[AusRace] Ducks way - a system

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Woosang was a tiny town near Charlton.
My mother was sent to the farm in Charlton when polio broke out, it may have been for other reasons.
But she went to this little school (only school in Woosang) made of timber.
We revisited it in the 80's and it was a sleeping house for hobos, but there was still the blackboard, remnants of school books and a couple of upturned
Old desks and school chairs. I managed to salvage a couple of text books for Mum who is now 95. Within the last five or so years the old school has been torn down, much to Mum's sadness. She still remembers the Charlton floods and snakes in the water. When I went to the farm in Charlton, all that was left were some of the old stones from the dairy my great grandfather built by hand.
My grandmother used to talk of Barrakee Hill.

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From: Racing <racing-bounces at ausrace.com> On Behalf Of Tony Moffat
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Subject: [AusRace] Ducks way - a system

'Duck' had farmed at Woosang but as the family grew the farm stayed confined inside the 100 year old fences until there simply wasn't a tractor left over for him, no sheep to shear, steers to toss, heifers to mark and brand and pretty much he had to leave the place to make a living. He worked on the channels around there for a few months and years then a prospective employer said if you had a powder monkeys licence you're in, so he did and that is where we met - monkey school, blowing things up, keeping the lines in series, always, calculating rock density, charge depth, everything associated with making a lot of gas, quickly, electrically.

He liked a bet and to that end he bought a 'system', paid 8 pounds for it in the years before I was known to him, 8 pounds and postage too from an ad in a magazine, 'Referee'?

Anyway, this day we were talking outside the Tote in a town where we had been sponsored for further training in the gentle art of blowing things up and Duck mentioned he had a system and I was interested. 

He took the weight allocated to the horse and rider, in stones and pounds and multiplied that by the pre race price and he bet the few of them that had the lesser value after the multiplication. That's what Duck said and I'll simplify it for you soon.

In the paper, on this day, the race fields showed the horse number, name, weight, and price and it was my suggestion that Duck rank the weights, from the top weight down, as in 1,2,3 and of course repeating the ranking when necessary, as in 1, 2,3,3,3,4,4,5 in an 8 race field then do the same with the corresponding prices to the effect that if the short price corresponded with weight rank 5 then this would have the value of 5 and 1. You then multiplied these values together, to get  5, obviously. But what value went first, weight? Or price? The inclusion of both was obvious, but if there is a difference/differential between price (say 7th, and weight (say 1st or
second) what then? I don't know how the author resolved that, and Duck said what? when I asked, just times one by the other, he said.

That was not for Duck however, no way, he converted the weight, in kgs, to stones and pounds then he multiplied that poundage by the pre-race price and he bet the few of them that had the lesser value after multiplication. I did not see the system, the papers I mean, just heard what Duck was doing, truthful to the author and method no matter.

Some examples - using my suggestion
BR 1 Pick 1,2,6,9 - 1st, 2nd, and 3rd
BR 2 Pick 3, 1+4, 12,16 - 1st (but ugly) BR 3 Pick 1+2, 7, 4, 3 - 1st (but ugly) BR 4 Loss - no winner but 2nd and 3rd BR 5 Pick 1, 6, 2+9 - 1st BR 6 Loss - no winner but 2nd 3rd BR 7 Pick 5,1,2,11 - 1st, 2nd BR 8 Pick 2,12,5,3 - 1st,2nd,3rd BR 9 Pick 3, 12+13, 5,11 - 1st, 2nd B R 10 Pick Loss






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