Every fortnight we read what members are asking the System Builder. One sentence stood out this time, because one member typed it — and retyped it — around twenty times: a fast finisher last time, unlucky in running, near the head of the market. It is a good angle. It is also a hard one to phrase. So we built it properly, on camera.
The sentence becomes rules
Type it into the Ask box and the builder drafts three rules. Hard-Luck Story last time — beaten, but the sectional model has it winning once its one inefficient section is corrected. Finishing Speed vs Par of 4 or more — the “104 per cent” in the original question, measured against the ground-adjusted par for that race rather than a flat hundred. And SP Rank 1–4: the top four in the betting. Nothing runs on its own. You read the rules, change anything you would do differently, and press Run yourself.
An honest first answer
Five years of racing, nearly 1,900 bets, and one in four of them won. But the verdict chip says market par: A/E 1.02, and a fraction under break-even at Betfair SP. The sectionals found good horses — and so did everyone else.
One breakdown to tighten it
The BSP Band breakdown shows where the money goes. Between 4/1 and 15/2 the angle loses fourteen per cent; at the short end it pays, and Evens to 15/8 carries it. One click adds that band as a rule. The re-run is 255 bets, nearly half of them winners and profitable at Betfair SP — and the chips still keep you honest: not significant yet, and too few recent runs to judge the holdout. A lead to follow, not a bank to raid.
Save it and let the mornings do the work
Name it, save it, and it is active at once. The Qualifiers tab reads the next declarations against the two sectional rules — the ones known before the off — and says plainly that the price rules wait for the market. With the morning email switched on, the same list is in your inbox by 8am.
The System Builder comes with Proform Premium. The sectional filters inside it — Hard-Luck Story, Finishing Speed vs Par — need the Sectionals add-on.
