Hermes,

I am not a place-better (so feel free to ignore these comments!) but my main question is what are you trying to achieve with this? It seems to me that any horse that gets through this selection is not going to pay more than about $1.50 or so for the place - 1 or 2 bets a week at $1.50 is not going to make you a lot of money. Just seems like a LOT of work to go through all that selection on all the races for such a small return? Also no matter how good your selections you are always going to have some losses due to bad luck or just a horse failing for no reason. My OPINION is that if you are going to do place-only betting then you need a reasonable number of bets per week to get something out of it (but maybe I'm just impatient!).

Anyway best of luck with whatever you do.