thanks Chrome and Goty, I am glad this has generated some discussion and it is good to get everyones opinion on this. It's something I have thought long and hard about for some time now.

By the way after I left that post this morning I re run my figures with a 2% bet and I think it was around the 22% POT mark.

And Chrome, looking through my winners the best in this period was Reward for Effort paying $16 when it won the BD. (I got short changed there using IAS top fluc as it paid up around the 25/1 on totes, oh well). I've had a few around the $10 mark, then more around the $4 - $7 mark and the usual shorties.

I have to ask though, how on earth do you get a strike rate of 70%,..phewww, with just one selection per race..??

Good on you anyway, if you can achieve this. What sort of POT does this give you.

Paul