Mark, in Skibo Castle's race there were several unraced horses. Could this have an adverse effect on your selection process?

No Michael, just bad luck. The only place that horse was in front was right on the line. grrrrr
Photo's in the last couple of weeks have not favoured me. Margins of less than a 1/2 head have cost me dearly lately.

The only thing that keeps me going, is knowing that Maria made nothing over a period of 70 days, and had another run where she lost 4.5 % over 30 days.

Ipswich
R3 4 IMPERIAL GROUCH.......................4.4
R4 4 FRISCO AFFAIR............................no bet
R5 10 MAXIMISS .................................no bet
R7 2 RED ABERNANT ...........................3.1 fav

Canterbury
R4 5 ANEXTRA ....................................no bet
R5 6 FULLY ARMED ..............................no bet
R6 6 SPRINGDINGO ............................7.19
R7 1 FLYING ORDERS ..........................no bet

Sandown
R2 6 HIGH CZAR .................................no bet
R5 4 DISCORSI ...................................no bet
R6 6 FLASHNIKOV ...............................no bet

Coffs
R3 3 TIGRE D'OR .................................3.55
R5 7 GALLIC MISS ...............................off
R6 4 SONOFA STAR .............................off
R7 3 BELLBUCCA .................................off
R8 3 GYMNASIUM ................................off

Kyneton
R2 10 SKIBO CASTLE ...........................6.2....won (nose, again!!)
R3 3 DENSARRAY ................................no bet
R4 5 THINKING ...................................no bet
R5 8 FAYE'S HAT .................................8.0
R7 3 LURE THE LION ............................3.7....won
R8 2 ZWAHILLION ...............................no bet....big priced winner

7 bets, 2 losers, nett loss $27.44
New bank $2005.81, amazingly still in profit.
Bets unchanged.

Yes, its amazing its still in profit after a poor strike rate. I would say your staking method must be very good, and so I would not feel too discouraged.

Once the strike rate picks up, so too should the profit.

I've been thinking about your comments on the TAB 1-3 numbers. I believe it would have had another good day today by limiting the lay price to $10. Tomorrow hopefully I'll give it a go but I'll record seperately the Listed, Group and Set Weights to the Handicaps, Class races, Restricted, etc. We'll see what happens.

I've had that problem all my life :(

Chin up!

Pixie

You are really doing well, Mark. Disappointing that there are so many of your picks that don't win, yet they are outside your prices range. {Actually Maria says a few times that she did have another band that she did bet on --- but she did not want to get people being carried away. Zwahillion was certainly a cautionary tale in that regard.****

Not sure why Fully Armed and Densarray could not have been layed. Their starting prices on the UniTab were O.K.. I wasn't able to be at the computer all yesterday (and missed both the winners!!); so there probably was some reason.

Day 6

Warwick Farm
R6 9 GREY STREAM

Caulfield
R1 1 SNORT
R3 7 MILLIE ROSE
R4 2 FURIO

Doomben
R1 1 WAKIL
R4 3 RAPID REASON
R6 13 SHA'BOURNE REGAL

R6 13 SHA'BOURNE REGAL

I'll have bit of that thanks, what odds?

R4 3 RAPID REASON
I'll have a bit of that too!

ouch
 

ouch!, mark, you had a similar day to myself me thinks, a shocker!

anyones thinks its easy to pick a 'loser', better rethink that illusion (delusion?) right now