Michael's tips for Tuesday 24 Feb

[michaelg]

The selections have been performing quite well so far (just as they did in the testing period), but that might easily change as many systems do.

Today's selections are:

Bathurst R2 no. 2 - Arbitrage.
T'ville R1 no. 1 - Backstage Girl.

Backstage Girl is currently odds-on ($1.70)with the NSW TAB and also in the pre-post market, even though it's showing $2.10 for the place on the TAB. There haven't been any odds-on selections, even during testing, but I've got to include it as it qualifies as a selection. I'm going to keep "odds-on" records so that we can see if they are worth betting in the future.

[sportznut]

Okay, bad luck Michael. No good today.

Just a thought. Apart from the fact that Backstage Girl was listed at odds-on, both races also had less than 8 runners. Have you thought about maybe deleting those races? Personally, that is one of my most basic rules... at least 8 starters. I usually don't even look at races with any less.

[michaelg]

Hi, Sportznut. Good point re less than 8 starters.

Unfortunately I no longer have the details of my test period. However, I believe the past weeks's results would have been better if I had deleted those races. I will still post them as a subsection, and will advise this subsection consists of races with less than 8 starters. Thankyou for bringing it to my notice.