Hi TechieCan you elaborate? What type of server is your software on? Is the destination server the same?How do access the server if you can't telnet? Maybe I can help you?Chancer

<t>Aaron stated...Bet on the second favorite to win (amateurs bet either the favorite or a long-shot). >>So as an experiment today, whilst waiting on some help with Paul's excel file, I placed 14 single £1.00 bets to win on the second favourites in each of 14 horse races this afternoon in the UK.Tot...

Thanks Paul,I will experiment... (without using real cash, well just yet anyway...)Forgive me if I appear rather 'green' but can you offer a method to aid coming up with reasonably accurate propabilities...?Is it using form, going, jockey etc to balance up against the bookie's odds?Chancer

<t>I would like nothing better. But for it to work we'd have to name names. Lots of problems there:People won't speak on the record.When they do, it is often the exact opposite of what they say in private.You have to be very sure of your facts before you publish.Even if you do check your facts, you ...

<t>I am new to all this... but I wonder if...Let us say that in an eight horse race there could very occasionally arise, due to the semi-chaotic way the odds are shaped, an opportunity for a spread of bets on each horse that would guarantee either a return, or at the very least the ability to break ...