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APRacing,
Please find a link to the racing results for Friday 13th 1985 where you will find you are spot on with the results and prices.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1dhbdjeyrutnvlk/warwick1985.tiff?dl=0
I had a similar issue and received no emails. As I am a software developer, I had a look at the code on their website to see what they had done. It looks like they have integrated a third party solution, eSuite, to handle user management and improved monetisation opportunities from their content. I have since cancelled my subscription, as I find the site expensive for what it offers and I don’t take kindly to companies breaking things I use without telling me in advance for their own gain.
You can check out eSuite an what they may or may not be doing with it here:
In response to Gingertipsters question:
I am sure there are those that will always have the opinion “get a life; it’s just luck” and I certainly wouldn’t argue with that view. However, there are also those that are disinterested or scared to try based on some of the barriers I previously explained. All I did with my friends was to listen to their concerns and help them overcome them whilst making it clear that racing is not a get rich quick scheme.
Do you think if we picked 20 people from a random sample of the circa 4 million fringe/recreational bettors in the UK that all of them would tell us to “get a life;it’s just luck”? Or do you think we could convert at least 1 of them to see the light? As scaling those numbers up would be all it would take to hit the 200K target.
There are circa 4 million regular gamblers in the UK across all sport and there are circa 8 million people who attend races in the UK. Whilst investing in developing and retaining the existing pool of regular gamblers is a good thing, the forum also needs to turn it’s attention too developing the next wave of gamblers from the potential of tapping into the young and the occasional/recreational racegoers.
I see the following challenges:
1) Racing has an old man’s game/corrupt stigma about it that puts people off
2) Setting up betting accounts and understanding the lingo of horse racing in order to make informed choices is a step too far for most people
3) The record attendances at major meetings this year has shown racing can attract the crowds. What it has failed to do is to create a betting experience for race day crowds that results in return visits/betting outside of major race days.Recently I spent a few hours with some of my novice/recreational racer friends and taught them how to setup a bookmaker online account, showed them how to read the form and place a bet with the many tools available, had them watch the race play out and then encouraged them to try doing it all on their own a couple of times. Amazingly a few of them have started betting on a regular basis, as they are enjoying the experience.
So some practical ideas I would like to throw in:
1) Perhaps the Betting Forum could achieve a quick win by doing what I did to some of the 8 million punters (only need 200K to meet their targets) that flock to the courses each year in the hope that some of them become converts. We could even crowdsource the professional help to teach people from this forum.
2) Perhaps the members of this forum could do their bit to help, by taking part in a ‘Train a Novice Day’ (which I would only be too happy to setup) where we all take the challenge of helping a novice race goer get up to speed with betting and winner finding.
3) Perhaps we could automate all this and have an online training, courses, certification, etc aimed at this group to help build their knowledge and confidence.Any other thoughts on this?
