A winning system: using data to your advantage in the battle with the bookies

Andrew Mount on how statistics can help you to unearth winners

Andrew Mount is an advocate of using statistics to pinpoint winners

Like many punters of my generation, I was influenced by journalist Nick Mordin, the Weekender columnist and systems specialist.

His book 'Betting for a Living' steered me towards a more analytical approach to betting, especially 'form breaking' – identifying the ideal race conditions for individual horses.

I wrote a series of books (Trend Horses) for Raceform using this method but, nowadays, this is only one part of my overall approach to betting.

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Published on 20 July 2021inBetting Masterclasses

Last updated 15:56, 20 July 2021

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