Hello Wise One

Well, there you are then!! Baggie has sorted out your tipster question!


Briefly...my advice is to totally forget racing "tipsters". Generally speaking, they all tip favourites and are in competition amongst themselves. Take Bart Sinclair in Brisbane. His 3 "best bets" are mostly the 3 shortest priced faves on the program! How hard is that?

Try this, use any paper and follow the tipsters for 1 month. At the same time YOU select your tips as well. Total them up at the end of the month and I'll bet you are not last! They do not have any more of an idea than the average punter, if they did, they wouldn''t be giving away their tips free in a newspaper!

1. Grouping races. No, don't separate the races to apply different stats to them. Maybe use the prizemoney assessor to work out which races you bet on? (I probably average 6 bets per weekend across 4 states.) Don't search for races to bet on, let the races show you which are good betting options.

2. The answer to that is that there are more shortcourse races than anything else! Don't separate distances either. Your stats must apply right across the board. (As a matter of interest, check horses running again in exactly 7 days and see if you can find a pattern there with formlines - there is one!)

Be disciplined, believe in yourself and your information, do your homework, don't lose faith and support yourself with a simple staking plan.

Cheers

Privateer