Horse Racing Laying Articles

One of the main methods of loss retrieval as a layer is the ‘stop at a winner’ system. When you take a bet on the betting exchanges, it is easy to see yourself as a bookmaker. You’ve set up your virtual stall at a race course or football stadium and you can already see yourself in a sheepskin coat, puffing on a cigar with the mantra ‘you never see a poor bookmaker’ cascading around your head. Then you’re jolted back to reality with a shock as the no hoper you wanted to make £5 on scrambles over the line first and you have to pay out £200 of your hard earned cash! Whenever you take just one bet on an event, you are not a bookmaker, but a punter backing something to lose. Therefore, loss retrieval systems have got as much chance of succeeding long term as before, ie, precisely no chance.

In this article, Neil looks at how to choose your own horses to lay on Betfair. He examines some of the factors involved in picking losers. Spotting weak favorites to lay on a Betting exchange is not quite as easy as it sounds and if you get it wrong your betting bank can take a serious dent.

The lay system you are about to read is a quickfire system which i have used to produce good quality lay results without spending hours tied to the PC. As with any betting system the more you put in the more you get out. We still have to do a little homework to allow us to take confidence from our selection before putting our money down on the chosen horse.

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I mentioned in my previous article about what a potent weapon laying could be in our betting armoury. One of the key advantages of laying is that by opposing one horse, we are effectively backing the other horses in the race. So if we have laid one horse in an 18 runner race, we have 17 other horses running for us.

You remember the good old days don’t you? Yes, you could have a cigarette in your local bookies, as you’d desparately try to find those elusive winners in your daily scraps with the enemy. Somehow, though, these winners always seemed to disappear when you arrived!

This article will not show you how to make a profit by laying horses. It will not even explain exactly how you lay a bet on a horse to lose. My intention when writing this article is merely to demonstrate that laying bets on a betting exchange is not some kind of ‘black art’ and there is nothing ‘smoke and mirrors’ about it.

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By laying a selection to lose for 3 units at odds of 10.5 and then backing the selection to win for 2 units at odds of 11.5, we have, in effect, layed a selection to lose at odds of 8.5 that was trading at 11.5.  In effect, a selection has been layed to lose at odds much less than those at which they were trading on the betting exchange. 

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Anyone who has never tried in running betting on the exchanges is missing out on perhaps one of the greatest adrenalin rushes in the punting world. In running betting in horse racing especially is a white water ride of unsurpassed excitement for the uninitiated.

Back in the old days, most successful professional punters were in attendance on the actual racecourse itself. With the abolition of betting tax and the advent of the betting exchanges, this is no longer necessary. There are many roads that lead to Rome in the realm of successful professional punting and taking on the favourites is one of them.

One of the strategies that I often employ is to lay very short priced favourites with the sole intention of backing them later on in the event. Let me explain, let us say that you are looking at a tennis match between Roger Federer and a low ranked unseeded player in a first round match at Wimbledon.