September to the November Handicap
Eight weeks on the horses the handicapper has stopped watching.
Older horses in handicaps, and nothing else. Every selection is built on winning form a horse has already shown, not on one that might improve. September through to the November Handicap, then we stand down for the year.
Every figure below settled at Starting Price. Not advised prices, not best available.
+177.5
Points profit
147
Selections
36
Winners
8/1
Avg winning SP
Qualifying campaign, 6 May to 30 August 2026. 147 selections, 1pt level win stakes, settled at SP. At Betfair SP, after commission, the same 147 bets returned +245.4 points. Every bet, dated and priced, is published in full further down this page.
One payment of £24.97 · covers September to the November Handicap · no rebill
See all 147 bets ↓18+. The Autumn Muster is a tipping service. We are not a bookmaker, we do not take bets and we do not hold funds. Past performance is our own published record and is not a guarantee of future returns. BeGambleAware.org
In-depth analysis
Every runner in the race, read properly
Experienced judgement
One named handicapper, one published method
Handicap edge
Proven winners back on a winning mark
Discipline & patience
1pt level stakes, win only
Tradition & integrity
Every bet published, settled at SP
The Method
Evidence, not hope.
Racing is full of horses that are going to win. The Proven Form Method is only interested in the ones that already have. It works older horses in handicaps. That is the part of the card with the most evidence lying around in plain sight, and the part most punters avoid because it looks difficult.
There is an enormous difference between a horse that might improve and one that has improved. One is prediction. The other is evidence.
Jack Delaney · The Handicapper
The eight steps
01
Start with the right race
Older-horse handicaps, on the Flat or over jumps, where most of the field has already shown what it can do. The evidence has to exist before it can be read.
flat handicaps · handicap hurdles · handicap chases · exposed fields
never: maidens · novices · unraced · lightly raced improvers
02
Look for winning form first
One question before any other. Which horses in this race have already proved they can win? Then, and only then, the qualifiers.
won at this trip · on this going · at this class · off a mark like today's · at this track
03
Separate proven ability from hope
This is where the method earns its keep. Every phrase below might turn out to be true. Not one of them is proof.
“sure to improve” · “running on late” · “better than the result” · “one for next time”
04
Check the form is still alive
Winning form counts for nothing if it has gone cold. A horse does not need to have won last time out, but it has to show it is still capable of winning.
still running well · recent spark · beaten too far · an excuse last time · back to suitable conditions
05
Check the handicap mark
The vital one, and the reason this is a handicap method. What mark did it last win from, and what is it on today? The sweet spot is a proven winner back near or below its last winning mark.
last winning mark · today's mark · well treated or too high · dropping in class
06
Check today's conditions
The right horse in the wrong setup is still a losing bet. Ability has to meet a day that suits it.
track · trip · going · class · draw · field size · headgear · days since it ran
07
Work out how the race will be run
This is what stops you picking the right horse in the wrong race. A selection has to fit the shape of the contest, not just the form book.
who leads · who races handy · too much pace, or none · will closers get into it
08
Ask the last question
Before the bet is struck, one question settles it: am I backing proven ability under suitable conditions, or am I backing hope? Proven ability goes forward. Hope is a danger sign.
What a Muster selection looks like
Rarely does one factor make a bet. The object is to build a case, and the more pieces of reliable evidence pointing the same way, the stronger that case gets. When all eight of these line up, it goes out.
- An older handicapper
- A previous winner
- Proven under today’s conditions
- Still in form
- On a fair handicap mark
- Suited by the likely pace
- Not relying on promised improvement
- Available at a price that makes sense
The Record
147 bets. 36 winners. +177.5 points.
Four months of the Proven Form Method, from 6 May to 30 August 2026. One point a bet, level stakes, every one settled at the Starting Price returned at the off. To a £10 point that is £1,775 of profit from £1,470 staked.
Both ways of settling it
The same 147 bets, the same stakes, priced two ways. Take the Starting Price and you get the top row. Take Betfair SP instead, after their commission comes off, and you get the second.
| Settled at | Bets | Staked | Won | Profit to a £10 bet | Points | ROI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starting Pricethe price returned at the off | 147 | £1,470 | 36 | +£1,775.00 | +177.5 | 120.7% |
| Betfair SPafter 5% commission | 147 | £1,470 | 36 | +£2,454.21 | +245.4 | 167.0% |
Why these figures stand up.
Anyone can publish a good month. Four things make this record worth more than the number at the top of it, and every one of them is something you can go and check yourself.
- Settled at Starting PriceNot an advised price. Not a best-price-somewhere-at-nine-in-the-morning that had gone by the time you looked. The price returned at the off, against the official result. Both are a matter of public record.
- Every bet is publishedAll 147, winners and losers, in the table below. Nothing quietly dropped, no best-of selections, no months left out.
- Not carried by two lucky pricesTake the five biggest winners out altogether, count them as losers, and the four months still return +78.5 points.
- Not a short-price illusionThe shortest selection in the whole run was 4/1 and the median was 10/1. There is not one odds-on winner in here flattering the strike rate.
It got stronger as the season went on
May was one winner from twelve and the method was still finding the right races. From June onwards it did not have a losing month. The best of the four was August, the run-in to the autumn.
| Month | Bets | Won | Strike | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2026 | 12 | 1 | 8% | -7.0 |
| June 2026 | 23 | 7 | 30% | +44.5 |
| July 2026 | 40 | 10 | 25% | +49.0 |
| August 2026 | 72 | 18 | 25% | +91.0 |
Profit in every price bracket
Not one band carrying the rest. The method returned a profit backing 4/1 shots, 10/1 shots and 20/1 shots alike, which is what you would expect from a method built on the handicap mark rather than on the price.
| Starting price | Bets | Won | Strike | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4/1 to 8/1 | 54 | 25 | 46% | +104.5 |
| 17/2 to 14/1 | 52 | 7 | 13% | +30.0 |
| 16/1 and bigger | 41 | 4 | 10% | +43.0 |
What this means for your bank.
Backing horses at a 10/1 median means losing runs. Three in four of these bets did not win, and the method is built on the ones that do paying for them several times over.
Across the whole four months the deepest the bank ever went was 8 points below where it started, and the longest it went without a winner was nine races. That is the shape of it, and it is why the Muster is staked level at 1 point a bet from a 50-point bank, big enough that a quiet fortnight stays a quiet fortnight.
View the full results sheet → Every bet, with SP, Betfair SP and the running totals, in a spreadsheet you can open and check yourself.
Open the full record here: all 147 bets
| Date | Track | Selection | SP | Result | Pts | Running |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 May | Chester | A War Eagle (IRE) | 16/1 | 5/13 | -1.00 | -1.00 |
| 8 May | Ripon | No Knee Never (IRE) | 11/1 | 4/12 | -1.00 | -2.00 |
| 9 May | Leicester | Tattie Bogle | 11/2 | 8/9 | -1.00 | -3.00 |
| 9 May | Leicester | Oasis Sunrise (IRE) | 5/1 | 3/11 | -1.00 | -4.00 |
| 11 May | Catterick | Mount Ruapehu (IRE) | 5/1 | 8/13 | -1.00 | -5.00 |
| 12 May | Beverley | Sunny Orange (IRE) | 12/1 | 11/13 | -1.00 | -6.00 |
| 15 May | York | Zarathos (IRE) | 4/1 | WON | +4.00 | -2.00 |
| 16 May | Newmarket | Mr Baloo (IRE) | 14/1 | 7/12 | -1.00 | -3.00 |
| 18 May | Carlisle | Charlie Darling (FR) | 10/1 | 6/9 | -1.00 | -4.00 |
| 23 May | York | Trilby | 14/1 | 3/20 | -1.00 | -5.00 |
| 30 May | Chester | Brighton Boy (IRE) | 11/1 | 2/11 | -1.00 | -6.00 |
| 31 May | Thirsk | Vantheman (IRE) | 11/1 | 3/17 | -1.00 | -7.00 |
| 3 Jun | Nottingham | No Knee Never (IRE) | 20/1 | 3/10 | -1.00 | -8.00 |
| 3 Jun | Ripon | Glory Hyde (IRE) | 9/2 | WON | +4.50 | -3.50 |
| 5 Jun | Epsom | Zarathos (IRE) | 11/1 | 2/16 | -1.00 | -4.50 |
| 5 Jun | Goodwood | Dancing Tiger (IRE) | 13/2 | 2/9 | -1.00 | -5.50 |
| 6 Jun | Doncaster | Mickey Mongoose | 22/1 | 12/16 | -1.00 | -6.50 |
| 10 Jun | Hamilton | Mwafaq (IRE) | 11/2 | WON | +5.50 | -1.00 |
| 11 Jun | Nottingham | Wondrous Light | 4/1 | 4/9 | -1.00 | -2.00 |
| 12 Jun | Sandown | Over Spiced | 18/1 | 3/9 | -1.00 | -3.00 |
| 13 Jun | York | Dunkeld Dreamer (IRE) | 6/1 | WON | +6.00 | +3.00 |
| 14 Jun | Doncaster | Woodleigh (IRE) | 6/1 | WON | +6.00 | +9.00 |
| 15 Jun | Carlisle | Amelias Joy | 8/1 | 2/10 | -1.00 | +8.00 |
| 15 Jun | Windsor | Toolatetonegotiate | 22/1 | 11/12 | -1.00 | +7.00 |
| 16 Jun | Ascot | Bahadur | 14/1 | 10/20 | -1.00 | +6.00 |
| 19 Jun | Newmarket | Ancient State (IRE) | 22/1 | WON | +22.00 | +28.00 |
| 20 Jun | Redcar | Im Next | 9/2 | WON | +4.50 | +32.50 |
| 21 Jun | Pontefract | Hes An Angel | 7/1 | 8/11 | -1.00 | +31.50 |
| 21 Jun | Pontefract | Invincible Ruby (IRE) | 5/1 | 3/11 | -1.00 | +30.50 |
| 22 Jun | Windsor | Dreambird Dolly | 9/1 | 10/12 | -1.00 | +29.50 |
| 24 Jun | Carlisle | Priapos (IRE) | 12/1 | WON | +12.00 | +41.50 |
| 27 Jun | Chester | Rosenpur (GER) | 16/1 | 6/9 | -1.00 | +40.50 |
| 27 Jun | York | Caph Star | 16/1 | 3/14 | -1.00 | +39.50 |
| 27 Jun | Windsor | Alasrae | 9/2 | 6/10 | -1.00 | +38.50 |
| 29 Jun | Windsor | Kento | 16/1 | 3/13 | -1.00 | +37.50 |
| 1 Jul | Thirsk | Lord Roxby (IRE) | 6/1 | 5/10 | -1.00 | +36.50 |
| 1 Jul | Epsom | Analogical | 9/1 | 10/10 | -1.00 | +35.50 |
| 1 Jul | Epsom | Mission Command (IRE) | 7/1 | 7/10 | -1.00 | +34.50 |
| 2 Jul | Yarmouth | Jungle Knight | 15/2 | 4/9 | -1.00 | +33.50 |
| 3 Jul | Sandown | Silca Bay | 12/1 | 4/10 | -1.00 | +32.50 |
| 4 Jul | Newmarket | Sportingsilvermine (IRE) | 12/1 | WON | +12.00 | +44.50 |
| 5 Jul | Ayr | Leadenhall | 8/1 | 4/10 | -1.00 | +43.50 |
| 5 Jul | Ayr | Lope Y Linda | 17/2 | 2/11 | -1.00 | +42.50 |
| 6 Jul | Ripon | Tees Aggregates (IRE) | 11/1 | 7/9 | -1.00 | +41.50 |
| 7 Jul | Pontefract | Regal Glory (IRE) | 17/2 | 4/11 | -1.00 | +40.50 |
| 8 Jul | Catterick | Classy Clarets (IRE) | 4/1 | WON | +4.00 | +44.50 |
| 9 Jul | Newmarket | The Joker (FR) | 9/1 | 11/13 | -1.00 | +43.50 |
| 10 Jul | Ascot | Amazing Journey (IRE) | 5/1 | WON | +5.00 | +48.50 |
| 11 Jul | Newmarket | Rubys Angel (IRE) | 16/1 | 4/9 | -1.00 | +47.50 |
| 13 Jul | Ayr | Jm Jhingree (IRE) | 20/1 | 8/11 | -1.00 | +46.50 |
| 15 Jul | Catterick | Irish Dancer (IRE) | 20/1 | 8/9 | -1.00 | +45.50 |
| 16 Jul | Chepstow | Too Much Trevor | 10/1 | WON | +10.00 | +55.50 |
| 20 Jul | Beverley | Beerwah (IRE) | 18/1 | 8/10 | -1.00 | +54.50 |
| 24 Jul | York | Dorney Lake | 22/1 | 16/21 | -1.00 | +53.50 |
| 24 Jul | York | Who Wants Me (IRE) | 18/1 | 17/21 | -1.00 | +52.50 |
| 25 Jul | York | Kodiac Thriller (IRE) | 17/2 | WON | +8.50 | +61.00 |
| 25 Jul | York | Musical Touch (IRE) | 25/1 | 12/21 | -1.00 | +60.00 |
| 25 Jul | Ascot | Amazing Journey (IRE) | 4/1 | WON | +4.00 | +64.00 |
| 25 Jul | York | Kiss Me My Love (IRE) | 22/1 | 13/15 | -1.00 | +63.00 |
| 25 Jul | Chester | Aces Wild (IRE) | 20/1 | WON | +20.00 | +83.00 |
| 25 Jul | Chester | Over Spiced | 22/1 | 2/11 | -1.00 | +82.00 |
| 25 Jul | Salisbury | Liosa (IRE) | 11/2 | 3/10 | -1.00 | +81.00 |
| 27 Jul | Ayr | Approaching Dawn (IRE) | 12/1 | 8/9 | -1.00 | +80.00 |
| 27 Jul | Windsor | Alkuwarrior (IRE) | 14/1 | 7/11 | -1.00 | +79.00 |
| 27 Jul | Windsor | Another Abbot (IRE) | 4/1 | WON | +4.00 | +83.00 |
| 28 Jul | Goodwood | Rathgar | 16/1 | 10/17 | -1.00 | +82.00 |
| 28 Jul | Goodwood | Twilight Calls | 6/1 | WON | +6.00 | +88.00 |
| 28 Jul | Beverley | Opal Storm | 17/2 | 8/9 | -1.00 | +87.00 |
| 28 Jul | Goodwood | Crazee Icon | 5/1 | 7/14 | -1.00 | +86.00 |
| 28 Jul | Goodwood | Woohoo (IRE) | 18/1 | 2/20 | -1.00 | +85.00 |
| 28 Jul | Ffos Las | Buck Barrow | 18/1 | 3/9 | -1.00 | +84.00 |
| 29 Jul | Goodwood | Expert Agent | 22/1 | 6/26 | -1.00 | +83.00 |
| 29 Jul | Goodwood | Crimson Spirit | 11/2 | WON | +5.50 | +88.50 |
| 29 Jul | Sandown | Melody De Vega (IRE) | 12/1 | 6/10 | -1.00 | +87.50 |
| 31 Jul | Newmarket | Miletus (IRE) | 12/1 | 5/9 | -1.00 | +86.50 |
| 1 Aug | Goodwood | Evening Saigon (IRE) | 16/1 | WON | +16.00 | +102.50 |
| 1 Aug | Thirsk | Obelix | 18/1 | 13/15 | -1.00 | +101.50 |
| 1 Aug | Doncaster | Hares Bredth | 12/1 | 6/11 | -1.00 | +100.50 |
| 1 Aug | Goodwood | Shafdar (IRE) | 17/2 | 4/15 | -1.00 | +99.50 |
| 1 Aug | Hamilton | Vantheman (IRE) | 9/1 | 5/11 | -1.00 | +98.50 |
| 1 Aug | Hamilton | Little Mi Mi (IRE) | 4/1 | WON | +4.00 | +102.50 |
| 5 Aug | Brighton | Newfangled (IRE) | 9/1 | 6/9 | -1.00 | +101.50 |
| 5 Aug | Pontefract | Bibendum | 10/1 | 5/9 | -1.00 | +100.50 |
| 7 Aug | Musselburgh | Ashen (IRE) | 8/1 | 2/11 | -1.00 | +99.50 |
| 7 Aug | Brighton | Duskaura (IRE) | 25/1 | 8/10 | -1.00 | +98.50 |
| 8 Aug | Ascot | Tuco Salamanca (IRE) | 4/1 | WON | +4.00 | +102.50 |
| 8 Aug | Ascot | Mountain Road (FR) | 10/1 | 3/10 | -1.00 | +101.50 |
| 8 Aug | Ascot | Asgards Captain (IRE) | 13/2 | WON | +6.50 | +108.00 |
| 9 Aug | Chepstow | Too Much Trevor | 14/1 | 3/12 | -1.00 | +107.00 |
| 10 Aug | Ayr | Albeyours | 6/1 | 5/12 | -1.00 | +106.00 |
| 10 Aug | Ayr | Spirit Of Acklam | 6/1 | 4/13 | -1.00 | +105.00 |
| 10 Aug | Ayr | Recobella (FR) | 13/2 | 2/12 | -1.00 | +104.00 |
| 11 Aug | Hamilton | Strength of Spirit (IRE) | 15/2 | WON | +7.50 | +111.50 |
| 11 Aug | Hamilton | Station X | 7/1 | 3/12 | -1.00 | +110.50 |
| 12 Aug | Beverley | Homestrait (IRE) | 14/1 | 6/10 | -1.00 | +109.50 |
| 12 Aug | Ffos Las | Angels Call (IRE) | 7/1 | 3/10 | -1.00 | +108.50 |
| 13 Aug | Windsor | Legendsoftheland (IRE) | 9/2 | 3/11 | -1.00 | +107.50 |
| 14 Aug | Epsom | Offiahs Boy | 4/1 | 3/10 | -1.00 | +106.50 |
| 14 Aug | Epsom | Ice Cube (IRE) | 11/2 | 4/9 | -1.00 | +105.50 |
| 14 Aug | Newmarket | Principality (IRE) | 7/1 | WON | +7.00 | +112.50 |
| 14 Aug | Thirsk | Travis | 16/1 | 10/15 | -1.00 | +111.50 |
| 15 Aug | Newbury | Wheels Of Fire (IRE) | 12/1 | 7/12 | -1.00 | +110.50 |
| 15 Aug | Ripon | Emperor Caradoc (FR) | 25/1 | 10/20 | -1.00 | +109.50 |
| 15 Aug | Ripon | Kodiac Thriller (IRE) | 16/1 | 9/14 | -1.00 | +108.50 |
| 16 Aug | Pontefract | The Good Biscuit | 10/1 | WON | +10.00 | +118.50 |
| 17 Aug | Catterick | Miss Brazen | 22/1 | 5/11 | -1.00 | +117.50 |
| 17 Aug | Catterick | Carolus Magnus (IRE) | 16/1 | 8/9 | -1.00 | +116.50 |
| 17 Aug | Windsor | Caitlin G | 14/1 | 5/12 | -1.00 | +115.50 |
| 18 Aug | Chepstow | Marisitta | 14/1 | 4/10 | -1.00 | +114.50 |
| 19 Aug | York | Air Force One (IRE) | 13/2 | WON | +6.50 | +121.00 |
| 19 Aug | York | Mountain Road (FR) | 20/1 | 2/16 | -1.00 | +120.00 |
| 19 Aug | Carlisle | King Of Fury (IRE) | 10/1 | 9/10 | -1.00 | +119.00 |
| 20 Aug | Newmarket | Mr Writer (IRE) | 11/2 | WON | +5.50 | +124.50 |
| 20 Aug | York | Tryst (IRE) | 11/1 | 11/19 | -1.00 | +123.50 |
| 21 Aug | York | Explode (FR) | 10/1 | 15/16 | -1.00 | +122.50 |
| 21 Aug | Ffos Las | Dream Of Ithaca | 6/1 | WON | +6.00 | +128.50 |
| 21 Aug | York | Dunkeld Dreamer (IRE) | 25/1 | 12/14 | -1.00 | +127.50 |
| 21 Aug | Hamilton | Hunky Dory | 22/1 | WON | +22.00 | +149.50 |
| 22 Aug | Chester | Blue Prince (IRE) | 22/1 | 7/13 | -1.00 | +148.50 |
| 22 Aug | Newmarket | Archduke Ferdinand (IRE) | 8/1 | 12/13 | -1.00 | +147.50 |
| 22 Aug | York | Opportunity | 14/1 | 3/22 | -1.00 | +146.50 |
| 22 Aug | York | Sondad | 17/2 | WON | +8.50 | +155.00 |
| 22 Aug | Chester | Station X | 6/1 | WON | +6.00 | +161.00 |
| 22 Aug | York | Diego El Queso (IRE) | 4/1 | 18/20 | -1.00 | +160.00 |
| 22 Aug | Redcar | Fille Imbassee | 10/1 | 2/9 | -1.00 | +159.00 |
| 22 Aug | Redcar | Mr Cool (IRE) | 5/1 | WON | +5.00 | +164.00 |
| 22 Aug | Redcar | Drish Samphire (IRE) | 16/1 | 9/16 | -1.00 | +163.00 |
| 23 Aug | Brighton | Bated Breeze (IRE) | 25/1 | 13/16 | -1.00 | +162.00 |
| 24 Aug | Windsor | Darkened Edge | 7/1 | 2/9 | -1.00 | +161.00 |
| 25 Aug | Musselburgh | Gallus Norman | 14/1 | WON | +14.00 | +175.00 |
| 25 Aug | Musselburgh | Luminous Warrior (IRE) | 22/1 | 2/10 | -1.00 | +174.00 |
| 26 Aug | Newbury | Distinct Spirit | 14/1 | 6/12 | -1.00 | +173.00 |
| 27 Aug | Carlisle | Without Flaw (IRE) | 10/1 | 10/11 | -1.00 | +172.00 |
| 28 Aug | Thirsk | Hatamoto | 5/1 | WON | +5.00 | +177.00 |
| 28 Aug | Sandown | Cameley Days | 8/1 | 8/9 | -1.00 | +176.00 |
| 28 Aug | Thirsk | Lord Roxby (IRE) | 10/1 | 11/18 | -1.00 | +175.00 |
| 28 Aug | Goodwood | Lady Milton | 11/2 | 11/12 | -1.00 | +174.00 |
| 29 Aug | Beverley | Franciscos Piece | 9/1 | 2/9 | -1.00 | +173.00 |
| 29 Aug | Goodwood | Pellitory | 11/1 | 3/11 | -1.00 | +172.00 |
| 29 Aug | Goodwood | Too Soon | 4/1 | WON | +4.00 | +176.00 |
| 29 Aug | Beverley | Filey Beach (IRE) | 25/1 | 5/10 | -1.00 | +175.00 |
| 29 Aug | Windsor | Space Bear (IRE) | 15/2 | WON | +7.50 | +182.50 |
| 30 Aug | Beverley | Theoryofeverything | 10/1 | 7/10 | -1.00 | +181.50 |
| 30 Aug | Goodwood | Fandom | 12/1 | 10/10 | -1.00 | +180.50 |
| 30 Aug | Beverley | Count Palatine (IRE) | 20/1 | 6/11 | -1.00 | +179.50 |
| 30 Aug | Beverley | Military Girl (IRE) | 14/1 | 11/12 | -1.00 | +178.50 |
| 30 Aug | Goodwood | Marnier (IRE) | 20/1 | 6/9 | -1.00 | +177.50 |
That was the summer. The Muster is the autumn.
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Questions
Before you decide.
The ones worth asking of any service like this one, answered straight. If yours is not here, ask it before you buy rather than after.
+177.5 points in four months. Is that real?
It is a high figure and you are right to look twice at it. So rather than ask you to take it on trust, here is what sits behind it.
Every bet is settled at the Starting Price returned at the off, so there is no advised price in there that you could not have got. All 147 selections are published on this page, winners and losers, with nothing quietly dropped. The shortest priced selection in the whole run was 4/1, so it is not a pile of odds-on winners flattering the strike rate. And if you take the five biggest winners out altogether and count them as losers instead, the four months still return 78.5 points.
Every row carries a date, a track, a horse and a price. Pick any one of them and check it against the result.
What sort of races do you bet?
Older horses in handicaps, and very little else. Flat handicaps, handicap hurdles and handicap chases, where most of the field has already shown what it can do.
No maidens, no novice races, nothing that depends on a horse being better than it has so far proved. The full method is set out above this section.
There is no quota either. If a card has nothing on it that meets the method, nothing goes out. Forcing a bet on a quiet day is how a record like the one above gets ruined.
What time do they arrive?
By 8am on the morning of racing.
That gives you the whole morning to get the bet on, and it means the selection is with you well before the market has had a chance to move.
How are the selections sent?
Both by email and through a Telegram channel. The same selection, at the same time, by both routes, so you are covered whichever you happen to check first.
Joining the Telegram channel takes about a minute and the invite link is in your welcome email. You do not have to use it. Email alone works perfectly well.
What price should I take?
There is no advised price here, so there is nothing to miss. The record on this page is settled at the Starting Price returned at the off, which is exactly what you get by taking SP on every bet.
If you want to do better than that, take the early price and use a bookmaker who pays Best Odds Guaranteed. You keep the price you took, and if the horse drifts you are paid at SP instead, so the guarantee only ever works in your favour.
Or take Betfair SP. Over these four months it returned more than SP did: +245.4 points after 5% commission against +177.5. Both columns are in the results sheet, so you can see how the two compare bet by bet.
Do I need a Betfair account?
No. The record is published at Starting Price precisely so that you can take SP with any bookmaker and expect the figures on this page.
It is also published at Betfair SP, after their 5% commission, because on this run that came out higher: +245.4 points against +177.5 at SP. Use whichever suits you. Both columns are in the results sheet.
How big a bank do I need?
50 points, staked level at 1 point a bet, win only.
Across the qualifying campaign the deepest the bank ever went was 8 points below where it started, and the longest it went without a winner was nine races. A 50 point bank absorbs that comfortably, with a lot of room to spare.
Whatever you decide a point is worth, it should be an amount you are entirely relaxed about losing.
What happens when the season ends?
It ends. The Autumn Muster runs from September through to the November Handicap and then stands down for the year.
One payment, no rebill, nothing to cancel and no subscription running on in the background.
Can you tell me I will make a profit?
No. Nobody can, and anyone who tells you otherwise is not worth your money.
What we can do is show you the whole record rather than the good bits, set out exactly how a selection is arrived at, and publish every bet as it goes. Past results are not a promise of future ones.
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Back what a horse has done, not what it might.
That is the whole of it. Older horses in handicaps, a case built from evidence that already exists, and a price that makes sense on the day. Eight weeks of it, then we stand down for the year.
+177.5
Points at SP
+245.4
Points at Betfair SP
147
Bets
36
Winners
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