Hi fellas.
Just a short update. I have still not done any betting since Saturday so I don’t know what sort of results you’ve been having. I heard earlier today that 1 month’s rain fell in 24 hours recently. In my mind, this makes a mockery of the HRP software. The software is brilliant but it isn’t designed to make selections based on waterlogged racecourses and howling gales. (Well at least I don’t think it is.)
Imagine this scenario: Colin Jackson, the Olympic, World, European, Commonwealth and British 110 metre hurdling champion. Mr Jackson has won his heats and is now in the Men’s 110 metre hurdles final at the Olympics.
The Officials tell all the competitors the night before the race that instead of the Final taking place on the super perfect synthetic track, it will be held on grass, which has been rained on constantly for the last 3 months.
How many hurdlers would:
- Slip at the first hurdle and crash straight into it.
- Jump the first hurdle OK but their landing foot gives way on the saturated grass and they collapse in a heap with serious injuries.
- Some complete no-hoper takes his time, jogs to the hurdles and steps carefully over each one and wins in a time of 45 seconds because all the other competitors have fallen?
In my non-horsey brain, this is akin to asking the well trained horses to go jumping in this treacherous weather.
I love the HRP software and it has performed brilliantly. However, in conditions such as we’ve experienced and are still experiencing, it seems to me that betting has become a lottery. The software is selecting horses which should perform well, but the weather has dumped all the contenders in a bag & it’s a lucky dip as to which one gets round unscathed.
I will be waiting for the conditions to buck up and dry out a bit, thus making my betting less of a lottery.
I hope you understand my reasons for not posting my selections and just look forward to getting back in the swing of things just as soon as possible.
Thanks,
Doc.