Horse Racing Tracks in the UK
The United Kingdom has the most diverse racetracks you will ever find the world. We have straight, right-handed, and left-handed tracks, on turf and artificial surfaces.
This however can cause a few problems when it comes to betting. In the US, all tracks are left-handed, and have sectional timing. This is not possible on UK tracks, as the rails can often be moved to protect certain parts of the track. So you may have a 5 furlong race officially, but in reality it may ne 5 furlongs one day, and then the next the move the rails so it is 5 furlongs and 20 yards. This makes sectional timing pretty useless.
Having a wide variety of tracks though does have its advantages. The racing does not become repetitive and you also get what we call ‘horses for courses’. This is when a horse will win again and again at a certain track, but never runs well at other tracks. This generally happens at our most weird tracks such as Chester, a left-handed track where 85% of the race is on a bend, and Brighton, with a number of bends as well as up and down, and a camber.
The UK also holds three types of horse racing:
- National Hunt: This is when the horse jump fences or hurdles (smaller fences). The main season for this is Autumn/Winter, although as long as the ground is fine it does happen all year round now.
- All Weather (AW): This is basically what the Americans would refer to as dirt racing. Generally in the UK this was for low grade horses during the off-season, but with the opening of Kempton, we now get much higher class racing, and are now often used as a stepping stone for International dirt racing.
- Turf: Turf racing is generally accepted as flat racing on grass. The main season is March to September, but it is not run on turf throughout the winter due to the ground conditions, although with climate change we see more and more soft ground during the main season.
With over 50 racetracks, not many of them are actually the same. York is similar to Newbury and Haydock, with large sweeping turns and a long run-in. Brighton is more like Epsom with strange bends and a camber.
Then we have the unique tracks, Chester mentioned earlier, Newmarket, the largest racing heath in the world with races over 1.5 miles run on a straight track, not only that, Newmarket actually has two racetracks on the heath. Probably the best well known track around the world for uniqueness is the Aintree Grand National with its specialised fences, and watched by over 100 million every year.
Below are listed some of my favourite tracks:
Ascot
Bath
Carlisle
Catterick
Chester
Ffos Las
Fontwell Park
Hamilton Park
Hereford
Kempton Park
Market Rasen
Newcastle
Newton Abbot
Perth
Salisbury
Stratford
Taunton
Warwick
Wincanton
Worcester
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5 Top Tips To be A Professional Gambling
So you dream of becoming a professional gambler? So do you just want to make a bit of bonus beer money; pay for a decent holiday, have extra cash in the bank, or go the full way and become a full-time professional gambler, or do you only want to be a semi-pro, that is making money, but still retaining a job?
My gambling life revolves around horse racing but these tips work for any form of pro-gambling.
Whatever way you decide, here a five tips:
- However, we do not do it because we have to; we do it as we love it. If the time arrives when I wake up in the morning and say, I cannot be bothered with it today, I would pack it in, but I do not see that day any time soon.
- Take a peek at the professional poker players, yes they get paid a lot of cash, have a nice house, but they have to spend the majority of their lives travelling to tournaments around the globe, make appearances, and subsequently your 50th 5,000 mile flight of the year is no longer fun. On top of that, tournaments can last 3-5 days, so you can be sitting at the table, playing only the odd hand, for 12+ hours a day, in a room full of smoking perspiring people, Annie Duke apart!
- Professional gambling is a full-time career. For some reason the population have the impression we sit on a tropical beach, with champagne, and phone in the odd bet to the UK. This wins, and pays for one more year of luxury. In the words of Derek Thompson Ho Ho Ho!!
- The vast majority of the population gamble in the hope they win a massive wad of money, and although this occasionally happens, I can wage that you don t really know that many punters who have won sufficient to retire on (excluding the lottery). In fact you probably know very few, if any, who in reality break even, fewer still of those that profit. According to Betfair records, only 0.7% makes more than £15,000 a year.
- I personally put in about 10-14 hours a day, studying form, the markets, working out systems, doing research, placing bets, watching the racing itself, updating my web sites, etc. I rarely get any time to have a night out. This is the realism of professional gambling.
+On course horse racing secrets+
Just a quick tip, but one which ought to help you find additional winners while on the racecourse.
Before racing begins, hang around the bookies looking for any punters placing a nice wad of cash on a horse. If he/she is wearing a suit, it s probably best ignoring them, as these are big business men trying to impress their clients or boss, and likely don t have a clue which end the head is on.
If they look like ordinary Joe Punter, but are betting big, they may be a pro. You are probably best keeping an eye on them for the first few races to make sure they do know what they are doing, and keep an eye on more than one, as professional gamblers are pretty rare.
Watch which racehorses they gamble on, and watch the race. If that horse wins, or runs well, watch to see which horse they bet on next. Again, watch the race, and the next one. After that, if you consider this person to have good expertise, you can follow what he does for the remainder of the day.
We don t mind folk doing that, as we can t hide from view what we do, although a few will get piddled off with being stalked! Don’t follow in our shadow though, as you will get a number of choice words, as you wouldn t like being tailed by a strange looking person would you?
You can make contact with pro’s on the track, although they might not give you the days selections, the majority will offer you advice, and a number of pointers for the future.
Professional gambling is not an easy life, but if you want to go down that path visit the horse racing forum for futher advice.
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Free Betting Advice to Help Improve Your Gambling
Below are a number of helpful tips that are published to help you with improving your betting skills.
*Losing Runs*
This issue is what finishes off a lot of peoples betting banks, and forces them to give up, and is commonly due to the original stake being set too high.
You need to remember that the lesser the SR (Strike Rate), the longer the likely losing runs.
A 50% SR can create you a losing run of 8, although improbable, it is still statistically feasible. 35% can give you a losing run of around 18, getting down to 20% and a losing run of 30 isn’t unknown. You ought to take this into account whilst setting your bank and stake. It’s at all times best to be over cautious when starting off; you can always adjust a few months down the line.
-Horse Racing Systems-
Horse racing systems are a means of making a bet devoid of the need to use your brain. Some professional gamblers don’t believe in them, but I utilize both horse racing systems & method styles of having a bet, although you might argue that a method is in a way a system, a method tends to be flexible, a system is not.
I give out free horse racing system qualifiers, and also run a private membership service. If you’re brand new to having a bet, its advised to choose a number of systems that suits you, taking into account the SR (strike rate), ROI% (return on investment), and quantity of qualifiers. Once you’ve got your brain around using a system, and have won a bit of cash you can subsequently progress to an additional system.
Only exploit as many free horse racing systems as your Betting Bank can handle. The lowest amount I advise for a betting bank is 50 for Win bets, and 100 for lays.
You go along with a system qualifier whether it is 100/1 or 1/100, and you back it with the exact stake according to your selected staking plan. To digress in anyway results in the system becoming a method, and will likely result in a loss, so in straightforward terms; if you pick and choose system qualifiers, then you have made it flexible, so it is no longer a system.
Never expect a system to create instant profits, they are statistically likely to go into negative equity when you first start, until the bank builds up and stabilises over time. There is no instant means in gambling of getting rich, I spend 10hrs+, 365 days a year, and I’ve been a Pro for over 10 years. It’s more than a full-time job, and if you don’t have the passion for it, you’ll on no account win no matter what gambling service you use. I wouldn’t adjust what I do nowadays for anything. A sound comprehension of maths and statistics is additionally considered necessary, devoid of these you may struggle.
The majority of gamblers go from one betting service to another looking for instant profits, and concluding the year having spent a fortune, lost a fortune, and start the New Year ready to repeat it all again!
The most important thing to recall with a horse racing system is that each qualifier has an equal prospect of winning, despite of what the bookmaker price is, they do get it wrong, and systems allow you to take advantage of it.
From my experience I can give Person A the same qualifiers as Person B, yet Person A can create long term profits while Person B keeps losing and moves on to the next tipster! Why? Because 50% of making money from betting is down to stake and bank management, if you do not become skilled at how to deal with that part, you will be Person B.
-Methods Betting-*Methods Betting*
A method bet is a selection that you pick manually either from your know-how, race watching, paddock watching, etc. Do not follow newspaper tipsters they are employed to select a horse in every race, which is not how you bet, you ought to be selective, and learning all the racing aspects yourself gives you an advantage over the crowd who stick to the newspaper tips.
My chief method betting is by race viewing, I never use 3rd party information, and with the amount of racing on television it’s simple to get the hang of it these days armed with a recorder.
You can go into a lot of detail with method bets, F/c (forecast) price, handicap rating, postmark, speed rating, form, etc, but you can do too much, and it’s paramount to keep what works as minimal as you can.
If you’re new to this kind of gambling, begin with something easy, such as favourites in flat maiden & novice hurdle/chase, and take it from there. This will ensure a decent SR even if you don’t profit at first.
Always note down each bet you do, even if it’s just fun. In fact keep fun bets in a different list and betting bank, and you’ll soon see how much this fun is costing you.
When picking your own horses, take no notice of pundits or what they write in the newspapers. 99% of them are not Pro-punters, and they will influence your choice, usually towards a loser. I get the Racing Post daily, but never read the race previews, or tips of any kind.
Even with method betting you require a staking plan, and betting bank. Without them you will fail.
Hopefully you have now learnt a bit, and can take a step up the ladder towards gambling success. If you require further information, free tips, etc, it is available on our Horse Racing Forum.
