hi michaelg,
my capping on the 100pters is pre-post using the courier mail.
today i had 9 selections,(including 2 u7) only one was the same as yours.

Hi, Alblyn.

How did your selections fare? Could you list them?

From today I'm going to delete all Maiden races for the system as they have shown an overall profit of only $0.30. One more loss and it would put them into arrears.

Michael, I'm assuming that $0.30 profit is based on Place bets, so do you have the figures for maidens based on Win bets?

hi michaelg, not a good wednesday. 9 x 3 wins returning $8.40 & $5.80pl. willcannia, amtrak & its a grey. at present i look at all 100 whether they are u7 or doubles, and will work out at the end of the week (saturday)how to maybe delete some of the selections. tuesday fared better with 11 x 6 wins = $16.62 & 12.10pl, West country,gazzam,warrier rose,the challenger,jeubeauty and ifestic. i don't bet on them preferring to just wait and see.

Hi, Michaelv.

There were 9 maiden races. The win bet returned $10.10 for a profit of $1.10. The place bet returned $8.20 for a loss of $0.80. For an overall profit of $0.30 with 9 races isn't really acceptable. And if the next selection in a Maiden race does not place it would then mean an overall loss. I've kept some records for TABLTD selections (6 points gap), and reviewing them, Maidens lost for both win and place betting. Some Maiden races have unraced horses, and others with only one or two race starts. Because of this, the ratings may not have enough information to make an accurate assessment?

Alblyn, how do your results fare with Maiden races omitted?

Thanks for clarifying that Michael. I always thought, due to the reasons you mentioned, Maidens COULD be tricky and you might have just shown that. Time will tell.

Also, there don't seem to be any Unitab ratings for today's fields yet (at 11am - Sydney time) so maybe they're not going to come out today?

Yeah, they certainly are a bit late today. That happens every now and then, but in my experience, they've always had them up before the first race.

[ This Message was edited by: sportznut on 2004-03-18 11:25 ]

its only since monday that i have kept a better record of things and noting maidens,
on monday i had
1 x 1w maiden $3.83 & $1.40
2 x 0 rest (both in the same race-double)
tuesday - 11 x 6w,
2 x 2w U7 $4.90 & $3.00
3 x 2w maidens $6.52 & $4.20
6 x 2w rest $5.20 & $4.90
wednesday - 9 x 3w
2 x 1w U7 $1.90 & $1.10
6 x 1w rest $2.20 & $2.80
1 x 1w triple $4.30 & $1.90
hope you can understand this, but now you have made me think about this a bit more