Hi kiwi,

When you say favourites do you mean tote/BF favourites or my top rater?

The stats on my top rater for distances over 1999 metres is 5 winners 30 losers for -6.48 units (14.29% SR / -18.50% POT), so your right there is a loss there but i'd say the sample size is probably too small at the moment to draw too many conclusions.

I won't give away my exact filters but i'll say the two things i've found to improve the backing side the most are field size and form in the track conditions. I've found the form in the track conditions also very important to the lay side as well.

While I don't use it as a filter at the moment, one of the other filters I think can be quite helpful is days last start (7-21) although basically everyone is aware of this and probably use it already to some extent which makes it less appealing as a filter.