Today's Horse Racing Betting Tips - Expert Horse Racing Picks For Monday 8th December

By Mark Fordham Dec 8th, 2025 4:23 AM EST

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Today's Horse Racing Betting Tips - Monday 8th December

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Each selection is advised as a single bet, and at a straight £10 win single per horse, unless otherwise stated.

Do be aware that betting on horse racing is difficult to win consistently, that’s why we only use the best analysts and tipsters in the UK and Ireland to give their advice on this page. Previous performance is no guarantee of future success and you should only bet with what you can afford to lose.

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Tip 1 - 12:07 Lingfield - Ernie’s Valentine

Has had a bit of a renaissance at the end of this year, with two wins and two places from his last four races. Had one win in 17 races prior to that. There is reason to believe that he’s still on a fair mark of 71 having won here last December off the same mark and previously being successful twice in the 80s and once more from 78. Four visits to this track have yielded results of 2133, and he looks overpriced to add to that fine record.

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Tip 2 - 1:37 Lingfield - Crackalackin

As one of two three-year-olds in the lineup, Crackalackin gets a handy weight allowance from most of today’s rivals. He had his first run over this longer trip, winning over course and distance despite racing wide throughout. The manner of that victory suggested that he could be ahead of his mark and he’s fancied to follow up despite a fairly wide draw.

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Tip 3 - 1:45 Musselburgh - Sleeping Satellite

Sleeping Satellite has enjoyed a solid couple of months, winning a handicap chase at Stratford in October before following that up with a second place and then winning again at Catterick last month after stepping up a grade. This is a marked improvement from his previous chase results, suggesting he has rapidly improved since he switched to Fergal O’Brien’s yard last year and started sporting a tongue-tie.

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Tip 4 - 1:55 Fontwell - El Bandido Pancho

El Bandido Pancho has been in great form since pulling up at the start of the year, with two wins and two seconds from his four visits to the track. It looked like only the penalty he had to carry stopped him making it three wins on the spin, so after a few weeks off and running off his proper handicap mark he can get back to winning ways.

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More Information on Our Free Daily Horse Racing Tips

Each and every day on Bookies.com we provide a minimum of 3 highly researched and carefully selected tips for the UK and Irish daily racing from our team of experts. 

This daily racing tips page is updated at approximately 9.30am each morning and each selection will come with concise reasoning, key data to support the advice and a quick guide as to how the horse is expected to run and what to look out for when it comes to the race itself.

We pride ourselves on value when considering our horse racing betting advice, on Bookies.com we give you direct access to all the leading betting operators to see the market movements, daily odds at horse racing betting sites for all meetings and of course their exclusive free bet offers.

What Are the Average Advised Odds of Our Tips?

We tip a minimum of 3 horses per day across the UK and Irish racing and the average starting price of our selections is a remarkable 4/1 over hundreds and hundreds of tips this year.

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What is the Staking Plan and How Does a 1pt Win System Work?

We advise each bet as a win single or sometimes as an each way single. You can of course choose to combine the selections in a multiple bet, a Lucky 15 or a Yankee etc and that is a very popular way to follow the horses selected in this column daily.

A 1pt win per horse is advised in general and that means whatever your normal stake is for a bet is used as a point. For many this is £1 and for some this is £10 or more but it is totally relative to the individual and shouldn’t be more than you can afford to lose at any time. 

For each way selections we advise a 0.5pt each way stake. So as with the win selections this would be a £1 total bet (50 pence each way) or a £10 total bet (£5 each way).

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About the Author

Mark Fordham

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Mark spent over a decade as a sports reporter and editor with Goal.com and Bleacher Report. He is now a Content Editor at Bookies.com covering all manner of sports from the Premier League and cricket to the NBA and NFL, and is our resident EPL tipster. Mark also has years of experience working with all things online casino, and knows a good one from a bad one.

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