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Horseracing markets are all over the place like never before - and here’s how punters can take advantage
Lewis Porteous seeks the truth behind the extraordinary betting patterns seemingly taking place every Saturday
Anyone betting on the racing on Scottish National day earlier this year could hardly have missed some truly extraordinary betting patterns.
There was a 33-1 winner of the Fred Darling who had been as short as 11-1 overnight; an early 25-1 shot winning the Scottish Champion Hurdle having been hammered into 10-1; even an 11-4 overnight favourite ending up bigger than horses who had been priced up at 8-1, 12-1, 14-1 and 20-1 at the same stage.
Among those taken aback by what they saw was Racing Post tipster Paul Kealy, although Kealy is enough of a seasoned punter to have suspected that what he was witnessing wasn’t just a crazy one-off but part of a much wider pattern.
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