Good Morning Fellas,

I too appreciated your post Duritz. There were some interesting points in it but I'm afraid there were some red herrings too. As far as I can see you are contrasting form analysis with trying to create an algorithm to explain the entirety of a human being's activities and proclivities. This is obviously not possible, not even if you apply it to horses which incidentally, are not as complex as humans (and all the better for it in my opinion). The idea behind trying to create a system I reckon is to try to predict the outcome of a very limited period of time in a horse's Saturday afternoon under very strict and pre ordained conditions. i.e. He's running from A to B with a midget on board whacking his rump, carrying a known impost against several other all in the same boat.
I also have another question; where does form analysis end and a system take over (or vice versa). It wasn't in your post I know but somebody suggested form analysis could be done by allocating points for certain features of the horse's form or his position on a pre-post market. Does that amount to form anaysis or is it using a system? If it's the former then I'm a form analyst as well as a system compiler.
Cheers fellas and good luck for this afternoon.