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28/6/2002 edition

Horse Racing
Betting and System Tips

Here is a posting from the horse racing forum on June 25 by "chief" who has contributed many excellent posts. This post gives some very worthwhile betting tips and ways to start and monitor your own betting method.

"A few ideas:

# If you believe that you can maintain a strike rate above 80%, then place betting may be the way to go. If you can't see this happening then you should look at win betting.

# If you bet for a win, it all depends on your average dividend as to a required strike rate. My method is aimed at a strike rate above 30% and average dividend of at least $4. That equates to 120%, or profit on turnover of 20%+...

# With stats based systems, in my experience you need to construct one that has a set of rules that are not too rigid individually, but combined are powerful. By that I mean, if you have rigid rules they will knock out too many winners and you'll be left with hardly any good priced bets.

For every criteria such as last start position, I use two or three moderate rules which combined are powerful, but individually aren't too daunting for horses to achieve.

# When trialling, only trial on "paper" for a short period. The reason is, unless you place real money on selections you won't get a proper idea on how accurate the system is. That's because when you have marginal selections, one can cheat a little and include marginal winners, and exclude marginal losers. You'll have some horses which are on the border of being selections and you won't know whether to include them or not.

But if you have to place real money on them, your results will be clear cut. I'd suggest placing small bets at the beginning, say $1/race. So if your system doesn't work too well, it doesn't matter much. If your system shows promise, then start increasing your bets, steadily.

But don't go from betting $1/race to $50/race in a week, unless you can afford it, cause many systems have bad weeks and you don't want to give away a few hundred dollars straight away.
Continued next page

This edition of Punt to Win:
Weight and class handicapping tips
Three betting tips to remember
Horse racing betting system tips
Money talks - Randwick plunge horses
Money talks - Moonee Valley plunge horses
Future winners - unlucky horses
Punt to Win 21/6/2002
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You Need Top Odds

It is just about impossible to get a high enough strike rate backing short priced tote favourites and the poor value tote horses to make up for the big unders on the tote.

If you regularly get poor odds you must lose.

Short priced tote favourites
are losing bets.

Horse

Get these prices? Or these prices!! Extra percentage won Extra Profit $100 bet
A Deena
5.20 8.50 79% $330
Imposing Don
4.10 7.00 94% $290
Jar Jar Binks
3.50 5.00 60% $150
Go Ziggy
4.10 5.50 45% $140
Johnny Reb
3.70 5.00 48% $130


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