Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
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One more time, for the Hard Of Thinking:
Tom Hark said:LONG overdue post, this...
Come on folks, just think about this for a moment whydoncha before you piss any more of your money up against the wall. Truth is that anybody with even a passing interest in horse racing can break even or make a modest profit on each way betting. That’s what it’s there for. It’s a sort of safety net, in case some crappy nag with nothing whatsoever going for it pops out of the pack to nick it on the line from the favourite. Always assuming the ‘name’ jockey on the guest ride isn’t being paid more to hold it up than he is to ensure it wins. Which is far from certain. Continuing on the ’think about it’ theme, if you were pretty sure what would win the 3:30 at Warwick, would YOU spread that information around, thereby flattening the price? Of course you wouldn’t. Sure, the subscription tipsters talk a good game. But then they have to, cos that’s where they make their money. From the subscriptions, rather than the racing. If you don’t believe me, just take one look at the Channel-4 racing pages on Teletext. Every page has HUGE flashing notices saying things like: ‘YANKEE OF ALL TIME ON THURSDAY!’, ‘COLOSSAL 20/1 SHOCK WINNER!’, ‘COUP NAMED IN 5 SECS THURSDAY!’. Think I made those up? I got them off setting C4 Teletext on page 550 and watching them flash up before my eye. In about6 ten seconds flat.
Just say no, kids
