| Following the money has been a big practice amongst | | | | put all that into a workable strategy, use these steps |
| punters ever since the invention of the exchanges | | | | as a rough outline |
| allowed people to see the exact amounts of cash | | | | 1. Take the list of all horses in a race. |
| being placed on each horse in a race. This is | | | | 2. Cross out the favorites |
| something that if used right can be a very profitable | | | | 3. Cross out the top rated time form horse (you can |
| betting strategy but if done wrong will lose you a lot of | | | | find this information for free in betfair) |
| money. Following these 3 simple rules will allow you to | | | | 4. Using the racing post site or newspaper, cross out |
| profit from the work of other punters. | | | | any runners that show up in the NAP of the day list, |
| 1. Ignore large amounts of money on the favorites, | | | | that are highly tipped by the newspaper tipsters, that |
| especially on high profile races. Often the large | | | | have much higher than average RP ratings or |
| amounts of money coming in will just be people | | | | topspeed ratings, any horse that won its last race or |
| following the crowd and betting on the best looking | | | | that are tipped by Pricewise |
| horse in the race. You won't find much value in these. | | | | 5. Download betfair rapid (it's free) so you can easily |
| 2. Look for large amounts of money coming in for | | | | see how much money is going where. |
| longer priced runners. This is unlikely to be the Sunday | | | | 6. If one of the horses left on your list suddenly starts |
| punter crowd and may indicate that someone who | | | | getting thousands of pounds bet on it during the last 10 |
| knows their stuff is having a punt. | | | | minutes before the off - consider it a selection. |
| 3. Look for large amounts of money coming in for | | | | It's not an exact system, because with something like |
| horses that are not well supported by the racing | | | | following the money or trading prices there really are |
| media. Most punters don't actually read races - they | | | | no exact systems (that work anyway). It's a case of |
| simply bet on the selections of people who do. If a | | | | practice, practice and practice until you start to get an |
| horse that has received little to no attention from the | | | | instinct for it. Doing so with the about information |
| pundits is having big money bet on it the chances are | | | | however will put you well ahead of 99% of other |
| that someone knows something you've missed. So to | | | | people trying to follow the money! |