I agree with crash. A system is automated. As I said earlier, I think form analysis begins when you have to make a decision about the chance of a horse.

When I talk about a system, I am also not talking about "third letter R" as one lady I used to work with betted on, I am talking about mechanical, rigid rules which allow no human intervention, like can be seen in the "up up and up" thread, ie up in class up in weigght, up in distance. Form analysis is not a system because it requires imagination and thought and decision making, hence the word analysis.

Duritz.