Horse racing is a sport that can evoke themes of dominance or produce major upsets depending on the occasion. The odds markets however are always a useful guide to gauge the potential winners of major races.

The biggest flat racing event on the United Kingdom horse racing calendar is undoubtedly The Derby at Epsom Downs Racecourse, and it is arguably the most famous race of its format in the world. 

Here we will look at how the betting markets view the frontrunners for the race, including the outright frontrunner and the other realistic winners who could spring slight surprises in June.

City Of Troy is the outright favourite

The leading frontrunner in the Epsom Derby odds is City Of Troy, a horse from the United States who won all three of his races in an excellent 2023 debut year. For those wanting to make a horse racing bet, he is offered at 2/1 to win the Epsom Derby, one of the greatest prizes available on British soil. 

The American horse has begun as a favourite in all of his entries so far and the odds would suggest that it is likely that streak will be prolonged beyond his biggest challenge yet. 

Aiden O’Brien is the trainer of the American horse. Based on O’Brien’s reputation we can imagine that a successful future lies ahead of City Of Troy. The Irish trainer consistently nurtures flat racing winners in the UK and City Of Troy looks poised to extend his Derby wins record to ten this year. 

Dean Gallagher on City Of Troy at Ballydoyle this morning! pic.twitter.com/EjMpnGPbjA

— Mike Cattermole (@Catters61) March 2, 2024

The only hurdle to City Of Troy’s first major success arriving at Epsom is perhaps the adaptation needed to run for over 1.5 miles compared to the seven-furlong races he endured in his opening year in the sport.

The North American horse is thoroughly expected to showcase the greatest raw pace and explosiveness from the start, however, other horses may be able to catch him out if managing the distance becomes a problem.

Ancient Wisdom and Henry Longfellow expected to provide the strongest opposition

Ancient Wisdom and Henry Longfellow are seen as the joint most likely winners according to the odds if City Of Troy underperforms. Both are offered at 6/1 to win the 2024 Epsom Derby which makes them slight outsiders but means victory is certainly realistic.

The former, like City Of Troy, experienced its debut year in 2023 and had a similar level of success with five race entries and four victories – three of which were Grade One contests.

Henry Longfellow is another O’Brien-trained horse going into his second year in 2024 which means that all of the Epsom Derby frontrunners are relatively new names to the sport.

He has only raced at Curragh throughout his three career outings to date and emerged as the winner from each. The most recent race in October was the most impressive as he won convincingly by five furlongs.

Now 3/3, @coolmorestud colt HENRY LONGFELLOW wins 7f 2yo G1 National Stakes @curraghrace today for @DarleyEurope Dubawi @Ballydoyle pic.twitter.com/6tABY75gyp

— Steven Cargill (@Steven_Cargill) September 10, 2023

Ultimately the most likely result at Epsom this year is that a brand-new entry will make his name known to the world with a historic success.

City Of Troy is seen as the most likely winner due to the impressive speed and acceleration he has shown so far, although Ancient Wisdom and Henry Longfellow will be on hand to fight for victory if any issues are encountered.

 

 

 

A horse racing service we are currently reviewing – First Class Racing – is holding a special event tonight that you won’t want to miss. 

This horse racing service, run by renowned tipster Mel Gee, is a low-frequency, high-strike rate, small-point betting strategy.

And it has increased his members’ money by more than 125%!

That’s why they’re holding a First Class Racing Live Q&A tonight at 7pm (GMT). 

So you can chat to Mel to find out exactly how he does it…

Reserve your free space now.

They’ll cover…

🧑 Mel’s betting history, including the decades he spent losing money…

💰 The specifics of his First Class Racing strategy, including running through a real selection, so you can really understand what separates Mel from other tipsters…

🎉 His approach to the major Festivals, including Epsom’s upcoming Derby meeting (more on that in future emails)…

💬❓ And then they’ll open up the floor to let you ask Mel any and every question you have about his approach or the First Class Racing service.

🤑 After that, Mel will share a tip for the upcoming Epsom Derby on 3rd June – usually just for paying members, but yours free on the night!

💬 Plus, they’ll also give you the chance to join Mel and his happy members in the First Class Racing community.

Don’t miss this one if you want to make money while the rest of the world seems to be losing it!

Reserve your free space now.

 

 

 

 

We’d like to draw your attention to a special webinar being held tomorrow that you won’t want to miss.

It’s the Second Class Racing Live Q&A, which is being held at 7pm (GMT) on Tuesday 23rd January.

Reserve your free space here.

The goal of this event is simple: to introduce you to Mel Gee’s ‘oddball’ lay betting strategy…

Which, since the launch of his lay betting service, Second Class Racing…

Has had 9 out of 11 winning weeks – making 48 points, or £480 to £10 stakes.

We’ve been running our own review of the service here at Honest Betting Reviews and it has been going well, with promising results so far.

In the Q&A, the Bet Chat team will…

➡️ Break down Mel’s Second Class Racing strategy track record since launch…

➡️ Tell you why this is NOT like other lay betting strategies or services out there…

➡️ And then bring on Mel so you can ask him all your questions – about the strategy, lay betting in general, or how he stays looking so youthful!

And you’ll get the chance to be part of Second Class Racing, the service he’s built around it…

Reserve your free space now.

 

 

 

 

So we come to the end of our awards for 2023, as voted for by you, the members of Honest Betting Reviews. There is just one award left to hand out – that of Best Overall Betting Service 2023.

Before we get onto that though, we just want to say it was great to see so much interest this year, with a huge number of people voting in the awards. 

We feel these awards are a good opportunity to mark out those services that have performed particularly well, introduced some new innovations and most importantly, hopefully made us all some extra income over the last year. 

In summary then, the winners we have had so far are:-

• Best Horse Racing Service: The Bookies Enemy
• Best Football Service: Predictology
  
• Best (Other) Sports Service: Trade On Sports
• Best Matched Betting Service: Profit Maximiser

Well done to all of those services on their awards. 

Anyway, now it is time to move on to the final award of Best Overall Betting Service.

Best Overall Betting Service 2023

So this award is for the best overall service across all categories,  whether that be matched betting, tipsters or trading services and in any sport.

It’s obviously the toughest award to win and the most sought after. 

Coming in third place this year was the winner of this award last year, Goal Profits. The football trading service is an-ever popular choice among members and continues to deliver the goods. 

In second place was winner of the Best Horse Racing award, The Bookies Enemy, which by the way just landed winners at 16/1 and 12/1 yesterday! 

Who won the award this time round though?

Well, there was a runaway winner of the award, notching up more votes than all the other services put together! 

We will also give honourable mentions to those who drew some support in the voting, including GeeGeez, Irish Cash Consortium and Hanbury Racing. 

This year’s resounding winner however was…

 

Predictology!

Yes after capturing the award of Best Football Service 2023 they have also run away with the spoils in the Best Overall Betting Service award. 

A huge congratulations to Jon Roberts who runs Predictology and his team on a lot of hard work that has gone into improving the service, which has been reflected in picking up these two gongs. 

Here is what Jon had to say on receiving news of the award: 

“Wow, to also be voted as the Best Betting Service for 2023, alongside the Best Football Service, is very humbling.

A huge thanks to you Dan, your readers, everyone who has voted for us and and everyone who has supported us over the last ten years.

We mentioned some of our key achievements in 2023 in the Best Football Award. Perhaps one that was overlooked was the launch of the Football Trading University in May, with over 250 students taking the course in 2023. The feedback from the FTU alumni has been amazing with so many sharing their success stories.

We’re supremely excited about what 2024 is going to bring and we feel this could be our biggest year yet with key focusing being:

– Automation
– Value
– Engagement
– Customisable Betting Solutions

Automation has been a major component of what we have offered for a number of years now. In fact, I’d go as far to say that, in many ways, we have been pioneers in creating and making available customisable automation solutions for both betting and trading.

This will continue to be a key focus for us in 2024 and only this week we launched version 1 of our new automated value betting solution. It identifies value betting opportunities, scans the betting exchanges and if the target price is available, bets into the market…all on auto-pilot for our members.

We provide a number of tools for members to quickly and effectively identify and take advantage of Value Opportunities in the market through our Value Trade Shortlists, Value Bets Live and AI generative analysis tools.

As alluded to above, we will be expanding our capabilities and effectiveness in this area alongside generating more automated solutions for locking in value.

Engagement with our members has always been a core focus for us. Over the years we have built up a strong community around the platform and make ourselves available in a number of ways including:

– Fast support response times
– Personalised guidance on betting strategy and betting portfolio development
– Discord community of over 2,000 members
– Extensive training and video guides throughout the site
– Live trading sessions held with Discord

YouTube has also emerged as a successful channel for us. We have posted more videos than ever before and even hosted our first live stream. We’ll be doubling down and providing a lot more content and engagement here in 2024.

The last pillar of our focus for 2024 is around “customisable betting solutions”. At this time, we can’t share much more detail on it but we are investing a significant amount of resources and finance into this project to provide a new and unique type of solution for bettors and traders. We can’t wait to share more on this towards the middle of 2024.

Once again, thank you Dan and to all those that voted. 2023 was already a fantastic year and this recognition from your readers has really put the cherry on the top for us.”

So well done again to Jon and his team and that wraps up our Members Choice Awards for this year.

Thanks to everyone who took part and has enjoyed Honest Betting Reviews over the last year. We really do appreciate your feedback, input and suggestions and we are looking forward to getting cracking on some exciting new reviews in the coming months (and a couple we have just started)! 

In the meantime you can check out Predictology for yourself here.

 

 

 

 

 

Firstly we would like to wish you a Happy New Year and here’s hoping you have a happy, healthy and profitable 2024! 

Next up in our series of Members’ Choice Awards is the accolade of Best (Other) Sports Service 2023. 

This is the turn of those services that either focus on sports other than the “big two” of horse racing and football, or combine a range of sports into one service.

This can include anything from golf to tennis, cricket, NFL, darts and more. So it is quite a wide playing field and this was a competitive category. 

It is often in these more niche services that you find the best value however, so it is a category to keep an eye on.  

But without further ado, let’s have a look at the results. 

In third place was the Golf Insider which also finished third in this category last year. It is a service that finished off 2023 strongly with some big winners at 125/1, 28/1 & 12/1. The service has made over 2,000 points profit in total and remains a popular choice among our members. 

In second place was last year’s winner, Tennis Profits. This is a relative new kid on the block and comes from the very successful Goal Profits team, but incorporates professional trader Paul Shires of the long-running Trade Shark Tennis into the mix.

The service includes a range of features such as match stats, live chat and even a watch-along option where you can see Paul trade a match live in-play, which is a great way to learn how to trade tennis. 

Now we move on to the winner of the award.

 

Best (Other) Sports Service 2023

This year’s winner is a new kid on the block that has featured heavily in this category over the years, including winning it in 2021, 2020 & 2019. 

Yes the winner of the award of Best (Other) Sports Service is…

Trade On Sports! 

This is a personal favourite of ours and one that continues to innovate and produce new betting strategies across a range of sports. 

It made over £5,000 in our original review of it back in 2020 and has produced strong results since then, particularly in the sports of football and tennis. They also have active groups on Telegram where strategies are posted and discussed by members. 

Here are the final results then for this year’s award:-

1. Trade On Sports
2. Tennis Profits
3. Golf Insider

So congratulations to the whole team at TOS on the win. We have said before we feel like they are one of the internet’s best kept secrets and that remains the case to this day! 

Here is what Pete Nordsted from Trade On Sports had to say on receiving news of the award:

“We are delighted to win this award. We are always looking to make improvements to the service and we have now added many pre match options to our service and we are particularly excited to add our Value betting bot which has been showing some very good results.”

Well done again to Pete and his team and that wraps up this year’s award for Best (Other) Sports Service 2023. 

We’ll be back soon with the next award in the series, Best Matched Betting Service. 

In the meantime you can check out Trade On Sports for yourself here.