Dobbing is a popular Betfair trading strategy for trading and using in the in-play period of horse racing markets.
You place a bet before the off and then keep that bet through to the in-play period to get matched if your horse comes into contention.
It’s quite a simple strategy and quite simple to understand and implement.
In this video, we place a dob trade through the Betfair website to demonstrate the concept, then use Bet Angel to do the same thing.
There is also a follow-up video available here where we explain how to automate this strategy: –
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Good evening Peter, thank you for your DoBBing video. In it you referred to ways of making good selections for this strategy. Can you provide/ have you since provided? Is it possible you can point me in the right direction. Many thanks, Sean – the novice
Yes please, how do you choose ?
How many DOB trades do you think are available on any given day Peter? 1? 2?
Would you ever consider this method with a lay to back strategy instead. For example if you identified a weak favourite who you thought would drift in play.
Hello Peter, many thanks for all the insight you are providing. In follow up to one video just viewed I would be very interested in your thoughts / guidance on selection process for horse trading in general and particularly for the Dobbing manouevre. Thank you.
There is one thing you need to look out for and that is when the fav or a fancied horse is withdrawn right at the start and there is no time to remove it from the race. In that case you can have a massive deduction % which gives you an overall loss even if you match. Thank goodness this doesn't happen often, but if you've left a bet with KEEP set on and you're no monitoring the race you can get quite a shock. You bet will have the deduction applied, but you lay will not.
Time form is my friend 😁
Very new to trading, again great video have been watching loads on the academy and enjoying them, how you select video would be very helpful, thank you
I'd be very interested in seeing your proces for selecting a horse for this strategy
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Thank you. Very clear information for a beginner.
Very good piece Peter. However, having tried this without knowing which horse to select for any race, I have lost more than I gained. Not good for a novice until a video is uploaded regarding the selection process.
Would love to hear your ideas and thoughts on what makes a selection a good candidate for dobbing
My understanding of trading is that going in play is a big no no, I have used this stratagy myself sucessfully and posted on the forums about it only to be barraged with negative comments about going in play whIch was dissapointing considering it is supposed to be a supportive enviroment. On Aus racing my horse selection stratage is quite simple, do a small amount of form, select leaders or on pace horses via speed maps and previous form. i've often managed to get matched pre off as these runners can to get backed late in betting pre jump. i would certainly like to hear your selection critera though Peter. Keep the videos coming mate they are invaulable.
Please do another video peter.
I'd imagine speed maps would be a pretty handy tool as far as selecting a runner for dobbing. Also, I'm in Australia and I've been trying to find an answer to this question – why don't you use saddle cloth numbers in the UK? Bet angel could easily display a saddle cloth number even though it's not really the way you guys do things over there. I ask because one of my strategies is matched betting (there's around 150 races a week here offering $50 bonuses for placings) and because of the stable markets I sometimes convert bonuses to cash on UK racing. Sometimes I'm converting a lot of bonuses race after race so it's labour intensive and no saddle cloth numbers makes it much harder. Over here the bookies list runners by saddle cloth number even for UK racing. It's very hard when there are lots of horses in a race and I can't compare betfair lay odds and bookie back odds by saddle cloth number. I have to look for the horses name. It doesn't seem like a big deal but when it's 2am here and there's 15 horse names I've never seen before and I'm placing lay orders on 3 or 4 at a time, seeing which gets matched first, and keeping an eye on bookie odds for all 4 in case they change and I have to change my lay order and I'm doing this across 5 different bookies on the same race it's difficult because I can't just look from bet angel to the bookie sites and quickly compare the runners by number. I have to compare "En Tre De La Tricky Name" or whatever it's called. To combat it I do decide which 3 or 4 runners I'll target and on the bet angel ladder screen I put them in saddle cloth order which helps but short of tradition I don't see why you don't use saddle cloth numbers. And for that matter why you don't use race numbers either? You call a race the 1:45 at Ascot and we call it race number 2. And after that questioning rant let me now compliment you and say that bet angel is an invaluable tool for all my trading activities. Without it I couldn't do what I do for a living so thank you coming up with all the functionality and thank you for your awesome youtube videos. I've been doing this for a living for 2 years but I still probably only have 1/50th of your knowledge and I always take something valuable away from every video you post.
Hi, how to select horses for this strategy would be really useful.
Yes Peter, i would like to see how you make your selections for Dobbing
It was easier doing it from betfair easier to understand in my opinion
What strategies are you using to select a horse? Going through betfair historic data? Your own data? A third party stats site?
Would appreciate a video on help regarding the selection process…thankyou.
Hi Peter, great video as always. Looking down the comments section, it would appear that a fair few of us would appreciate you sharing some of your 'secrets' regarding selecting effective contenders for Dobbing. Please don't keep the faithful waiting TOO long! 😉
This is a great video to show how to take this punt but without a horse picking strategy its just another punt that will lose. You tube is full of losing betting strategies.
I think patternform used to be good for selections but it’s no longer free
Is dobbin not the name of a horse haha
Does this exact method work in reverse with a lay bet initially?
How about if our selection horses didn't match for the Lay side? (wrong selection)
Yes keep feeding these golden nuggets please 🤩… also the link to the automation video 🤓👍🏼
Hi great video. Would really like to see your process of selection.
Yes. Seems like selection process is essential or you go broke.
Hi Peter. It would be great if you make a video about the selection because is we pick up randomly horses it’s a gamble and long term not gonna be ok.
It would be interesting to hear your thoughts/selection process for DOB races.
I'd definitely appreciate a race selection video please. I've tried this on horses whose odds have halved in their last 5 races, but you guessed it, not on the 6th race I traded!
A video on your thoughts of selections where Dobbing is more likely to occur, would be marvellous!
Thx 4 da video. ANother video on how to select your runner for dobbing would be great. Thank you !