I'm only paper trading them of course, and I'm only 2 days in - yesterday there were a couple of good places as I mentioned, today there were 7 possibles that returned a 2nd at 28/1, a winner at 15/2 and a 3rd at 8/1 - all I've done for these is look at the odds of the top rated runner in each race and gone for top rated plus odds (the fc odds in the full ratings sheet column E) and waited to see what they do.
I got my full ratings routine to do a separate dump of the top 2 in each race, and so far it's just been top rated - I'm ignoring those that are the only rated horse in the field etc and really looking for runners that have at least a moderate rating. I'm also watching the flags, for example an OR flag of 2 showing a win at the current OR, or a 1 showing placed at this OR, might be a hint in handicaps. I'll see what does and doesn't pop up and catch the eye, and see if there's any mileage in it.... fairly low key therefore, there's no rush.
I'll attach the 'top2' version of the full ratings sheet - you have to ignore anything with odds of 999 (non runner) and decide for yourself what odds to go for.
For example:
Gowran 1150 (line 4) Midnight Geisha is odds of 999 so a non runner
Huntingdon 1155 Strictly Art odds 50/1, rating isn't awful, non-handicap so the OR=2 is less of a bonus, placed on going and at distance.
There are several races with the top rated at lower odds, then we come to
Gowran 1225 Chief of Police with a moderate rating, 20/1, non handicap, placed before at the distance
Haydock 1240 Amalfi Doug has a decent rating, placed at going and distance, has woin for this jockey and has won off this OR in the past.... odds a bit lower at 12/1 though.
If you look through the top2 file you'll see these are easy enough to spot an decode pretty quickly. I suspect that like all things there'll be a very low win rate and long losing runs involved!
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ps I've picked a total of 11 out for tomorrow, just based on top rated and long odds - I'd expect any decent betting opportunity to require more filtering than this but until I can see what does or does not seem to help I'm just seeing what the broad brush strokes produce.