VAN DER WHIEL

[BOB PATRICK]

Have any of you read any of the books attributed to VAN DER WHIEL? he was a contributor to the now defunct SPORTING CHRONICLE HANDICAP (SCHB) BOOK, a newspaper from long ago. i say books, but they are more like booklets. SYSTEMATIC  betting was mostly about horses with high speed figs dropped in class, which probably inspired me to the results I got some 20 or 30 years ago. I don't know how many others there were but 2 I bid for on e-bay recently are mainly a compilation of his letters and answers from the  SCHB . I was the only bidder for these and got them for a fiver each. I'd read them before but had long forgotten. Another one of his went for about £40, wonder what was in that. In the ones I got he talks about betting only in high class races and dividing prize money by runs (eg. a horse has won £100,000 in its last 6 races so its "form figure" is 16666 rounded down to 166, then adding up its form figures , so, say they were 124632 =18), the lower the better (111111 would =6) Also the least days since it had run the better. So he was looking for a horse that came out top on all 3 factors he claims to have had 29 winners out of 32 in the late 70's with this method . Personally I don't believe it. Anyone know if it is true?

Edited March 9, 2018 by BOB PATRICK

[BOB PATRICK]

I really hope one of you knows or has heard about this before. In the meantime with Cheltenham coming up next week we can experiment and see if there's any merit in it.