This is a basic form reading checklist, most of you will already have your own techniques, but hopefully it may help you take some cash from bookies in future.

If you are looking up form for a particular race there are a few things to look for first. We recommend making a checklist to use for each race you study, your checklist should have following questions:

1. Have any of horses in todays race ran over todays distance?

2. Have any been successfull at that distance? of those that have, was it recently?

3. Were any of todays horses in that race?

4. What weight did they carry?

5. When horse was successfull, was it carrying same jockey on board?

6. Is trainer on form with his other horses?

7. What was state of ground or going?(in relation to question 5)

8. Are todays conditions same as then? (in relation to question 5)

The first step to formulating a solution, is to define problem.

The following points are areas of betting where many punters often get it wrong. Our views arise from long personal experience and years of communication with successful and unsuccessful punters alike.

Our aim here is to highlight these common areas of failure in hope that I can speed up your learning curve towards successful betting.

MISTAKE NUMBER ONE

Failure to Use Betting Banks

Most gamblers fail to understand that best method of achieving a healthy and sustained long term profit from racing and betting in general is to set aside a sum of money away from your main finances, solely for betting purposes.