Beginnings:  The Magic 30 Story

A long time ago, when Ozzie & Harriet was one of the top-rated shows on the ‘tube’, 1955 to be exact, Joe Alberti was enjoying a day at Santa Anita. He had recently sold his bar in New York, which was directly across from the CBS studios and catered to many a star, and was now a man of ‘leisure’, so to speak.

On this particular day he sat next to a young couple and heard the following conversation:
“I want to have a real happy birthday”, the girl said. “Find me a winner!” Her husband was studying the Form intensely and suddenly said “Here!, this one fits the pattern.” He then explained why he liked the horse and set off for the window. “I’ll put $10 on it for you.”

As the fellow weaved his way through the crowd back to his seat the horses left the gate. In his absence Joe had jokingly told the girl good luck, because she would need it on the plug her hubby just bet on. But the birthday-girl had the last laugh, as her horse got up in the final jump to pay $44.

Joe, a bit stunned, congratulated the couple. “Thanks!”, the husband said, “we’re leaving winners. C’mon hon, I’m taking you out to the best birthday dinner you’ve ever had!”

>>Two races later, Joe noticed a horse that fit the same pattern as described by the fellow who had tabbed the $44 horse. Joe just sat out the race but couldn’t believe his eyes when that horse also won and paid $18.80!

So Joe, who likes nothing better than to peruse through old Racing Forms and research angles, went home that night and started a serious study on the method the young man at the track was using.

Even though the rules seemed a bit illogical, Joe was surprised to find a win rate of over 34% with an average mutuel close to $10.

“I thought, what the heck, if this thing is showing me a profit on over a thousand-some-odd races I’ve tested, I’m just going to look for it everyday at the track and lay a saw-buck or three on every play!” Joe told us.

Well, it’s been 45 years since Joe first started playing the ‘Magic 30’ Method!, as he named it, and it’s still producing profitable results today.

“It took me awhile to realize that there was a logic to this method”, says Joe. “The horses you are playing are obviously sharp and well-regarded. What surprises me to this day is how often these horses get off at a price.”

The Magic 30! is a ‘Repeater’ method  –  the best we’ve ever seen.  By ‘repeater’ we mean that the only horses that qualify won their previous race.  Add in the other rules and you come up with a large % of selections that win or hit the board their next time out. 

The Win/Place % can approach 50% (see examples below) and now all it takes is a couple clicks of your mouse to find these ready-to-run-big runners.