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The world of horse racing punditry must, I’m sure, be a difficult world to inhabit. Every week you’re potentially subjecting yourself to scrutiny on your opinions while publicly forming your opinions on horses and people and if you get it wrong too often then your credibility with the public, and your colleagues, can be slowly eroded.
Unless you really know what you’re talking about then you could find yourself becoming sidelined in a relatively short space of time.
In a previous article I detailed a study of the top rated selections of the weekend racing paper The Wizard covering the spring racing period from September 3 to November 19 last year, over 12 Saturdays and 369 races in Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia and Queensland.
The overall figures showed a flat stake on each runner would have returned the punter $348 for a level stakes loss of 5.69 per cent.
In recent times I have become a fan of a systems approach in order to provide me with a base number of selections per betting day which I then put through my own rigorous form analysis.
Over many years of betting I have developed certain theories about form which I have great faith in, such as being extremely wary of betting on mares in open company, fillies against males, early runs in from a spell, too many days since the last run, age, wet track issues and in running positions.