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What is Dutching?

Without boring you all to tears with a history lesson about how the system originated, which I believe was from Al Capone's accountant, but don't shoot me if I'm wrong!  If you search Google for 'what is dutching' we get, 'In gambling, Dutching is sharing the risk of losing across a number or runners by backing more than one selection in a race or event. The process calculates the correct stake to place on each selection so that the return is the same if any of them wins'.

Which in a nutshell is dutching! You can add all kinds of amazing variables to this system with the advent of Betfair unlocking trading capabilities around your dutching, but for our ABC horses, we are simply backing all selected ABC’s to win, which gives us an equal profit should any of them be a winner.  You can find dutching calculators on the net, they are readily available free of charge, alternatively you can use the multiples on Betfair to enter all three horses to win. 

Alternative Ways To Use The ABC's

Each day at least one graded race will be posted either after 9pm the evening before racing, or before midday on race day. 

Our ABC Ratings are listed in order of horses we have rated in the race with the best chance of winning, obviously with A rated being the highest rated.  We are firm believers in encouraging people to come to their own conclusions about how to use the ratings, as the real value of our ABC ratings is that they reduce the field to manageable numbers of possible winners.  The ratings point to the value bets, the horses apparently overpriced in the market that have an outstanding chance of either winning or at least placing at a big price.

They also provide potential for trading, forecast, tricast, combination and dutching bets.  For trading especially, if you find one of our rated horses not in the top three you can often track the horse and see a show of interest before the off, where the odds suddenly move in providing a possible trade off and green up. 

An example of this is 10 - 15 mins before a race when the big money starts piling on, you will usually see one, two, or all three of our rated horses moving down in price.  If you spend some time before the race establishing the peak in the graph price for our rated horses, you should very quickly start finding the horse that's going to steam in pre race, and make a profit each day using this information.  Just from the daily ratings!

Another of the many approaches to profiting from these ratings is, if you have an odds on favourite in the three, back the favourite to win and the other two E/W, or in Betfair's case to place if you don’t use the multiples which allow you to back e/w .  I also find Reverse Forecasts are very profitable, and if I create Betfair multiples with all my rated races and horses throughout the day, I'm getting a very good strike rate. 

Or even just use the ratings to spot big Each Way value bets, which are usually very good to trade on both pre play and in play.

It's really your call in the end though, as don't let anyone tell you otherwise, you are just as good a form reader or tipster as any in the country!  All you probably need to make that an inherent fact is discipline, and if you haven't already got it, get that discipline and you'll be laughing all the way from your laptop to the bank.

If you’d like fuller details about our dutching or trading approach and how it works, please send me a private message by clicking on the ‘send a message’ link at the top of the page.