Yes, you can make money on Betfair, laying false favourites in handicaps.

Laying horses to lose is mainly about common sense - if you want to be a long term player, it simply wont happen if you keep laying favourites in novice hurdles, maiden races, auction races, bumper races or claimers or sellers.

Why?

Well, look at the stats, look at any course in the UK when they have a race meeting on and go to the racing post race cards for that meeting - open the drop down list under "favourites" and see for yourself the percentage of favourites that win these races. Novice Hurdles? these races can have a favourite WIN rate as high as 45% at some courses - it's almost worth while BACKING them to win at some courses.

Some maiden races at certain courses have equally high WIN rates... No, not for me.

No, I have to say, Handicaps are for me and the sprintier (is there such a word?) the better. - sprints are races of 5 or 6 Furlongs, and they usually get lots of jostling at the start as the race is short and everyone is trying to get the best position early on.

Now, not just any old handicaps - most tracks record less favourites winning in all age handicaps, 4yo+ are best. These are seasoned performers who have shown their worth (or lack of it), yes some are still open to improvement but generally - the cards are on the table for these horses.

Unlike 2 or 3 year old handicaps, surprises are more uncommon - this gives us a great foundation for laying.

What do I look for? Horses that have won previously and a re now being asked to do MORE - i.e up in class, up (or down) in trip, these horses may also be carrying MORE weight - now horses unproven at the distance, unproven at rise in class, unproven at the track can all be good prospects to lay, however if the opposition is pretty poor - the horse could still win - Right?

What we need to look at is - is this the only fancied horse in the race? - do some of its market rivals have winning form?, is its winning form in the class of the race today (this is good). Have these rivals been running on this surface before, have they been winning on this surface before, this distance, at this track etc.

You will be surprised at how many horses are made favourite even though the horse has never run at the track or distance. Some tracks are stiffer than others.

you get the general idea - look for favourites in all age 4YO+ handicaps at tracks where the favourite wins less than 30% of the time in these races. Look for favourites expected to run up in class for the first time, unsure at the distance, going etc - perhaps at this track for the first time.

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I am an author and marketer on the Internet, I enjoy discovering new ways to make money every day, I love horse racing and I go racing here in the south, when I can. I specialise in laying horses to lose and I run a horse laying tips service. You can get more information on laying false favourites from Betfair Accredited trainer Jonathan Burgess at http://www.layfalsefavourites.com Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Keith_Everett

Why would I want to lay horses to lose? This is an article on how to make money and have fun at the same time, through horse racing. Did you know that less than 2% of people actually make any money from horse racing? It's true, their is an absolute mass of information out there via websites, magazines, the form book, etc on how to win at horse racing, yet still most people cannot turn a profit in the long term and end up losing money.

Why is that?

It's quite simple really - people tend to treat it as a bit of a game, a laugh, not to be taken too seriously. Bookmakers get rich on this cavalier attitude, they have big, big houses paid for and furnished by the "mugs" who throw their money away on hopeless strategies and chance They love the lucky fifteens, the 6 horse accumulators and the 12 match coupon, these bets pay for all their luxury holidays-

Do you know of any other moneymaking enterprise where you would leave so much to chance? If you ran your everyday business on tips & hearsay, you would soon be broke, wouldn't you?

That's not to say that their aren't some good tipsters out there, their are, but very few, good long term profitable ones. So why leave horse racing to chance? sure it's a lot of fun watching your horse run & lose, isn't it? Only if you lay horses, then it's fun, if not - it's not fun, it's MADNESS!!

Why do I lay horses to lose? How is this better than backing them to win? It's simple; I have more horses running for me in any given race than people who are backing to win and although it's not easy,

I find it easier to find a short priced loser, than to find a reasonable priced winner, this is very important. It's no good betting favourites to win, as most of the prices offered about these horses are far, far lower than their actual chances of winning. A third of favourites win, most punters bet the favourite, and although they win some of the time, because of the mean prices on offer most of the time, they will lose money overall.

What about betting on outsiders? Well, this is purely for pin stickers unless "you know something", if a third of all favourites win, this would leave 2 thirds of all winners coming from the 2ndfavourite upwards - now approx 25% of winners come from the 2nd favourite so it doesn't leave a lot of room for the masses of outsiders that run each day.

Even with years of form study, you would still need a large bank, the patience of a saint and you must expect very long losing runs - a lot of professional gamblers have been broke a few times before they got it right.

So, how am I better off laying horses to lose?

Psychologically, you are better off because you will win more times than you lose (if you are doing this correctly), also from a fun point of view, whereas with betting to win, you are cheering one horse home, only to find it blunders over the last and unseats the rider. With laying to lose you are cheering everything on in the race, except the horse you have laid to lose, believe me I've had some funny looks from people at the racecourse as I switch allegiance to different horses in the last half furlong at my local track.

And finally

Laying horses to lose has given me a lot of great enjoyment and a nice income for spending time in study doing something I love, you need to treat this wonderful business as, just that - a business. Keep accounts of every horse you lay and follow a strategy, a strategy of continuous improvement, find out who knows what they are doing and learn as much from them as you can.

Here's a WINNING STRATEGY that has paid dividends for me over the years, and it could for you too.

And, please stop paying for all those luxuries the bookies so enjoy, let someone else do that.

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Having discovered the fortunes of laying some 4 years ago, I wanted to pass some of my best lay tips on to you

The Power of the Sprint lay.

At the start of a 5 & 6 Furlong dash, and in 7 furlong races, the dash to the line starts where every race starts - the stalls. As these sprinters fly out of the traps, the bee-line for the best position is sought.

Often it can be a hostile barging match with the favorite sometimes getting the worst of it.

As these powerful sprinters go hurtling down the track, you can often see betting shop punters tearing their tickets up as early as the 4 or 5 furlong pole as their runner is hopelessly outpaced or totally unbalanced in the early stages..

To say these races were somewhat hectic would be a somewhat understatement, of course, these races offer many opportunities to the shrewd layer.

Looking at a horses previous form, in a similar race can throw up many clues as to how it may perform in today's race

1) Does it often leave the stalls late or is it fast away?

2) Has it raced on this track before?

3) Has it raced on this surface before

4) Has it raced left handed/right handed before?

5) Does it have a favorable draw?

6) Is it younger or older than other fancied horses?

7) How much weight is it carrying more or less than other fancied horses

8) Is it Male or Female?

9) Is it a winner over the distance?

You get the idea, obviously we are looking for a horse where on previous occasions it may not have had a straightforward 
run, i.e is it a bit slower than others out of the stalls, what does it do at the finish, does it run on or does it seem to not have much of a cruising speed, does it try at the finish to get it's head in front or does it hold it's head carriage up and flash it's tail, (check the video form) does the form indicate it may be a not straightforward ride.

My perfect lay bet in a sprint would be a combination (not necessarily all of these factors) of the above - perhaps with a horse or filly that hasn't run in 2 or 3 weeks, carrying a fair bit of weight considering it may not have achieved much in the past, badly drawn and not the quickest beast out of the traps - not a course & distance winner.

Your Perfect Betfair Lay System I am an author and marketer on the Internet, I have over 25 years in the Horse Racing & Bookmaking Industry, I currently run a Horse Racing tipping service called Magnum Racing Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Keith_Everett