The above race was from Southwell 09/12/08 

Remember these are just examples of what to look out for. This is not a horse racing tipster service, it is however a horse racing ratings service that can help you produce better profits.

In this above example we hit the bookies for six or betfair layers for 48!!! hope it wasn't the same person who laid me 21.00 for a place the other day... As you can see there are 3 horses rated over 40, and as you might guess these are the ones that I look out for, even more so when only one of them is rated over 60. It was time for a big each way bet @ 33/1 and a small win & place bet @ 48 & 9.8, I would have had a place bet on one of the others if the prices had been big enough, so I just had a combo-tricast on the top 3 paying £390 to a £1 stake.

Result - Swallow Forest (25/1 won), Westwood (9/4 2nd), Hamaasy (11/2 3rd).

The above race was from Lingfield 07/12/08

A race with a strong bias towards the positive rated horses, this would be an ideal race to lay negative rated horses, if below 14.00 on betfair, the negative horse here (Yakama) is over that price and is therefore NOT a lay. I did therefore consider the prices of the horses rated below a positive rating of 20, but for a lay I would require two of them to lay at odds coupled under 7.00 only two qualified for a coupled price of roughly 5.8. Both came unplaced.

My next bet was to check if the top rated horses place odds were fair to its place chance. Knowing that anything above 1.8 is fair for 3 places on a 65+ clear rated horse, i duly took the odds against and watch the bet scrape home for 3rd.

Result - Star Strider wins (6/1 SP), Yakama 2nd (16/1 bookies SP), General Feeling 3rd (8/1 SP)

The race above was from Sandown 06/12/08

At first glance it looks a strong bias for positive rated horses and the top rated been clear takes the eye. The 3/1 on offer at the bookies seems value to me about the top rated and both the 2nd and 3rd rated offer value in the place market. I have two small place bets on them, to make a slight profit and back the clear top rated quite big. For laying i only considered horses rated 10 and below at odds under 14.00. One stood out @ 6.2 Cash For Honours was the confident lay and was duly sunk.

Result - Clay Hollister (9/4 won), Quiver Hill (9/2 2nd), Blazing Desert (12/1 3rd).

Cash For Honours & the 2nd rated were unplaced.

Result - Clear top rated wins, and two of my place bets get placed (winner & 3rd).

So hopefully you will understand how I look for lays & how I tackle clear top rated.

I played this race because I was amazed at the top rated horse Sibi Saba odds 8.4, were as the favourites odds Amhooj was 3.25 and getting backed, for me it was to much of a difference considering the chances the favourite has had. Naturally I had a win & place bet on the top rated at those odds. I was considering a lay bet on Art Guild, I did not for two reasons, A) I prefer to lay -15 or worse rated horses, and B) even though the odds was nearly a lay price in my book for the amount of runners to positive ratings I felt the 4th & 5th rated were not strong enough rated for me to consider them on my side.

Result - Top rated wins, Arts Guild 2nd & Amhooj 3rd.

The race above was from Sandown 05/12/08

A tricky looking race on paper, but with the ratings it was narrowed down to two options. A lay bet on Buffalo Bob @ 4.8 and two place bets on Kadouchski 11.5 & Bring It On Home @ 9.8.

I was pleased to hear from other members who backed Kadouchski @ odds of 40/1 each way, so it was just not me who saw the value in this bet.

Result - Kadouchski (20/1 won), Spartan Place (7/1), Karky Schultz.

The above race was from Lingfield 07/12/08

I wouldn't normally  get involved in a race like this at this time of year, as I state below. Anyhow after pricing up the race it was evident that 3 horses stood out all for differing reasons. First off the top rated at 3.00 was value in my book, but i refrained from backing as I thought my 2nd option was safer, a lay on Cabernet Sauvigoun @ just over 3.5, it was a lay because I was prepared to lay any horse under a rating of 17, which produced 6 horses, but only Cabernet Sauvigoun was under 14.00. The market support for the top rated and Cabernet Sauvigoun made me uneasy, but I was confident the price was wrong. My 3rd option as usual was to take a look at the place market, the top rated odds was not value at under 1.8 and I wasn't expecting them to be, my main reason to look at the place odds was that of Joannadarc, who had just missed out as a bookie each way bet because its rating fell 1pt below 40, I was truly amazed and very grateful to be offered odds of 21.00 for 3 places!!! thank you very much who ever you are :-) I did not consider the 37 rated horse for a place bet due to two reasons A) My liabilities were mounting up on a race I wouldn't normally play. B)  I was pretty sure I was only aiming for 2 out of the 3 places if my ratings ran to form, so I played a small combo-trifecta including the 37 rated horse, the odds made sense as opposed to backing for a place, even though I didnt collect on the bet it self.

Result - Yellow Printer (6/4) wins, Cabernet Sauvigoun 2nd (2/1), Joannadarc 3rd (66/1)