"I have never had so much success (or fun) with the punt. Thanx heaps and great
punting to all!”
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Last month we left off at the point where I was raving (again) about the Graham Swift novel, Last Orders.
It's the only novel I can ever remember in which the author really seems to understand what is going on inside a punter's head.
I include people like Dick Francis when I say that most people who write about racing are only able to speak from their own viewpoint when it comes to punters.
This article is an extract from Steve Fierro's best-selling book The Four Quarters of Horse Investing, which is available from book stores on the Internet, including www.netcapper.com and www.todaysracingdigest.com.
How much will this cost? How much will I make? How will I get paid? The three questions I present above must be answered. You have worked your way through quite a process. You have laboured in earnest to build a successful horse-investing portfolio. You deserve the answers to those questions.
This is the final part of our series
featuring the views of UK professional punter Alan Potts, one of the
most highly-regarded pro’s in world racing. This article takes the form
of a question and answer session.
Q: Alan, what’s your view about
“value” as it’s talked about so much in betting?
Jockey Jim Byrne hasn't been around much in Australian racing these last few years. He was mostly in Macau, booting home his fair share of winners.
This year, though, he's returned home and is based again in Brisbane and I'm tipping that when the carnival period arrives he's going to be the jockey to watch. Byrne's one of the very best in the business.
I have seen lots of dashing gamblers in my time. Some have even hit the headlines with their betting coups but if we take the group as a whole, few of them were able to "see out the distance".
That is, they went broke or they retired in the knowledge that if they didn't then they would go broke. In the same period, some 25 years and more, I've known many professional punters who have beaten the game. A few have retired with money intact. Many are still doing it.
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