Me, stirring? Surely that's the pot calling the kettle black.

Ah Glenelg - the only suburb in Aus that you can spell backwards and still be right.

Your investigation of those losing races shows a very good nose for sniffing out what's going on - it's those discoveries that can give you a very profitable edge.

I'm so glad you've moved away from the "POT crowd" description, "POT adherents" is clearly a whole new view. To me that's like calling public companies "Annual Report adherents". I do honestly think you're trying to see too much in this discussion. For me, it's simply a measure of profitability, which could be used as a planning tool, similar to the concept of a company making some use of its previous annual report in its forward planning.

I think this whole POT thing has run its race, so I won't go on with it. May all those longshots keep romping in for you!