Hi, This happened 20 years ago and much has changed for the better since then. A friend at work who lived in the Newtown area of sydney had some schoolday contacts who were people who specialist in concrete shoes. One of them put him onto a phone number in Brisbane. This number had a recorded message about 15 minutes before jumps for the "best bet". The selection was either a cert or an open race.

For 3 weeks we followed the "best bet" and got 11 out of 12 certs, and 3 from 12 open race winners. Then "Fine Cotton" happened. No more phone service.

The word we got apart from "don't know" and "keep your nose out" was that a Mr R Waterhouse was NOT involved.

Thankfully that level of corruption has long gone.

Good punting,
Horse Cents

Freoway2go,
Your main problem, apart from following the Dockers, would appear to be backing short-priced racehorses. Putting $hundreds on a $1.10 place chance or backing odds on straight out is fantastic - for the person on the other end of the transaction. You can bet with me any day.
If you're going to back 3/1 ON chances, then you have to have a strike rate of 75% (3 out of 4) - JUST TO BREAK EVEN. Think about it. At even money, every second bet has to win, just so' you can have the same amount of money you started with. Not even super short-priced horses can maintain that sort of strike rate. Just look at Victory Vein in the Flight stakes today - she never was a $1.40 chance to start with.

Ok Rain Lover, you must be happy this last 24 hrs!
Following Freo is like not knowing the truth about Father Christmas.
We always have something to look forward to.
Maybe the day we make the 8 or the day we win the Premiership the novelty will wear off, but up until then we can only get better...can't we?
As for the system, I can pass my thanks on to Graham Sharp.
Well it was his system that I modified.
It climbed to about $700 plus, from $100, and then dropped to about $200 in the wet months.
It was at that time I withdrew my money from the TAB account, went to Burswood, thinking I could simulate a similar thing on the roulette table, and a few hours later left with a big meal inside me, plenty of drinks and empty pockets.
Back to the racing, the $1.10 bets were calculated by the tab and not through the bookies.
I had a few nice suprises when checking some of the odds at the end of the day and the odd $2.40 would come in.
That is why the $1.10's didn't phase me.
Some times they would be $1.10 when I put the bet on and then end up $1.30.

Hey, hey.
Sorry there was a bit of cheek in my last post. I must admit to being a closet Dockers fan - just love watching the Wiz.
I've also backed them several times on the TAB this year (@ Subiaco only) and at well under $2.00 sometimes. It was a good earner this year.
But betting on the footy is a 2 horse race - there's only us and them to worry about. You can't get knocked off by a roughie getting a dream rails run.
The point about strike rates still holds though. If you're going to place bets with odds under $2, then you have to be very confident that you can pick more winners than losers.
Cheers.

Ok Rain Lover, you must be happy this last 24 hrs!
Following Freo is like not knowing the truth about Father Christmas.
We always have something to look forward to.
Maybe the day we make the 8 or the day we win the Premiership the novelty will wear off, but up until then we can only get better...can't we?
As for the system, I can pass my thanks on to Graham Sharp.
Well it was his system that I modified.
It climbed to about $700 plus, from $100, and then dropped to about $200 in the wet months.
It was at that time I withdrew my money from the TAB account, went to Burswood, thinking I could simulate a similar thing on the roulette table, and a few hours later left with a big meal inside me, plenty of drinks and empty pockets.
1111Back to the racing, the $1.10 bets were calculated by the tab and not through the bookies.
I had a few nice suprises when checking some of the odds at the end of the day and the odd $2.40 would come in.
That is why the $1.10's didn't phase me.
Some times they would be $1.10 when I put the bet on and then end up $1.30.

I am going to tell you a true story i can't remeber all the facts or the races but i do remeber the horses name and the trainer....It was about 10 years ago i was at the local tab and was watching a race in sydney i think it was an open or something like that a hores by the name of hayles belle (not sure of the spelling) was leading this race by a good margin the race as i remeber had some good horses of the day in it now she did tire and run about 4 i think but i remeber saying given the right race she would win...well i followed this horse for ages....i think she did win a few but i know she did run a few places at the provintual...but the one thing i remember was i seen the horse set to race on a new years day...but because of the nights events i didn't wake till after 2pm new years day...so i rang phone tab to check out the results...well talk about a sick feeling...she won paying $125 $25 for the place...i had not a cracker on her...i don't remember seeing her race again....i would love to know a site that i could search her results....well to end the story i attended the raceing expo in sydney i think it was the first time they had it..maybe the last aswell....there was a trainer there answering questions for the people on horse raceing and such...well i possed the question to him...what ever happend to hayles belle....the look on his face says it all he made an excuse about being late for something and left.....i must say this whole saga was not a total waste i had been telling one of the tab operators about this horse for months before christmas well a few days after new years when i went into the tab...she comes out and pulls me a side hands me $500 and a kiss....and says thanks...don't know how much she won didn't ask.....but i know she had a two week holiday overseas...true story