System Thought Experiments

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I thought it might be useful to have a thread to post ideas you've had for a system even if you don't intend to actually run the system because you haven't quite got it worked out......or haven't got the time or inclination.......to run things up the flagpole and see if anyone salutes, as the marketing boys used to say Maybe an idea will spark something in another poster............ I've had an idea after reading Jay's nursery thread The kernal of it is that you look for horses in nurseries that haven't run for 60 days or more (this could be flexible but the point being that they haven't run for some time) The logic is that during the absence from the track they will have grown and matured (being two year olds) but the handicapper will be rating them on their form from 60 days earlier. Two months in the life of a two year old is a long time when they're developing rapidly.The horses who have run recently will be handicapped on their current ability Most trainers these days can ready a horse at home but the betting public don't like horses with big numbers for 'days since last run'........and the Post/Life will often put a negative comment about 'if ready' or 'absence to overcome' It would be neat to have a filter that you stick to horses from yards in form or who have a record of winners after breaks, not sure how you might go about deciding this Any ideas for developing this ? Anything obvious I've missed as to why it would be useless ? Any other ideas to chuck in the ring for positive criticism ?

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Re: System Thought Experiments Monday - Leicester 2.50 - 17 runner nursey Alice's dancer - 81 days Gifted dancer - 43 days Damask - 73 days Bella ponte - 122 days No filters applied.........let's see how they get on !