That is not quite the Royal Routine system as I have a copy of it from the sixties. The original method was to back each tipster's first selection if it was over 3/1 ($4.00) for a win. If the first selection was less than that price you dropped down to the 2nd selection and so on. I know this system has been given a pasting on this forum but while I was following it I had a fair degree of success with it. It just needed a sensible staking approach. I will dig it out again and have another play with it one day. The reason I stopped using it in the first place was because I couldn't get to the track and it is totally useless on the tab.