The best-performing system over the past seven days is Hove Pick1 (excl. A2/A6/D3/OR3), and the numbers it has put up are genuinely impressive. Across 24 selections, it has produced 8 winners — a strike rate of 33.3% — with 15 of those 24 picks finishing in the top two. The win ROI sits at 78.7% and the place ROI at 18.5%.
To put the 78.7% win ROI in plain terms: for every pound staked across these 24 bets, the system has returned 78.7 pence in profit. That is an exceptional return over any sample, though 24 bets is still a relatively short sequence and any assessment should account for that.
What makes this system interesting is its discipline. Rather than covering the whole Hove card, it filters out the grades where the model's predictive edge is weakest — A2 (very competitive, elite-level dogs), A6, D3, and OR3. What is left is a set of races where form tends to be more predictable and where the top composite pick has historically been reliable at this venue.
Hove as a track suits a particular type of dog: front-runners and early-pace setters who can hold the inside rail through the bends. The system is essentially backing the model's judgment that the composite score identifies those traits better in certain grade brackets than others.
There are no picks from this system on today's card — Hove may not be racing, or today's races fall outside the filtered grades. But with a track record like this over recent weeks, it is a system worth monitoring when Hove is next on the card.