Horse Racing Betting Tips - June Results

This month marks two years since I joined the Before You Bet team as the site's resident horse racing analyst, and it's only fitting that we approach that milestone coming off the back of one of our most successful months together in June.

Having sat down and calculated every single betting tip put up onto the site throughout the month, the statistics make for pretty good reading. Tips are provided for two meetings each Monday and two meetings each Wednesdays (Melbourne and Sydney), but the big focus is on the comprehensive previews for two metropolitan tracks each Saturday. This typically covers Melbourne and Sydney, but we sacrifice one of those meetings in order to cover a more significant meeting during carnival times in Brisbane, Adelaide or Perth.

June of course played host to the Brisbane Winter Carnival and so our Saturday previews have been covering Brisbane and Melbourne for the entire month.

In assessing the results of our tips throughout June, it is clear that the Saturday selections produce far better results and significantly greater profit than the midweeks, which hardly comes as a surprise to me.

I put this down to a few reasons:

What The Stats Say

In total, we tipped 221 horses across approximately 160 races and 20 meetings in June. This is because we often include an each-way selection along with our top selection if one stands out at value, hence more runners than races.

From those 221 runners, five were scratched, leaving us with 216 runners and a whopping 51 winners! That's a strike rate of 24% runners to winners, and a strike rate of 32% for races that we tipped the winner for.

Of course that doesn't tell the full story so let's delve deeper. The average price of the 51 winners was $5.58. Given we don't do recommended staking plans, calculating the profits was obviously going to have its flaws, but for the purpose of getting a number we can do it one of two ways:

So as you can see, the Saturday selections were really what boosted the month's profit, but we were still well above water from the midweek selections too despite the figures being less glamorous.

For me, there were two clear highlights for the month, which both occurred on the same day - June 24. The first was tipping six winners from eight races at Flemington, with our best bet of the day unfortunately scratched from the last race (Samovare). Included in those winners were Overstep at $10 (and the quinella with Invincible Al), Encosta Line at $10 and Riyadh at $15. The second was over at Doomben in the Tatts Tiara, where Tycoon Tara won at $26 as one of our two selections in the race, the other being In Her Time (3rd).

You can find every winner for the month of June below, as put up on www.beforeyoubet.com.au under 'Horse Racing Tips'.

We're off to a good start in July with all four best bets winning during the week, as well as one of our best value bets winning at double figure odds. Hopefully we can continue to record months as successful as this as we head towards the Spring Carnival!

As always, thank you for your comments and interaction on Twitter during race days, it really does make everything more enjoyable. You can find me on Twitter at @tim_tips if you're not already following.

Good luck this weekend and beyond!