How you pick em

[LINSI]

I am curious to know how each of you decides which horses you are going to go with for a race and if you ever change horses at any time. Have you bet on more than one horse in a race.

[paddyfield]

Hi LINSI

I reckon most punters rely on a newspaper tipster for their selections.

You can do all that on line.
Join as a free member:
www.racingpost.co.uk
Select a course and then a race for any particular day.
When the card appears, click the ""TIPS"" icon.
Here you will see which newspaper has tipped a particular horse
and a summary of which horse has the greatest following from
all the daily newspapers.

If you can get on Betfair you will find the odds slightly better than
the high street bookie, plus you can actually see where the money
is going in real time.....most of that activity occurs in the last 5 mins
before the race!

If two horses are strongly fancied and the odds are in your favour,
then back both. So if two horse have odds of 4:1 then £2 on each
will give you a £4 return whichever horse wins + your stake.

Or you can back a horse to lose, or LAY the bet. Your liability is the odds
you lay at , not your stake. If the horse loses, you WIN your stake money,
so a £10 lay wins £10. Example: A £10 lay at odds 2.3:1 which goes against you
means you pay out £13...but your £10 stake is intact.

The one feature that makes Betfair so superior to the high street bookie
is the ability to make your bets whilst an event is in play.
This opens up the possibility to trade, either before a race or whilst it is in
play. I use it extensively for soccer matches. But racing is a different
ballgame since events last, at the most, 5 to 6 minutes in 3 milers and
above, so some experience needs to be gained if trading before or during
a race.

If you do use Betfair you will find it can take up to 5 secs to place a bet
which is no good in a fast moving event like horse racing, since the odds
change so quickly as the race progresses.
A good interface is Bet Angel Basic, a free download which dramatically
speeds up any action you wish to instill in your racing experience.

Good luck, and I hope you manage to make you bank grow.

paddy

[fuzzler]

Good one Paddy. I mean, even recently, that has been the way on how I bet. Or maybe just a tiny revision.