Obviously I misinterpreted what you said Laurie and incorrectly assumed that your comment was a shot. Please accept my sincere apologies for my jumping to the wrong conclusion. Sorry mate.

On barriers, when I did my results analysis I was quite surprised that they didn't figure quite as prominently as I thought they would. After 30 years of punting the mugs way it took me a lot of self discipline to learn to accept what the stats told me and not what my brain was saying.

I built my method around the most recurring statistics (2 year period) and without showing all my cards they include things like in the top 5 average prizemoney earners in the race, where it finished at its most recent start, its pre-post newspaper odds, a horse must be within a certain number of points of top rated (Sportsman) zipform runner and even (believe it or not) saddlecloth number! Of course there are more. (You're probably thinking ******???)

The stats simply showed me that there IS a discernible pattern to racing form and I think that I was probably lucky to delve into the results deeply enough to find the right ones. Further, I only bet on Metropolitan race meetings and then only in specific races and NEVER, EVER on rain affected ground.

Maverick, to answer your question, I don't ever set out to bets on tris, doubles, quinellas etc...but very occasionally I may have 2 or more selections in a race and I'll take a small multi bet more or less as an interest. My main bets are always on a 1 win x 3 place ratio.

Cheers

Privateer