Selection Box System takes its name from the Racing Posts tipsters' table displayed for each race card. Sixteen columnists from various newspapers are shown giving their selections for the races at all the day's meetings.

What we are looking for is the naps or next best selections that are not tipped at all by anyone of the other journalists.

In doing so we ignore the top seven in the list because they give selections that are based on either form or location i.e. northern and are therefore restricted to how they choose their selections or the source of their selections.

The remainders seemingly have no such restrictions and there fore can select what they want from the hundreds of horses running that day from all the information that they undoubtedly have at their disposal.

The system takes a bit of a chance on the expertise, knowledge or information about the horse that he/she may have for what they consider is their best bet of the day. However as all the journalists are professionals who are in competition with one another, it is a reasonably good bet that they know something whatever it is, about their star selection.

In many cases because they are not tipped by the others, the horses they give start at very goods odds and it is often worth checking the betting forecast to see if it is worth backing each way, although don't be too disappointed if the odds shorten before the off, if the journalist did have news of a job.

Go through all the day’s race cards in the Racing post and look for the Selection box. Ignore the top seven selections in the Racing Post Selection box.

Pick out the selections that have been chosen as a nap or next best by a journalist but have not been chosen at all by any of the others.