Do I need to know anything about Horseracing? Not a thing. In fact the less the better. Having paid your subscription for a professional service, you should resist the temptation to try to second guess the skills of the experts that you are employing. Remember our guarantee and rest easy!

Do I have the time to commit to this service? If you have 5-10 minutes a day to spare then you have more than enough time to trade for yourself, following our simple and easy to understand step by step instructions.

How are the tips selected? We use a whole plethoria of techniques to select the horses that we consider to be "false" favourites or poor second favourites. This includes statistical analysis of each horse's history, the jockey's form, course and distance records, the going on the day and the price at which it is likely to start from.

All lays are proofed to the Racing Post and the Sportsman

How do I receive the tips? Tips are sent to you by e-mail and SMS direct to your mobile. In both cases the sender will be highlighted as Tippingzone.com and the format of the messages will be along the following lines:

25/03/06; 3.35 Kempton; Pititana if you can get 5.0 or below on the exchanges.

We make every effort to ensure that tips are sent out by 12 noon each day. However, we do not guarantee to tip every day and indeed we rarely provide tips on Sundays as the quality of racing is usually lower. In short, we tip when opportunities arise.

What is the staking plan? A staking plan is simply the amount of money you set out to win with each bet. Our own staking plan is a lay risk of £200 but you may choose to start with a lower figure until you build up your confidence and indeed your betting bank.

A betting bank is basically a pot of money that you are prepared to invest. Inevitably not every one of our tips will produce a return and this disciplined measure provides a safety net in the unlikely event of a consecutive losing tips.

We advise that initially this should be around 10 times your planned liability. In other words, if the amount you are prepared to invest (your risk) with each bet is £200, your betting bank should be £2000, and if you intend to risk £100 or £50 for example, your betting bank will be £1000 or £500 respectively.

How do I work out my stake? Using our suggested staking plan, your maximum liability will always only ever be £200.00. The level of the actual stake will be determined by the odds you can lay at and this figure should be divided by your risk amount.

For example, if horse A is available to lay on betfair at 3.0 (2/1); simply divide £200.00 by 2 = £100.00. If horse A loses the race you win £100.00 and if it wins, you lose £200.00.

Similarly, if horse B is available to lay on betfair at 4.5 (7/2); simply divide £200.00 by 3.5 = £57.00. If horse A loses the race you win £57.00 and if it wins, you lose £200.00

If you are using a higher or lower risk plan, simply adjust your stake accordingly using the same formula.

Do the stakes change? Consistently making profits from backing horses to lose (laying) requires a disciplined approach to the way you bet. Whether the staking plan you start with dictates that each bet you lay or risk is set at £200 or £50, it is essential that you stick with it; at least throught a particular month.

If you start varying your liability in an attempt to chase losing bets when they occur, you could end up in losing your betting bank. Stick to your guns and be patient.

What if a runner's price is high? On occasions, because we send out our tips relatively early, some of our selections may be trading outside our price range of 5.0 (4/1).

However, these usually change as the race gets closer to the "off". As a result it is advisable to lay these tips as close as possible to race time.

Our golden rule is that our selections must be no higher than our cut off price of 5.0 (4/1). If they are do not lay them as the liability will to be too high in comparison to the potential winnings. Accordingly if it has not been possible to lay at our maximum odds, the outcome will not appear in our results section.

What happens if there are Non Runners? You should be ready to act in the event of significant non runners, usually the favourite, which may cause a considerable drift in prices.

Our tips must be not be the favourite caused by significant non runners and there must be a minimum of 7 runners.

If non runners effect the price, move our tips from second favourites to favourites and or mean that there are fewer than seven runners, do not lay our selection. If you have already layed the horse, consider closing your bet by backing our selection to reverse your position.

Who is behind the Tippingzone.com? The Tipping Zone is a wholly owned subsidiary of Betrescue Ltd, one of the leading providers of betting information in the UK.

We are a full time reputable organisation that employs sports journalists, professional gamblers and tipsters and business people with a statistical bias.

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