[Rickety]

Hi folks.

Thanks for the replies to my post.
Once again health issues pulled me away from the PC and from Racing really!
I’ll try to answer the points raised.

I don’t mind my ‘approach’ being referred to as a system, and yes I do have a refreshed list of horses every year. Some of the horses will stay on my list but at the first sign I have picked a ‘rouge’, I don’t hesitate to scratch it.

I wasn’t casting any aspersions on any particular Racing author; AP especially not. But my racing library has plenty of Kilgallon, Holt, Braddock and yes, Stewart Simpson (Whom Clive Holt seems to doubt exists.) I couldn’t understand why Clive Holt took that stance. True, a lot of the major players at the courses must know one another, but that doesn’t mean Stewart Simpson used his real name when he wrote his book. Nor does it follow that he was a ‘face’. Maybe he was practicing what he preaches, and always kept his head down.

Anyhow, I found some of the pointers in ‘Always Back Winners’ to be quite useful, and I worked out my own way of reading Race Returns, using that book; among others. Clive Holt even used the term Always Back Winners in the rambling title of his second book. I am not criticising Clive Holt by the way. But his basic selection system (Fineform) does seem a little arbitrary to me and most of the system pointers need to be qualified with further conditions.

The nearest I could find to his working methods, was Braddock, who again relies on form. (Most of his selections come from the first three in the betting too, as it happens.) So that tells me something, straight away.

So as I am just back into having a flutter after a long rest, I shall have to rebuild my ‘expertise’. I was sad to note that Racing Post is no longer free, online. Raceform Update and the Weekender seem to have sunk without trace (Unless my search engine is junk,) and Superform can’t rely on the Royal Mail any more. (Could we ever?) and is closed indefinitely. If anyone can update me here I’d be obliged. I shall have to subscribe to Racing Post though I imagine!

Otherwise, I will have to return to the lucky pin, or get ‘er indoors to pick my winners because she likes the names!

I haven’t got a full list this year, as I am still sitting on the latest bout of surgery.. If you get my drift. Shall we say I have piles of time, but no inclination to sit at the PC too long!

So again, if anyone knows where I can obtain reasonably priced access to the Race Returns, I would be eternally grateful.

All the best folks.
Rickety.

[Rickety]

Hi folks.. Just back into having a flutter after a long rest. Sad that Racing Post is no longer free. Raceform Update and the Weekender seem to have sunk without trace (Unless my search engine is junk,) and Superform can’t rely on the Royal Mail any more. (Could we ever?) and is closed indefinitely.

So where I am going to get my form reading and Race Returns from I don’t know. I certainly enner paying for the interactive disc from Raceform! So it seems I will have to return to the lucky pin, or get ‘er indoors to pick my winners because she likes the names!

Nice to be here and Hi again folks.

Rickety-Stick

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