SOMEBODY KNEW SOMETHING

I was seeing nothing really exciting for Lay bets yesterday, but while keeping an eye on a slight possibility, I spotted MILLARDS LAD in the 3.00 at Newton Abbot . With no recent form, and having not run for eight months, the horse was still expected to trot out and race over 3 miles And when I say “expected”, I mean that somebody must have stuck a tidy lump of cash on the animal, to push it from 10/1 or more, down to 3/1 favourite, and it would be expected to win. And it did. Somebody knew something. Okay, so the horse has won in the past, but not for a long time. Keep your eyes open for these situations, which can sometimes bring you in a winner at good odds.

Horse racing: Cast-iron win for Bowen

IRON MAN lived up to his name when overcoming a nightmare 17-hour journey from South Wales to Market Rasen to provide Peter Bowen with a fourth win in the totesport.com Summer Plate on Saturday.
Bowen and the six-year-old set out on the 259-mile trip from Haverfordwest at noon on Friday, but, due to the storms and flooding which swamped parts of Britain, they...more

Racing: O'Brien's Soldier takes route past the King George

Aidan O'Brien yesterday ruled out last month's Irish Derby winner, Soldier Of Fortune, from Saturday's King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes and confirmed last year's Curragh hero, Dylan Thomas, and the 2005 St Leger winner, Scorpion, as the two Ballydoyle representatives in the Ascot summer showpiece.
The three-year-old is second favourite to odds-on Dylan Thomas in most betting lists, but O'Brien told The Independent yesterday: "It looks like we'll run Dylan Thomas and Scorpion in the King George, but we're going to give...

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HORSE RACING: Red Giant roars in Virginia Derby

NEW KENT -- Red Giant came up big in the 10th running of the $1 million Virginia Derby on Saturday, denying Strike a Deal another track record and win in a high-dollar turf race at Colonial Downs.
Colonial Downs’ leading rider, Horatio Karamanos, wasn’t named to ride Red Giant until ...
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ANY RAIN UP YOUR WAY ?

If you were one of the unlucky ones who ended up with a houseful of rain yesterday, I am sorry to hear of your misfortune, and I hope that you will soon get sorted. And what about the bloke who dived into 6 foot of floodwater, to drag a driver who was about to drown, out through the sunroof of his car. Let’s hope he gets rewarded by the Queen before some of the dick heads who often get the medals. If you wanted to put a couple of bets on to get some house repair cash, yesterday wasn’t quite the day to do it. Newbury's meeting was cancelled, and Nottingham was called off part way through the afternoon, hitting a few “ stop at a winner “ bettors. With the tracks mostly classed as soft or heavy, then Laybettors should not have been gambling, and therefore would have missed getting caught by the three odds-on favourites all winning at 4/6, 4/7 and 4/9. If you did Laybet, and lost, at least the liabilities were low.

Horse racing franchise deadline set

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. -- The 2007 meet gets underway at Saratoga Race Course on Wednesday and during that six weeks of racing, we'll find out who will hold the rights to run the track in the future.
In a statement released by Governor Eliot Spitzer, he said a decision more...

HORSE RACING: Familiar faces join summer rivalry in Virginia Derby

Today at Colonial Downs, Summer Doldrums will have more than a rubber match with Strike a Deal in the 10th running of the $1 million Virginia Derby (gr. IIT). Not only will his trainer, Richard Violette, see his archrival, he will see the faces of past race victors. Both the Virginia Derby and the Virginia Oaks will be broadcast live on CBS at 5 p.m.
Three-time Virginia Derby winning jockey Edgar Prado more...

OTB parlor is approved by Illinois Racing Board

ELK GROVE VILLAGE - Horse-racing bettors will soon be able to wager in Elk Grove Village after the Illinois Racing Board on Thursday approved more...

Racing panel adds horseshoe rule

ANDERSON, Ind. -- State horse racing regulators have adopted emergency rules that restrict the use of toe grabs, which act like cleats on horseshoes but have been linked to horse injuries. more...

GOOD TO SOFT AIN’T GOOD

With the majority of tracks at good to soft, we saw some cock eyed results yesterday. For example, the 4.10 at Uttoxeter showed the first three coming home at 25 /1, 28 /1, and 16/1. The prices were too high for safe Lay bets, because, as you can see, they do sometimes do come in. So that left Lingfield. If you like to bet on an all weather track, then the 3.20 looked a possibility. To me, SAMARINDA and MONTPELLIER both had the beating of the favourite TILAPIA, so I fancied it to be Layed. And then it didn’t even run. I look forward to the tracks drying out.

STICK A PIN INTO THE RACE CARD

A good example of when to make a decision occurred last night in the 7.20 at Wolverhampton. A Maiden race, so none of the horses had previously won a race.
Four of the runners showed no form at all, so was there a secret winner amongst them ?
The race was a sprint, so a poor start could be non-recoverable. Favourite horse CRACKING NICK started to look good as a winner when it’s price hardened from 5 to 1 to 6 to 4, ( leaving a handful of possible lay bets ), but there were too many unknown factors involved that made a lay bet no more than a guess by sticking a pin in the race card. The decision to be made should have been … avoid making any lay betting on this race.
Sure enough MARYOLINI won at 20 to 1 … anybody’s guess.

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Are There Daily Lay Bets ?

You will not find horses suitable for Lay Bets every day. Sometimes there are several, but on other occasions the odds are a bit too high on horses that otherwise are a possibility. Sometimes the liabilities are too great for the risks.

On the other hand, you cannot lay a horse just because it is odds-on. 60% of odds-on runners win their race, so you need to work hard at finding reasons why the favourite is not automaticaly a winner.

The golden rule is "If in doubt-don't"