--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "dunbar_dra" <h_dunbar@...> wrote:
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The parimutual nature of horseracing means that the more you (or anyone with the same idea) bet, the lower your return.
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When Beyer speed figures were first published in The Racing Times, around 1990 if I recall, one could do quite well with that information if you were familiar with how figures work. Within a year or two, Daily Racing Form bought out their competition, and nowadays these figures are incorporated in the Racing Form, where everyone and their brother can see them and use them. The high-figure horse in 1990 that went off at 3 to 1, would today go off at 6-5.
It's not just enough to have a good methodology, you've got to have one that is not popular.
