In previous articles I have been guiding you through how to spot well-handicapped horses using many different aspects of form reading and handicapping. This month I want to draw your attention to those short priced favourites that need to be avoided from a betting point of view. This then allows us 2 options.

The first option? The betting exchanges afford us the opportunity to know oppose these badly handicapped favourites – LAY them

The second option? Simply put, we can avoid the short priced favourite and look at bigger priced alternatives to BACK.