Hi All,

I have two stories to relate whereby "systems" with no logical base have worked for me.. admittedly in the short term. I'm curious whether other people have similar stories, and perhaps ones where they have worked for longer periods of time.

Up until 3 months ago, I was betting with the aid of the Neurals. My settings had been researched over a period of time, and intially they looked like they'd be a winner, but I ended up almost losing my entire bank for that system. I had noticed that simply betting race 1 and race 2 on the card was very successful, so I put the last few bets on the bank on race 1 and 2 only, and managed to win back my original bank over a period of about 3 weeks. I stopped at that point. Now many will say Race 1 and Race 2 are maidens or poor class events, but analysing all races on the cards that were maidens or of a similar class didn't work... It was simply race 1 and race 2.

My other "system" is a system which takes ratings and bets them only on those tracks where they appear to have won in the past. I did an analysis of each track and simply picked those (yes - backfitting, I know) where they worked in the past. A list of 21 tracks. I've been betting these selectiosn for the last 4 months, and have doubled my bank. What makes this even more bizarre is that I don't bet these selections if any of my other systems select them, and my actual profit is far better than it would be having bet them all.

Now, I recognise that both these approaches are quite illogical. I have no faith that either of them will actually work long term, but they both have appeared to work over a period of time. The "tracks" approach in particular is 4 months and 500 bets.

Comments?

Cheers,
Chris.