Raw Instinct Forget the term "average price" My selection has to be within a certain price range in the newspaper market to qualify. Where will you be on Saturday? Members? Public stand?

My "average prizemoney" criteria is assessed by looking at the total prizemoney won and dividing it by the number of starts it has had.

"As a mathematician do you find the chances of your selections running a place are 3x greater or more as opposed to winning?" Mathematician eh? LOL You're closer to the truth in the last line of your post! Don't know about the mthematical percentages but I like the idea of having 3 chances to collect money instead of only one. Each way all day!

Nope, not every race throws up a selection. On average I end up with a total of between 6 and 12 selections across 4 meetings on a Saturday and less when the tracks are rain affected as I don't bet on wet tracks. Further, I don't rate every race i.e. jumps, some 2 y.o's, city maidens, rubbishy Saturday fields in Adelaide, those with less than 8 runners etc.

I only use 9 criteria. Number 17 is where "barrier importance" rated on my final evaluation list after doing the research.

The order of importance is not really relevant to how I make the final selection but simply provided me with a guide on which to establish a betting method (and also which punting traps not to fall into ever again)

Lastly Ed, if you backed a horse paying $4 Win & $1.50 for the place on a 1 x 3 ratio and it ran 2nd or 3rd, you still win money! Better than seeing your entire win bet stay in the TAB/Bookies bags. Even if you up to a 1 x 4 ratio and it pays $1.30 you still don't lose. Then again, I reckon I can count on two hands how many times I've done that.

Cheers

Privateer