The Merciless Barrage System

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The Merciless Barrage System

BETTING SHOPS HIT 50 YO

I remember the first betting shops. Crackling voices giving pre-race odds andcommentaries. Boardmaker putting up latest shows and results. Alwaysassuming you could see through the smoke-haze. The scramble for the window"BET HERE" window when "under orders" was called. If you weren’t "on" by the"they’re-off" you didn’t have a bet on that race. Many shops worked on a"Clock-bag" system. All bets were placed in the bag at the "off" and securelylocked. These would usually be collected by a courier taken to the head officesettled and returned to the shop for payment. So you might get your winningsfrom the 2 o’clock race about Half Past Three. "A one man shop" would operatea little differently. You would tender your bet which would be stamped with aserial number as would your receipt ticket. At least with this system you werepaid out when "weighed-in" was announced. How we’ve moved on sincethen. Now it’s almost "normal" to be paid almost as the winner crosses theline. Often you would be expected to provide your own paper to write your beton and also provide your own pen/pencil. Even when I first worked in a BettingShop, two years later, it was quite usual to take bets on a cigarette packet.Normal bets were 6d (2 1/2p) each-way Yankee and an average single betwould be half a crown (12 1/2p) win or each-way. The local big-wig mightchance £1 on his single. How these compare with today’s staking levels. Evenin the small shop I managed until I retired eight years ago, £100 to win wasquite an everyday affair. Even £10 win Lucky Fifteens weren’t unusual. Theother big change is regarding Football Bets. Almost any shop which offered aweekly Football Coupon were acting as agents for one of the Big Three. Eventhen they were trying to lord it over the small bookie. Win on Saturday, get paidon Wednesday. Plus severe restrictions on every type of bet. Add to that, nomid-week bets accepted either. After the very severe winter of ’63/’64 somebright spark decided it was worthwhile putting Greyhound Racing on the system.From such well known places as Dunstable and Park Royal. You even had towait till just before each race to get the trap draw. Any wonder it never reallycaught-on until live pictures were beamed into the shops.

Horse Racing Betting System

So whilst all this was going on, or not, as the case may be, those who reallyintended to make money from betting, not punters as you may have thought, butSystem Sellers started to offer their UNBEATABLE WINNER FINDINGMETHODS. Their words no-one else’. Most, as it is today, never delivered theirpromises. I have a sheath of Unbeatable Systems and as you can guess thereis hardly anything worth looking at.


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However one system stands out by the proverbial mile. This is probably olderthan the Betting Shops. It’s also the only one that has proved capable of livingup to it’s promises. I even found it re-hashed in a book on betting systems acouple of years ago. Unfortunately I don’t have the original documentation. Thatwas lost in one of my house moves. I do however, have a good memory andcan virtually recite the very basic rules of selection. This is a straight forward nononsense method that really has stood the test of time. The beauty of it is, itwas never sold but given away FREE as make-weight to a book of backingmethods. (More about these later).

Despite the possibilities which abound with this system it won’t be of any use tosome people. basically it would now be called a Dutching System. In the far offdays Dutching was the domain of the PROFESSIONAL backer. This was calleda two horse system. As mentioned before I found it re-hashed in a book ofhorse-racing systems but it wasn’t the "FULL MONTE" so to speak. The authordidn’t give some of the fine details. Now I have your attention the system wasnamed THE MERCILESS BARRAGE SYSTEM.

To operate this system you will need to use the same newspaper bettingforecast every day. So just occasionally one paper may select a different horseto another paper. I would suggest that for ease and continuity the Racing Post isthe chosen paper. It’s based around Two-year-olds ONLY. The original systemhad a list of tracks at which it was recommended you backed at. Unfortunatelymany of those tracks no longer exist. Such exotic sounding places as Lewes,Hurst Park, Stockton and Alexander Palace.

As an alternative I would suggest that any qualifying race should have returnedeither the first or second favourite at least three times in the last five runnings.Or as a different approach, choose the highest prize money on offer forTWO-YEAR-OLD RACES on the day. Qualifying races are TWO-YEAR-OLDSTAKES RACES. Any race with maiden, novice, selling or handicap in it’s titleare NOT CONSIDERED.

From the chosen betting forecast note the first three in the order listed. e.g. thefirst, second and third forecast favourites. Co or jointly quoted selections, onlythe first THREE quoted are considered. Of these discard the one with the worstplacing last time out. If no clear choice discard the one with the biggest forecastprice.

Of the two left the first choice is the one with the best placing last time out. Hereagain if there is no clear selection choose the one which quoted at theSHORTEST ODDS. If you aren’t into Dutching you can back the first choice forsay, 2 pts and the danger for 1 pt. Any horse disqualified in its last racemaintains it’s original placing for this system.

Any horse finishing worse than FOURTH PLACE in it’s last race is consideredas UNPLACED as is any horse which has never run before. All such horses areconsidered if they qualify under "first three in the betting forecast". How this


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system might fare under All Weather Racing I wouldn’t like to saw. Although Ithink using the principles laid out it should have a reasonable chance of comingup trumps.

The system has always done very well at the larger meetings. To para-phraseand old saying, Where there’s brass there’s winners. Ascot usually throws up 3winners from 5 principle two-year-old races. Prices up to 6/1 are not a rarity Iwould advise starting no earlier than Chester’s May meeting. Curtail operationswhen showing a profit for the month of October. Never go beyond theCesarewitch meeting at Newmarket. First bet this year was today (4/5/11) atChester.

Qualifiers were,

11 Lily’s Angel quoted Favourite. 31 He’s so Cool quotes third best. 12 Redair quoted second best.

Applying the rules we discard Redair. Worst placing last time out. As bothremaining selections have the same, last race, form figure we refer to thebetting forecast. The shortest quoted is Lily’s Angel. Which duly won at 7/4. Ihope you can either use this method or even improve on it. There’s always roomfor improvement. Remember, bet carefully and bet sensibly.

BARRAGE RESULTS

Selection 1 carries 20 pts. Selection 2 carries 10 pts.

4th May Chester. 2.15 Lily’s Angel 1 He’s so cool 2 Lily’s Angel won 7/4. Plus 25pts Plus 25pts.

5th May. No Selections,

6th May No Selections.




10th May. No Selections.

11th May York 4.30 Moonayer 1 Hamza 2 Hamza 2nd 11/2 Minus 30pts Minus 5pts


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13th May 130. York(Listed)’ Miss World of Art 1 Pyman’s Theory 2 Miss World of Art won 6/5. Plus14pts Plus 9pts

14th May 4.00 Newmarket Lilbourne Lad 1 B.Fifty Two 2 B. Fifty Two won 7/1 Plus50pts. Plus 59pts Lilbourne Lad 2nd 4/6.


16th May 6.30 Windsor. Bannock 1 Signifier 2 Bannock won 8/1 Plus 150pts Plus 209pts





21st May 4.20 Curragh. Power 1 Fire Lily 2 Power won 6/4 Plus 20 pts. plus 229pts

22nd May No Selections

23rd May 6.10 Windsor Starfly 1 U/p Lord of the Shadows 2 DH 2nd.7/2 Minus 30pts. plus 199 pts 24th May. No Selections.

25th May. 7.30 Beverley. Lily’s Angel 1 2nd. Minus 30pts plus 169 pts Queen’s Revenge 2

26th May. 6.30 Sandown Bannock 1 2nd 5/2 Minus 30pts plus 139 pts Sixx 2.

27th May. 7.30 Pontefract. Misty Conquest 1 Misty Conquest won 7/2 plus 60 pts plus 199 pts. Casper Netscher 2 Casper Netscher 2nd

28th May. 3.40 Beverley Gabrial 1 Arnold lane 2 Gabrial won 6/5 plus 14


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pts plus 213 pts.



31st May. 5.50 Yamouth. Mabroor 1 Wise Venture 2. Wise Venture won 9/4. plus12.5pts plus 225.5 pts

BARRAGE JUNE 11.

1ST June. No Selections.

2nd June. No Selections.

3rd June. No Selections.

4th June. 2.10 Epsom. Fulbright 1 won 3/1 Supplementary Es Que Love 1 2nd Norse Gold 2 Plus 50 pts. Musselburgh Frederick Engles 2 won 13/2

5th June. No Selections.


7th June. No Selcetions.

8th June. 2.00 Beverley. Pint Size 1 Non-Runner Mousie 2 Lost Minus 10 pts. Running Total Plus 40pts.

9th June. No Selection.

10th June.6.25 Chepstow.(Cl). Factory Time 1 won 6/4 Bling King 2.2nd 7/1 Plus 20 pts. " " Plus 60 pts.

11th June.3.25 Bath. (N). The Dancing Lords. 1 Lost Red Hearts. 2 Lost Minus 30 pts. " " Plus 30 pts.



14th June. R.Ascot 4.20 Coventry Stakes. (St Gp2). Power 1 Won 4/1 Mezmaar 2 Plus 70 pts " " Plus 100 pts. Supplementary 5.35 Ascot Frederick Engels 1 won 9/4


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(St Listed). Gentleman’sCode 2

15th June. R,Ascot 5.00 Queen Mary Stakes (St Gp2). Shumoos 1 2nd Gypsy Robin 2 Minus 30 pts. " " Plus 70 pts.

16th June. R.Ascot 2.30 Norfolk Stakes (St Gp2). Bapat Chinta 1 won 6/1 Crown Dependency 2 3rd 8/1 Plus 110 pts. " " Plus 180 pts.

17th June. R.Ascot 2.30 Albany Stakes. (St Gp3). Teolane 1 U/P Inetrobil 2 2nd 17/2 Minus 30 pts " " Plus 150 pts.

18th June. R.Ascot 2.30 Chesham Stakes (St Listed) Maybe 1 Won 5/2 Falls of Lora 2 U/P Plus 40 pts " " Plus 190 pts.



21st June. No Selections.

22nd June. 8.20 Kempton (AW).(NS). Mr Majeika 1 U/P Mabroor 2 Won 13/8 Minus 2.5 pts. " " Plus 187.5 pts.

23rd June. 2.10 Newcastle (NS). Parc de Launay 1 Won 6/4 Piece by Piece 2 2nd 13/2 Plus 20 pts " " Plus 207.5 pts. 24th June. 4.00 Doncaster (NS). Basantee 1 2nd 15/8 Wolfgang 2 Won 5/2 Plus 5 pts " " Plus 212.5 pts

25th June. 2.15 Newmarket.(F. Listed). My Propellor 1 N/R Queen’s Revenge 2 U/P Minus 10 pts. " " Plus 202.5 pts Supplementaries. 2.05 Chester (N). RedArt 1 won 7/4 Courtland King. 2 U/P


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3.00 Curragh (FSt). Experience 1 won 1/1 Naseem Sea 2 3d 6/1.

26th June. 4.00 Windsor.(F.St). Betty Fontaine 1 Won 10/3 Precious Drop 2 U/P Plus 56.6 pts. " " Plus 259.1 pts. Supplementary. 2.10 Curragh (Gp2 St).Lilbourne lad 1 Won 9/4 Choir 2. U/P

27th June. 3.15 Pontefract (C.St). Betty Fontaine 1 Non-Runner. Princess Banu 2 2nd Minus 10 pts. " " Plus 249.1 pts.

28th June. 6.30 Southwell (Cl St). Pint Size 1 Won 4/6 Reina Sofia 2 3rd Plus 3.3 pts. " " Plus 252.4 pts

29th June. No selections.

3oth June. 3.00 Haydock. West Leake Diman 1 N/R

Stonefield Flyer 2 N/R " " PLUS 252.4

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