Hi Privateer

A couple more questions if you don’t mind?

1. Should I be grouping all races together? By this I mean should I be looking at 3 yo races separate to races for all ages. My thinking here is that because 3 yo have had fewer races there win/place % is normally higher.

2. Should I be looking at race distances separately? From having looked at the days from the previous start I know horses with a break of 21 days or more win/place in races up to 1400m a greater amount than in races over 1400m

Also a neighbour of mine who likes to have a bet gave me a book to read, which had a lot of different selection and staking methods in it. This book was printed about 1951/1952 as it had the race results in it. (My neighbour is about 80 yrs young) Most of the selection methods in this book dealt with using the top 3 picks in the papers. What you have to do is get each persons selection for the race and award 3 points for the 1st pick, 2 points for the 2nd pick and 1 point for the 3rd pick. So what I have started to do is note down each selectors picks for Bris. Syd and Melb from the Sportsman and Courier Mail and see how accurate they are and if I can use them in my selection method. They say that the tipsters aren’t that good, but I have never paid their selections too much notice, so I thought I should keep an open might about it and see how they go.

I hope that you can answer my questions, if that’s possible, as I do understand you don’t want to be giving away information as to how you do your selection method. What I am hoping, is that you can help me with how I should be looking at stats. Like should I be putting races into different groups and look at each group separately or have I got it all wrong and need to totally rethink it.


Thanks

Wise One