Following the course to straight profits

Attention! This is a Thursday column with a difference. It might actually make you money. No promises but for once I might have stumbled onto something that resembles a profitable betting strategy.

I acknowledge this is not the place you go to for punting pearls. The odd half-sensible comment about TV coverage of football or a bit of moral support for our beleaguered referees, yes. Betting wisdom, no.
But here’s the thing. I’ve discovered a productive system and I want to share it with you because that’s the kind of guy I am. And it’s better coming from me than one of the Racing Post’s actual wise owls like Kealy or Pyman because you’re much likelier to take heed of it if they tell you.

I might be doing myself out of months of picking money from a tree but at least the take-up on this system will be so limited to begin with, given my reputation as a shambolic judge, that it might continue to bear fruit for a while until the figures become so overwhelmingly obvious that everyone overbets the appropriate horses and the profits ebb away.