The Feelgood System

The system has been devised by using the country's most successful and consistent trainers and combining these with the best of current form.

The basis of this system is a MASTER LIST of TRAINERS and the current Season's list of Trainers is as follows:

TRAINER	POINTS
Martin Pipe	20
David Nicholson	19
Paul Nicholls	18
Mary Reveley	17
Miss Venetia Williams	16
Nick Henderson	15
Nigel Twiston Davies	14
Kim Bailey	13
P. Hobbs	12
G. Richards	11
Mrs S.J. Smith	10
J.Old	9
Henrietta Knight	8
O. Sherwood	7
L. Lungo	6
M. Hammond	5
J.J. O`Neill	4
P. Bowen	3
R.H. Alner	2
Mrs J. Pitman	1

You will see that each Trainer is allocated a certain number of `points` - these play an important part in deciding which horses we back.

Before telling you how to decide which horse to back, we now come to the meeting to chose. Obviously, if only one meeting takes place that is the meeting for the day but if more than one takes place you back the day's PRINCIPLE MEETING. If this meeting is abandoned or if your particular Newspaper does not designate the PRINCIPLE MEETING then simply use the meeting with the highest total prize money on offer.

** PLEASE NOTE ** Whilst we state that you use just the one meeting per day many purchasers do actually operate the System on ALL the meetings that take place on the day; this is left to your own personal preference.

At the stipulated meeting examine each race and give appropriate points to horses trained by handlers in the master list above. For example, any horse trained by the Trainer at the top of the list receives 20 points whilst any runner trained by the Trainer at the bottom of the list will receive 1 point.

Add additional points to those horses which finished in the first four places on their most recent run PROVIDED IT TOOK PLACE THIS SEASON.

Allot 10 points to any runner which won last time out.

Allot 7 points to any runner which finished second last time out.

Allot 6 points to any runner who finished third last time out.

Allot 3 points to any runner which finished fourth last time out.

REMEMBER - ONLY PRESENT SEASON'S FORM !!!

The system horse is the one with the highest rating in each race.

If no horse in a race is trained by one of the Trainers in the MASTER LIST still allocate points for placings.

You then have your selections for the day.

You then back these on a staking plan of 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 points but stopping immediately you have a winner,

If you do not have a winner on any particular day simply revert back to 1 point the following day.

IMPORTANT: Any horse which is top rated and quoted odds on are discarded; simply omit that race.