So Crash where was your "reasoning" yesterday at Sandown :lol: :lol: :lol:

Sorry - couldn't resist.

Hermes - I guess your human judgement is better than mine! As I said in the past when I have tried applying my judgement to my selections I end up missing good winners.

I am interested in your point that you use judgement to decide which races to ignore - surely in the majority of cases you could incorporate rules into your system to cull most of these for you anyway? eg. exclude races with fewer than X runners, exclude maidens, jumps, etc, exclude the race if more than X horses have a rating higer than Y, etc. All I am saying is that a lot of what people call judgement can be incorporated into a system quite easily. Of course there are the "gut feeling" type decisions that are harder - but unless you have been punting for lots of years (and I haven't) then gut feelings are often mistaken.

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