zondag 26 april 2009

US horse racing resources

Bankroll: $ 302,45

As promised I'll let you in on what I've found out about US horses.

Lot of credit goes to Geno, who commented earlier and I chat on MSN with. He pointed me towards a number of sites.

Correct post times that get updated so refresh while you get closer to the race:

www.ebetusa.com/racing

Here you can find a lot of streams etc:

http://www.ildado.com/horse_racing_live_broadcasts.html

What I've found up till now:

Golden Gate and Hollywood:

http://www.calracing.com/video.php register here and you can stream them both.

Keeneland:

http://ww2.keeneland.com/racing/frames/livecoverage.aspx

Philadelphia:

http://www.philadelphiapark.com/video/asx/PPLive.asx

Tampa Bay:

http://stream.robertsstream.com/stream.asp?stream=tampa_bay_mbr&referer=TampaBay

Turf Paradise:

http://totalwebcasting.com/live/turf/live.aspx

I have all the streams as a bookmark in a folder on my desktop. So I can keep the mediaplayer open and only have to click on the name of the track and get the stream. No messing around with internet sites etc etc.

What I'm looking for desperately is a stream for Mountaineer Park and Penn National! If someone can help me here that would be great! They usually attract a lot of liquidity. Anything I find myself I'll update in this post and will let you know it's updated in the newest blogpost.

If you have a stream of any other US track that Betfair allows wagering on that I might have forgotten I'd be very much obliged if you'd let me know.

What I do now is simply ignore the Betfair time. It is useless. I check the ebetusa site to see which race is up next as the order the races are posted in on Betfair are wrong too!

Then I put on the livestream so I can visually see when the race is about to start. I'm noticing that I don't really like trading the races without a stream as my edge is so much bigger with it. Sometimes I get an extra couple of minutes of trading even after the post time of the ebetusa site! And the real money comes in then while at the same time people without the streams are getting desperate to get matched.

In my experience up till now the race won't suspend on Betfair until a couple of horses are in their box at the starting line. So if you stick to hedging once they're about to load up the first one you should be fine.

DISCLAIMER: Please see for yourself when the races get suspended, the stream might be a bit in front or behind compared to mine and it can be detrimental if you take my word on something that is potentially extremely costly to you.

I will take no responsibility at all :-) I provide the links, you can provide the common sense to use them to your best interest yourself. If you look a couple of blogposts down you'll notice that I'm not the king of not getting caught and I'm still recovering from the last time I got caught with my pants down.

I hope this helps some of you to be able to trade the US horses better. It sure has helped me!

2 opmerkingen:

  1. Hi,

    Ladbrokes have streams for all US tracks they bet on - I assume you have to have a minimum $1 bet.

    http://www.trackmaster.com/ has excellent formguides, will cost you $1.50 per meeting but the most suited to the way I read form.

    These guys have set up a US race bettors association, trying to lobby for lower takeouts, better racing etc - http://blog.horseplayersassociation.org/

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  2. Thanks for that Scott! I thought I already approved your reaction but I just saw it as unmoderated. So my apologies for placing it so late.

    I opened a Ladbrokes account and watched a couple of races without betting and without even having funds there so who knows!

    I just wish there was a site I could pay a sub for to see all the races. www.youbet.com would be perfect but is US citizens only and require a social security number and everything so pretty thorough.

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