benny, you would almost certainly have a greater chance of success by dumping the tipsters & selecting a couple of youngish trainers within each state that have a decent number of nags in work & following them, esp after a couple of runs up & when there are signs of stable support.

i, like you & a 1,000,000 others would love to be able to wake up each morning (abt 10 ish), give the family jewels a good scratch, stumble down to the local tab, quickly scan the fields (or whatever) for the day, lay the $1k in bets, go home & forget about it all until beer ocklock (abt 4 ish) & go & collect the $1.2k that is just sitting there, waiting for me.

& i am sure that i managed to do that for a few months thru one of my alcoholic delusional phases...