I had Al's Flyer rated well above the rest of the field including STT. Weird eh?
Considering you (XPT) had STT well above the rest. It is like when 10 different people all have their "best bets" in the same race but everyone best bet is a different horse in the field, so the entire lineup of horses is given the best bet tag.

In terms of backing shorties, the only reason i don;t do it is because i don;t outlay enough in the first place to make it worth my while. Although i agree with the reasoning that if you have a horse rated at 1.1 but it starts at 1.5 that is a good bet. I think all-ups are a good bet to utilize though, i know one pro who uses them all the time. If i was betting say 500 the win or whatever i would have probably had a double stake i.e. 1000 on bentleigh biscuit yesterday, but because i only wager small ammounts i was happy just too have a couple of bob each way on amboise so i ended up getting money back and bit extra and there was always a chance that a roughie got up.

Also i had a pretty good day betting the outsiders in small fields yesterday. I got about 4, a couple at northam and missed out on mavericks honour who just went down by like a half head.