Handicapping, stable money, developing your own stable of horses to follow, ratings, a set of filters, following the money in the ring ..... are the main methods punters use to select a winner. Within each of these categories there is a plethora of further information a punter could use to make their selection.

Punters using ONLY the most popular filters simply cannot win because most systems followers will have quite a few of these filters in their system so that leads to most system money being on a select few horses. And it's my belief that punters using other methods set out above will also use one or two of the most popular filters to further refine their selection method.

Some of the most popular filters will be included in a high % of pure Systems selection method, and to a lesser extent, but significantly so when we're looking at the impact of overbet / over use of popular filters, in other selection methods.