Hi shaun, a very interesting post of yours. A couple of your comments you made ......

"Since i have enough runners to last me 6 months and the stakes oneach runner is slowly going up i won't add any new runners for the moment untili have halved my current stable, lets see how long that takes."

I'm looking for a methodical approach to adding and deleting runners. Your method is a black book type method, and would not suit me as I need rules as 'inflexible' as I can get.

"I am going to retire the current stable as there are few of theserunners resuming now, I may start another one latter."


ditto my comment above.

Really interesting to note that PPM's Horses to Follow showed a profit I believe year after year, so this stable approach has merit. I just don't think one can follow a horse for as many runs as you suggest.

There was a system of sorts posted on here where Group winning and placed horses were given points depending upon the quality of the race and the horses finish. This poster backed these Group horses for what seemed like forever, but as he used a points system to rate each horse, he only had one bet per race. He was very patient and once a horse qualified, it seemed to qualify for life on the basis that it was a top notch horse. there was room for improvement in this system I'm sure. I recall Tears I Cry who fluked a Group win, then spent the next couple of years where it couldn't get a suitable race, and eventually lost so many times it eventually got back to a suitable grade and won a few races on the trot.

There's merit in the stable system, but I reckon you need to have tight rules to get rid of horses quickly. That's one element where my fixed Win% system appears to avoid throwing good money after bad.