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Admin step in please…… Couldn’t agree more. There is a lot of honest, hard work and dedication goes into the posts on here and it’s always an interesting read. We don’t need this nonsense clogging up the forum. I know we don’t have to read it but it’s an irritating aside that I’m sure the majority can do without.

Mark me down as ‘not interested’.

Maria's a bit like Van Der Wheil. You either believe it or you don't believe it. Personally I don't believe that either were as successful as they would like us to believe. I never saw any before the race predictions from either although they were both very wise after an event. Plenty of people have spent an awful lot of time and research on the 'Flying Dutchman' so they must think it's all worth the effort. I prefer more simple strategies which are also less time consuming. At the end of the day if you can consistently win above the average minimum wage at this game you are doing well. The pleasure is in the action and the joy is when you are proved right. Infrequently for me, unfortunately but I do better now that I can read the research of some of the sages on this forum. Thanks, guys and gals.

I think it's fair to say that our suspicions have been confirmed. Laying long term is the hardest game in gambling.

Nigel Taylor (FORMCAST) has gone and now Sam Turner (Robin Goodfellow) has departed from the racing pages of the Daily Mail. Has anybody any idea who might be taking over from Sam, if anybody, or are they just going to share the job amongst the tea boys and cut and paste artists that they currently employ. FORMCAST has not been replaced and you need super powered specs to read the minuscule print words on the ever diminishing racing pages. This used to be my number one resource but is now just a shadow of what it used to be. Such a shame.

Thanks and well done to all who took part. How you find and name some of those winners is beyond me! And, of course, thanks to MCLARKE whose meticulous record keeping makes it all so easy to follow.

'+32.4 units profit now (using BSP net of 2% commission)' then three losers Friday and three losers Tuesday I reckon brings the 'profit' to less than 29 units. Can you confirm that we're no longer backing to win £30 but that we're backing 1 pt level stakes and, on that basis the system is currently 26 points up or are my calculations out? I'm confused. Anyway, thanks for the postings and good luck with your selections.

You post some amazing stats Mc. Thanks for that. I find them all fascinating and wish I had access to a database such as yours. As a matter of interest, which forecast do you use to gather the favourite information? I’m also following your Cheltenham stats with great interest. Thank you for all the information and for all the hard work that you put in. I hope it yields some good profits for you.

On Saturday the Daily Mail announced, in a very low key manner, that Nigel Taylor’s FORMCAST would be ending after 43 years. Now, I know that there have been many systems and methods based around the Top Rated 78 horse and also that some of them were quite successful, particularly in the non-handicap races. So, this morning I opened the paper to see what the replacement ‘private handicap ratings’ would be like. Unbelievably, in this day and age, there was no replacement. Just a list of runners for each race together with the usual betting forecast and they haven’t even printed the number of declarations per race. What a shambles! What used to be one of the country’s leading formcards now becomes a shadow of its former self. Talk about back to the drawing board. A very disappointing start to the week and my subscription to the rag will cease at the end of the month.