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 Why are Winning Horse Racing Systems so much hard work?

The thinking punter, as I like to call him, always has a carefully-designed racing betting system. It may be one he created for himself, it may be one he borrowed from a friend or purchased somewhere, or it may be a system that he has developed from someone else's and which he now regards entirely as his own creation.

Well, however they are created, a really good winning horse racing system usually break down into one of two types:- statistics-based or form-based.

Statistical horse racing systems feed on the availability of vast amounts of historical data from earlier races, and in these days of powerful computers and huge memory banks, the available data is expanding at a staggering rate. flea and tick control and keen amateurs like myself, pore over these figures trying to perceive patterns previously unknown, and to mould the results into a new and better winning horse racing system

Sometimes the statisticians lose the plot completely, like the man who loudly and proudly announced, after many hours of costly computer time, that favourites only win about 1 in three races.

Gosh! I really didn't know about that!

But still, I think the research is valid and worthwhile, and useful data does often emerge, and real winning horse racing systems are born as a result.

The form punters also have a valid point of view. They believe that endless study of every little characteristic of every horse, on every course, in every weather condition, and flea and tick control every available rider etc etc etc. Yes, the list does go on ad infinitum and the betting world will need even bigger computers to consider all these variables and arrive at a conclusion. At least before the horse retires to stud anyway.

No, really good betting systems (and there are many really profitable systems out there) contain elements of both camps, They also contain an element that many fanatical gamblers could not live with - prudence. The very best systems give their users an edge, flea and tick control probability that they will win more often than they will lose, and that if the punter just keep steadily plugging away, winning very little but very often, they will ultimately build a large and growing bank.

For the hopeless gambler this is just not acceptable. He seeks the big win, that 50-1 winner which is forever just around the corner. And should he lose a hundred times to accomplish it, and his 50-1 winnings don't flea and tick control come near to covering his losses - well, that's gambling! He must have another bet, and he'll never change.

I develop winning racing systems for punters with business brains - I call them traders. Many of them are like me, they never go horse racing, nor watch it on TV. It's a business, and for a sizable part of the racing fraternity it can be a very profitable business indeed.