Jacfin. G'day. As you know, I'm not a great computer whizz and actually ONLY keep handwritten records of the longshot winners in detail and the total number of bets I've made. The one's that don't win I just note as P or NP (ie place, no place) and don't bother with divvies for them etc, or even the names. Anyhow this year I've bet 41 race meetings on Sat and Public Hols. On average you get about 25 bets per day. On Public Hols it is often the case that there are only 1 or 2 "quality" racemeetings as the Holiday is not nationwide., so these days are (kind of) "half-saturday" standard, with fewer bets. Anyway, from these 1000 odd bets (please, no instant cardiac arrests!!!) the return is just on 1800 Units. I suspect this is a little lower than usual. I don't keep very accurate records about a lot of things when they are profitable, as I'm of the "if it ain't broke, why fix it" school, so it's all a little "touchy-feely" with me.

Anyhow, here's something else everyone might want to look at from the recent past. Go to 30/4/2005 BR8. Could any horse be "worse" than this???? First run in 14 months!! Last time in it was about last in a field of 13 after another spell. (ie immediately spelled AGAIN). Before THAT it was also about last of 15. 2 runs in 18 months and both at the tail of the field. Hmmmm. This had THREE things going for it, however. You can probably see it's a dead cert "mechanical" and that it's not always been a Gold Coaster but the other "suspicious" manoeuvre might take a little closer inspection. It was THIS that showed conclusively that making Applicant an outsider was FALSE in the extreme. Cheers. Gotta run. Back tomorrow night or Sat morning.