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Any successful punter, and by successful I mean profitable, is getting ‘value’ one way or another. However I do have some empathy with the view that the term has been glibly bandied about so much that, for many, it has lost it’s meaning.<br>Having given it a little thought I also realise my earlier comments dissuading people from ‘winner-finding’ and promoting ‘value-seeking’ may be misguided. To find ‘value’ I suspect you don’t necessarily have to consciously set out with that as the over-riding driver of your strategy. A good ‘winner finding’ strategy, where the strategist has developed a methodology which can pinpoint winners more accurately than others, may well be profitable, whether the devloper has set out with the pursuit of ‘value’ as his number one criteria or not. He will be finding ‘value’ of course, but the point I am making is that it can be a by-product rather than the main thrust of the methodology.<br>Clear as mud!<br>Many ways of skinning a cat is what I suppose I’m saying. Each to his own.<br>
(Edited by cormack15 at 9:50 am on June 27, 2003)
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i would take in much of what you and cormack are saying
and for many you may be right about winner finders being relentless favorite backers
but some may say a horse being favorite does not mean it has the best form in the race it only appears so
Prine Regent is of course correct.<br>Many favs are just that because of jockey bookings or who trains them. <br>What about some odds on favs in maiden races when they have yet to run? they have no form whatsoever.<br>Any method that just concerns backing favs will fail.<br>Tony Mc Coy said half his horses that start as fav are just because of the Pipe Mc Coy factor.
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