I often hear of gamblers stating they always do the Number One horse or the Bottom horse on the race-card. Maybe they just do this for certain races, possibly handicaps or some other type of races. I have tried to see if there is any merit in this through collecting data and analysing it. Eventually I got to 2797 races, although I was still short on some of the big runner races i.e. 16+ runners mainly I still covered quite a lot of races and I decided I had enough to go on. To be fair this is not an in depth form guide, just looking at card numbers was a bit of a leap in the dark and done more to satisfy my own curiosity as to anything else. However, the results are interesting enough and I felt there might be others who might want to include this in their own strategy. Gambling is a dodgy pastime and one set of statistics on their own is maybe not enough to base your money on. However seeing how horses fare up and down the card for different types of races could provide some help.
The book contains tables of win and place percentages for each number of horse on a racecard and profit and losses for the same. Basically the number 1 horse, the number 2 horse and so on. This has some bearing on the weight they carry especially in handicaps as the top horses carry the most weight. The tables are divided into races of different types, handicaps, non handicaps, jump, all weather, flat and the amount of runners further divided into groups of 4-7 runners, 8-11 runners, 12-15 runners and 16+ runners. At the back of the book are some tables showing the best of these results. 38 tables are presented in all.