Are you losing more than you are winning when it comes to backing horses? If so you are in a very big club, not to say it’s a club that has too many happy members mind you?

The fact is that the vast majority of punters are losing money hand over fist month in month out and year on year. I am to shed some light in this blog entry as to why.

If you were a Plumber, would you be a good one a demand a top hourly rate if you bought a few tools from a car boot sale and read a couple of articles in ‘Plumbers Monthly’? (no idea if there is one). Or if you suddenly had a bright spark of an idea after changing a fuse and decided to become an Electrician would you really expect not to be shocked into reality at least once a week. Or maybe you might decide to become a Surgeon after watching a whole series of ‘Casualty’, it would not be long before however before someone was not in the least bit happy with their face-lift would it?

Obviously the above examples may be a bit extreme but are they? If you expected to pick up a Newspaper or phone in to some ‘promise the world deliver nothing’ tipster and make a good second income from horse racing do you think you could? If you are taking the time to read this you will almost certainly know that making money backing horses can take years of practice.

The answer, in my humble opinion, when it comes to making money backing or laying horses is just as in any other career or profession – Training.

If you are serious about making money from horse racing, unless you have a very reliable source of inside information, which is a rare as hens teeth, then you can only profit from learning as much as possible about it.

One of the best places to start your study has to be The Racing Post which contains a very significant amount more information than the tabloid Newspapers. While sometimes one simple piece of information will find you the winner one the whole the more information you have on a horse the better. The form pages in The Racing Post contain a wealth of facts a figures and understanding this information is vital to a long term winning strategy.

If you really want to starting winning more than you are losing then you absolutely should spend some time training for this part time or full time pastime or profession. If you keep doing the same thing then the results you achieve will continue to be the same. If you are honest with yourself and you are consistently losing then it could be that training will be the answer to changing your results.

In all of my manuals and publications I always try to pass on some of the knowledge I have learned in the last 20 years obviously however I cannot include everything I know for a relatively small amount of money, and this is why I am going to run a few small Seminars this year. In the last three years especially I have learned a huge amount more about horse racing and I am willing to pass on all of this knowledge to a very small group of individuals for a fraction of the cost I paid in both time and money to acquire it.

You can find out more about the Seminars I will be running by emailing me on neil@aidaracing.co.uk or use the contact form or call me on 01490 460239. I will be happy to discuss how I may be able to help you, there will be no pressure from myself, I will simply give you the information and the rest is up to you.

Today’s Tip – If you want to turn a long term losing run into a more profitable one then the answer has to be study and training. There’s no easy route to riches backing horses but just as in any other trade or professional if you don’t become proficient at it profits are likely to be hard to come by.