Race Tips

Are you relatively new to horse racing betting or about to place your first bet? If you answered ‘yes’, then this is article is truly a must read!

For your convenience, we have put together a collection of the best horse racing tips in the country. Listed below are the most important factors in horse racing, as well as beginner tips on how to become a successful horse racing tipster.

To help with this, we’ve broken horse racing betting in to two categories – unknown factors and known factors. But enough horsing about (pun intended), let’s get into the tips.

Horse Racing Tips – Unknown FactorsThere’s some things in life you can control, and other things you just can’t. The same applies to horse racing tipping. Think of these as the unknown factors.

The first of these factors is the form of a horse varies on racing day. Some days you’re just up and about. The other, flat. In fact, this applies to humans too when you think about it. All sportspeople know the importance performing on the day – think AFL Grand Final!

The second factor horse racing tipsters can’t foresee is the all important  factor of luck during the race. There is nothing that can be to impact on this factor. Maybe superstition is the go! All we can trust is that the Jockey will do his best. If your religious, then perhaps a pray or two beforehand might also help.

Horse Racing Tips – Known Factors

Now to the second category, the known factors. This are the areas where knowledge and careful observation can help you make better horse racing bets.

Some key known factors that impact on the race include:

• Some tracks are right or left handed turns and others have more or less elevation.
  The tip is knowing which horses prefer which tracks. In other words, what track
  do they tend to perform best on? Studying the horses previous form guide and
  looking for trends are likely to positively impact your chances of winning.

• The ground is a very crucial factor because a horse might perform best on a
  soft ground (after rain), very soft (heavy), dry (good) or very dry (firm).
  Every horse has a ground preference and this is also calculated from the
  statistics of the horse. Keep tabs on the weeks weather too.

• Some horses like short distances (sprinters) and others stayers prefer long
  distances. Genetics play a part here so the characteristics of the father and
  mother horse are important. Find out if you can.

• If the racecourse is small, the tracks will have wide turns. A horse on the
  far wing have to run longer than the others and therefore the starting box position matters. Keep it in mind.

• Just like horses have a track preference, so do some jockeys. Some prefer
  short distance over long distances. The winning percentage of a jockey is the
  important factor and should be taken into consideration betting.

Hope that helps!

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