Gday All

reading what Neil has to say about ratings makes me feel a whole lot better about the ratings I churn out.. It is Not rare to find 15/1 plus winners in the top 5.. It is difficult to do but not rare.. I agree that a lot of punters have no clue as how to use ratings properly, I don't care how well you can rate races, you will eventually go broke ONLY backing the top selection reigioulsy I have for a long time always prefaced anything I put up as look for value when it turns up.. of late I have stopped pricing my rated horses, rather just using a rating figure, which I guess can be meaningless.. I stopped pricing because a few people contacted me off forum, and said stuff like "you had Alinghi at $2, all i could get was $1.8 so i din't back it and missed a winner because of you, you bastid ".. Sure, if you use ratings properly you are going to miss those short priced things, but I don't see that as a problem.. What would have been wrong with keeping the cash you wanted to put on alinghi at $1.80 and plonking at on something that should be 6 or 7 bucks but is paying 15 or 20 or even 30? It wont be the top rated, but so what? If it wins you have achieved a huge overlay. And made some real nice money in the process.. Sometimes the overlays are few and far between but that happens..

I know some people dont agree with my ideas of how to use ratings, I have seen posted on this forum some posters saying that the measure of a rating service is its profits from their on top selection.. I think people who think along those lines obviously show no understanding of how to properly use ratings and nothing that is written or said to them will change their opinion (to which they have all the right in the world hold) .. but i feel that if they look deeper they will find that a lot of rating services, if used correctly will show you a nice profit.. It is not an easy job doing ratings, and I feel that most rating services I have seen are quite acceptable.. I do my own which I share with others, there is no gun held to people's head to use them, they are offered freely, for people to do with as they wish... I think over the period of time that I have been putting my ratings onto the forum that we have identified a lot of very very nice winners, even when they are not rated on top.. they still payed us in Australian Currency when we went to collect

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