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Tuesday 31st December: TOOWOOMBA LAST RACED IN SEPTEMBER and this afternoon and tonight they celebrate a return to their grass track with a nine race card and a New Years Party afterwards. It looks like being a big hit with all on course venues sold out well in advance.

The Winform ratings did very very well at Toowoomba for many years on the old grass track and even on the artificial track. MOst punters just don't understand the dynamics of Toowoomba and we look forward a to a return to the good old days where one client virtually made his living punting exclusively at Toowoomba using WinformRatings.

Happy New Year to all.

Monday 30th December: The winner of yesterdays Daily Feature was the 5th rated horse. Even so a ducth bet profit could have been had. I doubled up on that race and took a $1200 hit. Not happy but my Dads 90th went well and that is more important.

My brother in laws partner has copped an infection that could mena they won't be joining us on our cruise next week. That would be disappointing. Theybhave travel insurance and I am sure that P and O would allow them to swap to a later curise but with early January being a relatively quiet period I am able to get away, later on I can't. Still Ros and I will have fun regardless without any communication or email for ten days. I could access it but I don't want to. Ill read a book instead and come back raring to go.

As an interesting aside, our clients as a group are doing really well for December.

Sunday 29th December: Wins for both Daily Feature and Weekend Feature yesterday. Enquare was disadvantaged by the barrier draw in comparison to Missy LongStocking yesterday but overcame that with daring tactics on the pace. Not her tactics usually.

A solid Daily Feature today and we reckon the winner is in the top three and a big result at the expected prices I think.

We're taking my Dad out today for a seafood feast. It's his 90th birthday. A much coller day but it's always a good day at Scratchleys on the Harbour at Newcastle.

***BIG DAY FOR THE C PLAN WIN AFTER WIN AFTER WIN****SHOULD BE MORE OF IT***

***BRILLIANT DAY FRO PROFITMAKER $26,000+ ON A $375 PARLAY**** 6 from 8 races with one selection to go.

Saturday 28th December: With high temperatures expected everywhere we have assumed upgrades across the board. Moonee Valley is a dead 5 but expect this to be a precaution due to the 38 expected today. Canterbury cannot do anything but upgrade with strong breeze and high temps.

Yesterday I bet in just one race and it was a wipeout, still, if I win the first betting race today I will be in front. Good luck.

Friday 27th December: Nine races on our Daily Mail yesterday and six of those found the winner but nothing spectacular. Four Quinellas , average and they paid $3.60, $28.40 and $9.90 and $22.90 $64.80 back for $63 outlay. There was a $263 Trifecta and the other paid $44 so $307 back for $360 outlay.

The Daily Feature race suggestion ran 3rd and paid $4.10 for the place. Our Profitmaker series had a good win with one of our selections being $7 at best fluc into $5 at the jump.I took Best Of The Best with Luxbet and a fixed bet of $5.50 elsewhere.

Our family problem was resolved last night and so a good day all round and we picked up a few bargains last night as well.Have fun today with plenty of action with six meetings.

Thursday 26th December: Caulfield should be upgraded today at some stage but we dont know. It makes a bit of a dilemna doesnt it? It;s like Race 8 where a 10yo is our top rated horse. I cant back a 10yo, especially in a city race and he prefers a good track by the way. Can he win? Any horse in the race can win but will he?? I will take a chance on that and say no.It's a hard decision but there are several chances in this race with most horses going up in prizemoney. An ideal race for the last leg of a Quaddie. The favourite is $4.40 in an open betting race and I will only have somehting on it if I have three legs of the Quaddie in and only as a saver.

I've put my bets on and will check later to see how they go. Ros wants to see a few of the bargains at David Jones, well perhaps not really bargains, but finally at a fair price for some regular itmes such as new sheets and towells. Hopefully, my choices will pay for our expenditure.

My son had a dummy spit over my daughter cooking the turkey yesterday. Being Bi Polar, it was enough for him to go home and now we have a rift again.He was right though, the turkey didn't turn out. Lucky we had a nice Pork for back up. Not a nice way forChristmas to finish up but it's not the first time. Fortunately, those of us who are not afflicted with problems learn to just shut up, it is only one day of the year, and look like we're having a good time.

New Year is next week. Resolutions need to be made. Good luck today.

Tuesday December 24th: The Daily Feature race was always in our keeping but it turned out no value even though the Quinella and Trifecta came up. At the time of making selections the dividends are not known except for Metro and some provincial races. As selectors we can only do so much. You make the final decision about whether any particular strategy is worth the effort.

Have a great Christmas and I'll be back Boxing Day.

Monday December 23rd: Yesterday was busy at a family Christmas party so no comments to make and today I have Ros getting some medical tests. Trevor Johns book has now officially sold out. Only two race meetings today. The one bet I did have yesterday could only place. I am relying on Mr X to come up with a winning Feature today.

*Sunday December 22nd: More than enough winners yesterday to fill the Christmas stocking. The Weeekend Feaature Race found the winner for Mr X and the Daily Feature, which I did myself, found the Quinella $30+, the Trifecta $328 and the $1933 First Four. Quinella outlay was $10, Trifecta $60 and First Four $120 for a full unit.

I sailed yesterday thorugh the southerly change with winds of 35 -45 k. I wanted to prove I could do it. I had to wind in the sail to half size but got some thrilling runs with the waves driving the nose of my Hobie under half a meter of water. The first betting race for me wasnt until 1.40.

Mighty Lucky at $8 Hobart Jones $5.80 and Magnifisio at $3.70 and Sistine Demon werte good winners for the Winform Daily Mail.

Christmas with Ros family today takes up most of my day. There are 7 race meetings for those who have time to punt today.

Saturday 21st DEcember: Cooled down a bit last night and my son in law and I sailed the cat in the evening breeze and dark only to wake up this morning to find the headline story about a Great White which has been breaching nearby threatening local fishermen.

Things have started off rough this orning with delays on scratchings so I expect to post ratings about 9.15 .

Friday 20th December: It's hot ! Bloody Hot! and there are so many race meetings today. Here are A FEW we are backing today.

20/12/2013 2:10: Yarra Glen 3 1 Australian Venture R2D
20/12/2013 4:40: Yarra Glen 7 7 Super Hunter R2D
20/12/2013 4:44: Morphettville 2 2 Real Delight R2D
20/12/2013 6:12: Orange 7 2 Oywotzy R2D
20/12/2013 7:15: M.Valley (N) 2 1 Mother Grace R2D
20/12/2013 7:45: M.Valley (N) 3 5 West Africa R2D

I'll probabaly quit as soon as I get in front and go for a swim.

Thursday 19th December: Yes I missed yesterday and to be honest I was so tied up I simply forgot. I won the first three races yesterday afternoon and thought "that will do" and I took my daughters dog out for a Kayak ride.I got the usual glances as I paddled past the shark proof pool "look at the puppy!" To the kids it's always a puppy. Don't you like the way they think?

Anyhow, I came back and there were a few orders to process so I finished my day that way. Later I got an email offering me a $100 Free bet if I made a deposit to one ofmy accounts so I did that and thought I was being smart when I backed a horse at last night's Launceston meeting and then took my $100 free bet on another. oth runners were from a plan I use that has 50% winners. Welll the first horse must have got lost because it missed the placings altogether and the second one covered 5 or 6 extra lengths in the run nbefore going down by a length or so. Still, I was in front for the day.

I will be helping at a movie preview tonight for the Cancer Council, tomorrow might be a tidy up day, although I plan to do a video to show everyone how to load Winform ratings into Rewardbet. It has taken nearly a year but now they are in there, provided you subscribe of course.

Saturday will be the usual all day grind, Sunday it is a family Christmas party at my mother in laws retirement home. They have lent us their function room for the day. Then a quiet MOnday and Tuesday with the last few pre Christmas meetings, although Tuesday will be busy with analysis for the Boxing Day races. NO rest for the wicked as they say.

Tuesday 17th December: We have been advised that the offer of a free Ozlotto game tonight as above, does not apply to Queenslanders, must be some loca llegislation. I'm sure you can still buy tickets though at that website I would guess.

Yesterday Mr X posted two races to the Winfrom Daily Mail. The first of those provided the First Four in order! The second was won by the 4th rated horse at $17.60 but sadly that one wasn't the recommended bet.

I delivered a new computer to Mr X yesterday at his Sydney Harbourside apartment opposite the Opera House. I took the Ferry to get there, what a fabulous ride for a couple of bucks!

My latest Youtube video is actually a photo of my grandaughter having a moment with Santa. I posted it for a few of my friends. Santa was actually having a rest at the end of a long day.

It looks like we might get four good meetings today. Should be fun.

Monday 16th December: It would have been a big day on Money Factory yesterday using the experimental ratings that had such a hard run, athough winning, on Friday and Saturday. It shows the power of Money Factory. The ratings show a race strike rate of 40%+ for the top two rated horses at better than $4.

I'm out of the office today but wil process any orders via the online store overnight. Have a good day without me.

Sunday 15th December: By mid afternoon yesterday I had reached the point where, using Money Factory Professional Edtiion, I had collected Fridays loss of $4,500 and added a profit. It was only a small[ profit but that's not the point. The method I was using has a regular strike rate of between 40% -50% and on Friday it had only reached 20%+ but by wintime ysterday it was back to 40%+. Betting level stakes , the preferred method of the know it alls , you would have lost 10.5% on turnover for that period but instead I made just under 1%. Is that an achievemnet? Bloody oath it is. Holden would love it!!

Money Factory staking is not so much about winning more, although it does, but returning to profit and getting you through a leaky patch.

For our regular selections, the Winform Daily Mail found the winner in our top five inthe Villiersand every one of the five was $10 or better in the market. I personally added a couple to the placings for the Trifecta and Quinella but my 4th place set ran 5th, denying me a $10k plus payout.

We pulled in five Quinellas from 11 races and Backstedt at $10 best fluc took us to a win on the single selections.

Saturday 14th December: I had a shocker yesterday, seriously. I "played" from about 4 o'clock until the last at the Sunshine Coast which was 11.30 our time. I lost $4.5k so it was definitely Black Friday for me. I concentrated on horses that were short in the market and it was a day for outsiders and I was using a different ratings system and was disappointed with how many times the horses I backed were beaten by my own top rated Winform horse. The point is that I was pursuing an unrelated strategy which just happens to work but not yesterday. Funny thing.One betting account went form $3000 to $6000 and another from $7,000 to $3000. It is quite possible that the first beting comapny thinks I am a definite winner so may ban me. The second will welcome me.

FRIDAY 13TH December: Okay , I've had a good sleeep and I've also had feedback from other people about the difficutlies with Windows 8 generally and 8.1 in particular. Thanks for the comments.

Today I.m backing these.

13/12/2013 1:18: Scone 1 5 Hennys Intrigue
13/12/2013 2:00: Ipswich 1 5 Rocket Billy Rebel
13/12/2013 3:24: Oakbank 1 4 Night Breeze
13/12/2013 7:26: Bunbury 4 7 Authentic Style
13/12/2013 7:37: Caloundra 1 1 Bit Of A Hero
13/12/2013 8:45: M.Valley (N) 5 1 Prettyhappyabout it
13/12/2013 8:56: Bunbury 7 14 Alyeska

I guess I'll know tonight if Friday 13th is lucky or not! Using Money Factory with these has proved very successful so far. The prices are way too low fro Powerbet though.

Here's a newvideo.

Thursday 12th December: iVE BEEN UP ALL NIGHT TRYING TO GET MY NEW WINDOWS 8.1 COMPUTER TO WORK. FOR A START OFFICE 2013 REFUSES TO LOAD AND NOW AFTRE 16 HOURS WORKING AT IT THE HP COMPUTER CAN'T EVEN LOAD IT'SOWN UPDATES.

The best Microsoft can do is to "ask the community" about the problems. Hey, the public can mabe find ways to solve the problems but the Microsoft Company Software Engineers can't? I can't tell you how angry I am right now.

Here's todays tips.

12/12/2013 2:30: Goulburn 3 1 Kazoom R2D
12/12/2013 3:30: Gold Coast 3 10 Famous Grouse R2D
12/12/2013 5:30: Gold Coast 6 2 Crocodile Dancer R2D
12/12/2013 5:40: Goulburn 8 3 Sansui Drawing R2D

Hopefuly one or two winners there.

Wednesday 11th November: We've been known for so long now as Horseracingaustralia it is getting harder to promote Winfrom Ratings as the HRA name is now much better known.

A good set of races today and for the next week we will see an increase in race meetings as Race meetings at this time of the year attract mainly Christmas Parties with most punters on course casual players. This leaves some spoils for those of us who are better educated. On FRiday we have 9 meetings across the day and night. Hard work for the subscribers betting race to race and a long long day.

I find the coverage of the so caled Punters Club that dropped 194 million dollars a big laugh. Not funny if you are in it but our expereince has been that it is very difficult to place punters money even with pools of about $50,000 which is what we generally have had over the years. The challenge is to place the money wihout affecting your dividends. Also, in the past some Members of our funds have been painful to the point of causing losses. I find it hard to beleive that these Members with 194 million at stake haevnt been more vocal right from the beginning.

We stopped runnigng punters clubs years ago with invested funds and now we only run Punters Clubs with our own funds and give the profits away to our Members who have participated in promotions of our products. A Club we are currently running made its Members $200+ each earlier this year and is on track to make a small profit in the second half. Good luck today.

Tuesday 10th November: Heading off to Mats house for maintenance while he is away working. That's after a night programming computers after last week's special offer. I spent about 8 hourswith one computer and finally got it right but then when I restarted I got it.The blue screen of death! Sure I get a refund on the unit but I can't get back that waste of time.

We ended up with a nice profit after the third of our selections got up at $4.50 yesterday. This was on our free E-News. You can sign up for this on our home page.

Anyhow, all units have now been processed and the last of them goes out today. I've got three laybets today but couldn't find a standout win bet.

10/12/2013 3:35: Taree 5 10 Murtajack 1st $19
10/12/2013 3:55: Ararat 6 2 Imply Scr
10/12/2013 5:20: Taree 8 12 Varvo 1st $44

Luckily I didn't do anything today and the prices were too big for me to lay anyway. Ironically Varvo was out top rated horse for Winform ratings, rated a $3.10 chance so a big overlay for rating subscribers.

Monday 9th November: Two wins and a place for Premium yesterday, not acrtually a good result as both winners were quite short in the market. The Daily Feature race missed out too although one of the selections ran 3rd at a very good price.

The ratings had the Traralgon Cup winner at $12+ top rated. I spent my day yesterday sailing and so missed it completley after putting in some form study at 5.30 a.m. and forgetting all about it after some seat of the pants sailing in a brisk nor easter with my daughter and 2yo grandaughter in the back. Funny thing, in spite of the wild ride Isla was sound asleep when we hit the shore.

The first at Terang today looks like our best opportuntiy as we have a promising Premium selection. No doubt Mr X is hard at work coming up with a Daily Feature which will be posted just before midday.

We've had a lot of orders for the Andrew Martin CD Monologue which sends up our Racing personalities. Andrew is currently a SkyChannel presenter.

Bloody hot here today so I am spending the day getting all the weekend orders out, including Racing My Perefect Investment Edition 3 by Trevor johns which found a $38 winner yesterday.

Sunday 8th November: On the latest video I pointed out that it doesnt matter how many selections there are, you just take them all. In the end you get what you get. Yesterday I ended up backing 27 horses and came out winning $1250. It was disappointing and I have to be honest, I took a set against two horses and halved my bet on one of them, it won, and skipped the other altogether and it won. So I made mistakes. I also cameacross that problem you get when you have one horse selected by two or three different plans. I only bet the one stake. As long as I am punting I will never resolve this issue but I think if you have a separate Bank for each plan you operate you should have a bet for each one. If you are putting allyour plans together then just one bet.

I would welcome feedback on this to direct@hunterlink.net.au.

Saturday 8th November: I still have a dozen or so orders to process from yesterday so kicked off at 5.30 a.m. and should have it all completed by the time scratchings and track conditions are noted. I'm expecting a genuine Dead at Caulfield today to start but with an upgrade.

I've just used my Ozlotto dividend from last week to take a syndicate entry in next week's Ozlotto $50million jackpot. I have a 10% share of 6 10 number entries at around $90. You can also organise your own syndicate entries at the ozlotteries site and they are still giving away free tickets for new players. Yes I know the odds are stacked against you and its a dumb play but you have to be in it to win it.

The same applies to parlays and I will have another go today. My odds are small, a 50% win rate gives you just a 6% chance of completing your parlay but just one winning parlay can return massive results. Good luck today.

Friday 6th December: I just posted a new video. It looks like one of those long summer days with Racing from 1 p.m. to about 10.30 p.m., I suppose it gives everybody a chance to join in. I'm flat out busy today processing orders because I was silly enough to offer a free Monologue CD to anyone who placed an online order of $100 or more.

Thursday 5th Decemeber: I actualy wona prozein Ozlotto. Enoguht to play again next week when the jackpot hits $50 million, well I only have to win it once.

A busy day today and I got a cold courtesy of the babes next door. Funny how babies can give you colds when you havent had any for years. It's cold windy and miserable now but I did a workout on Money factory and it is so good, it's hard to imagine you can lose but with low priced commodities you can take some tieto hit the front. Worth it though.

Wednesday 4th December: Sale race 5 2 looks a likely winner today but that's assuming the meeting isn't washed out as heavy rain is expected. A percentage of people reading this will back it anyway just so they "don't miss out". Personally I wouldn't be on if the track is worse than Slow 6 or 7 just because we don't know how it will go as so far it has only two starts, even though it did win well at it's first start which was on a rain affected track.

We had a big sales day yesterday with Trevor Johns final book. It is unlikely many copies will be left after this week unless those who asked us to set aside a copy while they send cheques or money orders don't come good. Those orders placed yesterday will be desptahce today or tomorrow by Express post.

Tuesday 3rd December: I received this email from Trevor Johns today.

Hi Garry,

  We are down to the last few Racing my Perfect Investment 3 books, so I thought I would give you a few stats for November.  Chapter 5 horses produced 29 winners as follows.... 11.7, 12.8, 12.8, 17.3, 12.1, 7.4, 8.1, 11.5, 8.1, 15.1, 26.8, 6.4, 8.4, 6.1, 14.7, 7.2, 8.5, 97.9, 12.0, 9.4, 23.4, 10.6, 7.3, 10.9, 9.1, 7.5, 8.9, 21.4, and 52.6.  The last two being a good way to finish the month.   I warned on page 41 about the increase in the number of Chapter 6 horses, but for those who relentlessly chased a profit, there were 30 winners totaling 299.9 return.  A $10 average.  The best ones were 18.8, 32.1, 46.5, 16.1, 45.0 and 17.3.

  Our easy profit system on page 34 is breaking even after collects in 2 out of six meetings but it will shine.  And as for the Chapter 4 database training, the 18 trainers marked with an asterisk for demonstration purposes as being reliable, produced 55 winners for the month at an average price of $6.1, helped along by winners at 60.6, 19.0, 11.2, 15.4, 13.3, and 11.5.  

  So once these few are gone that’s it.  The only way to get one will be from Ebay sometime in the future

Everything ends, and it will be sad to see the last Trevor Johns book sold , packed and sent away. It's obvious that prices havent been overly affected since the book was released just a few weeks ago. Those that have it and use it are assured of backing heaps of longer priced winners in the years ahead as basically nothing much changes.

I heard from one of our more recent subscribers the best excuse ever for missing a winning day. Turned out he was in hospital 3 a.m. Friday with heart troubles. In the end they had to get out the padddles and give his heart a "heart starter" to get him back on his feet.

Yesterday he was on the punt again but lost $5 on the day. He only found two Johns horses and both lost and of course he missed the longshots that got up over the weekend.

Monday 2nd December : Only the one bet yesterday and it was a loser. No money to spend today as a consequence. Actually, I did have one bet today on a oneup. Unfortunately, it started favourite and failedto finish in the top three. The Daily Mail missed completely, so on a slight losing streak. Better days ahead.

Sunday 1st December: I started yesterday with four winners in a row on an allup and ended with four losers in a row. What a coincidence!! The first leg of the Caulfeld Quaddie yesterday was won by a Trevor Johns horse at $50 after $61 was bet. I had the last three legs but thought I would leave the 8yo mare out . The 8yo mare had no 8, had started 8 times (including Saturday) at the distance for now 2 wins and 6 places and tis time last year rated a 61 at Flemington. Yesterday our top rated runner rated just 57! But I couldnt do it. I couldnt have an 8yo. Well that cost me $20,000+ . As it happened I had 2nd and 3rd so could have collected the Trifecta as well.

It happens doesnt it but yu cant win them all. I had a new plan yesterday which came up with 8 nselections for 6 wins and a 2nd and $156 back for a $80 outlay. Not bad. Maybe I should have just backed them?

Saturday 30th November: Yesterday finished off nicely with a $40 winner at Moonee Valley. Plenty of action today with Black Type racing at Rosehill and Doomben. It could be very wet up north. Pity about that as it means we will have selections BUT you will have to keep an eye out as I wont be keen to bet if conditions deteriorate too much.

We've used a Good track rating for Caulfield today. All updated 11.20a.m.**assumed heavy gcoast and doomben** new upload 12.32

Friday 29th November: Yesterday I took a patent, that's three win bets all ways. Two winners and a place was just enought to make me 2 units profit. Had the thrird horse won my profit would have been 28 units.

I have a car service first thing and I was planning a walk while I waited for my car. No such luck, it's pouring rain. I'll take a book instead. I'll have Natalie home and be home myself by lunchtime, in time for todays races , sixmeetigs starting at 1 and ending at 10.15 tonight. That's enough for anybody.

Thursday 28th November: A good day yesterday with the Winform Daily Mail finding a $13+ winner. It was backed in from $17, so a good result.

Lost most of the day taking Ros to the eyey specialist. Luckily, her eye has stabilised and requires no treatment. Today I have to take Natalie to hospital for a procedure as a follow up from the birth of her twins a few months ago.

Tomorrow I have a car service and then I pick her up and so nearlly three days lost this week. It's the sort of thing that happnes to us all but there's no need to worry about it because Racing continues on regardless.

If your are in Money Factory or Powerbet, the progtram willsimply pick up where you left off as there is no next race and no last race. For every 1,000 races the overall picture will be similar, although not the same. If we lose but would have won, well that's tough but funnu thing, if it turns out we would have lost we forget that, we only remeber if we would have won had we not had these tasks to do.

Wednesday 27th November: One of the Members did a silly thing. He forgot that he had taken a ticket in last nights Ozlotto and took a second one yesterday, same numbers of course. Then he realised that if he was the pnly winner he would have it twice but could have saved the price of that second ticket! Ha Ha!

So my Dad was waiting at the doctors the other day and he saw a fellow all stooped over with a walking stick, head into the surgery. A few minutes later he came out, no longer stooped over and walking faster. My Dad thought it wasa miracle and so he said to him "That's Amazing! What did the doctor do to make such a remarkable difference?" He said " He gave me a longer walking stick."

WEll yesterday, Trevor Johns method, well one of them anyway, found a $10+ winner from just a handful of selections. They just keep coming. Whejh the second edition of his book came out, I used Powerbet with the selections but I was happy to put 3 and sometimes 4 selections, in at a time. This is because the strike rate is quite low but the price is quite high. For really long priced selections I even put in some place bets so ina race where there was say a $10 runner and a $20+ runner , I might have put the $20 runner in for a win and a place.

Sometimes the place dividend was enough to turn a profit for the series.

Tuesday 26th November: I'll take a ticket in tonight Ozlotto. I only take tickets when jackpots are high and I only take syndicate options online. Tonight would be the ideal time to sign up and get free games. I take 1/15th of 10 and 11 number games and most times I do get a collect. One day I may wake up to a million dollar collect but I won't lose sleep over it.

Last weekend I parlayed all of my wins only to find that I cahived no doubles or trebles at all. That makes a 100% loss. Tough! I could have used Money Factory or Powerbet to make $1,000 or more on the day. That's called slow and steady and it's the way most of our Professional and semi professionals play it.

This morning I am taking my grandaughter to see Hi Five but that still leaves me with the afternoon free for the punt, although it does look like all three tracks wil lbe damp.

Monday 25th November: Our top rated horse ran 3rd in the Ballarat Cup and our second rated horse won the Goulbourn Cup. I had two bets in the first at Ballarat but that was before I found out, as they jumped, that the track had been downgraded to Heavy. Had I known I wouldn't have been on. Tough luck.

Here are some horses today that shouldn't t win and we are right 95% of the time.

25/11/2013 3:20: Hamilton 5 7 Tane Mahouta
25/11/2013 3:38: Scone 5 4 Shuttle
25/11/2013 3:38: Scone 5 7 Summa Cum Sadie

Sunday 24th November: It's Ballarat Cup Dayand I know a lot of Members will be going. It looks a tough race with several runners attemoting the distance for the first time as 6 yos or older. Along with that are the Ballarat specialists who do well there regardless. It's a top day but a tough one for punters.

Yesterday was a tough day. The Powerbet top three came through with good profis up until around 4 p.m. and then things dropped off. The C PLan had an off day and the Winform Daily Mail, on fire to start with after a Quinella and Trifecta in two of the first three races, dropped off from that point. You can't win every day.

The Daily Feature Race had the Quinella and Trifecta boxing just 4 runners after our top rated horses was scratched an hour before the race and Mr X's Weekend Feature Race special ran 2nd.

Saturday 23rd November: It's quiet time of the year but not too many of the bookies and Tabs are letting us think that. The promotions are stronger than ever and we should take advantage of them. I have taken advantage of a $100 deposit match from one corporate and the same corporate is offering me $100 back for running 2nd or 3rd in the Winterbottom at Ascot.Others only offer up to $100 money back to Buffering. That's an entirely different proposition especially if you want to back Buffering!

Personally I don'thave time to chase down all the deals of a Saturday but do you know if you had say 10 corporate accounts and took every deal ad nothing elseeach Saturday you would have to be an idiot of you didn't finiahs in front and I am sure some Members do that. One thing I do suggest, is that you write every propostion down so that you can check back aftwerwards as soe of the free bets have to be used by a certain day or in a certain way.

I will have our first upload about 8.45 today, then again at 9.30 and a final at midday. The Winform Daily Mail will be available at 10.30

Friday 22nd November: The Perth Video is online now and I show you the current E-Book sale and also show how the raceday selector works in GTX. There is alsomy thought about the situation when two horses finish close up in their previous encounter.

I can't believe the huge winners for Racing My Perfect Investment yesterday . $97.90?? Obviously not many purchasers were looking at that one. Cuba Libre ran last at Eagle Farm but prior to that ran respectably at Sunshine Coast before being trucked up to Mackay. It was only $21 on course and paid heaps between $50 and $97 on the TABS. The point is that the form wasnt as bad as it looked.

Thursday 21st November: Nothing for me this morning, I will have a look again after WA scratchings. This afternoon I will record a new video for the Ascot Railyway meeting. It looks good with massive fields and toght racing. stage I see Buffering , Moment Of Change and Barakey fighting out the Winterbottom and I doubt the market will disagree.

I'm still seething over my treatment from Ladbrokes.

Wednesday 20th NOvember: Another late start for me, grandfatherly duties. Found the nose loser of Sale Race 7 then 2nd at Morphettville and a $15.90 winner at Pinjarra to square me up.

Tuesday 19th November: Late start for me, sorry. Lots of winings for Winform Members today though. Good to see.Interesting alos to see Stephen Fletcher at work, if you can believe the News reports. Watch any channel today and read the papers tomorrow. They make it seem like a criminal conspiracy but all it is is punters fighting back against the corporates. Mind you, Fletcher is no basic punter. Make of that what you will.

Monday 18th November: It was Shaynes birthday yesterday so spent the day socialising, which probably explains why the ratings went so well. A good day for Powerbet top three players I would think. Feedback welcome.

Three meetings to day so enough action to keep us going at Wangaratta, Tamworth and Moruya. Remember that at Moruya, the track is actually firmer when rain affected as the undersurface sand "packs" when wet.

There was a nice B4 winner yesterday. It was available for as much as $6.50 at one stage and ended up $5.90 at the TAB.

Sunday 17th November:How unlucky can you be? Diine Calling was a certainty beat in the last at Eagle Farm, and guess what beat it? The 2nd rated horse! So it'sa winnign C Plan right?? Wrong.The 2nd horse we backed was scratched at the barrier so we never got the opportunity toback the new 2nd rated horse or we would have been on a $5.20 winner.

A lot of track condition changes yesterday and not a lot you can do about that. Wellington even ended up getting abandoned.

How could we get the Weekend Feature Race winner? A horse with a 10% strike rate starst $2.60 favourite and wins at its leisure. The form horses ran okay but never had a chance. How would you know a poorly performed horse was going to win? On the other hand the Daily Feature was an easy win betting the first four horses as suggested. They were all $10 or better and the eventual winner $14. And we got the $50 Dunkeld Cup winner but I dont expect many would have spotted that.

Saturday 16th November: I have a shot at the Double Trio today in raes 8 and 9 at Caulfield. There are still plenty of Group races today at Caulfield and Ascot. The track at Caulfield is not far off Good so that's how we will go. It'sso frustrating having to wait around for scratchings until after 9 a.m. now. At least I get time for finalform assessments and I have changed afew runners at Caulfield but not much changes although a lot of punters get caught out as Caulfield suits some horses but not others. I prefer the Caulfield experienced runners.

**all updated updates 11.15 PLEASE NOTE ADDITIONAL RACE ASCOT RACE 7 ON DAILY MAIL**

Friday 15th November: Ros and I went to a Jessica Mauboy concert last night and she is a world class act BUT the majority of the crowd went ot see the Hi5 at their previous concert. I couldn't believe it!! One unintended consequence, there was no line up at the bar.

Anyhow. How long is NSW Racing going to stay behind the times?? Their ridiculous scratcjhing policy for night meetings beggars belief!! You would know if your horse was fit to race when you get to the stables in the morning.

I note that the 8th at Caulfield tomorrow is set to be a very competitive race with good quality about it. Mr X has chosen it for the Weekend Feature RACE.

Thursday 14th November: Just got cleared of any sort of BowelCancer. Pretty happy about that. I notice over 30 emails in my in box and thats after I cleared the same number very early in the morning before my procedure. No rest for th wicked, no rest for the good guys either!

I'll work on the E-News tomorrow.

Tuesday 12th November: Here's an important email I received last night. Maybe copy it somewhere for future use.

Thanks Garry,

I've had all sorts of problems with Money Factory after reinstalling. It wouldn't allow me to edit or amend last bet or even enter the results. So I uninstalled it again and reinstalled it. I'm using Windows XP. I found out that XP doesn't actually remove all the files when you uninstall. This causes a registry file conflict when you reinstall. I used a prodcut called "Revo Uninstaller" which is free (and simple to use) to get rid of all the leftover files and it fixed the problem. HOORAY!

In case any of your clients have similar issues (or it just might be my old computer) anyway :

Here's where you can download it http://tips4pc.com/freeware/revouninstaller.htm

Blessings. Maarten

Monday 11th November:Just heard a complaint form a Queensland client. It's bee so cold in Melbourne as we know but Gordon has just arrived home after a week in Melbourne but got sunburnt while donw there in those very high 14 degree temperatures. He thinks it was from watching the parade Monday and the Cup Tuesday.

Only two race meetings today, talk about boring. Dan the local butcher thinks its all over now that the Flemington Carnival has come and gone but now we get back to the ordinary races and that's where the mojey is for us mere punters.

** FLEMINGTON RACE 5 QUINELLA $80+ TRIFECTA $1500+ sorry, missedf the First 4

**BANNED BY lADBROKES** My email said they recognised my name and that was the reason they banned me. At the bottom of the mail they said "thanks for your understanding" Really??

Anyhow,just won 4k on our Daily Feature Race our Members have started well!! The winner was $12.10

Firtsly Tim O'Loughlin [tjoloughlin18@hotmail.com] is a disabled man (had an accident) who thought he might be able to punt to help his situation but it didn't work out. He has some items he wishes to sell. Here's the list "I have the Staker, and books, Garry Robinson's  Race Winning Strategies, Racing Pays More and the $100 a day plan. They are all in excellent condition, half price would be over $700, but I thought about $600, what do you think?" So there;s the question. It is the $995 Staker and books and Ill just leave it up to anyone who is interested to contact Tim and negotiate.

Last day of the Cup Carnival today and I expect the track to stay Dead with the low temperatures in Melbourne today. Same applies to Adelaide and Goulbourn.

Here'smy latest breakfast recipe. A lttle canola oil and one onion in a medium pan with mushrooms and cherry tomatoes. Add chopped up bacon, two strips is enough, a sprinkle of sugar, just a sprinkle, a little celery to add crunch. Give it 10 minutes on medium heat then add a desert spoon of peanut butter, pepper and a teaspoon of honey, simmer until most of the moisture has reduced. Eat and enjoy, serves two. Actually it wAS ALL i HAD LEFT IN THE FRIDGE. It was yummie!

Friday 8th November: An easy day today if there is such a thing. Three meetings followed by Cranbourne tonight. These are your bread and butter meetings with ordinary horses chasing their owners training fees and where astute trainers can get a quid.

You can also choose to have a rest ready for a final asault on Flemington tomorrow.

Thursday 7th November: Oaks Day. We might see a reversal of last weekend with two issues today. The rail will be out so the rail will be fresh ground and that pace ay be too slow, which could be bad forthe favourite which is still rated highly by me.

I'm told of a punter for whom Kirramosa is the last eg of a $550 allup which will pay $195,000. Firstly I am amazed that the TAB took the bet. Second, I would be laying off as much as I can to try to bring a guaranteed return no matter what happens. The problem is that bookies are only affering $1.35 about KIirramosa getting beat.

In hindsight, did we all miss the "tip" Tom tried to back Fiorente to win $1,000,000! Was he laying off or being fair dinkum? Or was he making a market? If it was serious we probabaly should ahve all had a lot more on it.

Ou ducth bet market was a profit of 176%, not bad for a 85% strike rate. That's my personal strike rate on the Melbourne Cup after 41 years of punting on it

Wednesday 6th November: Our Profitmaker plan has been in trouble over the Winter but after yesterday we are back in front for the year. Those Members that started last October saw their profits used up but are now well in front again as are those who started in form Jan 1st. Those who came in n February are still behind but we are not finished yet. It reminds me of when Ros and I owned Toyworld. We were behind all year and only got in front around Decmember 23rd. Some years, if there was a late election, we didn't even come square but long term we paid all our employees our suppliers and ourselves for over 20 years. Long term we have always been winners, no fortunes but always managed our finances so we covered the bad times. It is such an important element.

**IF YOU WATCHED THE VIDEO YOU ARE ON THE WINNER!!! But I couldnt have picked the quinella or trifecta with a pin. Damian Carrolls system in the latest magazine got 2nd!!

Tuesday 5th November: It seems to me that the best from race for this year's Melbourne Cup is the Caulfield Cup. We still haven't seen even one International winner taking the Cup without first having a run in Australia. That's 66 so far withouta winning result. Plenty of places though and we will get one, well Vintage Crop was one and I'm sure the weather helped.

Good luck today. It's all I can say and it IS the most open Cup for years.

Monday 4th November: Only one more sleep. Today is quiet racing wise with all ofthe attention on tomorrow. I have a lot of work to do to organise our end and tomorrows Metro races are on the Saturday file for Saturday only ratings users. They will be update tomorrow. All the Tuesday races both TAB and non TAB will be posted under "Tuesday".

Sunday 3rd November: Had lots of fun and made lots of money yesterday. We got the Weekend Feature race and the Daily Feature Race, our Spring package was on fire and pletny of Quinellas, Trifectas and even First Fours. Our Phanotm Call of the Melbourne Cup is online now.

In th meantime the new edition of Horse Racing AUSTRALIA mAGAZINE IS NOW ON SALE IN THE BOOKSHOP. Just click here to order.

FLEMINGTON RACE 1 WINNER $10.30 AND FIRST FOUR!!! FLEMINGTON RACE 2 $11.70 WINNER

FIRST FOUR RACES WINFORM DAILY MAIL FOUR WINNERS TWO QUINELLAS TWO TRIFECTAS PLUS A FIRST FOUR!

###melbourne cup video will be posted about 11 p.m. tonight***IT'S A PHANTOM CALL.**

Saturday 2nd Novembert: We've assumed Flemington to be Dead for race 1-3 then Good. Sunscribers entitled to the magazine will find the link under both Winform Daily Mail and Best Bets.

A very busy days Racing. I'll post the ratings by 9.15 am. then again 11.30 after WA. Winform Daily Mail by 10.30 and update 11.30.

Friday 1st November: Here's a link to Veremas run at Longchamp. It's juts one of the internationals in the Cup.I didn't have time to punt at all yesterday as I was finalising the latest issue of Horse Racing Autralia magazine. It is issue 20 Spring/Summer 2013 and will be issued overnight. It does not have the bells and whistles of a glossy publication, in fact it is very wordy in its 50 pages but there are no ads as such.

There are links to information elsewhere which enhance the articles.You can read about a horse and then clcik thorugh to get a carreer history to see what we are talking about. There are links to public and private videos for the same purpose.

We point you to websites that you haven even thought about it and in the pdf format you can simply choose to print it all out or simply print the pages containing the in depth articles you might wish to scribble notes on.

It costs just $10 and is the result of a lot of hard work by many contributors. Order here. All paid up Members will receive a copy for no extra charge over the weekend.

Thursday 31st October: I'm finalising the magazine today. It can be ordered at the online store from later this morning AND YOUR DOWNLOAD LINK WILL BE SENT OVER THE WEEKEND.

The Spring package preview is posted and emailed.No big dollar winners expected BUT we do have some strong opinions about the Derby for one.

Wednesday 30th October: I should have the Spring/Summer Edition of Horse Racing Australia magazine finished on Thursday. It remains then for me to have it uploaded ready for distribution. Today is Bendigo Cup Day but I doubt well see another Puissance De Lune emerge. It is a very open race. I'll be spending the morning doing physio.

I have no connecftion with this syndicate but thought it might be of interest to members.

New racing club targets the Cup

A new low-cost racing club is giving racing enthusiast the opportunity to live the life of an owner and to achieve horse racing folklore - winning the Melbourne Cup.

Aptly named The Cup Club, the venture targets proven stayers by leveraging existing syndications and reinvests every dollar earned back through the Club and winning the Cup.

The brainchild of Melbourne entrepreneur John Wall, the Club already has a stake in three promising stayers and is endorsed by some of sport and racing’s most recognisable names including Simon O’Donnell, Tiffany Cherry and champion jockey Damien Oliver.

“The Cup Club is not about making money.  It’s about chasing the world’s greatest horse racing event with likeminded people at a fraction of the cost.”

“Having a horse that races in the Melbourne Cup shouldn’t be the exclusive domain of a select few.  We want to rewrite the rules of racing and share the dream of competing in the Cup, “John said.

The Cup Club’s stable of horses include: Only A Pleasure, a 4 year old by Montjeu who has already pre-qualified for the 2014 Melbourne Cup; French colt Au Revior who won the listed Toulouse Derby and has qualified for next year’s cup; and Peter Moody trained gelding My Quest For Peace.

“We’ve already established fantastic relationships with all the bloodstock brokers, horse syndicators and advisers from around the globe and we aim to have 20 horses over the next three years,” John said.

Members of The Cup Club will enjoy a series of year-round industry functions and gala events, behind-the-scenes stable visits, exclusive web content and tickets to racing events around the world, including the big race at Flemington.

The Cup Club has set monthly payments of $199 that cover all expenses and since launching in October the syndicate already has 100 registered members, with numbers capped at 1,500.

Interested punters can visit thecupclub.com.au for more details. 

Monday 28th October: A busy day for me working on the magazine. It is coming together slowly but we will get there. 22 RACES AT just 3 meetings today at Scone Cowra and Swan HIll.

This week we have an awesome special at the online store. The Staker which sells for $995 is free with the purchase of the Money Factory Porfessional Edition software. The software will come preinstalled ready for use and you also get three months of Winform Gold Club (normally $895) so for $1595 you get $3485 worth of value.

When you click the button for the online store on the left hand menu, click software. You dont need to log in to make a purchase.

Sunday 27th October: I had a fabulous lunch break yesterday. With the races starting late I got to take my boat out in a blustery Sou Easter which drove me as fast as I have ever been, A great hour of exhilaration.

At 5.45 yesterday I wasn't exhilarated. Shamus Award and Chris Schofield had made monkeys of his fellow jockeys by stealing the WFA championship after a host of Group One winning horses challenged one by one and dropped off, leaving this maiden galloper in front at the post. And we're not talking about class horse here, not yet anyway. His best run yielded a rating of just 55.7,not a bad rating for a 3yo in an average Metropolitan 3yo race but nowhere near the 60+ ratings of at least half the field.

Time will tell but what I think we have here is a smart jockey who outwitted his peers on a horse that loves Moonee Valley.

Mr X chose race5 at Ascot as his Weekend Feature Race.It was just a Benchmark 72 but he achieved his task of finding Members a winner when Black Uma won at $8+.

Trevor Johns method found some nice winners yesterday at places as far apart as Albury, Ascot and Pioneer Park. I only backed one of those winners but at $12+ who's complaining?

I'm not a fan of so called track bias but after Rosehil yesterday I concede the point as horse close to the rails had lengths advantage as horse after horse that would normally swamp the leaders,simply failed to make ground from the 200 to the post.

Luckily forProfitmaker, our final selection became a dead set certainty because of it.

Saturday 26th October: I constantly get asked to provide information that is already sitting here on the Diary. It gets annoying sometimes. Thanks to you for reading, it saves me a lot of time.

I noted our top 6 rated runners in the Cox Plate remain the same regardless of a possible track upgrade. It is very cool in Melbourne today with no wind so you would think no uograde but then the Valley drains really well so a watch is necessary as two horses in particular, wil become selections although I suspect one of those won't like the Monnee Valley surface which is softish even on Good. So many things to think of. Good luck today.

Friday 25th October: Off for some exercise this morning then back to get scratchingsand latest weather and track reports for Moonee Valley tonight. We'regetting our first reports back from Members who have Trevor Johns new book Racing My Perfect Investment Edition three. Gone is the fancy cover but in with a more workable workbook format as we expect the pages to be thoroughly thumbed over.

It's taken Trevor six months of work to get the final edition together,having overcome his heart and eye problems of the past 18 months and it goes to show how so many of us are so attached to Racing that we can't give it upand we never stop learning.

One of the best punters I have known, works for my opposition these days but we worked together for years on Turf Monthly and then with the ill fated Enjoy Racing magazine before I finally got my own magazineogether. I gotin touch yesterday and he agrees with me that we will see Buffering bac to his best tonight and that another tough campaigner, Foreteller, is in the Cox up to his eyeballs.

It's a pity that the magazine market, i.e. actually in Newsagents, has disappeared. And it wont be too much longer before the Newspaper type form guides go along with it.

Good lcuk tonight.

Thursday 24th October: Just one race bet yesterday for me and a $550 profit. Unfortunately I took $3.80 fixed about the winner and it ended up $4.88 with Sportingbet who pay best tote plus 5%. It paid $4.70 with Luxbet

The B4 has had two very nice winners recently at $7 and last night $4.50 at Launceston. We still have plenty of copies available.

Trevor Johns has shipped 60 copies of his new book so far so with any luck the balance of the orders so far should be away by the end of next week. Those who purchased his previous books get the new one for $245 or $50 off but even new purchasers pay only $295 so at that price will recoup their outlay easily.

The preview for this weekends Moonee Valley meetings has been sent and for Gold subscribers is posted on site now.

Wednesday 23rd October: Our Melbourne Cup competition is close for the week with all four prizes going off yesterday. The answer was Drongo and he is the subject of a new book by Bruce Walkley. He wasn't actually a bad horse having won the equivalent of $160,000 in 37 starts in the 20's including placings in Black Type events. It's worth a read and it's released now.

Very disappointed with the field AND the heavy track at Geelong. Nothing that happens there today will reflflect on the future races I doubt.

Tuesday 22nd October: Another flat out day processing orders for Trevor Johns book, so much so that wemust apologise for delays in getting them to you. Trevor reckons he's sending 10-15 a day so it will take a quite a few days to get them all up but he is meticulous in putting them together into spiral bound books so it is easy to use.

The very first race today was at Kyneton and we copped the Trifecta in the top three. It was also a successful C Plan race.

We will be covering tomorrows Geelong Cup for the Spring package and that will be sent by 10 a.m. tomorrow.

I wonder where SAtalantic Jewell is going now?? Connections were worried about a possible wet track this weekend but hey! The weather men have been wrong before??

Monday 21st October: Another busy day processing orders for Trevor Johns latest and last book Edition 3. There were a lot of winners at the weekend, although only a couple of double figure winners but $13+ and $23+ are not to be scoffed at.

We are holding the "loyalty" price to $195 until Wednesday. New purchasers fo Trevor Johns product pay $295 but no one will be upset once they have read it and put just some ofthe strategies into action.

IN the meantime we have the Spring Package at $175 covering Friday nighst Moonee Valley meeting, the Cox Plate meeting and the four major Flemington meetings. Press the Online store button on the left anf then choose selections services to order.

Sunday 20th October: I don't kno why it is but I have a dreadful record in the Caulfield Cup. I've lost almost as many Caulfield Cups as I've won Melbourne Cups and I rarely miss the big one.

I don't know what Cassidy was thinking on Hawkspur, well yes I do, he'sthough he'll tail them on the fence, get an easy run thorugh like Boban earlier, and accelearte away. Problem is, that is not how Hawkspur won his races. He needed to be right on the pace.

Sure, he was only beaten 2.4 lengths and he did have trouble finding a run but bad ride Jimmy!

The C Plan had 9 wins from 18 races but I missed getting on one of those and that was my downfall. I won the first two C Plan races and maybe I should have stopped there because it was win one, lose one all day from then on. Funny thing, using Money Factory it was just win win win all day.

The Oneup Plan had two winners from two including a $13.80 winner but I missed that one while upgrading the track conditions etc. It is a really great plan and simple to operate but you have to watch the odds. The second one I misseed while I was telling Mr X how I had missed the first winner.

The Winform Daily Mail found a $131 Quinella and others at $11 and $20+ but we missed with a few 1sts and 3rds. Best winners were Best Case $9 and Enquare $11 although $15 was available late. I won the Treble, $134, big deal and a running Double $46 for a $40 outlay.

Saturday 19th October:**It may be only Narromine but 2 winners $13.80 and $12 in first three races**

All updated 11.18 a.m.Todays Dead4 tracks are expected to upgrade so we have rated them Good.

Winform Daily Mail posted 10.04 a.m. WA update for ratinsg and DAIILY MAIL 11.45

The fire danger is gone. Raffertys Resort was saved by back burning. We had no problems and road access was restored late yesterday. We even got some orders out. Trevor Johns is in Melbourne organising the printing and despatch of his new book Racing My Perfect Investment Edition 3rd and Final.

Friday 18th October: ** LateNews** We are surrounded by bushfires at present, not in danger, but being on a peninsular, possibly cut off. We can drive west but not east. ** Our only exit is now cut off** Simply means any orders will not be leaving Mannering Park today. Our local shops will be busy selling bread and milk and the butcher will have his best day ever.

The road between here and Newcastle is showing flames up to 100 metres high with sporadic bursts even higher than that.

Check out the Caulfield Cup Preview here . You can safely expect surprises in this race, although the favoured runners do seem to do better than in the Melbourne Cup. The favourite drawing wide has simply given us the opportuntiy of getting a better price but there is no great amount of money to be made.

Thursday 17th October: We've had some excellent feedback about Trevor Johns with past purchasers of Editions 1 and 2 coming back for Edition 3. We are leaving orders open until October 24th, so another seven days. One of Trevors methods relating to jockey /trainer combinations had two winners yesterday at $4+ and $8 + . I had a good day with the Daily Mail finding a $5 winner from three single selections. The Daily Feature missed but you can't win all the time.

Only 3 meetings today but I am busy anyway with processing orders and at the same time trying to get the Magazine together. Good luck all.

Wednesday 16th October: Another good win for me yesterday. Strangely enough my win was best tote + 5% at Sportingbet. Since they changed to this instead of best tote or starting price, over half our members have stopped betting there. What does that tell you?? I now only use it when tote is clearly best.

Trevor Johns new book is being out together manually as the volume we are prepared to sell is so small. It willcome Spiral bound which makes it easier to find pages you want.

We had this from Bonita today when she paled her order."Hi Garry and workers

Could I pls purchase Trevor's new edition by direct debit, like I paid for Spring package?  Husband away working and he is the credit card holder in the family.  He is working flyinflyout in North Western Australia and wont be back until end October.

I don't want to miss this new edition, The Edition 2 I purchased paid for itself the first Saturday after I got it, with a Chapter 5 horse.

All the best,

Bonita F

No surprise when one of his horses won yesterday at better than $18.

Tuesday 15th October: Nobody told us we got our dates mixed up, did they? I scored a ncie winner at Wangaratta yesterday at $2.45. It started $1.90, so that was a coup. Our Premium selection missed the place completely thoguh so I gave sime back. That firmed from odds against to odds on so I don't know what happened there.

The new Trveor Johns strategy from his latest book due out this week, found two $37+ winners in the last three days. The good thing is that you can actually work out selections the night before and then you only have to check the daily things like scratchings and track condtions.

We hope to have full details of Trevors book online this afternoon.

Sunday 13th October: Spring singles slightly in front with top fluc Long John $4.80. Blustery hot day today so I am staying inside. Maybe I'll read a book. Lots of races but I feel a bit jaded after yesterday. Gotthrree Quinellas ysterday from 7 races. Can't count Atlantic Jewell of,course, dumb race to bet on although Mr X had a good win.

Weekend Feature had the winner and the Daily Feature which was our YouTube race this week got the $9 winner and Quinella. I got the Quaddie but it paid nothing, well I didn't get my money back, put it that way.

**Good luck bad luck** Late scr Caulfield Race 2. If it was out beforehand we are on the winner. As it is we ended upwith 4 horses for the Quinella $12.80 Trifecta $131 and First 4 $560. Cost $6 Quinella $24 Trifecta and $24 First Four.

***UPDATED FOR TRACK UPGRADES***

Saturday 12th October: Todays Double Trio is on Caulfield Race 9 and 10, probabaly two of the most difficult races but at least it will pay well. There is a 3 million dollar Big 6 Jackpot at Caulfield today through Stab and I will have a go. The last time I did this I had all the correct numbers using my selections plus Greg Horns selections. I missed by going cross eyed in one leg which alos cot me the $150,000 Quaddie on the day. I'll try to avoid that today.

In NSW there is a Caulfield Quaddie jackpot and there are others today. It is always worth getting involved in the jackpots as it increases the margin to the punter.

Today we have some unusual meetings, not all covered by the bookies but we post them anyway. Also we are delayed in posting the ratings with Queensland the NTand WA not participating in daylight saving. Ratings will now be update daiy 9.45 the Daily Mail 10.45 and updates now 11.45 or later for finals. The Spring package involves only Melbourne and Sydney so that is sent early as normal.

Winners of the Melbourne Cup quiz this week, Garry Orford, Barry Thomas and Bob Martin. The book winner will be announced on Monday in the E-News. Don't forget this weeks video.

Friday 11th October: The 6 won yesterday at $8.50 which gave you a nice collect. It shows how you can't take form for granted and do need sometimes to delve more deeply. Trevor Johns explores this in his new book which will be released later this month.

A very busy day today with Caulfield to be looked at very closely, in fact I have someone checking the course as I write this. I may post a video later today. If I do it will be listed here.

Thursday 10th October: Members will be pleased to know that we have added Paypal to our payment options at the online store. We also have a trick question for our Melbourne Ciup quiz this week. There is an additional prize of a first copy of Trevor Johns new book which is edition 3. Certainly worthwhile entering.

I had a look at Ballarat today race 5 number 1 and 6. I'm hoping that track conditions don't deterioarte though because I am already on. Initially 6 had a 20 point penalty which I apply for horses with low win strikes but this horse has good recent form and is just coming good after 11 starts. If it wins today it loses the penalty anyway. The topweight will probabaly win anyway but it is a litlle easy in the market.

Wednesday 9th October: Our top rated horse won the Nowra Cup with our 2nd rated horse 3rd. It was a C Plan race. I didn't like the winner as it was an 8yo and would have backed it to save only.

Members who did the sign up promotion with Betezy have to notify us of the new account number for verification so we can provide the Spring package promised. The promo is in addition to the normal Betezy deposit match If you havnt received the offer it is simple. As well as getting a dollar for dollar deposit match for a new account you get our Spring package selections up until November 10th as well. If you already have an account there is no reason why your partner couldn't have an account to take advantage of this.

Tuesday 8th Octiber: There's a photography exhibition which may be of interest to readers who are passing nearby. Here are the details.

Courses for Horses

By Richard Shaw

A photographic exploration of the global allure of Horse Racing

Yering Station Gallery
October 4 - November 24

38 Melba Highway
Yarra Glen, VIC, AUSTRALIA.

I know there will be many Members heading for Victoria for the Carnivals.

Only two race meetings today and the only three bets I see are all lays, although Sailors Farewell could be a winning chance in the Nowra Cup (race 7).

Monday 7th October: Here's the video my daughter and son in law made up for Belle's wedding. It's a pretty good production.

The only bet I got on yesterday was a winner at Northam so I'm not complaining. The bills keep coming though Oh well, that's the last wedding I have to pay for.

Not a lot going on today. A few race meetings to keep everyone "happy" but not a lot of quality races now that all the best ones are squeezed into Saturday.

Sunday 6th October: Some incredible close finishes yesterday, some going our way and some not. Hawkspurt in 5th, when 4th gives me the First Four, Malvolio only 3/4 length away at $51 with a massive place bet from yours truly but my best Boban overcoming bad luck in running to take out the Epsom. Same with Rock Hero!

At the end of the day wins were well below average but it only takes one good day.

Saturday 5th October: When I had my music retail store October became "Roctober". It was a big promotion in the industry. In Horse Racing it is similar with so many Group 1 races and the lead ups to the world's greatest promotional event, the Melbourne Cup.

Yesterday our special won but at ridiculous odds. It was better when we decided to go with it and those who took the early price might have been happy. There won't be any massively short priced winners today with many events as open as Sydney Heads but we may get lucky as one of our choices is currently $51 and $13.50 the place. Its real chances of winning is probably one in ten but it is worth a punt. Check the video.

Mr X will be posting the ratings and Feature races today while I attend to Belle's wedding. Maybe I'll get a chance to check results but I wont see any races. Really what I will want to see is a healthy growth in my bank balance.

The TABS all have big jackpots today. Checkthe First 4 for the Epsom, and Turnbull and the Trifecta in the Epsom at Tatts. Worth going for. I have an hour to get all the final bits and get my bets on.

Friday 4th October: Wedding rehearsal today. Oh well. All over Sunday. I miss tomorrows massive Racing program but already have most of my bets on.

Thursday 3rd October: I hope to add my video link by lunchtime. It's going to be very hard to pick a race but I ill probably look at the Epsom and the possible strategies. As for today , we have another TAB meeting at Dalby. We used to have great results from this track and hope to again. Back then a lot of horses came from Toowoomba and dominated the winners. For today there is no Toowoomba form to go on while they rebuild the Toowoomba track.

Wednesday 2nd October: My one bet yesterday didn't even get on. With Belle's wedding this weekend and other things I was just too busy. The $2.30 on offer in the morning proved to be easily the best price as $2 was the best later in the day.

SomeMembers had trouble downloading our free E-Book. Just in case you did here's the link.

Tuesday 1st October: Two wins and two losses on the C Plan for me yesterday. It should have been an easy win in the first race but that's called luck. In the end two losses and then two wins and a nice profit when the horse I backed at $6 turned into an $8 winner which earned me an extra $200+ for the race. In actual fact Winforms top four rated horses ran the First Four which paid $2,000+ . I missed out on the evry next C Plan race which was a good winning result.

How things have changed. Thismorning you can already get fixed prices on all of todays race meetings at Kilmore, Goulbourn, Tamworth and Townsville. It seems this is a point of difference for Sportsbet and Iasbet

It's a great deal for the punter who could now place their bets on the way to work on their smartphones.

Monday September 30th: Sportsbet offers the best ofthe trhee totes or Starting Price, whichever is the greater on all Australian horse racing whether country and provincial or not so when our 2nd rated horse in race two at Coleraine won at $41 yesterday they paid the best Tab prices which was $43, $49 and $56, so $56. It is a good way to bet. Those who open a new Sportsbet account today via this link get whatever opening bonuses they have PLUS we will supply our Spring Racing package which included Eclair Bang Bang yesterday which won at $13 which was , in this case, better than the three TABs. The Spring package sells fro $225 and covers all major meetings up until November 10th and is emalied by 10 a.m. and is alos sent out a day or two before that so that you can see what we are thinking if you want to get the early odds at Sportsbet.

Sunday September 29th: Disappointment for Freo and Knights fans. Disappointment all around at Rosehill yesterday with a few knockout results. We beleived Red Tracer was a good thing and got on early, only to be nose out by Sharnee Rose which had only two wins from over 20 starts, a clear penalty in our book, and Red Tracer had an abysmal run facing the breeze wide most of the way. I suppose you woudl call it a meritorious run but it doesn't pay.

Caulfield today is rain affected even if the sun shines but there are still two fantastic races with race 8 almost impossibe to predict. More race meetings today though than yesterday.

Saturday September 28th: AFL GRand Final, NRL Prelimnary Final and Rosehill Group Racing. What a day and night it will be! Last night saw patience rewarded when Larsen's followers got a $19 winner to get back in front for the year. Needless to say many followers would have dropped off when the worst ever losing run arrived and persisted for several months. This can easily happen no matter how good your strike rate. Because there are so few races chosen it takes an eternity for things to happen. Ironically, Larsen's selections in Race 7 at The Valley last night scored the Trifecta at nearly $900. My selections for the race, which I combined with his, got the First Four at $2831.

The Spring Package had Thump as one of two selections in that race and Divine Calling as part of the nominated dutch combination for that race.

Friday September 27th: A horse gets backed from $13 into $4 and then..... A barrier mishap, all horse are withdrawn and replaced and our selection gets into a muck lather and is beaten by the time they jump. That's Racing!

Thursday September 26th: The lay plan in B4 The Start has lost three times this month. That produces a massive profit for lay bettors as there were 36 selections so far. This year there has been just two losing months and that was in February and August. Overall 24 winners from 426 selections with a loss of over 50% using the very best odds combination possible.

Whenever I use the plan I simply lay bet at Betezy. That way I can lay whatever amount I like and pay no commission at all.

Wednesday September 25th: Trevor Johns emailed me yesterday with a draft of his new book. I noted one winner in particular which as he states, was fairly obvious. It won at $90+ . The problem is that punters dont think logically. They simply dismiss horses in this price range. The winner led to a $50,000 Quaddie, so you can see the benefit of including it in.

As many would know, Trevor was having health problems when he decided to hang up his pen back in 2011. After overcoming those problems he then developed eye problems but then decided this year to follow up in the feedback from his two most recent books Racing My Perfect Investment 1 and 2. This latest edition, which we expect to release in the next month or so, provides further guidelines and more clarity in his investment choices.

It come scomplete with lists of the outcomes, strike rates and average dividends. Following the release of his first two books, the dividends for his methods dipped but as time went on and punters dropped off, the dividends soon came back to original levels. You see punters want immediate results and when they don't get them, well its off to the next big thing.

Tuesday September 24th: What Tuesday already?? It's going on 3 o'clock and I still havent finished processing todays orders. The new E-Books are proving verty popular and from $19.95 you can see why. There is a ton of wisdom in the Barriers book and at $89 I can see why we didn't sell as many as expected but when you read the tables you can soon see where you could have saved yourself many hundreds , if not thousands of dollars, just by leaving out those runners which are nearly always bad news. The thing is. What is revealed as bad barrier draws by the public is often a good barrier draw according to the facts.

And of course, what the thousands of stupid punters perceive as the good barriers, are often the very worst ones and a dead loss. Anyhow, with the E-Book now just $19.95, how could you afford not to own one??

Monday September 23rd: Profitmaker broke the duck today with a $5 winner. There was a protest but with all the corporates paying out even if the protest was upheld it wasn't a problem anyway, although we had a few anxious callers.

A lot of Members didn't notice the attachment today on their email. It was a very serious punting article from Greg Horn. If you have the E-News thenopen the attachment and have a read and maybe give us some feedback. We'd appreciate it.

Sunday September 22nd: Nine races for our Spring package yesterday and we found the winner in eight of them. There were 5 Quinellas and wefound a $1943 First Four in the George Main.

The Winform Daily Mail found a $1431 First Four and seven Quinellas. A successful day but our Profitmaker series has found a real hole,with no winners yesterday and a week long losing streak. It will change. As of last week we were still in front over the past 12 months but that lead was eroded yesterday.

New Video.

Saturday September 21st: After spilling a whole cup of coffee when I was advised that Caulfield was upgrade to Good I am running late and now I find the correction was wron. bACK TOWORK.

Friday September 20th: The Newcastle Cup was a blowout for me yesterday with form topsy turvey in the two Group Races. Vaquera, first up after a staying preparation last time, won at $21 and once again I was next to Gai Waterhouse and the owners, although Gai was quite subdued about the result so I expect the win was unexpected. I certainly didn't expect it but the stiff westerly affected most on pace runners.

Thursday September 19th: I thought the crowd for the Cameron meeting at Broadmeadow was much bigger than last year so maybe today's Cup meeting will be up as well. Not as good a quality field as Green Moon's Cup in my opinion and no really good Spring prospects.

Having just loaded up the Barrier book in E.Book format I was forced to take a look and got reminded of some highly relevant facts. At $19.95 it is well worth a read. Order at the online store $19.95 as an E-Bookor $24.95 in hard copy posted.

Wednesday September 18th: No joy for yesterdays Feature Race on the heavy track at Tamworth but you can'twin every day. Two Group 3 races at Newcastle today and another two tomorrow. These are included in the Spring Package. Always a good day at the Newcaste Spring Carnival and a few Members are going. I expect to be there as well later today and probabaly for the Cup tomorrow.

There was an error at the Winform bookshop re the Barrier Book but that has now been fixed.

Tuesday September 17th: Yesterdays Daily Feature Race found a $200+ Quinella and $5,000+ Trifecta. I missed it, as I had already had a win for the day on the C Plan and quit after I saw no upcoming races for a while. I'll bet our Daily Feature Race subscribers were on it. It only costs them $363 a year, that's less than a dollar a day. How good is that?

Monday September 16th: We're past the half way mark with two more Saturdays for the monthas trainers prepare their horses for the Caulfield Cup, the Cox Plate and the Melbourne Cup. Listening to the many tariner interviewers it is obvious that they carefully map out programs in a way that a) for horses already qualified, avoid weight penalties and b) for those not qualified a way to get a weight penalty.

We as form analysts do something similar. It didn't help memuch yesterday as I selected just three races to invest in and ran 2nd in all three.

Just three minor meetings on offer today.

Sunday September 15th: The Daily Feature Race was alos our video feature this week in which we showed you the benefit of Traffic Lights in the GTX program. The winner was $20 as we also pointed out the value of sticking to Moonee Valley specialists.

The Weekend Feature Race special was Arctic Flight and although it ran 3rd (the winner was rated 4th by us) I was able to get $9.50 fixed for the place in the morning so a very profitable race for me.

With Belmont off the Winform Daily Mail had only five selected races so a very profitable day.

The Spring Package covered seven races and we suggested only betting four of them. In those races we got the Golden Rose Quinella.

**So is it worth being in the Rod Cleary's Mebourne Cup Quiz? Here's what this week's winner had to say.

Hi Gary
Used my $100 bet on Le Bonsir @ $50 each way.
You have definitely MADE MY DAY!!
THANK YOU.

Regards
Edward

Saturday September 14th: Well I said no good reason why we wouldnt win yesterday but we did. Goes to show. The Thursday threw up winner afetr winner. I've got all information up by 8.36 excpet the Winform Daily Mail which I am starting on now. Some disappointing scratchings today but what can you do?

Geelong could only win by 16 last night so a losing bet. Let's hope for better tonight with the Swans/Carlton game.

Less rain tahn expected for Sydney so Rosehill stays in the Good range. Fantastic and Moonee Valley is Dead but even when Good has give. Should race truly today.

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 13TH: Here's the video link for Moonee Valley tomorrow. In this video I show you a feature available in GTX alled traffic lights. It consists of a set of rulles you can out in place to a) advise you if the race conditions suit your personal criteria or b) the horse statistics suit your criteria. This can quickly give you a guide to theliklihood of that race being one worth further study. Very few people even know of the existence of this feature.

Yesterday I missed the diary as I was caught up in the bushfire on the M1. Four Good track meetings today. No reason why we shouldn't win.

I notice that Rod Cleary is offering each way punters on the Golden Rose money back up to $100 if you run 4th.

Wednesday September 1th: One of our Members is organising a trip to Hong Kong for abut half the price of other operators. Here's his details.

Hi Gary,

I have attached a HK International Tour pdf for you to have a look at.

Maybe you could promote this fantastic package  to your member’s.
It is about half the price of Ambassador Travel tour and which they are heavily  marketing on Sky.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Adrian Rebbeck
Director

Ground Floor, 10 Cloyne St. Southport  QLD 4215
Mailing address: PO Box 3100, Southport  QLD 4215
Phone:     +61 7 5585 4186
Facsimile: +61 7 5585 4188
Email: adrian@getawaygolf.com.au

In the meantime we are getting together the 20th Edition of Horse Racing Australia magazine. Lots of work to do.

Tuesday September 10th: At last a new article. I spent my day organising a new suit for my daughters wedding. I better back a few inners before then, they ain't cheao!

Monday September 9th: Yes DEnnis, you were right, forgot to update this Sunday but all the information is in the E-news which has just gone out.

For those who don't get the E-News the big announcement is that I am currently working on the 20Th edition of Racehorseaustralia magazine. More information closer to the date but the new issue will be totally electronic as that is the way the world has gone. You can still print out at your end but the online advantage is that you will be able to click liks to extra information, view videos and so on.

i HAD THREE BETS YESTERDAY. Two of them ran 2nd and the other missed but the Weekend Sports got two from three.

Have a look at this link. Punter versus the corporate.

SATURDAY September 7th: I think it was our 3rd rated horse that won the Wyong Cup yesterday. No big deal. Less than 100 peoepl viewed my video compared to nearly 500 last year. It shows the interest in what sadly has become just another race.

Our 2nd rated horse on the Mona Lisa on the other hand , ran 3rd at $250 and a haqndy $31 fixed for the place. A few Members got onto this. I dropped big bucks on the top rater which dropped out to last in a complete reversal of her normal racing pattern. It happens.

Today I am under the pump due to the large number of qualifying races no that Spring has truly sprung. Ratings are up at 9 a.m. and I now start on the Daily Mail. The Weekdn Feature Race by Mr X is slightly different to my version so ratings and Daily Mail subscibers should have a clos elook.

Friday September 6th: I've just recorded a Wyong Cup video but have no confidence in the race. There may be a way to make a profit e.g. the C Plan but with only 8 runners it could be a procession. I just hope we can see some better horses in the Newcastle Cup in a fortnight's time.

Winform GoldClub Members have a good looking bet today and at good odds. I am thinking of having my biggest bet of the year on it each way at the price. The favourite in that race will have to improve 5 lengths or more to beat it.

Thursday September 5th: If you want to have a laugh click here. Yesterday the French import won the Balaklava Cup. Our selection, a $67 shot ran close up after a checkered run in the straight. On a close look the impressive looking grey had run Group 1 winning times in France but only over 2000 metres, and of course was first up. Amazingly, the trainer managed to Quinell the race after having just 2 wins from his previous 28 starters.

Profitmaker had a win thank goodness, in spite of the heavily backed runner in the last at Eagle Farm being twitched out in a photo.

Today Wyong has a very average looking meeting ahead of tomorrows Wyong Cup, which sadly has not attracted a very talented field, given that most of the runners are 7yo and up.

Wednesday September 4th: A big days Racing today with the Balaklava Cup a highlight. All punters need to be wary with improving track conditions, for example, there is one horses ttoday with a strike rate of just 10% BUT looking at Good Track runs only , it is 15%. With just one win on rain affected tracks from 24 starts it has brough the overall record right down. I first highlighted this in my book Racing Pays back in 1988 when I found a $15 winner simply because the horse had bad form on wet tracks and at his very first start back on a Good track, won easily.

The Balaklava Cup is our Daily Feature Race today.

Tuesday September 3rd. $30 winner Wodonga followed by a $7 winner Wagga! What's not to like??

HAVE A LOOK AT THIS FEEDBACK. I have to thank Peter, I nver thought of it like that but he bet the favourite out market and got $21 Ferlax to beat all but Atlantic Jewell. Well done Peter.

We alwasy felt we did well in Maidens but most peoepl skip these. So how di we go last month?? Our top two rated horses in all maidens that were favourite scored 44% wins at a profit of 20%. How's that??

Monday September 2nd: Did all our specials really win yesterday?? Did anyone have them all up?? Did we have yet another great Oneup winner? Today both meetings are listed as Slow but we have acouple of possibilities, and I wonder what Mr X will come up with today??

Sunday September 1st: Some great results yeterday and the $14 fixed for the place Ferlax was a very very goood bet.

Have a great day with your families today and forget all the family squabbles.

Saturday August 31st: Ratings and all files are loaded ready to go. Spring package has been emailed and those getting SMS notified. JF Notified us that on Thursday he got $3.50 about our Premium winner.

On reflection the new deal at Sportingbet, top tote + 5% is a great deal for when we get the longshots up. There was a disparity the other day when one horse paid $40+ $50 + and $100+ so the dividend was $100+ with 5% extra. No I wasn't on it.

You woukd expect Caulfield to get an upgrade to a Dead 4 so I have few concerns aprt from the early races where the dampness changes the ratings for some races.

The Double Trio is on the last two races at Caulfield.Problem is that you cant stand out anyhting which means if Atalantic Jewell places anywhere as expected, the dividend will be down dramatically. Already one Professinal has told me he wont be taking part. Of course is she fails to run a slot it would pay a fortune.

Friday August 30th: Mr X had a great winner yesterday at $4. I got $4.20 I am pleased to say. The Winform Premium selection won and I got $2.20 about that after $2.40 was bet. It paid $1.50 to $1.60 on the TABs.

Today I stated with a sardine omellette. Yes!! A sardine omelette. I'd never had one before but using googel I found that it is a popular choice...............for backpackers. One quoted " I always keep 3 tins of sardines and some eggs for emergency protein." He went on to say he mixed the two ingredients one day and was hooked.

Anyhow, here's my successful recipe. Cut up a handful of button mushroomsand heat until they are turning brown. Add the sardines but drain off the oil in the tin before you do if you want to avoid being spat at. Add a little water (about a deserrt spoon) to a bowl and two eggs and whisk. You can get these great new very bendy whisks at Coles for $2. For us older citizens it makes it easier. Add pepper to taste and sprinkle a little cheese. Flip after a couple of minutes and eat. Definitely pop a peppermint before you get close to anyone.

Mildura is a Dead 4 to start with but all other tracks are Good. I'm looking at up to 4 selections at the moment.

Thursday August 29th: Mr X could only score a place with the Daily Feature Race yesterday but the Winfor Daily Mail found a $37+ Quinella in the only other selected race. Quinella outlay on both race $20, return $37+...no complaints.

Regarding yesterdays piece about the "anonymous" email. Police and Racing NSW detectives, who were informed, were able to find the perpertrator by yesterday afternoon and the trainer involved tells me he is able to get on with his life now that action has been taken.

Wednesday August 28th: A nice double yesterday with Mr X finding a good winner and our Best Bet hit the spot too.

The problem with social media is that people often say things they actually can't get away with. We were offered up an "editorial" submission yesterday about a well known Sydney trainer that was nothing but a slanderous rant. The offer came from a supposed writer who normally charges $1 a word and came via an "anonymous" hotmail address. Well there is no such thing as an anonymous email address. The email has been passed on directly to the trainer concerned and also the authorities who will quickly collect the real name and address of the person concerned who is obviously "close" to the trainer.

The allegations are of a highly personalised nature involving , I suspect, a jilted lover. Well there is no shortage of those around and we have no interest in that sort of rubbish.

Racing is at Warwick Farm and at Good tracks around the country. Even Sandown is only a Dead 4 with a possible upgrade.

Tuesday August 27th: Here is information on the new Double Trio bet from Tattsbet, along with the table to work out what it costs. We'll send the info out as an attachment with our next E-News.

Today we have high hopes for our single selections. I am taking our Profitmaker selections in an all up for the win.

DOUBLE TRIO
The new Double Trio works like this. To win a Double Trio customers are required to select the first three
placegetters in any order across two nominated races.
For ease of costing the trick is to understand the divisor applied to what it would cost to box the same amount of
selections in a box Trifecta. In the case of a Trio it is a factor of 6. For example a 3 runner box Trifecta extents to 6
combinations, hence for 100% the cost is $6. In the case of a Double Trio the same three runner box amounts to 1
combination (having regard for any order) hence for 100% the cost for this leg is $1. Apply the same
methodology to both legs of the Double Trio and then multiple the number of combinations (i.e. nos of 1st leg
combos by nos of 2nd leg combos just like a double) and that is how you cost a Double Trio.
The table below is designed to further help you crystallise how the aforementioned methodology is applied. This
advice also appears on the InfoTAB screen.
Selections 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
3 1 4 10 20 35 56 84 120 165 220 286
4 4 16 40 80 140 224 336 480 660 880 1,144
5 10 40 100 200 350 560 840 1,200 1,650 2,200 2,860
6 20 80 200 400 700 1,120 1,680 2,400 3,300 4,400 5,720
7 35 140 350 700 1,225 1,960 2,940 4,200 5,775 7,700 10,010
8 56 224 560 1,120 1,960 3,136 4,704 6,720 9,240 12,320 16,016
9 84 336 840 1,680 2,940 4,704 7,056 10,080 13,860 18,480 24,024
10 120 480 1,200 2,400 4,200 6,720 10,080 14,400 19,800 26,400 34,320
11 165 660 1,650 3,300 5,775 9,240 13,860 19,800 27,225 36,300 47,190
12 220 880 2,200 4,400 7,700 12,320 18,480 26,400 36,300 48,400 62,920
13 286 1,144 2,860 5,720 10,010 16,016 24,024 34,320 47,190 62,920 81,796
14 364 1,456 3,640 7,280 12,740 20,384 30,576 43,680 60,060 80,080 104,104
15 455 1,820 4,550 9,100 15,925 25,480 38,220 54,600 75,075 100,100 130,130
16 560 2,240 5,600 11,200 19,600 31,360 47,040 67,200 92,400 123,200 160,160
17 680 2,720 6,800 13,600 23,800 38,080 57,120 81,600 112,200 149,600 194,480
18 816 3,264 8,160 16,320 28,560 45,696 68,544 97,920 134,640 179,520 233,376
19 969 3,876 9,690 19,380 33,915 54,264 81,396 116,280 159,885 213,180 277,134
20 1,140 4,560 11,400 22,800 39,900 63,840 95,760 136,800 188,100 250,800 326,040
21 1,330 5,320 13,300 26,600 46,550 74,480 111,720 159,600 219,450 292,600 380,380
22 1,540 6,160 15,400 30,800 53,900 86,240 129,360 184,800 254,100 338,800 440,440
23 1,771 7,084 17,710 35,420 61,985 99,176 148,764 212,520 292,215 389,620 506,506
24 2,024 8,096 20,240 40,480 70,840 113,344 170,016 242,880 333,960 445,280 578,864
Second Leg
First Leg
Selections 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
3 364 455 560 680 816 969 1,140 1,330 1,540 1,771 2,024
4 1,456 1,820 2,240 2,720 3,264 3,876 4,560 5,320 6,160 7,084 8,096
5 3,640 4,550 5,600 6,800 8,160 9,690 11,400 13,300 15,400 17,710 20,240
6 7,280 9,100 11,200 13,600 16,320 19,380 22,800 26,600 30,800 35,420 40,480
7 12,740 15,925 19,600 23,800 28,560 33,915 39,900 46,550 53,900 61,985 70,840
8 20,384 25,480 31,360 38,080 45,696 54,264 63,840 74,480 86,240 99,176 113,344
9 30,576 38,220 47,040 57,120 68,544 81,396 95,760 111,720 129,360 148,764 170,016
10 43,680 54,600 67,200 81,600 97,920 116,280 136,800 159,600 184,800 212,520 242,880
11 60,060 75,075 92,400 112,200 134,640 159,885 188,100 219,450 254,100 292,215 333,960
12 80,080 100,100 123,200 149,600 179,520 213,180 250,800 292,600 338,800 389,620 445,280
13 104,104 130,130 160,160 194,480 233,376 277,134 326,040 380,380 440,440 506,506 578,864
14 132,496 165,620 203,840 247,520 297,024 352,716 414,960 484,120 560,560 644,644 736,736
15 165,620 207,025 254,800 309,400 371,280 440,895 518,700 605,150 700,700 805,805 920,920
16 203,840 254,800 313,600 380,800 456,960 542,640 638,400 744,800 862,400 991,760 1,133,440
17 247,520 309,400 380,800 462,400 554,880 658,920 775,200 904,400 1,047,200 1,204,280 1,376,320
18 297,024 371,280 456,960 554,880 665,856 790,704 930,240 1,085,280 1,256,640 1,445,136 1,651,584
19 352,716 440,895 542,640 658,920 790,704 938,961 1,104,660 1,288,770 1,492,260 1,716,099 1,961,256
20 414,960 518,700 638,400 775,200 930,240 1,104,660 1,299,600 1,516,200 1,755,600 2,018,940 2,307,360
21 484,120 605,150 744,800 904,400 1,085,280 1,288,770 1,516,200 1,768,900 2,048,200 2,355,430 2,691,920
22 560,560 700,700 862,400 1,047,200 1,256,640 1,492,260 1,755,600 2,048,200 2,371,600 2,727,340 3,116,960
23 644,644 805,805 991,760 1,204,280 1,445,136 1,716,099 2,018,940 2,355,430 2,727,340 3,136,441 3,584,504
24 736,736 920,920 1,133,440 1,376,320 1,651,584 1,961,256 2,307,360 2,691,920 3,116,960 3,584,504 4,096,576
Second Leg
First Leg

Monday August 26th: It finally happened. The Tinkler group has unsubscribed from our Newsletter.Maybe if Nathan had subscribed to the ratings and the Winform Daily Mail he would have been suing Luxbet for his winnings rather than them suing him for losses.

A busy day today but only a possiblecouple of best at Grafton although Warnambool and Bathurst are usually kind to us. A big winner for the Oneup selections yesterday. I got $34 early in the day on Betfair but that became $29 after commission. Could only get $10 on too but enjoyed the final dividend of $10+. The C Plan had some nice returns on Saturday and I noted some good results yesterday too.

Mat is in hospital this mornings so will be running around organising his affairs after having already spent some time helping with the twins.

Weekend Sports was 2 from 4, still not good enough with only a few games left in the season.

Sunday August 25th: Our Video tip won easily at a very good price yesterday. Initially we were to back two horses but one of them was scratched. It worked out well.

Our Spring package was quite negative about most of the races we covered yesterday. We recommended only three single bets for no winners and a possible Quinella/Trifecta. One Group race was won by a maiden. The risky favourites lost.

The Winform Daily Mail had 11 races covered for 6 winners and that included the $570+ Trifecta in the Daly Feature Race.

Saturday August 24th: All Spring package selections have gone out. Some changes, not a lot. A challenging day at warwick Farm today with three very short priced favourites and all risky in our opinion.

Ratings will be posted by 8.45, Winform Daily Mail around 9.30.

** Three Quaddies today $6800, $2187 and $4751 not a bad days work. (FRiday)

Friday August 23rd: Buggered up yest again with the E-News and put in the wrong link forBetezy. This one is correct.

Yesterday we had an e/way 100/1 shot run 4th.Nearly got ther at $21 fixed for the place. Coup Ay Tee surprised as I thought it would have trained off by now. Wrong again and Loaded disappointed after firming all day from $10 in the morning to start $4.40 favourite.

Here's the link to the latest YouTUbe video. We have spotted value at Moonee Valley.

Some good midweek meetings on today and mostly good tracks for a change. The big wet seems to be in South Australia at the moment.

Thursday August 22nd; Hawkesbury Cup Day today and A Group3 so we have sent out our Spring Package members our selections. Already one horse we recommended has had its price more than halved and another is in 10%. It's a good track and a couple of our selections have been racing on rain affected tracksand will improve with the better going.

I've postponed my colonoscopy from the first week of November to the second. Something to look forward to. It's juts precautionary as my specialist says I had dodged a bullet last year when he removed some large polyps, as he said "just in time." See. Even life's a gamble!

Wednesday August 21st: Yesterdays Daily Feature Race recommendation was bet the Top Two. Well the 3rd rated horse won in a photo beating the Top Two. The news is not all bad thouhg with the Quinella paying $70+and the Trifecta $500+.

Today I have bookeeping this morning and my colonoscopy expert this afternoon. In between I will find the weekend sports bets which will be posted by 5 p.m. Last week 2 out of 5 so we need a good week,hell, I need a good week. We are now down for the year to date, a rare thing to happen. JUst need to pick up the strike rate in these last few rounds to clear the decks.

Tuesday August 20th: Just had a chat to Trevor Johns who is still making good money with those chapter five and chapter six horses. The way things were going downhill for Trevor healthwise 18 months ago I didn't expect to hear a lot from him but apart from some eye problems and some adjustments to his heart he's going so well he's working hard on analysing a better way.

Any how, we found a good winner that was $21 into $15 with the corporates and always double figureson the TAB but on course was never better than $7. It shows that you have to be on the ball if you want the best result. There is a helluva lot of difference between $21, the best price bet, and the $7 Starting Price. If you continue to take the worst price or just the TAB price you are going to lose.

To see the variety of corporate sites we recommend clcik here. Today has started out well enough but no longshots at this stage.

Monday August 19th: Only two meetings today. The CEO of Racing Victoria would like there to be a race free day on Mondays. Hasn't happened yet. He also wanted night racing at Cranbourne on the all weather track.That hasn't happened either.

I've been reading a new book about the racehorse Drongo. It seems he wasnt half as bad as everybody makes out. Bruce Walkley wrote it and it is out now (in time for Fathers Day) at regular bookshops. It is quite readable and interesting. He actually won more money than most horses win today and ran 2nd in Derby. For around $20, it's better value than dinner at McDonalds or KFC.

I'm also starting todat on another new book, this one about Shannon and written by Jessica Owers who also wrote Peter Pan. I have no release date and will advise when I have read it.Jessica ia brilliant writer, so I am looking forward to reading it.

Sunday August 18th: We honestly don'tunderstand why we have so few subscribers to the Winform Daily Mail? Yesterday again 7 Quinellas from 13 races , the best $176. A $1386 Trifecta and a $5000+ First Four in two states. There were 15 nominated selections with winners at $3.50, $2.20 $10.10 and $3.40 and a nice profit. The Winform Daily Mail is only $295 a quarter or $1100 for a whole year.

Our ratings subscribers get it free!

I'm off with Mat to the Knights/Melbourne Storm game. It will be a very tough game and I expect Melbourne to win. The Knights have several crucial injuries and you need to be at your top and then some to beat the Storm.

Saturday August 17th: :** Winner Quinella Trifecta and First Four in our first Spring Package evnt today."

Rosehill Race 4 Quinella $176.90 Trifecta $1386.60 First Four $3916.10 on the Winform Daily Mail

The Spring package has been sent after a surprise upgrade to Caulfield to Good. Rain is now expected late in the day and light. Ratings will be posted about 8.40.

The winner of our Melbourne Cup Quiz is Colin Bice from NSW. He gets $100 to bet on his choice this afternoon. I'm looking forward toCaulfield as we have several runners selected at very good prices. I want the Quaddie too!

I have to go to my grandaughetrs 2yo birthday party at midday so may miss a race or two,hopefully not the winning ones.

Friday August 16th: No winners yet (10.40 a.m.) for the Melbourne Cup Quiz. In fact only 44 Members so far have viewed the video which includes the question and of course the value bet for tomorrow. The answer is all over the web and there is a $100 cash account bonus to the winner. I guess everyone thinks that they are too late to enter. Not so.

Four meetings today and only one of them is on a rain affected track. This could be because two of the trcaks at Canberra and Geelong, are on artificial dirt tracks but they are holding up okay. No joy earlier this week at Geelong but today could be the comeback as we usually do well there.

The Spring package is free for Winform Gold subscribers and the early mail will be uploaded later this morning and most Friday mornings with the update posted on Saturday about 10 a.m.

Those who paid separately get their email when it is ready, this week it went Thursday. We don't send out SMS messages until Saturday as these are single selections for the most part, whereas the email includes our top five rated runners.

Thursday August 15th: Let's just pretend today never happened. Vaery busy with everything and didn't select a winner, there were some though, just that I didn't pick them.

We sent out the Spring package early so subscribers could take advantage of the early prices. Apart from scratchings, the ratings should probably stay the same. Mostly in the quality races, scratchings are rare.

Wednesday August 14th: 1981 & 2005 - Two Interesting Years
 
Interesting Year 1981
1. Prince Charles got married.
2. Liverpool crowned soccer Champions of Europe.
3. Australia lost the Ashes.
4. The Pope died.

Interesting Year 2005
1. Prince Charles got married.
2. Liverpool crowned soccer Champions of Europe.
3. Australia lost the Ashes.
4. The Pope died.

Lesson to be learned:
The next time Charles gets married, someone should warn the Pope.

See , it's not all about Racing.

My days are getting busier. I now have to be with Isla from 6 a.m. so Natalie can look after the twins. Shayne has done the night shift so he grabs a few hours sleep. This is because of Isla having a broken leg and being in a cast. We have to be with her to stop her natural exuberance. Of course when Shayne goes back to work in two weeks, that acenario will continueexcpet weekends.

So I'll be doing the next days form work in the afternoons so it is back to the 90's for me when I spent 4-5 hours a day studying tomorrows form. Who knows? Maybe I'll find more winners. Luckily, my ealy shift ends about 8, which is when the scratchings start to come in.

Wagga is abndined today but everywhere else is Good excpet Strathalbyn but I go well at that track, even in the wet, so here's hoping.

Tuesday August 12th: What a hectic day yesterday with Isla and the twins. Isla is back to see a surgeon today but Shayne is back so lesss work for Ros and I. Yesterdays races started as a mini bonanza and as I remarked to one Member, "nothing wrong with runing off with the profits."

Today we have race meetings out of the woods, 5 meetings ona Tuesday? Murwullimbah is actually having a meeting on track rated Good, as is Sunshine Coast and Broome is dirt. Bathurst is very damp and Mornington is , well it's Mornington isn't it?

There's a new website set up by a Member to alert us all to suspected scams.James has dedicated himself to this task. Here's the website.

Monday August 12th: Took my grandaughter for a walk yesterday. She had an innocuos fall, as toddlers do but then she couldn't stand out. A 5 hour wait at the hospital and she has a plaster cast on her leg but they still havent figured out what's wrong. Ligament damage they expect, anyhow, off for scans today so Ros and I are sendning the day feeeding the twins While Natalie spends her day at the hospital. MY son in law is in Melbourne giving a Seminar on suicide prevention.

A very good B4 winner yesterday at $6.50. There were two qualifiers in the one race and the horse I expected to be the lesser chance was the winner.

Only two race meetings today.

Sunday August 11th: It's a wipeout for weekend sports so far with three losers. How Geelong blew their 58 point lead I have no idea. Anyhow we can get square today.

Apolgiesfor not putting Weekend Feature Race on the Daily Mail. Luckily it was on the site anyway and Mr X fournd the 3rd horse at $51 and I had a nice collect at $10 fixed the place. We gave out two races on the Daily Mail which were only to be bet if the track was uograded. It wasn't. As a rsult we only had two races tyo be betand got the Quinella and Trifecta in the first race and the winner and Quinella in the second (only $4.30 so a loss on that deal) overall the two Quinellas paid $22.30 for $20 outlay. The Trifecat $166 for a $120 outlay over the two races.

Saturday August 10th: A very disappointing coverage on both ABC and SBS with no mention of who I was in either, I clould have been just a disgruntled member of the public and both segments looked like an ad for the new William Hill acquired of Tom Waterhouse.com business. I am told the radio interview was more extensive, they might have even said who I was.

There is hope that the Randwick track will be upgraded to day as more sun is forecast so that is what we are going with. There is some hope that Flemington is no worse than Dead. That's an improvement on the outlook a few days ago.

**I've just recorded an interview with a number of TV stations, re the Tom Waterhouse Sale. Checkout tonights ABC main bulletin. SBS has also done an interview for their News broadcasts tonight. How much they will use is interesting given that Nick Xenophon is also appearing on the same segment with ABC.

Friday August 9th: Inglis are offering a free Seminar on Thursday 15th August at their Sales Complex at Oakland Rd Oaklands junction at 4 p.m. As well as the presentation by experts such as Peter Orton from Vinery, Dr John Khonke on animal nutrition anda presentation on Radiographs there is a presentation of yearlings PLUS a number of leading trainers re the market for yearlings this year.

To attend please contact 03 9333 1422 by 5 p.m. monday.

* Question* Which of our Members backed Curlew $51 into $31 today?? It won of course.

The weather has cleared up in Sydney but a damning report by pace expert Vince Accardi on the state of the Randwick track in todays Sydney Morning Herald would give noone confidence for tomorrows Randwick meeting which will have only about 60 starters int total.

Here's the video link.

Thursday August 8th: Lost another race meeting and Randwick is likely to be heavy Saturday. The good news is that Brisbane at least should stay fine so I'll concentrate there.

Wednesday August 7th: We've gone up very early with Weekend Sports as some AFL games look very good valueand could gooff quickly. The NRL this week is very closely graded and we could only find two bettable matches and both support the outsider.

I'm disappointed to see that Canterbury is still a Dead5 after a 24 degree day with blustery wind. A few good winners yesterday but nthing spectacular wlthough a couple of seconds at $20+

Tuesday August 6th: Two major incidents yesterday. Sadly we lost a jockey in Darwin highlighting the dangers of the profession. Simone Montgomerie was a mother of two making it all the more tragic. In Sydney a construction worker had a luckier result when a load of precast concrete fell on him. He could have died tooand there is no doubt construction is another dangerous industry. He faces the possibility of being disabled for the rest of his life. The difference? The incident in Sydney was the result of safety regulations not beeing adhered to as the concrete was not securely tied. In horse racing you cannot protect riders against the traits of a herd of animals charging at speed.

Monday August 5th: It looks like a good day today as we always do well at Fannie Bay in Darwin. We do okay at Ballina too but the challenge is the heavy track today. ildura is alright and at Forbes, well not many TAB meetings there but the same horses as the surrounding districts you would think.

See yesterdays Diary fro the darwin Cup preview.

Sunday August 4th: A lot of success yesterday but a lot of failure also. The failures. Profitmaker almost had its worse day ever with 13 selections (one was each way so that counts as two selecions) and the only result was the place bet at $10 fixed on Kinnersley which was a winner. With 50 to go it could also have been a $41.80 winner but missed by 1/2 a length.

Bookmaker odds on none of the selections to win was well over 100/1 yet not a single win selection saluted and only a couple were not in the market. It happens.

On the plus side the Winform Daily Mail got the Daily Feature Race and the Weekend Feature Race, our YouTube video got both runners into the Quinella (the 3rd recommended horse was scratched) and in the Daily Mail we got two races with the winner/Quinella/Trifecta and First 4. The Daily Feature also got the Quinella and Trifecta.

It was also a bad day for the Larsen selections with one winning race from the three available. And the B4 method lucked out also. But we can't let it stop us as it will all come back. The Weekend Sports is 2 from 3 with one remaining match.

Here's the Darwin Cup Preview

Saturday August 3rd: The old Double Coincider plan from Best AustralianHorse Racing Systems had a winnig July. B4 looked to have a good month for the place but a loss for the win. The Winform Top Two was expected to have just a 30% strike rate for July but this year hit 32% with an average dividend of better than $6. The Morning C Plan had a good month.

Not a lot of exciting races today but Racing condtions look okay for this time of the year. Our Winform Daily Mail selections had a peak month with 44% winners and 26% level stakes profit. Good luck today.

The basic ratings will be up by 9.a.m. and the Daily Mail about 9.30. We'll update by 11 fro WA and Darwin scratchings.

Friday August 2nd: The answer to our quiz was Peter Pan won his second Melbourne Cup in 1934 and drew the outside. There were 22 starters. There is an excellent book about Peter Pan by Jessica Owers. He won by 3 lengths carrying 62.5 kgs and Darby Munro raced him on the outside of the bog track all the way. He started at 14/1!

Cameron Lamb of Mernda in Victoria was the first in with the correct answer.

Our twins go for a brain scan today and I believe that is the last of their tests. Unfortunately the smallest one Elle, has developed a coupleof hernias whcih will have to be fixed up but other than that all is well.

We have a video tip ready for tomorrow and we are focussing on Darwin this (long) weekend. It's Ros birthday tomorrow so Ill be placing all my bets early so we can celebrate.

Thursday August 1st:: I just want to say Happy Birthday to all you horsies out there! I also want to thank Nev for his kind words after we helped him out recently.

I have used Winform services many times and found them to be very professional and I have no hesitation in recommending this service to other punters.

Nev Taylor

I noticed we go t the Ballarat Quaddie on Wednesday.

Wednesday July 31st: I'm busy today laoading up programs on computers for clients that have taken advantage of the Winform GoldClub offer of a free Netbook computer and Money Factory program with an annual subscritpion. The offer ends today.

I've also booked my holiday for next year so I have something to aim for with my winnings. Once again itll be June July while Racing is virtually at a standstill here.

Just by the way. Another business is heavily advertising Power Play. This is NOT the Power Play that we have been offering to subscribers forthe past ten years or more. There is no comparison. I don't expect any of our Members to be taken in and I don't think it is intentional on the other businesses behalf.

Tuesday July 30th: A day away today, which is a pity as I think it will be a better day than yesterday. As predicted, I didn't expect many winners yesterday and didn't get many either. Today we have Mackay (okay) Mornington (not much good) Wyong (OKay) and Canberra Acton (Okay). Today should be a much better day.

Monday July 29th: You could look at today as an easy day. Quenbeyan has been abandoned leaving just two meetings at Swan Hill and Warren. Warren has so few meetings we havent even included it in the Strike Rate tables and we dont do so great at Swan Hill with a 30% Top Two BUT the average dividend at $5.74 isn't too bad.

A winner for the Oneups again yesterday. I have been restricting these to just 3yo and 4yo lately.

Sunday July 28th: In the last Video I suggested the below selections with these runners rated 3rd 2nd and 1st in a wide market. I wouldn't have snagged the First Four but everything else paid well.

Our Daily Feature Race missed the Quinella and Trifecta althought the winner was in the chances. The Weekend Feature missed too, a rare losing Double for our Saturday Features after a long run of winners.

Only one sportsbet yesterday for a nailbiting win.

Saturday July 27th: A nice $5.50 winner for the Daily Feature Race yesterday. Let's hope we get another today. In the good luck bad luck department, I was unable to get on the Cowboys at the recommended -4.5 as thye blew out 2 points before we could get set. They lost by 2 and so the blow out in the price saved us all money.

Friday July 26th : Another easy Quaddie yesterday at Gosford. Not a big dividend but as we said yesterday, winners come at Gosford for the ratings. Not a lot of the races eligible for the Powerbet Top Three though. Today another Geelong synthetic meeting. The strike rate for the ratings is fine but the average dividend at $5.69 is not that great. Geelong is more of a venue for specials, and the C Plan has done well there.

I note tomorrow we have the Townsville Cup And Cleveland Bay sprint. Both races are open affairs but the track will be good. There are some good races there today. Goulbourn is Dead and Taree is Heavy but could upgrade to Slow. At Taree our race strike rate offsets the $5.48 average dividends.

Here's this week's video link.

Thursday July 25th: An easy Quaddie at Canterbury yesterday. Pity they aren't all easy, Sandown was impossible to pick.

There are signs the weather is improving, Rocky is Good today, Bendigo is only slow and Gosford is Dead and the sun is shining , if still a bit cold. At Rocky we do well but longshots are rare. Gosford thestrike rate is excellent and we can get good winners at times. We don't usually go well at Bendigo and we have never figured out why?

The dreaded grocery shopping is on this morning but back for Perth scratchings and maybe a good tilt today.

Wednesday July 24th: Another wet tracker today but Devonport races on the sand track. It retains its unique uphill straight which finds out a lot of horses. Our ratings have done very well there. Belmont won't b too bad by comparison with the Eastern States but rain is expected.

I will have the weekend sports bets analysed and posted by midday. Both NRL and AFL are eligible for selection. It could be a big weekend one way or the other.

Monday July 22nd: A few good exotic results today. Pity I wasn't on them. I had a few goes but photos beat me, then I would nptice the First Four in the top four and so on. It happens.

SUNDAY JULY 21ST: My first day I have felt reasonably well this morning. My poor old doggie buddy got beat when Flemington was downgraded to Heavy and our main hope missed the start. Worse still, it was the only leg of the Quaddie we missed.

Weekend Sports finished just one from four but the Daily Mail had a good day when from 8 races on the shette we found six winners and four Quinellas incuding a $31 and $51 collect.

I'll start my bookwork catch up today now that I feel in touch.

Saturday July 20th: I thought I had a good bet yesterday but the races got called off. I havent seen an artificial track meeting called off before.

I'm feeling a little bit better today but will concentrate on getting the job done then placing a few good bets if there are any and checking back later. We missed last nights sportsbet by one kick.

Friday July 19th: I am still really ill. Was it in Dubai that I picked this bug up?? Anyhow,no Youtube video this week, I can hardly talk. Here's my latest video. My sons dog recorded it,hope he has selected the winner.

Better news for Brian Keefe. He won this weeks draw from Rod Cleary's Vicbet and has a $100 free bet of his choice and the goodnews for Members is that from next week, right through Spring, our Members will all be in the draw for a freebet by answering a simple question. It will be in the Thursday E-News.

Thursday July 18th: A streaker at the Origin Final last night caused over one milion dollars to swap sides with a late try being denied Queeensland and in fairness, you couldn't fault the deciison by authorities. Sadly it is 99% certain that the try would have been scored anyway.

So why $1,000,000?? This is the minimum amount that was invested on the line market so for example, we backed Queensland to win by 5 or more so our money (the try would have taken the margin to 6 plus a possible further two for the conversion) went to those who backed NSW with a 4 point start.

Have any of the corporates decided that under the circumstances they should refund these investments? I don't think so. And the streaker gets a nominal $1,000 fine.

By the by, Ros i recovering from a bad cold she picked up on her way home but I am suffering from the same thing which I obvioulsy picked up from her so today I will be doing the minimum possible.

Wednesday July 17th: Sadly my one bet yesterday copped a massive check at the 600 and never recovered, finishing 4th, however subscribers had a second horses as it was a C Plan race and no, it didn't win either but paid a massive price for a narrow second.

Powerbet Top Three punters would have been disappointed as nothing was going right but then Just Bling , a $13 chance on course, won at $34 fixed which was available at several agencies.

On a more sour note, Greg Horn has advised that after his big win on our Daily Feature, the Ipswich Cup, Bet 365 has virtually banned him by restricting him to a maximum bet of just $10!!! Greg uses four bookmakers to spread his bets but now has to look for another.

Tonight is State Of Origin and I will be assessing the odds to see if there are any worthwhile bets for our Weekend Spirts subscribers. We should have these and the AFL selections posted by midday.

Tuesday 16th July:

Yesterday's single daily feature race selection ran third behind the second rated horse which paid $4.30 best tote.

Garry and Ros are back from their sojourn so the office is now open as normal and all those who filled in can breath a sigh of relief that we didn't have any hiccups, especially the web site disaster of last year

Cheers, Mr X!!! Hey I ilke Geelong Race 5 no 7 and have backed it.

Not quite right Mr X, Just got a call from my sister in law. She was looking after Mat's dog while he is in Tasmania. Well, she tripped over the dog and had a fall so I am now on my way to pcik the dog up, back after lunch.

Monday 15 July

Yesterday's daily feature race winner was the second rated horse (I said back the top 2) at $8.20 best tote price

Sunday 14 July

As Professor Julius Sumner Miller often asked "Why is it so?". My question relates to the three 'best bets' at Belmont yesterday. I put them on the best bets page with the usual proviso that these are only to be bet on a good track. The track stayed dead and each of them won.

Saturday 13 July

Well we got the daily feature race winner again at $5.10 best tote and we also got the $10 quinella and $90 trifecta in the top 5 which were profitable if you stood out the 2 selections

Friday 12 July

A reminder that Garry is on holidays but the office is open part time. Just send an email or call the office number and you will be helped.

Yesterday's daily feature missed with the single selection but the second rated horse won at $5.00 best tote price.

Thursday 11 July

Another daily feature race winner at $2.90 best tote price. My selections are usually based on system selections from GTX. Today I couldn't find any so I started at the first race and just 'looked'. When I came to today's race I noticed that the Super TAB win price was $1.04. There was just over $2000 in the win pool so I assumed that where there is smoke there is sometimes a fire waiting to burn and so it turned out.

Please note that there are no sports selections this week.

Wednesday 10 July

I guess that yesterday's daily feature race selection was never going to win when all the support came for two first starters. I backed my selection for a place so the $2.10 was good but not until the finish line was it looking good

Tuesday 9 July

The winner of the daily feature race yesterday was the second rated horse, making it a C Plan race. The single selection ran second. The trifecta was in the top 5 but it was filled by the first 3 favourites in betting order so it would have paid tuppence hapenny.

Monday 8 July

The daily feature race single selection won at $5.60 best tote but the premium selection just got beaten

Sunday 7 July

The only winner yesterday was the C plan race. Again instead of backing the odds on favourite, I took the standout trifecta for $12 which paid about $80. The daily feature race got the trifecta but I stood out the top 2 so missed there. Then last night I watched the Wallabies get thrashed, so all round a generally forgettable day.

Saturday 6 July extra

NRL selections have been posted. Sorry that they are late - there was some misunderstanding about the Origin influence

Saturday 6 July

We just missed getting the recommended trifecta in the Friday Daily Feature Race with first and third

Friday 5 July

Winform top 3 for June was 42% race strike rate and average dividend of $5.50

Wednesday's daily feature race bombed out when a lowly rated horse which hadn't raced over the distance won. Funny game Rugby League!

Yesterday's daily feature race however produced the goods when the second rated horse won at $5.70 best tote. I said to bet the top 3 but the third rated horse wasn't wanted in the betting so you could have left it out.

Thursday 4 July

Garry and Ros travelogue

The first part of our trip has been somewhat of a disaster. Ros had a very bad set of flulike symptoms ,although we have both had our flu shots back in April. It is the day before we are due to start our 28 hour flight to Nice in southern France. On the same day I started with the trots about 4 p.m. And it coming uses unabated through the. Night, so much so that by 4 a.m. I am looking for phone numbers to postpone our trip by at least a day.

By 5 a.m. My body has nothing left to give and my only hope is the local pharmacy. In the meantime, Ros is still unprepared, although after ten days of it she is well enough to eat and waddle through the house collecting whatever clothes are still clean.

On the Wednesday, Natalie has brought the twins home from hospital and Ros can only view them through the glass partition and I can barely stand up, although I would have been very well prepared to have a colonoscopy.

I make it to the pharmacist who sets out a three pronged attack on my problem. "So, what time are you going? Midday? " he says with a look of " you think?" On his face.

I also find out some things I didn't know about about my problem. Yes I knew I needed to rehydrate with salts and glucose and it is easy enough to work out that you only take the tablets until your convulsions stop for a time but did not know that you should take nothing sugary other than the hydrolate. And also no dairy. To my complete surprise , I find that not only have my motions stopped by midday when Belle arrived to take us to the airport, a two hour drive away, but I am feeling almost like a person again.

Ros takes more cold tablets, and that relieves her symptoms a bit and somehow we manage to pile clothes and things in two suitcases and away we go. We are on our way to the richest country on earth.

Three 8 to 9 hour flights later we arrive at Nice to find the slowest bag handlers on Earth and two hours later we arrive at the Fairmont hotel , over the waterfront and just below the Casino on the hairpin of the Formula One course. We both crash!

It's Saturday and the first thing I discover is that it is all uphill, and that the streets are narrow, marked pedestrian crossings are merely targets and I am the only one not still in bed. Nevertheless after a long searching walk I find a hole in the wall cafe with room for no more than six people and being the only person enjoy a fresh ham baguette and coffee. i am back up to about 80%. My gamble in sticking to the schedule has paid off.

Now for the other sort of gambling. My hotel, would you believe? Has recently undergone a $40 million dollar refurbishment and that includes their own Casino, right in the shadows of the famous Monte Carlo Casino which was the sole source of income for the Principality from 1863 and even today it provides 4.6% of the economy of Monarco.

The Sun Casino at Fairmont has just the one floor and plays the traditional Casino games along with a huge bank of electronic gaming machines. The tables are all in play but the gaming machines are untouched.

In the pAst I have published articles in how to win at the Casino and my formula worked world wide. Not any more! The Casinos now impose minimums maximum limits designed to stop staking plans from working. The minimum investment is only two euros but for red, black or lines it is 25€. The maximum is 500€. For my formula I need 54 units or 54x 25 which is way way over that.

To summarise, the formula was to take any set of 12 numbers which pays 3€ and invest this way.
1,1,2,3 ,5,8,13,21. A win at any stage of the sequence gives you at least one unit profit.

At our Casino the roulette wheel has just one zero and so with 36 numbers, the house wins only if the zero comes up so the house margin is just over three percent. That,is fair.

The card tables have some hefty minimums, heavy enough to Leave most players out. You would need at least 500€ or about $900 depending on exchange rates to make it worth entering the game and even that might not last thirty minutes if you are lucky. Of course, if you know what you are dong the house percentage is small and you cold win but the right approach is to cut and run with a profit if you can. I save my assault for another day.

Ros and I find a comfortable outdoor restaurant on Monte Carlos gravel beach, which has no waves at all, and have an affordable meal with helpful wait stuff who'd quickly switch to English when they can.t handle the pace of my schoolboy French.

Sunday is the day when all of Monte Carlos shops close. There is the odd cafe and an emergency pharmacist open and the only other action is on the beach, where the food lines are lengthy and the beach restaurant, so cosy in the evening, can take no more customers so it is off to the real Casino but that too is ruled out.

The Monte Carlo casino opens at 2 and the line up is choked with tour groups, in for the weekend . It is only an hour flight from most parts of Europe and 100,000 tourist have arrived. Okay, we walk around on a pleasant afternoon admiring the many private yachts anchored off the beach. The least of these are probably the 10 to 20 Million class with the others up to 300 million. Some have helipads on the rear deck and even the small ones with crews is only 20 or so, have full size launches exiting from hidden panels in the hull. It is very James Bond and just like in the movies.

It's not until Monday when we finally make it to the casino, the heritage section where dress rules are fairly casual. Although you still have to have a passport check before you can enter as the locals a not allowed in and with good reason. The Casino was built to fleece wealthy businessmen from the UK and Europe and not to cause hardship for the locals. So successful was the Casino that tax was completely banned for residents and part from their GST equivalent, that tax free status continues today.

Okay, this casino is really heritage and not fake like the Las VEgas models, you do have a sense of being back in time if you ignore the bar. The atmosphere is comfortable with limits on how many people are allowed in at a time, of course access to the other parts of the casino requires payments and a more strict dress code.

It is soon evident why the Casino is such a good contributor. They have double zero on the roulette wheel, the same restrictions and minimum and maximum investments and with two sets of zero the house percentage is doubled.

The players don,t care. They are here for fun and on my table I walk away with a 25% profit aft just 40 minutes of play. It paid for a nice dinner or the equivalent of two drinks in the champagne Bar but I won't shock you with the prices here, instead ill leave it to your imagination. It's mostly the millionaires who frequent the Bars here.

One tourist beside me decided to have one single 100€ investment. He goes red but black wins. His Casino visit is over. A group of men from Slovakia invest hundreds and cover as many as 20 of the 36 numbers and after three or four spins have several thousand in chips but instead of collecting they spread them to the max on most of the numbers only to see the red 3 come up two spins in a row. The first time they had covered it but with the chance of the same number rolling up twice in a row being 1000 to one, they deliberately left it out on the next roll. The house takes the lot and they're out.

In dozens of vista to the casino, I have only walked out with a loss once using my sequence and strategy. Now that the strategy is effectively banned except for the high rollers room, although I will never find out, my Casino visits are over and now that the worm part of my trip is taken care of it is on with my holiday upriver to gay Paree!

By the time I get back I won't have laid eyes on a horse or horse form for weeks and will start completely fresh and ready for action for the 2013/2014 season. Can,t wait!

Wednesday 3 July

Another winner for the daily feature race on a heavy track. The selection was in a maiden and its form line was 0X0439, but its last start was at Kembla Grange over 1500m, a strong provincial venue on the South Coast of NSW. Today's distance was 1400 m.

As in most heavy track races, you must look for runs the selection had at today's distance or greater. The same was for a horse I backed at Bathurst yesterday in a 1800 m race. It was second favourite and had won at 1800 m. The favourite, which ran second, had won at 1400 m but had never run over 1800 m.

Tuesday 2 July

Great to see the Australian team Orica-GreenEDGE get their first ever tour stage win yesterday in Corsica.

Two premium bets yesterday for one winner. In one race I thought the second rated horse a good chance so I backed both selections but didn't take the quinella for the 1, 2 result

In the other race the selection was $1.35 SP so I took the stand out trifecta with the next 4 rated selections for a $38 return on my $12 investment. So my profit was over 200% instead of the 20% for backing the winner at the tote price.

And the daily feature race got the top rated winner $3.60 winner, $4 quinella and $30 trifecta in ratings order, but of course the trifecta in order doesn't happen often enough. Once again I went with a real standout selection on a heavy track. I said to back the top 2 so it was still a good profit.

Monday 1 July

Fine and sunny at last. I don't know how people cope with not seeing the sun for months. We only had to cope with about 10 days

I will report on the Winform top 3 performance for June later in the week.

Sunday 30 June

If it keeps on raining, levee's goin' to break - first line of one of the great songs from one of the great groups Led Zeppelin. And if it does yesterday's transferred Rosehill meeting may still not be a goer on Monday. If it does go ahead, it will be on the Saturday file because they are Saturday horses.

In yesterday's daily mail there were 4 quinellas from 6 races (no profit) but the first fours were profitable.

For me the highlight was the top rated winners in the Sunshine Coast feature races 8 and 9 and the treble were the top rated horses in each race. I like heavy tracks and horses which really stand out in the fields.

The Cats easily beat the Dockers so one bet, one win for the Sports Selections

Saturday 29 June

The third rated horse won yesterday's daily feature race at around $16.

The Coastal NSW big wet continues with Rosehill and Gosford abandoned. I have switched the Weekend Feature Race to the Sunshine Coast

Friday 28 June

Yesterday's C Plan race landed the short priced winner, however the second rated horse ran second for $39 quinella and the fourth rated horse ran third. Both second and third runners were big prices so the NSW TAB trifecta paid $969. In this type of race a box trifecta using the top 5 would only cost $60 however astute punters might have used the top 2, or even the short priced favourite only, as standouts for a better profit.

Thursday 27 June

Anyone who likes omen tips couldn't go past the top rated selection Bendigo race 7 5 Election

Wednesday 26 June

We got the winner in the Daily Feature Race, which paid around $8. The second rated horse ran third.

Mr X

Updated for Tuesday25th June 2013:

Tuesday June 26th: My last diary entry before I leave. Not a single winner from those four yesterday so glad I didn't have a punt.

Here's an article that is on our site somewhere but Google can'tfind it. It's a great read for punters lookin into mud form.

With the winter months come the rain effected tracks. Whilst some punters steer clear of betting in the wet others try use the conditions to help them pinpoint good priced winners.

Below are some of the things to look for when assessing a horse’s wet track ability.

1. Form in the Wet
A horse’s form in the most reliable indicator as to how it will perform in wet track conditions. However, having said that, form can also be misleading. For example horses can win their maiden in the wet but not really handle the going – their superior ability can be the factor that gets them home. Just to further complicate things, a horse with good wet track form early in its career, and therefore possessing seemingly ‘good wet track credentials’ on paper, may fail in the wet when it gets older. Older horses can get a bit wily and refuse to put in when the conditions get too tough and uncomfortable. When assessing a horse’s wet track ability, it pays to place greater value on recent form.

2. Breed’s Form In The Wet
Some breeds possess physical conformations that predispose them to performing well in the wet. (See Horse Characteristics below). A website that tells you which breeds perform well in the wet and the ones that don’t is: www.racenet.com.au

(Go to the home page click on Stats and Data and then Wet Track Sires). Scroll down the page to ‘Best Wet Track Sires’ and ‘Worst Wet Track Sires’ - and you’ll see that some breeds are such wet track duffers that they have never had a runner win a race on a wet track. This is powerful information for a punter to be armed with during the rainy season.