I had Al's Flyer rated well above the rest of the field including STT. Weird eh?
Considering you (XPT) had STT well above the rest. It is like when 10 different people all have their "best bets" in the same race but everyone best bet is a different horse in the field, so the entire lineup of horses is given the best bet tag.

In terms of backing shorties, the only reason i don;t do it is because i don;t outlay enough in the first place to make it worth my while. Although i agree with the reasoning that if you have a horse rated at 1.1 but it starts at 1.5 that is a good bet. I think all-ups are a good bet to utilize though, i know one pro who uses them all the time. If i was betting say 500 the win or whatever i would have probably had a double stake i.e. 1000 on bentleigh biscuit yesterday, but because i only wager small ammounts i was happy just too have a couple of bob each way on amboise so i ended up getting money back and bit extra and there was always a chance that a roughie got up.

Also i had a pretty good day betting the outsiders in small fields yesterday. I got about 4, a couple at northam and missed out on mavericks honour who just went down by like a half head.

Mav / Sportz / Others

Looking for a plethera of cigars today (touch wood!)....!!!

Yep, pretty ordinary day yesterday.... but I've been thereabouts lately..... but yesterday was not real good at all!.... but as X has said - you gotta trust your process.....

Good luck today people.....

Stix

mad

Today I've got:
GOS 5-10 Bella Senora
BGO 8-3 Trusty Assistant
IPS 6-8 Bella Bandito

Hope it's a Bella day !!

Stix

Ipswich 2-1 Hardrock Diamond
Ipswich 6-1 Mr Sequential
Gosford 2-5 Emzamar
Gosford 7-4 Bird of Dawning
Bendigo 1-4 Barefoot Ballerina
Bendigo 7-4 San Antonio
New Zealand 8-10 Sea Bell

I haven't been able to do a lot of form study today as I'm feeling **********. I have an absolute shocking headache at the moment.

Anyway, here were some that I jotted down last night.

Ipswich
Race 7 - 4 MOONBI NYMPH, 5 Newmarket

Gosford
Race 5 - 11 DEAD SET CERTAINTY, 10 Bella Senora
Race 7 - 4 BIRD OF DAWNING, 3 Big Red Ball (4,3,1,6 - 9,5)
Race 8 - 10 KAKAKAKATIE & 2 GOLDEN DRAKE (10,2,1,12 - 5,6)

Bendigo
Race 2 - 10 MINORCA*, 6 Artisan
Race 4 - 5 COSTALOTS*, 2 Sunboy Tiger
Race 5 - 9 MISTER PEDANTIC & 1 DRAGON BOAT (9,1,11,10)

Not sure how well they'll go. As I said, I haven't really looked at them today except to check the scratchings. Anyway, now I'm off to bed to try to get rid of this damn headache.

I reckon its from working the form too hard, finding toooo many winners ............ and celebrating (drinking) toooooo much !! (LOL)

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Hey Sportz...hope you get better mate and thanks for still getting out your picks for the day...youve been on a great roll...

Get better soon!

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Why waste money on education when you can gamble it away on the horses? Its more fun when youre doing it and you learn quickly...esp when you lose...

having a shocker so far, but will get it all back when Mr Sequential wins, so no harm done!

Chuck....

I know how you feel.

I've got Bella Bandito against Mr Sequential in R6..... I think Mr S is the one to beat... I'll be going 1,11 - 3,4,9,5

And @ Gosford in the next 10,11 - 2,5,7

Good Luck

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............OR NOT !......

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