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Betting DOs
- Do find the best bet, not necessarily the winner
- Do study the form carefully
- Do get the best odds
- Do use multiples and each-way bets
- Do improve your maths
- Do keep a meticulous record of all bets
Betting DON’Ts
- Don’t chase your losses
- Don’t back odds-on
- Don’t exceed your pre-decided maximum stake
- Don’t bet on every race
- Don’t be romantic aboutthe horses
- Don’t have an amateur’s mindset
Punter-speak – how to sound like a professional
- “Drawn out in the car park”– an unfavourable starting-stall position
- “Couldn’t get the trip in a taxi” – horse does not have required stamina for race distance
- “Stays longer than the mother-in-law” – opposite of the above
- “Drifted like a barge” – horse’s odds lengthened considerably before the off
- “Couldn’t tip a wheelbarrow” – unable to pick winners
- “Should’ve started yesterday” – horse insufficiently swift
- “Couldn’t find the winning post with a search warrant” – horse with poor racing form
- “Any horse looks fast running past trees” – a put-down originally uttered by Vera Duckworth!
- “Couldn’t train ivy up a wall” – recently said of Sir Henry Cecil, to imply that he might not get the best out of Frankel (now rated among the best middle-distance horses of all time)
To read the full article about better betting see the current issue of H&H (22 December 2011)
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