1. Consider all maiden races regardless of track condition
2. Disregard any race where there are more than 16 runners
3. Eliminate all horses handicapped at MORE than 2.5 kilograms
over the bottom weight
4. Eliminate any remaining runners being ridden by an apprentice
5. Starting from the lowest TAB number, work your way up
the remaining runners.
The bet will be the first horse that has run 2nd at a TAB
meeting at its last start
There must not be a spell between that run and today –
in other words a horse whose form reads, for example, 52x
or 2X or 02X, would not be considered. It must be something
like 0X2 or 482 or 2 etc etc.
How do you tell if its last start was at a TAB meeting?
Easy. If you use the Unitab web site as your initial guide,
simply click on the horse’s name to get more detailed
form and, instead of seeing “2nd , Moruya, 19 Jan
08” etc etc you will note that the second you are
looking for is not there in its recent form and the
message will read “this information only includes
Form for Races/Meetings covered by Unitab”
As Unitab covers everything that moves that remotely looks
like a race you can take it as read that the start in question
was not at a TAB meeting.
If there are two or more runners left, look at the prize
money value of their last race. It may be the case that
one ran second in a $20000 maiden at Rosehill and the other
ran second in a $5000 Maiden at Bathurst. It goes without
saying the preference would be for the metro place getter.
If they are still equal after the prize money criteria,
the option is either to pass the race or take the one with
the lowest barrier number. (It may be easier to
pass the race – there will always be more races tomorrow!!)
6. If there are no horses that qualify under rule 5, go
through the process again but this time look for a qualifying
horse that ran 3rd at its last start and repeat the process.
7. No other horses are considered. (It was noticeable during
the test period that there seemed to be quite a lot of horses
that finished 4th at their last start that also went on
to win but, hey, where do you draw the line?) Follow these
rules and you’ll be surprised how many times you find
the winner and you’ll have a bit of fun with these
otherwise difficult races!
