Matt Brocklebank’s Value Bet column logged a profitable month in May, keeping the focus on a long-running search for overpriced horses rather than any one afternoon’s result. On Saturday June 6, that same approach was carried into a Derby day preview for Epsom, made available free to logged-in users.
That is why readers were looking now: the Epsom card had arrived, and the preview was tied to one of the biggest betting days of the flat racing calendar. Brocklebank’s running total, tracked from June 2020 to the present and including Antepost bets, stands at +199.74pts to advised stakes and prices, a figure that explains why the column still carries weight when the races turn competitive.
The Value Bet is built for the long haul. It hunts for horses the market has missed in feature weekend races and at the big Festivals in the UK and Ireland, where the difference between a good view and a bad price can matter more than the result of any single month. May was the latest profitable spell, but it was only one month inside a record that has been running since June 2020.
That is where the neat story gets a little rough around the edges. A column framed around long-term profit is being judged, at least in this moment, by a profitable May and a free Derby day preview, while the specific Epsom tips themselves were not set out in the information available here. The total is strong, but the immediate reading for anyone clicking in on Saturday is still limited to the promise of value rather than the names on the page.
So the next thing that matters is not whether Brocklebank has another hot month behind him, but whether the Epsom preview translates that record into a bet readers can actually use. For now, the clear takeaway is that the sporting life of the column is still being measured on the same standard it was built on: finding prices worth taking, and proving over time that the approach adds up.
