Author: Max Redd www.ReddRacing.co.uk
Ever wondered how a bookmaker ‘makes’ his ‘book’? When you visit a race course and look along the rows of bookmaker pitches, just how do they come up with the different prices? Surely the figures are not just plucked out of thin air, because its not often you hear the sob story about a poor bookmaker!
Normally the prices for any given race are settled around 4pm the day before a race. Every major bookmaker will have a team of five or so odds-compilers, one working on each race on the card. These odds are then delivered to the trading team, and the rails bookmakers at the respective courses. Once a market opens on track, the individual bookmakers will keep an eye on what the others are doing as the market unfolds. Each will be competing against...
20 Dec
Pedigree, Speed and Stamina.
Pedigree and Potential
The facts about pedigree relate largely to stallions – the males.
Many of the best stallions can sire up to 100 horses in a lifetime.
Pedigree can suggest a lot about young horses in respect of their temperament, their preference for a particular going and distance, and their overall enthusiasm.
As always with racing, breeding is an inexact science.
The quality of the race determines how relevant pedigree becomes. With higher quality racing the results are more intrinsically linked with the pedigree of a horse.
As with anything as random as genetics, it is not possible to say 100% which traits will be inherited from the sire or which from the dam. Or indeed whether anything will be inherited at all.
The study of pedigree however...
13 Dec
Ok folks, it’s time to break out the shovels to bury horse racing, again.
We came across an article on ESPN.com written by Bill Finley entitled “2005 was a lousy year for horse racing.” In his article Mr. Finley cites 9 reasons why 2005 was such a bad year for horse racing in America. Although we agree with several of his observations, number 8 on his list, “U.S. Pari-Mutuel Handle Falls”, should have been dealt with more objectively.
Despite all the cries of gloom and doom that have been ongoing since the unfortunate decision in the fifties to reject television’s offer to broadcast horse racing nationally, the sport has continued to grow. Second only to baseball in overall popularity, horse racing enjoyed 11 straight years of increasing handle (total...
12 Dec
If you are entering first time in horse racing bets and other gambling forms then it is always wiser way to follow the Horse racing tips. They can definitely help you to make the bets more confidently and at the same time shows some chance of wining the race. The Horse racing tips are generally referred before making any bets. Such useful yet basic Horse racing tips are:
> The most important and basic point of horse racing tips is the decision of time, when to make the betting. It is always said that in running bets are always hazardous. They can not a perfectly decided due to its risk. The horse showing good start may end up very badly. Thus it is better to avoid the betting after watching or hearing the race, as you can not ignore the time lag factor between actual racing and receiving...
23 Nov
It is believed that horse racing became a professional sport in this country in the 12th century, when the English knights returned from the Crusades with Arab horses. The Arabian Horse, which hails from Middle Eastern deserts, is acknowledged as being the purest and oldest of all horse breeds, and has incredible stamina ? being able to carry its rider at speed across miles of open desert with little food or water. Today, almost every breed and type of horse has traces of Arab blood and all English Thoroughbreds that are used in horseracing in the UK today are descended from three Arabian stallions: Byerley Turk, Darley Arabian or Godolphin Arabian, which were imported to Britain in the late 17th and early 18th century.
Newmarket was the venue for the first horse racing meetings in Britain,...
13 Nov
