this site so please take a look. It is my experience that it is better to provide information in smaller chunks, rather than overwhelming you with pages upon pages of text, as its easier to take in.

Article Author: Cliff Thurston

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