It is extremely difficult to define an approach to a betting system.

The best programs I have ever used and still to this day I base these principles from those programs, are in DOS, and other computer languages now obsolete.
But they work and work extremely well.

The problem is, "progress", and the programs become useless as time moves on.
But if one goes full circle, it comes back to these basic programs every time.

If you want to use the markets and market fluctuations, now we have the internet. Beofre it was the teletxt where one program I know of, you had to type in the numbers and the calculation was done, but it gave you the calculation required for selections and hedge unit amounts,correctly.
This program is now useless, there is no teletext as it was before.

OK, so import prices. Yeah, and ?
Can't import those prices to an obsolete DOS based program, but one still wants the calculations done by that same program.

Then there was another updated version of a similar program. This automated what the manual program did. It scanned the markets and did stuff.
Now that is obsolete. It still works, and still can be modified, if one can get to the code.
The next option, approach a programmer to "make it happen".

Programmer has clients all wanting a program to "do stuff".The clients have various ideas and formulas etc, so what does the programer do ?
If the programmer has 50 clients all wanting their own version of a racing program, does that programmer develop 50 different programs ?
Or does he/she develop one basic program where user friendly code can be utilized ?

Object orientated coding is an option.

Then this starts a whole new ball game. The "punter" now has to learn to write code to develop their architecture.

So the "objects" are:
1.The Market
2.The TAB
3.The Internet for prices or other scources , to gather prices.
4. Form vendors.
and possibly other things I have not thought of.

Object Orientated coding is possibly a key to developing systems.

It can tie all the above in a bundle at anyones disposal, but who is going to learn how to write this code ?
Who can pay someone to write the code ?

There are no tutorials specific to satisfy the minority in this area.
Use google and type in "Object Orientated Code".
Nothing there specific for to suite the first 4 basic requirements.

Let me know if anyone can find something, and surely the next step is possible.