I use Friday's Courier Mail.

The relevance, accuracy and range of paper prices has been discussed before. I still find them a useful tool when compared to the bookies opening markets.

Mark,

Thanks for that. I find the pre-post prices useful as well, but had not considered your approach.

You say you look for the drifts on 'opening price'. I assume this means the first price put up for the race after the finish of the previous race?


Thanks,
Luckyboy

Lucky

No, I don't look for 'drifts', I eliminate a runner if it's opening price (official) is the same or longer than the price in the paper.
eg SR4
2-Restless PP 7.00
5-Jameela PP 9.50
6-Saturday Fever PP 26
10-Ya Ya Effendi PP 35

2 opened 6.00, 5 opened 4.40, 6 opened 11.00, & 10 opened 16.00, every other runner opened the same or longer than their PP, so were weeded out.

Oh who cares, I'll put up another post outlining exactly what I do.

Mark,

An interesting example... Look forward to your next posting.


Luckyboy

Mark,
what source do you use for the official opening prices?

Bazza,

You seem to be a bit of a Sportsman aficionado like myself. I am interested in your 50 points or less criteria.

I have a friend who uses a rule where all horses weighted above their Zipform rating are eliminated.

Have you seen or heard of this or something similar?


Luckyboy

Shoto

First price given at the track, shows up on the monitors. Sunday Mail is pretty spot-on with the reults.

Hi

This is INNY, forgot me username and password.

Thankz to everyone that has posted, i'll add some of those ideas to mine and see if i can win myself some beer tokens.

"If you want to pick losers, just back favourites in maidens and favourites first up from a spell - in general their strike rate is awful."

A correction to my above statement. It should have read...

"If you want to pick losers, just back favourites which are first starters and favourites first up from a spell - in general their strike rate is awful."

Thanks Mark,
what if you're not at the track?