For more years than I can remember I have been educating punters. I spent plenty of time looking after my own punting but when I started writing for Turf Monthly after an article was published in the Daily Newspaper showing how I was Australia’s top form analyst for Sydney races. I started to get phone calls and letters (there was no email then) from readres wanting help with their punting. I helped but it became a bit overwhelming and so I started the Winform Racing Club and people joined and paid a once only joining fee. That, along with my ratings business, gave me enough money so that I could work with Racing Ministers, Racing administrators, the TAB’s and later corporates, there was only Mark Read’s Iasbet to start with, to make punters more informed and represented to various authorities. It meant that radio and TV stations turned ot me for informative comment, the Damian Oliver saga, the horse’s birthday (of all things) where I explained the difference between Northen and Southern hemisphere statutary birthdays. Of vcourse there was the Waterhouse saga, various ones, Mr C, the list goes on. Consultation with the Queensland TAB, The ACT TAB, the productivity commission etc. etc. These days I have dropped back some to concentrate on those punters who want to be more professional and look after my long tewrm clients, some of whom are still with me from pre internet times. Unfortunately the industry has become too big and too much of monster for someone like me to have any impact even with over 4,000 lifetime members but still. These days as I said, we have turned to providing punter education and we have produced many many videos and reached over a quarter of a million views. Yesterday I went out with a fixed boat but on retrun was slammed into the wharf, the wind was just in the wrong direction at the time and so another $5 niut and bolt but a two hour drive to get it.