hi michaelg,

interesting method you seem to have come across there. The races that you decide to bet, I take it you are looknig for races where the favourite is obviously quite vulnerable. To decide this, are you going by the odds of the favourite? Or are you using another method? I understand however if at this stage you are not willing to share this info.

I too have played round the idea of backing as many horses as possible after the fav to try and show a profit. I was looking for races where the fav was paying around the $5 mark, so would in turn have a poor strike rate, and then depending on the next priced horse would back as many runners as possible. Ie if the 2nd fav was showing $6, back the next 6 horses, using the 2nd fav a saver type bet.

I had mixed success with the method, but then on the occasion where the fav, or a outsider which i was not on, got up, the losses were quite heavy. I quite liked the idea though because of the high strike rate, (i'm not the sort of person that could go 20-30 races without a winning bet) hence why i was looking at ratings in my first post. I guess with teh high strike rate, you could use a progressive staking pan, as the run of outs would be pretty minimal, its just finding teh right mix of agression and control to make it really work.