Privateer

I agree with you in regards to margin from the winner being irrelevant, and that their previous placing more relevant.

So far I have been looking at all runners combined and working out the most important stats to narrow down the runners in each race, but I was wondering if there is a point where I should stop looking at all the runners and start looking at each race as an individual event?

An example is if you are left with 3 runners in a race with all 3 having the same stats, placed at their last start (1st - 4th), raced in the last 21 days, all having a win percent over 15 and a place percent over 65,to name a few, do you look at each race to find which stat is more relevant, like betting on the runner with the highest place % or win% or do you still look at all runners combined at make the selection criteria tougher so that you are left with fewer runners per race?

Wise one