SUMMARY
Use sound selection principles to win
DOWST LEADS THE WAY FOR 2005
The name Robert Saunders Dowst pops up every now and again whenever I get into detailed discussions about horse racing handicapping, and how to pick winners and avoid losers, and so on.
Most people seem to have only the vaguest of ideas of who he was and what he did. I “discovered” his teachings many years ago and they’ve underpinned much of what I do now to try to beat the game.
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SUMMARY
•Consistency • No loss streaks • Staking twist • US legend’s personal method
THE DOWST ‘PROGRESS’ FORMULA (Part 1)
Robert Saunders Dowst, one of America's greatest handicappers of the 1930s and '40s, was never averse to getting away from level-stakes betting. In fact, he was a consistent advocate of progression betting, provided that the punter was betting GOOD horses.
Dowst, who became known as the foremost authority on the consistent racehorse, wrote a number of best-selling books as well as writing for many years for Turf & Sports Digest (in his final years he was a legal editor with the American Law Book Company).
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