I have studied these books in detail, particularly the consistency one as I found this to be the only one that is relevant. Also, I had been using place percent reasonably successfully for several years before this book came out.

I simply backed the two longest priced horses from the top three place percent rankings and regularly obtained brilliant results. I have found his percentages on place percent rankings have stood up for about 20 years and still do but, and not surprisingly, his stated and my profit on turnover results have deteriorated significantly over recent years. Whereas $50 to $80 divvies once were common, now this range seems to be $10 to $30, and this is not enough for my approach.

I believe that he meant there had to be 20 starts and I took this into consideration initially and missed out on many good winners so I forget about the minimum 20 starts and it made no difference.

The suggested filtering ideas in the book did not work for me. I found the best filter to be price.

The thrust of his consistency book though is to provide an improved method of adjusting DS ratings for consistency and is probably this is a good use.

Gunny72