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Can anyone access paddpy power horse racing pages/odds and if so what url are you using...thanks

I know lots of people over the years have tried to discover just how VDW compiled his two sets of ratings used in VDW Spells It All Out and also earlier in the Cobnut Selling Race and he said they were compiled on different lines. I would say the second set which seem to max out at 90 (or 91 in the Cobnut where another has 90) are not handicap ratings but form ratings. Much like Formcast of the Mail and Spotform of the Mirror. And it looks as if VDW was awarding a max rating of 30 per run... Read more

Hi Folks, I'm relatively new here, so hello y'all. I wanted to go into my research on value betting and why it's so important, many of the experienced punters on the forum will know all about value, so this is aimed at people who don't, in a bid to assist you to bet better lol. The concept of value odds is relatively simple, a bookmaker offers odds, in the odds is a margin for the bookmaker, so to determine what is value we have to go through a few steps, which i will do my best to explain... Read more

Systematic Betting A book with an inappropriate title, the author thought that the effort had been wasted ,but if understood would of carried the readers a long way. Why do you think VDW said that?

Hi all, I'm building my own UK Flat/AW speed and time-rating spreadsheet for personal use and I'm trying to put together an up-to-date set of standard times by course and distance. I've seen the excellent discussions here about RP/Topspeed standard times and noticed that some members maintain their own updated standard-time sheets. Would anyone be willing to share a current Flat/AW standard-times spreadsheet, or help me verify the current figures? I'm particularly interested in: Course |... Read more

Double checked some of my Chat Gpt generated race cards ( paid £ 20) massive mistakes, i dont trust it.

Double checked some of my Chat Gpt generated race cards ( paid £ 20) massive mistakes, i dont trust it.

Systematic Betting A book with an inappropriate title, the author thought that the effort had been wasted ,but if understood would of carried the readers a long way. Why do you think VDW said that?

After an educational few days reading and posting a few times the speed figures thread I've decided to have a go at producing some standard times for AW tracks. The way I've got these times is this: 1. I have found load of old HRB results downloaded but based this particular set on the 2019 times. I have most of the 2020 times too so its as simple as loading some more and my eventual idea was to perhaps take the previous season and adjust as the current season is ongoing. 2. The finishing... Read more

VDW Update (1985 booklet) "There are are numerous and varied ways to pinpoint horses which should be candidates for the winners enclosure and some years ago I put forward what seems to have become known as the VDW approach." "The VDW approach is a method, not a system, which produces a numerical evaluation of the odds based on relevant factors thereby creating a picture from which it is possible to determine if there is a winner IN the race not OF the race. Having done this, evaluate... Read more

I see there is no thread to put bets on so best begin a thread. Having some fun. Not into flat racing. £2 E/W Otago 14/1 6.55 Brighton. Won 4 times at course. You could put any bets you have here, also.

# Hidden Performances ## Horses to Follow — UK Turf Flat, 1–14 September 2026 Two weeks of UK turf flat racing, 236 races and 2,278 runners, screened sectional-by-sectional for horses whose finishing position undersells what they actually did in the closing stages. The method: classify every race's genuine pace shape from furlong-by-furlong splits first (never trust a closing-speed figure before you know whether the whole field was sprinting together), then flag the runners whose closing... Read more