GG.COM welcomes a new daily tipping service to its site when Speed Ratings will be launched in time for the start of the Cheltenham Festival. The column is presented by journalist and expert tipster, Sam Turner, currently riding high in the Racing Post’s NAPS Table using his speed ratings system and will be accessed from the left hand navigation menu.
Look out for it on GG.COM soon!
Below, Sam provides an explanation for the use of speed ratings in helping to successfully pick more winners. You will be able to follow a sample of Sam’s speed rating tips for free everyday here on GG.COM, but for the complete picture, we will shortly be offering a comprehensive daily service by subscription.
There is a lot written about the benefit to punters of speed ratings, but in ignoring the influence of the clock on a race, backers are dismissing one of the best ways of gaining a significant edge from their punting.
Just imagine knowing what the fastest horse in any given race is – surely that is a massive advantage to have over your fellow punters and the bookmakers, after all that is who you are betting against.
Utilising my speed figures will provide you with an invaluable short-cut to a select band of horses which win a huge proportion of every race that is run, both in the National Hunt sphere and on the Flat.
By using the easy-to-read ratings, any backer will quickly identify the speediest horse in a race, the quickest horse over that trip, the fastest horse on the ground and the most likely to produce their running that day.
There is no need to adjust the figures for weight or ground, just employ the ratings in their purest form and build in one or two factors like trainer and jockey form and you will be able to pick a volume of winners you have probably never managed before.
Punters in America swear by the clock, so much so that Andy Beyer, a renowned exponent of speed ratings and a writer on the subject, is revered as a genius by some backers.
Thankfully, punters in the UK have yet to embrace the findings of the clock in such the same way, leaving us with a huge edge over those that chose to ignore one of the most crucial winner-finding tools available.
Simply back the top rated, or play around the leading three or four horses, the choice is yours, but when using the ratings the most important thing to bear in mind is that the bigger and more recent the speed rating a horse has earned is the more likely it will be to repeat it.
The best kind of bet thrown up by my speed ratings is a horse that has very recently shown dramatic improvement, earning a big speed figure in an ordinary contest that is much higher than any of today’s opponents.
My intention is that my speed figures enable you to become better at picking winners by yourself.
They can tell you in what circumstances a horse has run fastest, it’s then up to you to decide if today’s circumstances are similar enough for the performance to be repeated – good luck