Herald Sun Form Guides

Not sure why you bother to complain about it when you obviously have access to the internet and the greatest form guides ever. Who buys newspapers anymore ?

& we only recently lost pussy recently - at the ripe old age of 22 (bless her little heart)

I used to browse them over coffee a few years ago but the coffee shop stopped buying them because nobody(except me) ever read them.

Newspapers are very handy to put under the litter tray.

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Baghdad Bob wrote: Fiddlesticks wrote: Not sure why you bother to complain about it when you obviously have access to the internet and the greatest form guides ever. Who buys newspapers anymore ? I have a paper home delivered each morning and of course have access to the digital on line version, however the on line version is an exact replica and has the same woeful form guide.BTW if the internet has the “ greatest form guides ever” I presume you are making a great success in your punting.Pray tell which form guides are the greatest ?

Baghdad Bob wrote: Fiddlesticks wrote: Not sure why you bother to complain about it when you obviously have access to the internet and the greatest form guides ever. Who buys newspapers anymore ? I have a paper home delivered each morning and of course have access to the digital on line version, however the on line version is an exact replica and has the same woeful form guide.BTW if the internet has the “ greatest form guides ever” I presume you are making a great success in your punting.Pray tell which form guides are the greatest ?

Baghdad Bob wrote: jujuno wrote: Baghdad Bob wrote: Fiddlesticks wrote: Not sure why you bother to complain about it when you obviously have access to the internet and the greatest form guides ever. Who buys newspapers anymore ? I have a paper home delivered each morning and of course have access to the digital on line version, however the on line version is an exact replica and has the same woeful form guide.BTW if the internet has the “ greatest form guides ever” I presume you are making a great success in your punting.Pray tell which form guides are the greatest ?  Surely, Bob, if you truly follow horse-racing, all you need are the fields.  I've never needed anyone else's opinion who to back.   Exactly, I am a tote punter and I am actually betting against other punters. To make a success of that I need to know what other tote punters are thinking to avoid their bets, They follow tipsters on the tv, the radio and in the press , it is not difficult to avoid those tips if you have access to them, that is why a need those newspaper form guides. It is called a "contrarian " approach , if I did the same as all those other tote punters I would probably lose 15>20 % on my turnover, like most punters.

So often I find that people who brag about their betting prowess are usually losers who don't spend more than $5 on a bet. I was a losing punter for years, only very rarely winning big, over time would be way way way behind, its an affliction covered in lies and fantasy for a lot of people. 

Fiddlesticks wrote: So often I find that people who brag about their betting prowess are usually losers who don't spend more than $5 on a bet. I was a losing punter for years, only very rarely winning big, over time would be way way way behind, its an affliction covered in lies and fantasy for a lot of people.

LOL I also backed a 120/1 shot in Adelaide would have been around 2004 or 2005 maybe, was a small mare/filly in stakes race against boys, well weighted, had great second up form,  forget the name maybe Pinot or something like that, had $50 ew and she came second at $20 the place on the tote, I was proud of that one as I had found it by really studying the form. Another around that time I found by studying hard was a horse called Emission, he won the BTC sprint at 55/1 Rhys McLeod rode him, had $50 ew and it won. But again those wins are rare as hell. There are hundreds of losers along the way. 

I get amused by the term "false favourite"

It just aint the same having a beer and a bet at the local anymore. I miss the days where form guides were all over the tables, tips were scribbled all over the form, losing tickets scattered everywhere, arguments because you picked up someone else's guide, beers flowing, soaked coasters, missing getting a winning bet on because the guy in front filled his ticket out wrong and they jumped, and so it goes on.

Absolutely. Or even as a kid going to the local TAB and getting a giggle out of all the wogs (sorry, but they were) loudly talking on their phones about the tips from their "connections", and watching the poor old live-at-the-TAB types rush to put bets on their "quietly" shared tips after eavesdropping.

Nah, sorry, but I just aint the Eastern Suburbs type... though fully understand their is a better type of clientele over that way.