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Famous faces who have entered horses in this year’s Grand National and their chances ranked

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Excitement is starting to build with the 2020 Grand National at Aintree just a couple of months away. 105 horses have been entered for the April spectacle which will dwindle down to a maximum of 40 for numerous reasons, such as weight, between now and April 2nd.

The 173rd edition of the race, which includes 30 fences and is ran across four miles and two and a half furlongs, will take place two days after the horses are confirmed (April 4th), and a whopping £1m will be up for grabs.

Thousands of punters flock to Merseyside every year to witness the most iconic horse race in the world first hand, while millions more watch it around the globe. For many, it will be the only horse race they watch all year, while it is believed that half of adults in the UK have a punt on a horse or two.

Last year’s champion Tiger Roll is expected to win the national back-to-back for the first time since Red Rum in the 1970s and, if you bet on Grand National with PP odds, the Gordon Elliott trained horse is available at 5/1.

There are often celebrity owned horses amongst the final 40 lined up at the starting post and this year’s entries are no different with a Hollywood actor, an ex-football manager and a former rugby star throwing their horses into the mix.

Sir Alex Ferguson

Former Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson has owned many horses in his time including the legendary Rock of Gibraltar, who was named European Horse of the Year in 2002. However, this year the 78-year-old is hoping to win his first Grand National with 40/1 outsider Give Me A Copper, who he part owns alongside trainer Paul Nicholls and several others.

The 10-year-old only has two chase victories from seven attempts but goes into the national on the back of a Handicap Chase victory at Wincanton in November, much to the delight of his owners.

Although, it remains to be seen if the Nicholls-trained horse has enough quality to overcome the challenges of the testing Aintree course.

Dame Judi Dench

Another celebrity who is no stranger to the sport is James Bond and Oscar-winning actress Dame Judi Dench. Her horse, As De Mee, also trained by Nicholls, was entered for the 2018 national. However, the 10-year-old, part owned by Dame Dench and the Stewart family, had to pull out due to an injury in his leg – putting him out of action for 630 days.

Since returning from injury, As De Mee has raced four times finishing seventh twice, sixth at Aintree in December and third at Wincanton at the beginning of the year. The 66/1 underdog’s chances of winning the prestigious race are slim.

Jonathan Davies

Potters Corner, owned by Welsh rugby star Jonathan Davies and All Star Sports Racing, has the best chance of winning out of the celebrities’ horses, entered at 25/1. The Christian Williams-trained horse is going into the festival on the back of ‘National’ success at the Welsh Grand National in December, beating Truckers Lodge by almost two lengths.

Potters Corner, therefore, isn’t just the most likely horse to win out of the celebrities’ entries, the 10-year-old has a real chance of winning the National come April 4th.

 

 

 

 

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Free Cheltenham 2020 Festival Yankee

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Our friends at Cleeve have just released their 2020 Festival Yankee and it’s FREE for everyone.

It features 3 double-figure priced horses and they’ve put in one of the bankers to anchor all the doubles and trebles (and hopefully even the four-timer!). If they achieve 4 places it returns over £250, and should they somehow manage 4 winners it’s over £15,000!

Coming back down to earth Cleeve are one of the most consistently profitable tipping services in the UK and they’ve made money at the Cheltenham Festival in 4 out of the last 5 years, so it’s well worth getting their thoughts on four of the best value horses due to go to post… and remember it’s totally FREE!

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The Bookies’ Biggest Mistake…

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It’s only available until Saturday, so make sure you set aside the time to get this valuable information before then.

 

 

 

 

 

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Winning Tipsters

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There are literally thousands of tipsters online these days, offering betting tips through websites, Facebook, Twitter and all manner of other mediums. 

Normally tipsters will boast of great results and that they make masses of profit, but very few will actually be able to deliver those kinds of results after you sign up. 

That is why we run this website and put tipsters and betting systems to the test under a live trial, recording their full results exactly as the tips are given out. 

After running hundreds of these trials for over five years now, we have found a small number of winning tipsters who have actually been able to deliver consistent profits over the long term. 

These tipsters cover a range of different sports and have a variety of approaches, but they have one thing in common: they have all managed to hit the bookies where it hurts and provide winner after winner for their members. Let’s take a look at some of these tipsters below.

 

Our Top Winning Tipsters

OK let’s have a look at the best tipsters we have come across in over five years of searching the internet far and wide and putting hundreds of services through their paces:-

 

          1. Racing Intelligence

If you are looking for consistency then there are few better tipsters than Racing Intelligence. This is a service that has produced over 900 points profit since starting tipping in June 2017. That would be over £18,000 profit to £20 stakes, a very nice return indeed. During our six month live trial it produced a superb 192 points profit at a return on investment of 19%. 

One of the main attractions of the service is that it has a very good strike rate of over 40% (including each-way horses), meaning that it achieves returns on a regular basis and the losing runs so far have been minimal. This is reflected in the monthly totals, with 75% of the months so far having been profitable. 

The other great thing about Racing Intelligence is that it has been profitable at Betfair SP as well, so even if you have lost your bookie accounts the service could still be viable for you. At Betfair SP the total profits stand at over 430 points profit if backing win and place or 620 points profit if backing win only at BSP. 

All in all then you couldn’t ask for much more from a tipster than what Racing Intelligence has produced. 

 

            2. Quentin Franks Racing

 

One of the true giants of the tipping world is none other than Mr Quentin Franks, a service we have been proofing for nearly five years now. His total profits since starting tipping in 2014 stand at a colossal £14,000 profit to £10 stakes. That has been achieved with a very commendable return on investment (ROI) of 18%, which is an excellent level to have maintained over the course of such a long period. 

We were fortunate enough to meet the man himself at the races a couple of years ago and he is a very humble guy considering his tremendous success, but you could also tell he knows his racing inside out. That, plus an awful lot of hard work has allowed Quentin to achieve the results he has and provide very substantial returns for his members. In fact, his original betting bank of 200 points has now increased by over 700%, which is pretty phenomenal. 

He also has achieved a strong level of consistency much like Racing Intelligence, with 75% of months so far having been profitable. There aren’t many more superlatives we can use to describe Mr Franks so we would just say if you aren’t already a member, we strongly suggest you sign up today. 

 

           3. JK Diego’s Draw Betting System

Next up in our list of winning tipsters is a football tipster and one who has made his fortune betting not on teams to win, but rather for games to finish in a draw – JK Diego’s Draw Betting System.

This is an unusual approach but has proved highly effective, netting over $4,300 profit during our six month trial of his service. Since that review ended, Mr Diego has continued to stack up the profits, adding an additional $7,000 profit. Those results are to flat staking (i.e. $100), which is our preferred option but there is a more risky loss-recovery method you can choose if you wish. Overall Diego’s tips have netted him over $100,000 from backing on the draw, which is a quite amazing feat.

The theory behind the method is that most punters prefer to bet on one team or the other to win a match, meaning there is often value in backing the draw as it is under-bet. The results clearly show that the strategy has an edge, which is very rare in football betting. There are actually eight different factors Diego looks at when analysing matches to decide if they qualify as a draw bet. 

The subscription costs are high in order to keep membership numbers down and protect prices, so this service is for high rollers only but if you have the betting bank to make it worthwhile, JK Diego is surely the number one footy tipster. 

 

           4. Russell Blair Racing

 

Next up on our list is the venerable Russell Blair Racing from the Sports Betting Stars platform. Russell has been tipping since 2015 and in that time has amassed over 2,000 points profit at a very impressive return on investment (ROI) of 31%. 

That would equate to over £50,000 profit to £25 stakes and makes him one of the very few tipsters out there to pass the 2,000 point margin. Looking at it another way, the average profit per month to just £10 stakes stands at £340 per month. 

We have undertaken two separate trials of Russell’s service, the first one in 2016 which made 214 points profit and the second one in 2019 which made 305 points profit. On both occasions a good profit was also made at Betfair SP. 

Russell has been known to land some very impressive accas as well, including a fourfold at odds of 180,000/1! That included two selections at 33/1 and even just backing that day’s tips as singles would have netted 170 points profit. 

This is a service for serious, long-term minded punters as it can be a little volatile but the overall results are outstanding and Russell Blair is right up there with the very best in the industry. 

 

           5. Bet Alchemist

The final entry in our list of winning tipsters is the renowned Bet Alchemist. This is a service we originally reviewed back in 2016 when it made a healthy 38 points profit during our live trial. We have continued to proof the tips since then and the service has maintained excellent form over the proceeding years, having amassed 368 points profit since 2016. 

In total since the service began in 2012 they have made over 600 points profit at a return on investment of over 14%. Nicky Doyle who runs the service specialises in jump racing and does particularly well at the festivals and big race meetings. At Cheltenham alone for example he has made £13,785 in profits since 2010, which is not a bad bit of extra income! 

There is also an additional service, the £1k to £5k Challenge, which is an attempt to turn a £1,000 starting bank into £5,000 purely by betting on the big meetings at weekends, for those who fancy something extra.

The Bet Alchemist is one of the most reputable services out there and has established a very consistent record of tipping over a number of years, which is highly commendable. Certainly worth checking out.  

 

Conclusion – Make Sure You Pick the Right Tipster

The internet is an absolute minefield when it comes to finding a good tipster. There are so many scam artists, dodgy tipsters and websites with fake results out there it can be difficult to know where to start and who to trust. That is why we have spent countless hours over the last five+ years putting tipsters through their paces to see if their results are real and separating the “wheat from the chaff” as it were. 

Fortunately having tested out literally hundreds of tipsters we have found a select few who have stood up to rigorous testing. Not only have these tipsters survived a live trial on our site, they have gone on producing consistent profits for not just months, but years afterwards. That proves they have a clear edge over the market and have demonstrated an undoubted ability to beat the bookies – the holy grail of betting. 

This group of winning tipsters are an elite band of specialists and have very dedicated followers who have benefited from their unrivaled skills to the tune of thousands of pounds, euros and dollars. So if you are going to pick a tipster, make sure you choose the right one with an established track record like those listed above. If you do that, you could be well on your way to success too.   

 

 

 

 

Free Access To Proven Racing Tips

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We wanted to let you know about this now, as we’re not sure how long it’s going to be up for.

We reviewed racing service Back Lucrative back in 2015 when it made 27 points profit.

This service is now in its 7th profitable year running, and has accrued an incredible 1,660 points profit so far…

That’s a mind-blowing £33,200 to £20 level stakes.

The service is normally closed to new members but for a limited time only they are offering a special free trial.

If you act right now you’ll get a full two weeks to try them out, completely FREE.

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Enjoy this one!

 

 

 

 

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Best Football Stat Sites

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There are a plethora of football stats sites on the web, some are free, and some charge a fee. There is so much data you can risk drowning in it, and each site seems to handle data in slightly different ways. To help you negotiate the landscape, here are what we think are the best football stats sites to help you make better football betting decisions.

 

Free Football Stat Sites

Here are the sites to look at if you are interested in free soccer stats:-

Whoscored

For an in-depth view of football statistics, WhoScored is a great place to start. It’s useful for live scores, match previews, comparing players, possession percentages, red and yellow cards, passing statistics, aerial duels, tackles per game, and very much more.  One great feature is the Statistical Best XI, which you can order by multiple parameters.

Soccerstats

Although the website might appear a little basic, it provides a fast way to access the data you are looking for without any clutter getting in the way. There is a massive amount of information which you can quickly sift through. It includes stats from just about every league in the world, including professional, amateur and regional. You can select your favourite leagues up to a maximum of 16.

Footstats

If you are more interested in the English and Scottish football leagues, then FootStats might be the best site for you. As well as an in-depth look at the UK football scene, it has also been updated recently to provide stats on the major European and World leagues. Typical stats include shots per game, shot percentages, goals, fouls, corners, red and yellow cards and more.

Statbunker

Statbunker is a fundamental archive of vital football stats but despite its somewhat austere appearance, there is a wealth of information which you can quickly access. The major sections are competitions, upcoming, live and full time; all-time stats from major European leagues, and manager stats including match results, goals and other useful information such as average points per match.

Premium/Paid For Football Stat Sites

For those slightly more serious about their football statistics and looking to use them for professional betting, there are the following sites:-

Statisticsports

This is probably the best site for live football scores and statistics analysis. The website is powered by AI which it claims provides the best football prediction tool to help you find the best bets in time. Each week it processes 2,100 football games and each day 95% of live games are covered. For anyone serious about football betting, this could be an excellent choice. There is a free seven-day trial followed by three membership levels: basic (£17 a month), deluxe (£37 a month) and Platinum (£77 a month). It includes a mobile app which provides alerts of value bets on the go.

Wyscount

If you want to take your football stats research to the next level and you are willing to fork out nearly £200 a year (the top-level subscription is £999 a year), then Wyscout is the ultimate professional site. It provides what is probably the best football video archive in the world. The website adds 2,000 games a week and includes 400 million plays, all with in-depth analysis and stats. If you are involved with football professionally, or you are determined to take your football betting to the next level, it’s worth looking. There is a 15-day free trial. 

Get top FREE footy tips from professional gamblers here.

 

 

 

Get Your Six Nations Guide Here!

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Rugby betting may not be everyone’s cup of tea – in fact some people even refer to the sport as “egg chasing” – in reference to the shape of the ball.

However, if you can make as much money betting on the sport as a guy called Phil Worrall then I don’t think you really care how people refer to it!

Phil is a professional rugby trader and we originally reviewed his trading and tipping service last year when it made an excellent 162 points profit.

He then produced a tipping guide for last year’s Rugby World Cup which generated a superb 48 points profit.

And over the last six weeks Phil has restarted his tipping service and it’s got off to an absolute flyer – already making 125 points profit!

So that’s a combined 335 points profit – or £1,675 profit to £5 stakes.

Six Nations Offer

With the Six Nations tournament starting this weekend Phil has produced a full Tournament Guide PDF containing his outright tips. He’ll also be providing weekly tips for the matches throughout the Six Nations.

For a £5.00 introductory offer you can get Phil’s Tournament Guide, plus his tips for the opening round of games.

You can then decide to sign up for his tips for the rest of the tournament if you like.

If you are interested in the £5 offer, please just contact us at info@honestbettingreviews.com and we will provide details of how to sign up.

You will need to move fast though as there are only a handful of places left. 

 

 

 

 

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Phil Bull – Founder of Timeform and £5 million Pro Gambler

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Phil Bull was a Yorkshireman, which was easy to discern from his fine West Yorkshire accent. He was born in 1910 and during his 79 years (he died in 1989), went on to transform the horserace betting world by founding the Timeform private handicapping system which since 1948 has been providing performance ratings for racehorses in Great Britain and, to an increasing extent, internationally. During his life, he became a well-known character throughout the horse racing world.

His father was a coal miner and his mother a teacher. As a young child, he showed exceptional promise academically and passed his entrance exams to the local grammar school. He went on to attend Leeds University, from which he graduated in 1931 with a degree in mathematics. His maths education was later put to excellent use when he combined it with his love of horse racing to develop techniques for evaluating racehorse performance, laying the foundations for his Timeform handicapping system.

After leaving university, he followed his mother’s profession and became a maths teacher, but the job failed to live up to his expectations, and he soon abandoned it for a career as a professional gambler.

Life As A Professional Gambler

Betting had always been an interest of his, right from being a schoolboy. In fact, an interest in gambling often goes hand in hand with an interest in mathematics. With Phil Bull the two activities were closely intertwined. One of his early big wins was in the Derby when he bet on Caerlon which went on to win at 25/1. By the 1940s he had devised his personal mathematic approach to horseracing which he called the Temple Time Test and went on to sell to fellow punters. Mainly, this was a weekly list of horses based on their time performance. He published it under the pseudonym William K Temple BSc and advertised it in the sporting press.

The Temple Time Test was surprisingly successful; his clients who bet level stakes would usually make a substantial profit over a year. In fact, it was so successful that bookmakers became concerned. William Hill went as far as closing the accounts of many of Phil Bull’s clients. This didn’t go down well with Bull and led to an angry confrontation between him and William Hill. However, all ended well as William went on to become friends and colleagues with Phil Bull organising William Hill’s ante-post prices (and are pictured together above).

As a gambler, Phil Bull was extraordinarily successful. Between 1943 and 1974 his gambling profits were nearly £296,000. Today that would be a little over £5 million. Never let it be said that mathematics is a waste of time.

Timeform Private Handicapping System

The launch of the Timeform Private Handicapping System was a joint enterprise between Phil Bull and Dick Whitford, who had previously devised his own rating system. This was somewhat different from the Temple Time Test, which was based on assessing the probable race time. Whitford’s system was based mainly on form. The two approaches blended seamlessly, and the new system was christened Timeform, indication that it was an amalgam of both methods. They set up their own publishing company, Portway Press, to produce the Timeform publications, the first of which was issued in 1948 and was titled “Racehorses of 1948”. Betfair bought the Timeform company in 2006 for £15 million.

So, what exactly is a Timeform rating?

It is a little complicated. It is expressed in “pounds” and is calculated by comparing the running of a horse with other horses with weight showing the distance by which it is beaten weighted by the length of the race. For instance, a length is equivalent to 3 pounds for five furlongs, 2 pounds for one mile and a quarter, and one pound for two miles.  

Racehorse owner

Phil Bull was also a racehorse owner and breeder. He set up the Hollins Stud in Yorkshire in 1947 with four mares which produced a raft of winners. Some of his horses went on to win the Greenham Stakes, Queen Elizabeth II Stakes, Prix du Moulin, Gimcrack Stakes, Ebor Handicap, Wokingham Handicap and several more.

Finally

Phil Bull’s advice was to always make your own decisions based on reason. At races, he said, “Keep your eyes open and your ears shut”.

Check out this top tipster who has made over £20,000 profit to £10 stakes. 

 

 

 

 

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Clive Holt – From Amateur Punter to Winning Big

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The late Clive Holt was a legend in horse racing circles. He was a punter who started from virtually nothing and eventually made it big time and enjoying the luxuries most of us dream about: exotic holidays, luxury cars, and even a country mansion with stables and many acres of parkland where he lived with his wife and four children. It was undoubtedly a huge step up from his early career with the electricity board.

Gambling came to Clive almost by accident. His father owned a couple of greyhounds which he would race. He introduced Clive to gambling and taught him a few tricks; however his early betting tended to be more than a little haphazard. He rarely kept track of his bets, though he did have a reasonable amount of luck. Back in the 1960s sometimes he would win as much as £1,000 – that is equivalent to around £18,000 in today’s money.  But it was win one day, lose the next day. There was no strategy to the way he bet.

But that was all to change. He decided there was far more to the sport than picking winners and more to money management than counting the difference between what he went to the racecourse with and with how much he came away. He decided there must be more logic to it than that and began analysing races in more detail. Eventually, he was able to work out which kinds of bets worked for him and those that were likely to fail.

The more effort he put into his analysis, the more successful he became. Now able to control his bankroll, he was able to survive losing runs and capitalise when he hit a winning streak. Overall, he began to turn a regular profit. During the mid-1970s he enjoyed considerable success, earning more money from gambling in a few months than he did in two years at his day job with the electricity Board.

That was the point he decided to become a full-time professional gambler. He quit his job to devote all his time to horse racing. Success followed success. He never made huge bets, and it was rare for him to win more than £1,000 on a race, but he won relatively small amounts consistently. He said that he was making 50% profit on his outlay.

Such was his luck that major bookmakers became concerned. In 1978 both Coral and William Hill closed his accounts as he was too successful. This forced him to do all his betting at the racecourse, and typically he would go racing around four times a week.

Holt is known for his famous Fineform racing system, which he developed and used successfully, eventually publishing it as a booklet and later refining it in his book “Be a Successful Punter” published in 1988. In the book, he advocated that “One vital ingredient for successful punting is that you’ve got to be confident that your selection can win.”

He went on to say that “Horses with good winning form when at their peak or improving win most of their races throughout the year and are a source of winners anyone can exploit.”  Perhaps surprisingly, Holt didn’t really enjoy betting on horses. He did it purely for the money it made for him. He often said that if he could find any job that paid as well, he would take it and wouldn’t miss betting at all. We are not quite sure we believe him.

The Fineform Ratings System

This system assigns a rating to runners based entirely on their last two races:

  • – First place = 5 points
  • – Second place = 3 points
  • – Third place = 2 points
  • – Fourth place = 1 point
  • – Course and distance success = 3 points
  • – Distance success = 3 points
  • – Course success = 1 point

You simply bet on the horse with the highest score. Although back then it proved a reasonably successful strategy, recent changes to the sport mean that today it is mainly irrelevant. However, it certainly worked for Holt, and according to reports, for many other punters too.

In addition to “The Fine Form Winners Guide” and “Be a Successful Punter”, other books by Clive Holt include “Winners back “Winners”, published in 1994; “Profitable Betting Strategies” published in 1989; and “Trading Inside”, published in 1996.

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