I Am An Imbecile.... A-N-O-T-H-E-R E-R-R-O-R!

Buffoonery, dear reader, is all around us. We see it every day, and we scoff, safe in the knowledge that we are not buffoons. Oh no. It is other people who were basted with the buffoon brush. We are above that sort of idiotic behaviour.

Well, I've got news for you. Or, more specifically, I've had a(nother) confirmation of news for me. I am a buffoon. Officially. Signed and sealed.

The reason for this bout of self-flagellation? Simple. As a number of you know from trying to sign up to the TrainerFlatStats email subscription service, I've cocked up yet another simple process.

It seems that these idiot-proof services are not all they say they are. Or, put another way, if a service wants to assure itself that it genuinely is idiot-proof, they should ask me to test it first!

Enough already...

The genuine, correct, bona fide, kosher, legit, pukka, sorted, guaranteed to work, can't fail, sign up link is now in place... I hope!

So, if you'd like to take the hassle out of finding the TrainerFlatStats qualifiers each day, you can sign up HERE for an email a day to keep your bookie at bay. :o)

The season is about to kick off for real, after the false dawn of Doncaster's Lincoln meeting, and you've missed very little (TFS currently marginally in front from a very few bets).

To read more about what TrainerFlatStats is, and why you should be interested, click here.

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Elsewhere, and I've been approached (as I very often am) to promote a betting product. Shock! Horror!

Now you may or may not know that this is not the NagNagNag way. I do not just randomly promote products to make a fast buck. Rather, I trial products here in front of a 'live studio audience', and share the results.

So, to the system in question, betalay, which I'll be tracking over the next few days (it has quite a lot of qualifiers so it's easy enough to get a picture pretty quickly).

I have to say that it is one of the simpler systems I've seen, but - in system terms - that is not necessarily a bad thing.

It's a lay system, and it involves laying a horse in a certain position in the betting under a couple of conditions. As I say, you can't get much simpler than that.

Having checked the results today, I have to say I was pretty darned impressed: 14 qualifiers, 14 losers (and therefore winners).

These seem to line up with results published on the website.

Because of the nature of tracking the pre-race market, its tricky to nominate the likely lays in advance. However, I'll provide a daily update here for those of you who are interested in what might be a decent addition to your lay system portfolio, and I'll wrap the trial up with a review on Sunday or Monday.

So keep checking back for your updates!

More tomorrow...

Matt