When I hear people talk about being picky about which races they choose to play, I always have to smile. What it says is, they have a "system." That system doesn't work very often. So they study really hard to find exactly what kind of race the system DOES work in. So now they get to play a handful of races with their method, and hopefully they'll now make a profit. Reminds me very much of the old saw, "even a broken clock is right twice a day" don't you think? Granted, these people are being smart in reducing their play to their chosen races. After all, that's the only logical way to make a profit using that particular handicapping method. If you can't improve the method, you MUST eliminate races where it doesn't work.

But the crowd plays EVERY race. And they make the same mistakes in EVERY race. You can spend your time with a crippled handicapping method, praying for a race that matches it, or you can learn how and why the crowd wagers the way they do, and start playing a very high percentage of races on every day. All it takes is to let go of one's habits and traditional notions, and start accepting how the world really works!