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Old 19th February 2003, 01:16 PM
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Angel416,

I tend to think this would be quite dangerous as you would have to use some sort of loss-chasing staking in conjunction with Dutch Book to recover your losses and bet size could get out of hand very quickly - eg by the last race you could easily be trying to win $1000 on a dutch book of 7 runners - bets would be huge. Also if you end up with a lot of selections in a single race you could get into the situation where even if one of your selections wins you still lose on the race.

Just out of interest I had a look at the gallops and trots results for yesterday:

Weribee - 13 bets for a $1.90 winner in R8
Esk - 11 bets for $3.70 winner in R6
Cessnock - 2 bets for 2.70 winner in R3
Harold Park - 1 bet for 3.60 winner in R2
Albion Park - 26 bets for 7.20 winner in R8
Globe Derby - 6 Bets for 3.10 winner in R4
Gloucester - 3 bets for 2.80 winner in R3
Mildura - 26 bets for no result

So 88 bets for total of $25.00 in divs.

Didnt check the greyhounds in detail but most of them you would have been going 5 or 6 races before collecting (Lismore won on R2 and Gosford R3 - everything else was 5 or more I think). Could be difficult to make a profit backing 5 or 6 in a field of 8!
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