Sandown 22/12/04

RACE 4

1. $2.2
8. $3.75
2. $7.0

RACE 5

1. $3.5
9. $3.9
2. $5.0
5. $8.5
13. $10.0

RACE 6

1. $1.6
4. $6.5

RACE 7

9. $2.6
5. $2.9
7. $5.5

RACE 8

9. $3.2
12. $4.2
1. $5.5
2. $6.0

Best Bets are:

Race 4 No.1 Music Star
Race 6 No.1 Our Court
Race 7 No.9 Cedar Tee (each way)

Doing pretty well so far.

Thanks Sportznut. The value's there, but the "good things" keep going down - today is a horrible day for favourites Sydney and Melbourne.

Ive had a terrible day on the punt, need All Elegance to dig me out of a big hole, created when i had alot on Rapid Chess in the 7th.

4 value winners from the five races rated:

Race 4 No.8 Twisted Times (assessed $3.6, $5.5 available)
Race 5. No.1 Power and Faith (assessed $3.5, $5.5 available)
Race 6 No.4 Lisas Bewitched (assessed $6.5, $7.5 available)
Race 8 No. 2 Dane's Jester (assessed $6.0, $13 available and much better on the tote)

Tough day for best bets with none of them getting up.

Filante those results are good, but I need to know when do you consider your selection a value bet? Your market is I assume framed to 100%, and with that being the case do they merely have to be longer than those odds to be value, or is there some other parameter? As you know with mine I simply use the old Don Scott method of 80% as an arbitrary figure, how do you decide?

Those ratings no the Ozeform site are pretty much the same ratings that IAS use when doing the form etc, so you'll find no problems with using them. They're probably the best ratings you could access to be honest, and they're free, and you get the whole history of the horse too. The only qualm is the laborious nature of typing in every horse. If you could access them by clicking on them in the form part of the website it'd be excellent.

Remember one thing when you're doing the form with ratings - there's no rule about what you should do every time in any given circumstance, because (and though it might sound cliched it's true) all horses are different. There's no right or wrong either, the only measure of right or wrong is whether you end up winning or losing. Try different things, but always look back on what you did and see what worked and what didn't.

Duritz,

Just a question. I assume weight allowances for females are already factored in?

By the way, I'm having trouble accessing some of the ratings. It seems to be just horses with an apostrophe in their name like today for example - He's A Hula, Bosun's Piper and Dancer's Edge. I remember a few years ago, you had to do something different when typing in such names, but I've forgotten what it was. Could you possibly help me out here?

Hmmm, I just managed to get the form for Frisco's Harem, so I'm not sure what was wrong with those other ones.

Sorry to hear of your timeout Imagele.
But if it helps any,I appreciate the long over.
In fact the hair on the back of my neck is standing up and a head rush.
Can't wait to get to that site and suss out the ratings.
I used to play with ratings,but think I might have taken it much too seriously.
I like your simplified approach.I feel you can know too much whereas in my younger years I thought you could never know enough.