Thank your for your responses to my post.

As I have spoken to many punters over the years who use some type of computer program
to help them along I thought I would just throw in this observation for interest.

Of those punters very few of them seemed to make any consistent ongoing profit. There
is only a very few that I can recall who were doing well and they used a common method of operation.

They would put in the time and do the research, handicapping, databasing, spreadsheeting and whatever else, to select a small group of runners for each race - some even bought in information. They would then distribute their bet over the small group of runners, usually by using a cheap dutching program. The size of the group varied between about 3 to 5 runners.

Obviously the key to the whole process was putting in the hard yards doing the research.

Good luck with your punting.