Horse Racing Tips

Archive for February, 2010

With the Cheltenham racing festival just around the corner we have another free bet to throw your way. To claim a free £10 cheltenham bet, simply click the banner link, then deposit £10 and place it on the event. At that time you’ll receive a free £10 bet. The offer is only available to new customers, so if you already have a paddypower account unfortunately you are not eligible. There are however several other compelling free bets on the site, so if you don’t have an account with some of those, feel free to sign up.

When the flat racing season begins we intend to bring you some exclusive horse racing tips, and using these offers alongside them could prove to be a winning combination for you.

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Use this free bet alongside others featured on horse racing tips .org.uk to give your betting bank a significant boost. If you’re serious about horse racing, and of making the most of the knowledge and tips available online (tipsters) then this is an opportunity not to be missed.

£60 in free totesport bets are just a click away for new customers of the service. Totesport offer a great many betting opportunities, on horse racing and other sporting events and are viewed as a top tier bookmaker. To claim the free bet simply sign up via clicking the above banner. Totesport will match your first bet upto the value of £20. Place a further five bets, and they will give you another free bet to the value of the lowest of those five bets (up to £20), and the same for the next five bets, making £60 in total. Check term and conditions for full details. For a powerful combination, combine these and other free bet offers on the site, with the racing tips provided by our partners.

Bet365 are renowned for their ease of use and variety of bet options on offer. This is probably why they have over 1.5 million customers worldwide. They offer competitive prices and allow for fast deposit and withdrawal of funds. They also regularly offer live streaming of a number of exciiting sporting events on their website.

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In recent years, the distinction between the standard of horse from Southern and Northern stables has been noticeably reduced with a number of successful trainers proving that location doesn’t equate to a restriction on talent or the determination to win.

Hambleton House in Thirsk, North Yorskshire, is the home of one such trainer – Brian Smart. He has proven to be a consistent handler when it comes to training all ages but especially two-year-olds. In the last few seasons, this talented trainer has featured a healthy string of juveniles and it would be no surprise to see 30-plus two-year-olds represented in the new publication of the Horses In Trainer 2010. In the last five years Smart has won over £500,000 in prize money with his youngsters attaining a success rate of 18% and a strong win & place of 43%. Juveniles such as Distinctive, Captain Gerrard, Summer Fete, Spin Cycle, Unilateral and Hellvelyn have won substantial prize money. This new season will no doubt unveil a precocious juvenile or two.

It is interesting that many of his best two-year-olds are seen early season, probably with a view to Royal Ascot. Juveniles are often under-priced on debut and a general win rate of 10% and 30% win & place is respectable but suggests that many improve with racing, however, the better types are likely to win on their racecourse bow if competing an average maiden. It is noticeable that Smart has an eye for placing his colts & fillies on their second start and this can be a prime time to bet. Generally, juveniles run very good races when fancied. Noticeable owners include H E Sheikh Rashid Bin Mohammed, R C Bond & Prime Equestrian.

Smart is a trainer to be respected and his talent as a two-year-old trainer will shine for all to see in the 2010 Flat turf season.

If you’ve been taking advantage of the various free bet offers here so far, then here’s another one for you. If you click the banner and open up a BetFred account, you’re entitled to a free £50 bet. Make a deposit of upto £50, then BetFred will match your first bet to the same value. So if you place a £10 you’ll get a free £10, if you bet £50, a free £50 bet and so on. Check out the ‘Free Bets’ category on the right to take advantage of all of our offers. There’s over £500 worth of free bets waiting for you right now.

In the past, bookmakers, especially those in the UK, typically displayed their odds in fractional form (5/4, 4/1 and so on), especially where horse racing was concerned. Nowadays they tend to provide the option of displaying decimal odds too (2.25, 5.00 – in relation to the bracketed fractional odds above). This method of displaying odds is popular in Australia, Canada and most of Europe. On services such as betfair, decimal is the default setting, rather than the fractional version (also known as ‘traditinal odds’). The below chart is a handy guide to help you convert between fractional and decimal odds:

See our post on types of bets, to better understand odds and the various betting options available to you.

Victor Chandler is one of the most popular and recognisable sports bookmakers in the UK. They offer competitive odds on a vast array of events, from horse racing and other sports, to political and ‘reality’ based betting options. Their name and brand suggests class, and their free bets offer matches that reputation. For new customers VC offer an impressive £125 worth of bets absolutely free. All you need to do is click on the banner above, open an account and make a deposit. Victor Chandler will match your first bet up to the value of £50, and then award a further £25 bet when you place five further bets of £10 or more. Another £25 is awarded after five more real money bets, as well as an additinal £25 casino bonus. Click the button banner to take advantage of this great offer.

Here is your free bet from betfair. Click on the above banner to claim your free bet up to the value of £25, If you place an initial bet of £10, you get a free £10 bet and so on, up to the value of £25. I suggest that you depsoit £25+ and make a bet of that value in order to take full advantage of this particular free bet deal. The offer is only open to new registrations with the site and not existing members of betfair. If you’re asked to enter a promotional code to receive the free bet, then enter BET234 .

Betfair consistently provides better odds that other online bookmakers, and also allows you be play the role of bookmaker by laying other punters bets. This provides a unique opportunity to take a different approach to betting (effectively betting on a horse to lose a race, instead of win). You can also now make ‘multiples’ type bets, so betfair has all of the features of a traditinal betting service and more besides. Taking advantage of this offer does not prohibit you from signing up to the other great offers on our site, so feel free to max out on the free bets.