I found this, care to elaborate?

[Cons]

So I was looking at various types of bet and came across this in a seperate section: _________________________________ [h=2]Races to Avoid[/h] [TABLE=class: contentpaneopen]

[TR] [TD] Horse Racing - Horse Racing General [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] When arriving at my selections, races I consider best avoided include the following:

• Over 14 runners
• Amateurs only races
• Hunter Chases
• Apprentice only races
• Conditional Jockeys only races
• Ladies only races
• Any 14 runner or less race where a proportion of runners are unexposed

_________________________________ Could anyone elaborate to the problems above, I really dont understand why they are problem races and Im still very new to myself betting, thank you

[Trotter]

Re: I found this, care to elaborate? Well.........the general idea is to avoid races where either there are unknown factors or too many runners Field Size - I rarely bet in races with more than about 8 or 9 runners ........obviously if there are only 7 runners you have a better chance of finding a winner than you would have if there are 28 runners and it only takes a quarter of the time to study the form. Unexposed horses - If you have a 10 runner race and 6 of them have never run or only run once or twice then you're dealing with unknowns - you don't know how good they are, you don't know what their best distance, going etc is Hunter Chases are likely to have runners who'#s form is in Point-to-Point racing and it's difficult to assess how good they are unless you really specialise in that field All the other relate to races for amateur or inexperienced jockeys - again the argument is that you don't know if the jockey is any good Basically it's about race selection - you're faced with 30-odd races on a typical day. Your big advantage is that you can pick which ones to bet in and which ones to leave alone. Whoever wrote the list is suggesting some 'rules' which you might use to decide which races to avoid