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• Featured Website Of The Month - HQ Tips
• All weather racing with 5 furlongs
• Recommended Sites

Featured website of the month - HQ Tips.com

Our tipsters section has proven to be the most popular area of our website since our initiation and with this in mind we are gradually developing closer links with a few of them in order to recommend only the best ones to our visitors. HQ Tips is a relative newcomer on the scene and combines the knowledge and information of a select few to help generate extra profits for its members.

Although it has only been available to the general public for a short while, HQ Tips has been operating for a number of years and we have been privileged to have been privy to its information for the past few months. In short HQ Tips has proven a steady and sometimes fantastic profit for our outlays and we feel in turn that we can recommend their service.

Offering on average between 8 - 12 advice's per month, they only give out tips when they are 100% certain of its value as they have no quota of bets to fulfill so you can be sure you are not receiving a bet for the sake of it (this certainly is our biggest whine with tipster services). Of course we are always willing to hear from any of our subscribers who have their own experience of both HQ Tips & other tipster services that are out there.

Find out more at www.hqtips.com

All weather racing with 5 Furlongs

One of the more specialist sites for the web-based horse racing fraternity is 5furlongs.co.uk. Dedicated to the all-weather code of racing, they provide speed ratings and associated services to a growing number of
all-weather followers.

The advent of the polytrack at Lingfield has meant the profile of all-weather racing has risen immensely in the last few years, and with Kempton likely to go the same way, the UK will be well served during the Winter months. All-weather meetings will be on every day from January through to March.

As well as their core speed ratings, which are published every night before racing, the team at 5furlongs.co.uk also provide form, race analysis, race comments, race reviews and draw bias information. Each of the all-weather tracks have their own sets of idiosyncrasies and characteristics and at 5furlongs they not only provide an in-depth view of each distance draw bias, on a daily basis, the environmental changes are factored into their draw bias calculations and provided on their daily ratings cards.

With turf form being largely irrelevant for all-weather purposes apart from being an indicator of potential fitness, a useful feature of the service is the race database. This is an online database, which holds every race on the all-weather for the last two years and includes run comments, tactic indicators and also their own goings. This last addition is based on an apparently complex algorithm, which grades the going - so that there is not just the ubiquitous 'standard' to evaluate.

The primary power of the site comes in the shape of their daily ratings cards with race analysis. This is where the value of the team specialising in a specific code really shows. The rule here is that they point to the value in the race, rather than bland tipping, but from experience they don't tend to pull their punches. One thing to bear in mind is that their core users are trainers and bookmakers - who seem to be using the service to place horses and determine where the 'form money' will be coming from. There is also a contingent of betting exchange punters who are using the service to lay horses based only on their draw bias information - specifically at Wolverhampton.

All in all, 5furlongs.co.uk is a very useful addition to your all-weather betting armoury and the depth of resources available is staggering considering it is run by a small team of all-weather fanatics - putting the service offered by some of the other form houses to shame. Subscriptions are available to suit most pockets and there is a decent guest area to evaluate their services.

Find out more at the 5 furlongs website

Recommended Sites

Each month we intend to include a round up of selected sites that we feel will be of interest. Each site is listed in our link directory and we have personally visited and reviewed each one.

On-Line-Tips - Offer tips on both horses and dogs as well as systems and horses to follow. From August to December 2002 they have produced a 49% return on investment netting you £4950 for £100 level stakes just on their horses. Currently offering free trial of their telephone service.

Best Bet Books - Excellent shop with numerous books covering topics such as horse racing, sports and spread betting. Currently offering £5 discount on all purchases over £10, well worth a look!

The Platinum Exchange - Offer advice on laying horses to lose. They have developed a system yielding a strike rate in excess of 90% with frequent winning runs of 12 or more laying short priced favourites. Free trial available

Drawn2win.co.uk - David Renham is a betting researcher whose speciality is in examining statistical trends in horse racing which he then uses to develop a betting strategy. He is the author of the book 'Draw bias 2001' and he offers a membership scheme from which when joined, you can become privy to his information.

Thanks for your continued support. A very merry Christmas and happy new year from all at THRL. Speak to you in January.