As follows

The Holy Grail is based on winning very small amounts of money everytime a newspaper, radio or other tipster that you are using picks a winner. By using tipsters you do not have to pore over form for hours, make any judgments, and you cannot make any mistakes

Anyone recognise these words. A friend gave me a copy of it and I'll be blowed if I can figure the thing out. He purchased it some time ago - source unknown to me - no copyright that I can see therefore may qualify as public domain. I suppose I can type the whole thing out, however before I do so I'd like to know what you think about it (assuming youve heard of it)

muchos grascious in advance

Chris

darkys HOLY GRAIL system.

Cheers.
darky.

Sounds like ridiculous claptrap to me. What makes you think tipsters pore over form for hours, particularly tipsters in newspapers. Am I stating the bleeding obvious, people do realise they are journalists. Probably don't have anymore time or inclination to spending hours over the form than you or I.

If you are using tips from a newspaper you may as well tip yourself. You know just as much and will have just as much success or lack thereof.

But Top Rank, it tells me that

"You are now in possesion of a truly unbeatable racing system"

and that

"We place no particular confidence in any one tipster but have great confidence in the overall results that can be achieved"

It depends on the "creds" of the tipsters. You can stack as many newspaper and racecaller tipsters together as you want. I would back a collection of forumites from here to "out tip" them anyday.

If its this old chestnut .

1 / TAKE THE TOP PICK OF ALL THE TIPSTERS IN THE AUSTRALIAN SATURDAY NEWSPAPER FROM RACE 1 DOWN.

2/ PUT A LINE THROUGH EVERY TIPSTER WHO HAS BEEN SUCCESSFUL IN ANY PARTICULAR RACE.

3 / KEEP FOLLOWING EVERY UNSUCCESSFUL TIPSTER UNTIL EITHER

A/ IN PROFIT

B / RUN OUT OF TIPSTERS.

God .Thats ones as old as I am.Its probably not though and SARGE I am interested in seeing it.
Cheers.
darky.

To me this sounds like a [growingly common] lament here in this forum: 'I am so hopeless at doing form and winning by my efforts at such, that I will now not only throw s***t at the value of form study [to excuse how pathetic I am at it], but will grasp at any possible winning straws that avoids coming to terms with this [slowly dawning] reality !!!

Owch Crash and to think you may have missed out on trifold yesterday (a 4yo system selection $11ish it paid)

One may neglect that the Whole system hasnt been posted yet, however one cant neglect the cynicism. Approaching things with an open mind no matter how much we THINK we know is an indicator of how successful we'll be, firstly as human beings maybe even as punters.

Tomorrow I'll tap out the whole article for consideration, my Pop used to say only fools and little children comment on a job before its finished, lets hope its not applicable to us. My experience of this forum thus far has been positive, honest, thoughtful (rather than dismissive) discussion, with a willingness to give a leg up to those who need it. My hope is to purpetuate the example.

Tomorrows 4YO selection is Bris R6:6

ciao for now

"Royal Routine" rears its ugly head again eh Darky.

G'day Crash,
Is this posting in the wrong thread? I can't see where anybody is knocking form analysts here.From what I've seen in the short time I've been looking at this forum most contributors just want to exchange ideas, offer assistance and generally natter about our hobby of trying to create systems. We tend not to knock those form analysts who don't want to play(though many do join in and make valuable contributions) so why the constant antipathy on your part. Nobody is forcing you on to this forum and there are plenty of other places where you can vent your spleen.

Maybe you should move your bed away from the wall so you don't have to get out the wrong side every day?