If one is honest one has to agree that barny has a fair point to make. I had a good system from 1992 to 2002. It was back the two longest priced horses from the top three ranked place percent horses in a race. That was my only rule except that I omitted 2yo and 3yo races for there were not enough results for place percent to be practical. After 2002 the strike rate was maintained but the value became eroded. I can only assume that many punters now consider place percent. before that I had used the DS approach but scrapped that when I found that my consistency factor based on place percent was better by itself.

gunny