----------------------------------------- Brooke of Enfield All
bets accepted subject to our rules.
----------------------------------------- Stakes: Selection:
Time: ----------------------------------------- Silver Lily AS
1400 Golden Lily AS 1700
£1 WIN both selections D-S-A ____________________________
----------- Stake: £2 : p -----------
Deer Punter,
The above perfectly legal wager is the one that ALL bookmakers
dislike layying. It's a very punter friendly wager and always
only grudgingly accepted, because fortunately for us, bookmaking
in The UK is very competitive.
After GOLDEN LILY was a winning horse, the bookie is allowing an
additonal £2 of winnings to revert onto SILVER LlLY, which has
already won almost three hours previously. Stumble upon two
winners and the bookie is generously granting a £6 wager for a
£2 stake. My advice is to change betting shops after a pair of
nice priced winners - and ditto after the next pair!
DOUBLE-STAKES-ABOUT (D-S-A) wagers, will alas only cover two
selections but can be used on all anti-post bets, often with
months between actual races - hows that then?
With all multiple bets (Yankees, Heinzs, Canadians etc) winnings
travel "only" forward. You may believe that when you eventually
stumble upon four winning Favs in a Yankee, that winnings from
the third and fourth selection have re-verted onto selections
one end two - but this is "not" so.
Many shrewd punters sit in a betting shop and do race-by-race
win Yankees or Place Only (TOTE) Yankees. This enables them to
take a board price about selections 2, 3, and 4 in a win Yankee
etc. Race-by-race win and Place-Only mult-iple wagers, would be
impossible to do, if winnings or stakes were to reverse.
No UK book maker will accept a place-only Multiple wager, yet
most will accept 8 "place only" Single, at Tote odds. Why not
sit in a betting shop and do a "place only", Three Doubles and a
Treble? Simp1y place three points on the first selection and
reserve one-point for selection two end write "place only" on
both wagers. If selection-one is placed, place the total return
(plus the set-aside one-point), onto selection-two; DEDUCT1NG
one-third of one's return, for I and 3 place double. If
selection two is placed, remove the place-double (I and 2) and
place everything onto selection-three. If selection-three is
placed, the return will yield two one-point place doubles and a
one-point treble. When selection-two is unplaced, remember to
put on the 1 and 3 place-double.
There is no way whatsoever you can sit in a betting shop and do
a race-by-race D-S-A wager. You can sit there for ever, without
improving it. One of the main reasons that horse racing bookies
rarely go bust (or ride push bikes!), is the sad fact that most
punters do not know how to lay their money out in the most
effective way. Almost all wagers can be re-written more
punter-friendly, with no additional outlay. My page one example
wager cannot be improved upon, and if adhered to religiously,
your local bookie will soon be requesting you to take your
business elsewhere!
D-S-A wagers can't be successfully "hedged". The Big Three uk
book makers will not accept a D-S-A from a fellow bookie. All
three will accept them from shop or credit punters, but only for
nominal stakes.
Once they have taken the example wager on page-one, all any
manager can do, hedging-wise, is this:
£1 win double S.L. and G.L. - if lose S.L. then £1 w G.L. £2
staked. This is fine if both win and it's OK if S.L. loses and
G.L. wins, BUT, if S.L. wins at say 14/1 and G.L. loses, then
the shop have lost almost £12 attempting to win £2. Add a few
noughts and you can easily see how they can fall into the brown
'n smelly!
If the D-S-A doesn't improve your punting-winnings, then your
method of selection requires abandoning and not the wager.
Most horse winners are in the 3/1 to 14/I price-band and I
suggest you restrict your selections to this price-range. Some
horses at 10/1 have wonderful chances of winning, but a
greyhound at this price has little chance of winning and should
be avoided. Don't consider dogs priced over 6/1 or horses over
6/1 in small fields (3-6 runners). Finally, always remember it
is "only" D-S-A users, that can manipulate 2 points onto the
winner of the first-race, five minutes after the winner of the
final-race of the day has weighed-in.
Please give the D-S-A wager a long and fair trial. It's the sole
reason I've made the horses pay for the past five decades.
My most successful, profitable approach is to select five horses
(never dogs) and to do any pair (10). Thus: "any pair (10), 1pt
win both selections. D-S-A. A line is drawn under the
instructions and 20pts are entered into the "stake box" (choose
your own stakes). In the event of three 4/1 winners (from five),
not impossible, the pre-tax return is 96pts. This is almost 4/1
to your outlay (96/100ths of 4/1) for being only 3/5ths correct.
This is far easier than "banking" on one of the five and
sploshing on 20pts - and praying!
The 96pts are arrived at thus: 6 x 1pt singles at 4/1 = 30pts. 6
x 2pt singles at 4/1 (less 2pts each single) = 48pts. 6 x 1pt
singles (all three winners x both losers) less 2pts each single
= 18pts. A 7/1 winner and four losers yields a pre-tax 24pts
(8pts, less 2pts, x 4).
Four or five decent priced winning horses and you'll require a
barrow - and a change of shops! This is a perfectly legal wager
and most betting shops now use automatic calculating machines.
Whereby the S.P. stake and wager are fed in to the machine and
at the press of a button, the machine settles the wager - tax
paid or unpaid.
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