Hi Crash,

It was remiss of me to group handicapping skills in the same group as fruitless betting schemes. Handicapping skills are an essential element to success...in fact you must become a good handicapper before anything else. If you can't pick winners then you have no hope..there's no question about that.

In making my point, I was trying to say that top handicapping skills only get you a ticket to the game. There are thousands of good selectors out there and many people have poured years of hard work and research into becoming strong handicappers, but still can't win on the punt.

The skill that bridges that gap is judgement and decision making. Understanding the right and wrong scenarios and being ruthless about the races to bet in and the races to leave alone. Only betting when you have an advantage and you know what it is.

I can confidentally say that anyone who already has good handicapping skills desn't need to pick more winners to make money on the punt...they need to understand race and betting scenarios better and more become skilled and ruthless in those thing I mentioned above.

Cheeers :smile:

[ This Message was edited by: osulldj on 2003-11-26 10:26 ]