Hi all. Yesterday I bought my first Sportsman in many years, just for a read. During the afternoon I jotted down a few points and a couple of very simple stats jumped out at me.

How many others read the Sportsman and those Zip Form ratings in them. They put an * next to their top rated runner/s in each race. Of the 40 races that they covered yesterday, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth of course, if you were to:

Only take the top rated * horse if it was either the Top Ranked Place S/R horse and/or the Top Ranked APM horse, this is how you would have fared:

17 Bets for 9 winners and a return of $32.00 on the nswtab. Had you gone one step further and eliminated them if they were to go up in weight more than 2kgs, you would have then had 14 Bets for 8 Winners, for a return of $29.00.

You do the maths on POT, and S/R, very nice.....! How long has this been going on, just a one off day,..? Anyone have any similar stats to these,

Paul