Proportionate betting

[timtam]

In the early - mid eighties when I first heard of Dick Mitchell it seemed that

every system / method which came out at that time recommended

proportionate betting. In the simplist form it was $6 on the lower odds

horse $ 4 on the higher odds horse. Then Earl Thomas wrote a book called

Strategy and then another follow up where you would look up the odds on

the 2 horses and proportionaltly wager X amount to profit X amount.

Sometimes you would proportionaltly bet $ 55 total to acquire a $15 profit.

I have both those books somewhere and it looked so fine and dandy as long

as one of your horses won. My question to the players who play more than

one horse is .... Is this still in practice today?

[saevena]

The only time I ever saw Earl Thomas at a Maryland track (I believe he lived in Virginia) was when he sat at a table at Laurel (or was it Bowie?) and sold his book. I asked him if I could get a refund if the method described in the book did not meet my expectations. He said I could and provided me with his address. The method did not meet my expectations and Mr. Thomas sent me a refund. Some time later I came across him at a diner and got into a conversation with him. He told me that if he had a million dollars, he could make his method work. My thought at that time was that if he had a million dollars, he wouldn't need his method. Through the years, it has been very difficult to find handicapping authors at the track, because they didn't and don't go to the track on any kind of regular basis. As one of them once explained it to us at a Handicapping Expo, when we found that he used his method to bet $2 to show on a 3-5 shot in the Jockey Club Gold Cup: "I'm not a gambler, I'm a book writer." Caveat Emptor.

[ryesteve]

As one of them once explained it to us at a Handicapping Expo, when we found that he used his method to bet $2 to show on a 3-5 shot in the Jockey Club Gold Cup: "I'm not a gambler, I'm a book writer." Caveat Emptor.
Any chance you'll tell us which book writer this was?

[skate]

In the early - mid eighties when I first heard of Dick Mitchell it seemed that

every system / method which came out at that time recommended

proportionate betting. In the simplist form it was $6 on the lower odds

horse $ 4 on the higher odds horse. Then Earl Thomas wrote a book called

Strategy and then another follow up where you would look up the odds on

the 2 horses and proportionaltly wager X amount to profit X amount.

Sometimes you would proportionaltly bet $ 55 total to acquire a $15 profit.

I have both those books somewhere and it looked so fine and dandy as long

as one of your horses won. My question to the players who play more than

one horse is .... Is this still in practice today?

its funny ,because i was just (last nite) thinking about this method. sartin put it out in his 'pace makes the race' book. he got his pace idea from huey mahl, then added the "two horses to win" idea.
so, he made a living with selling the idea.

but i would say , sure it is and always will be a betting method .
it is like having your skis for going down the hill, yes they work, but only if you use them correctly.

to me, in the end, it comes down to 'odds', that is what you are playing against, therefore, "you gotta have em".
your method (important) is up to you.