in his book winning in the 90's Don doesn't metion a rating for a class 3 for either syd sat or mid week. I figue about 52 for a sta class 3 and 51 for a midweek class considering that a country midweek class 3 is 46 and sat class 3 would be a bit stronger.

Can anyone please advise?

benny

You might try this. If you look at the NSW "Ratings Based Handicapping Template" a horse jumping from a Country Class 3 to a Saturday metro 3YO&UP Class 3 would expect to carry 4-6kg less in the city. In fact the template basically gives this as an example.

"A Class 3 horse rated 77 could ascertain the following weights across the template
...
Metropolitan Class 3 = 58kg
...
Country Class 3 = 63.5kg"

Just an idea, but it does throw Don's scales out a bit. I guess we have moved on 16 years since that book was published.

Don Scott died dead broke. The bookies cleaned him out :-)

Betting midweek is desperate. Stick to rating proper races.

your opinion which i stongly disagree with,

plenty of 'good' betting races mon thru fri, saturdays? plenty of class & glamour but often the hardest day of the week to turn a quid, sundays are usually mostly rubbish & one should have at least one day a week away from the nags

& what exactly is a 'proper race'?

If you say so.

If there's a race on there's an opportunity. There's more than one way to skin the punting cat. In my view it's a matter of matching the method to the situation. It's a race to race, day to day thing

PS: No punting on Sundays and non-Public Holiday Mondays for me. There are other things.

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"It's worth remembering that profit isn't profit until it's spent off the racecourse." -- Crash

& thanks for clearing that up...

I am pretty sure that if you find the winner of a Sale Maiden at 5/1 on a thursday afternoon and find the winner of the Cox plate at 5/1... and have 100 on each... I am pretty sure you end with the same amount of cash in the pocket... from each winner...

IMO as a participant in country racing..What you have written there, is insulting to all involved in country and midweek racing around the country..

Proper races??? gimme a break...

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If betting on Maidens is your thing go for it. Sounds pretty desperate to me.

I don't back favourites very often so i don't care how many Favs win on Sat. If you go around backing favs every race you will lose more often than not.

A proper race to me is a race where horses have a bit of class about them and the form means something.

If you like low class crappy midweek races then go for it.