11th December 2005, 04:14 PM
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Join Date: Jan 1970
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Personally a late scratching is too late for me to go over the race again and I just stick to my main selections.
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Wesmip1,
That's fair enough.
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Why not do it the other way around? Select ALL the qualifiers first. You might not even have four qualifiers?
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Marcus,
Yep, I usually list all my potential qualifiers, and slowly mark them off as I go through my filters. It ends up being fairly easy this way to review my potential qualifiers if there does happen to be a late scratching that might add a new selection. Hope that makes sense. I typically only have 1 qualifier per race, though occassionaly will come up with 2.
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As far as I'm concerned its just another race with one less runner, the best of what's left is still the best, the second best of what's left is still the second best.
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KennyVictor,
That makes sense. Maybe I'm making too big a deal about late scratchings.
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Go back and check what happens in the past and see whether the new top rater performs...
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Winston_Smith,
Well said. Exactly, what I will do.
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...if you're pricing you're selections and the scratched runners were significant inthe market, you need to re-evaluate...
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Shoto,
I'm still very new to horse-racing (not quite 2 years yet), and there's a lot I still need to learn. Honestly, I would not have a clue on where to begin in trying to come up with my own prices for horses, so that's not relevant to me, but I understand your point.
Thanks guys for sharing your thoughts. I just checked my selections for yesterday, and it seems no late scratchings had any influence (no new qualifiers as a result of a late scratching). I honestly thought late scratchings would have had more of an impact on my system. I have noted in the past that I've had an occassional new qualifier arise because of a late scratching, but haven't kept good enough notes to work out which they were and how thay have fared. I'll have to review this again after next Saturday's races to see if anything changes. Thanks again for sharing your thoughts.
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