Great Betting Systems

Norman Dash

The best thing I can say about Great Betting Systems is that it will not lead you to the poorhouse nearly as quickly as will Picking the Winners with Systology. The worst thing I can say about it is that it will still lead you to the poorhouse, give you a hearty handshake, and send you off packing inside.

Great Betting Systems seems to be a collection of Dash's newspaper articles. If so, this might be seen as a book whose content was aimed mostly at the crowd who were going to the track more as an alternative to, say, dinner and a movie, and thus expected to drop about the same amount of money. If that's the case, Dash's systems (which also include roulette and dice systems, which I've not yet run through the simulator; the popular wisdom that there's no winning craps system, however, is likely to apply given the quality of the horse racing systems here) can be seen as a handbook for a harmless pastime for those looking to spend roughly $30 while watching a pack of majestic animals flying around an oval track. And those people are wonderful. We love them. They deserve a book. Anyone who were to take one of these systems as a serious handicapping tool, though, most probably lost a bundle. I wish Dash had been somewhat more clear about his target audience.