Q) When is the best time to lay your horses to get the right prices?

A) We lay all our own horses. We try to give these out to you at a time
in the day when we can be reasonably assured we may get our maximum target price or below.

As with all things, you can’t get this correct 100% of the time,

Betfair prices can be driven by many factors, and even though we have been laying horses for years, we still don’t get this right all the time.

I check with www.oddschecker.com, if our horse is say showing at 3/1 here in the morning and perhaps 4.2 on Betfair, and the horse in question has been pink shaded on oddschecker (indicates a drifting uneasy market), I would probably take the 4.2 there and then. (blue shaded indicates the opposite – being backed)

If then throughout the day, the horse drifted past our target price (so now it is too high and we shouldn’t be on it, I would BUY (BACK) it back for the same amount I laid it earlier for a guaranteed profit if it won, and no loss if it loses.

I appreciate most people are working during the day and are too busy for such things, but generally, you can key in your maximum lay price in the lay column (to expire if not taken before the off – we don’t lay in running) and leave the lay open so if it does reach the target price, Betfair MAY take it and you will probably be on at the max lay price

If you have more time on your hands you can check throughout the day and if your horse is apparently drifting, take it whilst it is still within the price.

Or you can wait till just before the race and lay it at the best price you can get as long as it at or under the max price.

For evening meetings (especially midweek smaller meetings) I often wait just until before the race is off, there is usually a lot of movement going on just before the off.

As most of these are favourites, it can sometimes only take a very small amount of money to move the price and this can often be in our favour.

It’s not completely black and white, and this is a guide only.

Q) What do you mean by a 50 point bank?

A) Your 50 point bank is your starting bank (initial capital) – if 1 point is £10, then your bank would be £500.

Q) Will I definitely make a profit as a member of your service and if so, how much?

A) The systems we use to produce our lays have been tried and tested back to 2005, paper traded forwards, then the selections were laid with real money.

Research has taken my colleagues and I literally hundreds of hours to complete. We would expect a similar trend of results to occur in the future.

There are no guarantees, but if that was so, we would expect profits to be around 100 points or so a year, to put this in perspective – approx 8/10 points a month

Obviously some months would be larger and some much less, we may even get the occasional losing month.

I strongly suggest laying horses responsibly and only using capital that is not needed elsewhere as with all elements of laying horses – there is risk involved.

Q) I hear you also have an All Weather Laying Service, do you have details ?

A) The A/W service can be found here.

The service will run all year round but is busiest between August & April – estimated lays Winter Period (August – April 20/35 horses a month) Summer Period (May – July 7/10 horses a month).

£29.00 a month

Or you can join both services for only £49.00 a month saving £9.00 a month

Selections will be sent via email at approx 11am GMT each day.