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Buy it here: tinyurl.com ~ This was uploaded her to promote this show and make more people aware of it. If the current holders of copywrite wish me to remove it simply contact me and I will. ~ Opening to the TV show based on the books by Walter Farley and based on the movie based on the books. From what I remeber it was on Saturday mornings on the Family Channel. Plot summery from Amazon.com: Inspired by the novels of Walter Farley. After being shipwrecked on a remote desert island, courageous, young Alec Ramsay and a wild Arabian stallion named the “Black,” form an irrevocable bond that continues after their rescue. Now teammates in the horse-racing circuit, they are poised to take the racing world by storm. No one else can ride the stunning fire and silk stallion but Alec; and though the Black’s spirit is untamed, his speed is unmatched and he is swiftly becoming the fastest racehorse in the world.

www.gamezplay.org – The official trailer for the Red Dead Redemption Liars and Cheats Pack, featuring the all the new Stronghold Multiplayer Mode, Multiplayer Poker, Liar’s Dice and Horse Racing – as well as the devastatingly destructive Explosive Rifle.

Horse racing’s 9th triple crown Champion. He was the first horse, in 25 years to win the crown. And he too, is said to be the greatest ever. From ESPN’s Jewels of the Triple Crown www.freehorseracegame.com

Ten days of a season spent with a Lakota family building the community’s first cob house. Volunteers participate in ceremony and the spectacle of horse racing commemorating the Battle of Little Bighorn

Part 5 of my original series on how to handicap horse racing. Sorry it is so difficult to see… I did the best I could. Over the next several episodes I will be going over various strategies and methods to handicapping races to help YOU get on your way to picking winners! Great for beginners and intermediates alike! Best of all, it is completely free! All episodes will be posted here on youtube. Please feel free to email any and all questions and comments to me at vegasdavesdime@gmail.com and check out my sports podcast on my webpage at… www.davesdime.com Oh and don’t forget to rate and subscribe! Thank you! (Pictures of race and DRF logo belong to the Daily Race Form)

Many people have discovered betfair trading to earn good amount of money. If you are a newbie in the world of betfair trading, then you need to know some of its tactics. Apart from laying and backing odds, you have many more options to consider.

Betfair trading on horseracing implies either lay them to ensure high profit or lay odds and then back them to lower your profit level. The main rule here is to lay low and back high. It does not matter which system of betting you choose to do first.

Betfair trading on horse racing is a lucrative method to earn money, but at the same time it is not so easy. There are various different markets available for you to trade, but the most popular that all people wish to do is just on horse racing. As it is simple and you just need to watch the screen of your computer for several hours to earn bucks. This kind of trading is fast-paced and enjoyable, if you do properly.

Earning Potential:

Some of the successful experts of betfair training claim to make about £1000 each week from horseracing betfair trade. Even, people have seen punters, who even made more than expected from this lucrative opportunity. However, you need to understand that, it also needs around £1000 to invest. This means, if you wish to earn £1000 each week, then you need to invest £1000 to start with. With regards to how to get in this trading line, you can take help of some useful web sites on the Internet that offers you with trading resources and tutorials to help you out.

The lowest bet amount on this betfair system is £2, but betting under £2 is simple. Placing a bet under this category is very useful, since it lets you to verify strategies without committing loads of money. Betfair trading is mainly placing a bet on the progression of a horse price. If you believe that a horse price will come down, then you can back it at the moment and lay it afterwards at minimum amount.

So long as the horse’s price is in motion of your expected direction, you can achieve an immediate and lucrative income. You can go over this trading process many times within a single event. Either wait until there is a change in the price of the horse or ask for the closing price that you expect and wait until it matches with your price. Indeed, you can modify the horse price and stake any time as per your wish.

Overview:

It is not necessary for you to lend any amount for covering the closing bet. In addition, you can benefit from a cheap commission liability that is payable, when you make profit from overall market, as opposed to the winning profit selection.

To sum up, whatever area of betfair trading that you want to specialize in, if you are serious about being successful, then definitely you will win and achieve desired income.

One of the things that makes horse racing handicapping so difficult is trying to figure out what an animal will do when it tries something for the first time. Runners going from sprints to routes is a good example. Once a horse has raced at a route distance of say a mile or more, it becomes obvious whether it likes longer contests or prefers sprints.

But for those youngsters that are going long the first time it becomes problematic to determine what they will do with the added distance. Curiously enough, a lot of times, the clues come from the connections, i.e., the trainer and jockey. If you see a horse going long for the first time and the regular rides gets off and another rider is on, it isn’t a good sign unless there is a significant improvement in reins men.

That is the first place I look for a clue as to how it will run. Next, look for clues from the conditioner. Is the horse taking a drop in class? Have medications or blinkers been added? Now if you find that something has been added or taken away, blinkers for instance, the next thing to do is to see if there have been any changes in workouts.

Many times a trainer will try an equipment or medication change out with a good workout before entering in a real race. If you see a change was made and a good work followed, then maybe the conditioner has figured something out and now figures the runner is ready for longer distances.

The final clues may come from breeding. Usually, stamina and distance traits are inherited from the dams side of the family. Look at the dam’s sire and see if it was a distance runner. Keeping breeding stats or buying programs with these stats included will help. Finally, if you can form a real concrete opinion about what is going to happen in today’s race, you might want to pass it by. It is hard enough to handicap when you do know what to expect without making it little more than a crap shoot.

Author: Max Redd http://www.reddracing.co.uk

This is the third instalment in a series of articles on profitable betting through sensible money management. So far, I have discussed the importance of getting value when you bet, to maximise the returns you achieve when your selections win. In the most recent article you should have learned to keep your stakes in proportion to the size of your betting bank.

Today I want to examine a common mistake that often gets punters into serious trouble – chasing your losses.

I don’t think there can be many of us who have not at some time, decided to get back what we just lost by betting a little bigger on the next race. It is sometimes known as progressive staking.

Let’s take a simple scenario: you bet £10 on Red Rum, and he loses. What do you do? Perhaps you continue with your selection methods and come up with another pick in the next race – Best Mate. The price is 6/4F

But, rather than putting another £10 bet on Best Mate, you decide to ‘chase’ your loss from the last race. You add another £7 to your stake so that when Best Mate wins you will pick up an extra £10.50 to recover the bet you lost on Red Rum. Good plan? Could be, after all Best Mate is a sure fire winner, right? May be. May be not!

What happens if Best Mate loses? You are now £27 ‘in the hole’. But you still have a plan. Your next selection is a dead cert winner at Even money. You place your usual £10 stake plus an extra £27 to cover your losses so far. No need to worry. When this one comes in, you will have re-couped your losses and have a £10 profit to show as well.

Let’s take a step back here. You are staking £37 to win a £10 profit. Think about it – you are effectively getting odds of only around 1 to 4 odds-on about a horse that is Even money in the market. That is terrible value!

You may escape this time and your horse may well win. But what if, heaven forbid, your red-hot even money favourite fails to win? After just three bets, you are down to the tune of £64 when your normal stake is just a tenner!

Long losing runs do occur, more frequently than you might think, and even with short-priced selections.

If you spent a day in a casino at the roulette tables, and analysed how many times you witnessed a run of 7 or 8 consecutive ‘red’ numbers, I would not be at all surprised if you saw this happen four or five times – in a single day. Here we have pretty much a 50/50 bet, even money, that the roulette ball will land in either a red or a black slot. Yet I was amazed to learn that the longest run of the same colour (reported) was THIRTY-NINE consecutive reds!!

Imagine if you were betting on black, and saying to yourself each time “no worries, it’s got to be black next time…. Surely?”

But let’s go back to the more common occurrence of a losing run of 7 even money bets. We will be betting on the red.

We place a £1 bet on the first spin. It’s black. We chase our loss by ‘doubling up’ and next bet £2. If we were to carry on in this manner, after 6 spins we would be betting £64 to win our original £1

I sincerely hope my point is getting across. By chasing your losses you can very quickly see your stakes climbing to preposterous levels, to win your original, relatively small stake. The risk is way out of proportion compared to the potential reward.

One last example to really ram the point home. The Racing Post runs a tipster competition. All the leading racing journalists are involved, representing the nation’s newspapers and horse racing publications. These are experts at tipping horses. Take a look at the results table any day, and see for yourself the longest losing run. Remember, these are the experts.

I looked today, and Racing Post PostData has suffered this season a losing run of twenty-seven. Twenty-seven consecutive losers from an expert tipster! And believe me, he is not on his own, just the worst offender this season so far.

There is an old saying – “Don’t throw good money after bad”. If your selections don’t make a profit from simple level stakes betting, don’t try and make them profitable by throwing more money at them. You may survive with a profit for a while, but this approach is a disaster waiting to happen. Sooner or later you WILL blow your entire bank chasing a disproportionately small profit.

If your selections don’t make a profit from simple level stakes betting, change your system.

Grand National is the most popular horse racing event in the UK. Every year, thousands of people crowd around the television set to watch the live telecast of the event. Among these people, many would already have placed bets on the horses. The key question now is, “Which horse will emerge the winner?”

If, like many others, you have placed bets on the horses, you would surely be interested to know what your winning odds will be like. Many won’t even bother to think about the odds. But knowing the odds will create a more interesting betting experience. And who knows, you may even start winning some bets!

So how do you go about increasing the odds of winning? The first place to look, is to go to a sports book website (related to Grand National of course), and look out for tips. But note that not all tips are reliable. Do a quick check to see if previous data is accurate. Has the experts from this particular website tipped any winners before? If so, how frequently?

When reading up on betting tips, it’s wise to keep a healthy level of skepticism. Always check things out for yourself, and don’t rely on others to do your homework for you. At the other end of the spectrum, you also don’t want to over analyze things. Just keep things simple. That means looking up information on the horses, jockeys and trainers who are competing in the Grand National event. A list would most certainly help.

Based on the list, you may then do more research on the entrants. For example, you can easily find out who the past winners are. You can also see who the National legends are, and which horses the pundits are rooting for. Of course, the more popular the horse, the weaker the odds. Popular horses usually have odds at around 12 to 1. Unpopular horses can have odds that go as high as 100 to 1.

When picking horses, always bear in mind that the Grand National is an event that is unlike other traditional horse races. Therefore, you can’t use conventional betting methods to try to pick winners. Skills, speed and power do matter. But in a Grand National race, luck is an important element as well. So never write off any horse. The horses, although less likely to win (at least according to what the masses think), have better odds. That means when you win, you win more.

Ultimately, it’s up to you find a balance between rational betting and betting based on luck. You have to have a bit of both to get better winning odds. If you really can’t decide on the horse to bet, just bet leisurely based purely on luck. There are websites with software that will help you pick a potential winner. It may just be your lucky day!

Online betting exchanges are getting popular not only among the punters, but in common individuals, too. Moreover, online betting has many advantages to it, because here you do not have to visit racetracks to place daily bets. Just bet on horse racing online and there is no need to bother about the results, since you receive these results on your computer on time.

Online betting exchange on horseracing helps to increase the revenue, whatever is the outcome of horserace. The reason is that here there are no bookmakers, who demand lofty shares of your net profits. Moreover, your earning may increase by 20%.

You simply need to recompense the betting exchange a small amount of your winnings. You can also be a bookmaker and bet against different online punters.

How To Earn More?

To increase the earnings in horseracing, you need to be aware of back as well as lay betting choices. Unlike conventional racecourse, in online betting exchange, you can use the lay technique and increase your odds of winning. In lay, you may also bet on the winning horse that might lose in the event. This type of option is considered immoral and a cause of criticism as well as corruption in racetracks, but in online betting exchange, you get the opportunity to lay bets, in such conditions too.

Moreover, this option of lay allows making profits regardless of the direction of racing results. You may lay at less price and then again at higher price, thereby ensuring a profit in both ways.

For instance, consider that you lay the bet on racehorse A for £5 in first race at 10/1. Again lay at 2/1 in second race, to ensure the profit in any case (win or lose) you need to offer an odd of 30 of the probable earnings, so that you can win even, if horse loses the race. Thus, you are covering the first £5.

If it wins in first round, you make £51, and if it loses, you lose only £5. In addition, now if it wins in the second race, you will suffer a loss of £15 and if it loses, you win £7.50 Therefore, if you add up two bets, you are still making a profit of £2.5. Thus, using lay bet you get the opportunity to earn money in either case.

To make more profits, online punters, who participate in the betting exchange, need not take initial offers on bets. Many a times, people depend on their instinct and place bets. Instead, consider several offers and settle for the one, which shows potential of winning.

Benefits Of Betting Exchange:

In online betting exchange, you do not lose anything, if you win every time. This is something very different from attending the field race, because bookmakers bully you, if you win consistently in filed horse race by betting the limited stakes and minimum closing accounts, within them.

To conclude, betting exchange gives you the ability to earn big money without any limit. Horseracing results that arrive on your computer screen may show you that the horse you bet on has lost but you do not have to bother, if you have placed lay bet.