Advice on Analyzing Horse Racing Form Guides for Beginners

[LUKE]

That tells me little about whether or not a horse is trying Reet tbh. Maybe you were taking the pee, i don't know anymore nowadays tbh


I know people who have owned horses in the last 30 years, mainly in syndicates fair enough, and the trainer, apparently shrewd, basically tells them to back it every time it runs to a varying degree, just in case it does. Nothing worse than a horse winning at 25/1 and you just told the owners it won't win that day.

Does anyone who has owned a horse on here actually have a trainer say to them, "it won't win today I have made sure it doesn't"???????????

I would welcome replies to that very question

A friend of a friend has a horse in training with JPOB -twice last year he was told himself and the wife should come to The Curragh dressed to the nines.Both times the horse shortened in the morning and drifted on the show before being beaten out of sight.
Not the answer you are looking for.

 

[reet hard]

Had a 1/10th share in a horse that was nigh useless.
Eventualy won a Southwell seller at 33/1 - just one of our group had a fiver ew on it. Doh!

 

[LUKE]

Had a 1/10th share in a horse that was nigh useless.
Eventualy won a Southwell seller at 33/1 - just one of our group had a fiver ew on it. Doh!

My old boss had a share in a horse who was related to an Arc winner and another Group 1 winner.After a few educational runs it ran an excellent second in a really good novice hurdle when fancied.Ten days later it was beaten as a short priced favourite at Tramore on bottomless ground.More disappointments followed and the syndicate became increasingly disillusioned.Then it went and won a conditions hurdle at the Punchestown festival at 33/1.One of the syndicate members had €20 on it.
The Boys chartered a helicopter one day to watch it race at one of the northern tracks.The horse was a bargain but the money the syndicate spent following the horse around Ireland was incredible.

 

[the_horses_mouth_]

Morning, Romie.

I've been punting for 55 years (started when I was 14/15) and the bad news is that there really is no shortcut to punting successfully unless you are a naturally lucky type of person.

To be honest, if one of my nephews or nieces came to me today to tell me they wanted to get into betting horses as a pastime, I'd actively discourage them.

Unless you're prepared to put in the hard graft of studying for yourself, you effectively end up backing other people's opinions and that's a dangerous route to embark upon.

But let me tell you how I rationalised my approach after a couple of years of not doing well on the punting front.

Think about these questions:

What is a handicap?
What is its purpose?
Why do horses win handicaps?
Why does prize money vary for handicaps?

Once you crack them, the rest will pretty much fall into place.

And you'll probably still end up losing money.

All the very best and keep us posted about how you're doing.

Haha good advice Desert Orchid! You remind me of Ronnie O'Sullivan in a recent interview stating that he doesn't advise his son or anyone young to take up snooker!

 

[chaumi]

Great thread, as you expect from the membership on this forum....apart from the OP.

It was a spam post, made just to get that mention of python programming in point 3 with the link under it. ie for search engine optimization purposes.

Not easily noticeable at first (and even I didn't spot it until half a dozen paragraphs into a response).

And that is why the OP came on for 1 post and disappeared forever.

Didn't see this thread till just now, otherwise I'd have pointed it out before.

The poster is pretty clueless, though...because placing a link to a python programming course that (perhaps debatably, because the OP engineered it reasonably well overall) has nowt to do with horse racing is off-topic and probably ignored by search engines anyway.

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But I'll add, thanks for the insightful, sharing, and open replies to anyone that did post some of the more personal responses. You can say that's a big part of where this forum shines - secondary to the deep knowledge of the love of (some of) our lives, of course.

 

[Ian_Davies]

As I'd be about as likely to offer advice as win a forumite of the year competition (a related contingency place lay if ever there was one) I'd never read this thread.

Keeping fighting the good fight, Walsworth, you've been taking the piss out of me for years and I expect you to carry on taking the piss out of me for years!

 

[Outsider]

I've only just come across this thread and some good reading.
I agree with DO and I'm like BJ as I don't have the balls to bet big.
As I said on here before,I had £500 on one once and I thought I was going to have a heart attack.i was more relieved not to lose 500 than I was winning £1500.
I wouldn't advise anyone to start gambling.

 

[walsworth]

As I'd be about as likely to offer advice as win a forumite of the year competition (a related contingency place lay if ever there was one) I'd never read this thread.

Keeping fighting the good fight, Walsworth, you've been taking the piss out of me for years and I expect you to carry on taking the piss out of me for years!

I'm not taking the piss, I'm deadly serious!