To Explain This Method You Need To Know What Lay Betting Is

And if you’re a punter who is already thinking, get me off here, I don’t do lay betting, please just hear me out as I used to be exactly the same.

So for anyone who doesn’t know a lay bet works like this.

To start off with we bet on a horse to lose a race rather than win.

When we get it right, we double our stake.

So say if I say this horse at 10/1 is going to lose a race but a £10 LAY bet on it.

If that horse loses I get my £10 back and also win £10.

Sounds easy right, it’s easy to pick horses at 10/1 that will lose.

But the reason people keep away from laying and the reason I originally did is that if I say that 10/1 horse is going to lose and put £10 on it, if that horse does win, my liability is £100!

Which Means 2 Things…

1) That I need £100 in my account to lay that horse at £10

2) If that horse does win I lose not £10 but £100

Its easy to see why people automatically say they just do not do laying.

One Good Thing Came From That… His Research Was Good!

I double checked it and his figures were about right.

Previous 6 months, 34.2% of favourites had won and 76.2% were priced under 3.0.

This got me thinking about alternative methods to capitalise on this trend.

The only thing that made sense was to lay the favourite,…

I mean the odds would be low and you’d be looking at about a 66% success rate on average.

SPEED RATINGS + SHORT RACES = ££££

It’s a simple formula that I like to remember every time that I look for my selections.

There is no where else that a speed rating is any more beneficial that over short races.

A slower horse only wins a short race with an incredible start!

So all it come down to then form me was how high do I want to lay?

Do I want to be betting on 12/1 horses to lose and needing £120 in my bank for every £10 gained?

Or should I cap this off at 4/1 and bet at £30 stakes, the same liability of £120 would allow me to win £30 per win.

Laying 3 In A Race To Lower Big Losses

There’s only ever 1 winner for each race (ok there are those rare dead heats but still, those are rare).

So we’re not going to lose 2-3 bets in one race even by backing more.

When we get it right and none win, we make multiple points profit, when one does come in the liability is instantly recused with the other 2 being winning lay bets.

It’s a little concept that when you narrow down the races with likely runners that can be very powerful and speed up bank growth.

So how else can we pick losers? Especially in the Winter months…

JUMPS AND FALLERS…

Back a favourite with a few hundred quid before?

Odds on, £300 on to make £100 profit.

It’s nailed on right?

Then it falls!

First jump or last, it doesn’t matter!