How to Find Greyhound Bets, Consistently

There are a few things you need to know about greyhound racing. There's a lot of it. Therefore, there's a lot of average greyhound racing. And it can be quite random, too — there's lot of bumping and crowding. You can't apply one strategy to all tracks. You can't apply one strategy to all tracks and all grades. So you have to be picky.

For example, an OR at Towcester is far different from an A8 at Kinsley. And even more different from a D3 at Doncaster.

I built RateThatDog because I know that data can find answers quicker than people. What we're building here is a live, growing repository of data that is learning quickly about how dogs win at certain tracks, and at certain grades — using backtested data as our source, and growing the learning on live data.

We're open about how the data is performing, and we'll help you along the way to find the best way of finding greyhound bets.

Let the Data Be Your Guide, Not Your God — when we tell you that the Top Composite Score dog in a certain race wins 38% of the time, that also means that it loses 62% of the time. You need to look for signs stacked up on each other.

Start with a Track or a Grade and Get Familiar with It — some tracks regularly produce winners according to a model, and others are far more difficult to predict. At Monmore, for instance, Trap 1 is King. But at Newcastle? The models are flat across traps, speed, composite scores, bend rankings — everything.

Get Used to Bad Luck — in greyhound racing, you're playing the numbers as much as anything. Most tipsters would be happy with a 27% win rate, and will be profitable at that level — which means that 73% of the time, their dogs are not coming in.

Take Time to Weigh Up Your Bets — every racecard is a puzzle. A bit like a Sudoku — you have to cross-reference, double-check everything.