Thanks for the input.

I'm not sure who it was, but there was published in this forum by a very respected and astute contributor here, someone with one of those vast data bases, published the averages for winning barriers. Barrier 1-7 was where the action was on average [barrier 8 is where the winners start to slide]. Beyond that, sure there is the horse in the outside barrier that gets up now and then at great odds etc. but what I am trying to do here is produce potential winners at the best frequency possible. I'm not trawling for exceptions and I know there are plenty of them. Win the war not the battle is always my war-cry.