The price is important. This is how I work. Once I make my pick - 99% of the time the night before - I then try and figure where and when I can get the best price.

Who says the openers are accurate? Its just opinion until the race is over.

If its 8/1 fixed on the tote fixed price the night before, and I think it should be 3 or 4/1 and I'm sure it has a great chance then I get on it. Quite often (not always) I do good this way.

Sometimes if I think a horse is money in the bank, and it is $2.20 the night before and I'm willing to back it at short odds, I might wait until the last moment. Sometimes it goes into $1.80 (odds on, look on). But sometimes it blows out to $2.80, when punters all of a sudden notice C. Williams on another horse in the race.

I go to different online bookies to get the best price.

I have never put money on a horse just because of the odds. I got to think its the one.