Becareful,

Thanks for your advice. It is warmly received.

There are placebetters here on this forum and elsewhere who make good long term profits from precision placebetting. The volume of races is small, the average return is lousy, but a high strike rate gets you there.

Being fairly new to the punting game I'm trying to look at all approaches.

One thing I've learned so far: Don't put all your eggs in one basket. I'm just playing around at the moment but when I settle down and take up some serious betting I want to have several quite different methods going. One of them is precision placebetting. The work involved in finding that precision bet need not be wasted, though, because I'Ii have other systems going and I'II be looking for those selections too. The other spin off is that I might hopefully learn something about horses with this super-thorough approach rather than just playing with numbers. That's an investment, whatever system I use. The method I posted above is really just a structured way to think around a race.

I am concentrating on placegetters. The basis of my over-all strategy will be placegetters. There are several reasons for this. One is that I want to build a very secure, if very boring, system for my main bank. It's OK if they pay $1.40 as long as you get them week after week. Having achieved and maintained a high strike rate you can then introduce staking strategies to multiply those small but reliable margins.

If that's deadly dull, placbetting also leads into trifectas. My second bank will be for a trifecta method. Anything but dull.

But that's mainly why I want precision placebetting in my bag of tools.