Basic criteria help please

[Viaticus]

Morning. I am thinking about specialising in a particular subset of racing and I’d like to get some feedback on my chosen criteria. Basically I’m recreational and o don’t want to get bogged down with complex systems etc at this point. What I’d like to do is focus on an area that interests me and try to become a bit of a specialist in that area. 

 

My chosen criteria is as follows

distance 1m to 1m4f

class 3 and above

5-10 runners

all ages

handicaps.

 

so my questions are

should i include listed and group races or would that increase the information to a point where it would be hard to handle. I’m trying to keep scrolling through form to a min

Is all ages a good idea or should o reduce further to say just 2yo or 3yo etc

If I stick to handicaps above C3 are there enough c3,2,1 handicap races each week to have betting opportunities? 

 

Any other feedback back would be welcome. 

 

Im looking for a small easy to manage easy to keep on top of and easy to follow horses with out spending hours per day or getting over whelmed.

 

cheers

 

[BillyHills]

Hi @Viaticus mate, welcome to Punters Lounge

The basic idea of concentrating on a particular division within racing is a sound one but you have to be careful how much you limit yourself. For example I have had a quick look through the cards today and you wouldn't have had a qualifier (mainly due to the amount of runners you want to limit)

 

 

56 minutes ago, Viaticus said:

Is all ages a good idea or should o reduce further to say just 2yo or 3yo etc

You wont many 2yo races at the distance you require so probably best left to all ages.

 

57 minutes ago, Viaticus said:

should i include listed and group races or would that increase the information to a point where it would be hard to handle. I’m trying to keep scrolling through form to a min

Totally different kettle of fish to handicaps so I would do one or the other personally. The distance bracket you have chosen is actually good for non-handicaps but your betting will be done at the weekend and at festivals like York, Ascot, Goodwood etc...

 

58 minutes ago, Viaticus said:

If I stick to handicaps above C3 are there enough c3,2,1 handicap races each week to have betting opportunities? 

You wont find a heap of Class 3 races at any trip during the early part of the week so further reducing the selections with trip and runners is obviously going to restrict this further. Now maybe that is what you want?? 
If you include Class 4 races this would open up many more opportunities but then you are getting into that tricky bracket where you get fast improvers clashing with out of form old handicappers!! Depends on how much racing you can watch/study.