This is yet another desperate attempt from Benjamin Street to come up with something – anything – to sell for his usual set price of £10 (no money back guarantee stated). I rarely review systems priced this low but when I came across this one, I felt obliged to write something about it. If nothing else to highlight the sheer desperation that some vendors possess in their all-encompassing desire to sell you something, whilst also highlighting how many systems (or so-called systems) are just re-hashed rubbish.
In this instance, The Legend of Van der Wheil is merely a 10-page downloadable manual that is more a story-book than the horse racing betting system it longs to be. Under the misleading heading: ‘How to find high odds winners for Fun and Profit”, Benjamin Street tries to sell you his product on the back of the mystery surrounding the strange character called Charles Van der Wheil. Prolific in gambling and betting circles in the 70s through to the 90s, Charles Van der Wheil was an inscrutable fellow who wrote many pamphlets and guides to betting and the occasional article for the Sporting Chronicle Handicap Book, sometimes under different pen names. Benjamin Street’s manual gives us a history of the man (if he indeed did ever truly exist) and outlines in a few sentences a particular system attributed to the legendary figure.
The sales page reads very clandestine and cloak-and-dagger-like, and is purely designed to lure you into thinking you’ve stumbled upon some secret method of winning big at the races.
With regards to an actual system, you’re promised to be shown the following information: ‘A QUICK way to determine a horses ABILITY… how to tell when a horse has been HANDICAPPED favourably; and how to piece together the JIGSAW of information to help you find a WINNER.’ More on this later.
Taking the manual itself, most of it is dedicated to providing a pot-holed history of exactly who Charles Van der Wheil – AKA the Flying Dutchman – was; specifically dealing with his writings for Tony Peach at the Sporting Chronicle Handicap Book. During this stint of work, Van der Wheil recorded his betting methodologies in great detail, including staking plans. Later, in 1990, Van der Wheil authored a booklet that outlined various commonsensical approaches to betting, which divulged many facts about his secret selection methods. This method is then divulged to you and forms the only kernel of a system in this laughable ebook from Benjamin Street.
Because all of Van der Wheil’s work is freely available in the public domain I have no qualms about sharing the method here with you now. The formula is centred around a horse’s ability. You look at the last three form-based figures for a particular horse, add them together, then devise the class rating, which is the winning prize money divided by the number of the horse’s wins. The horse with the lowest form number and the biggest class number is the one that will win the race – but it has to have both the lowest and biggest respectively.
The shroud of uncertainty becomes apparent with this system when we see the fact that much was made out of it at the time of the method being published and rumours began circling that a key component was left out of the method. This elusive piece of the puzzle became known as ‘The Missing Link’.
Don’t for one moment think that Benjamin Street’s product reveals this missing link. To find the missing link, you have to go the extra mile by yourself!
So, in a nutshell, there’s barely a system here, and there is certainly nothing of interest that you couldn’t find out with a quick search on Google. This product is an absolute joke.
