About Simple Selections
My name is Nathan, and for 25 years I was the system architect behind Horsetorque and Marvin’s Daily Mail — two racing platforms built on structure, discipline, and clarity.
My business partner and long‑time friend, Gavin, handled the form analysis while I engineered the internal systems that powered both services. Gavin had a remarkable eye for traditional form, and together we built something punters genuinely valued: his racing intuition and my modelling discipline working in tandem.
I’ve never been a marketer. My strength has always been in the raw information — building the engines, refining the logic, and trying to make sure the numbers were honest. Horsetorque and Marvin’s Daily Mail succeeded because the systems were solid, not because the marketing was loud.
Then life changed. Gavin became seriously ill, and in the middle of that struggle we agreed to shut both platforms down. It was an incredibly difficult time for him, and I hold no resentment — he was dealing with challenges far bigger than racing. But the shutdown left me with no payout, no transition, and no safety net. I lost my job, my income, and the platform I’d spent decades helping build.
Gavin eventually recovered, and I genuinely wish him well. When he restarted Horsetorque without me, it stung — not out of ego, but because Horsetorque and Marvin’s Daily Mail were things we built together. Today, Horsetorque operates in a much simpler form, and the original systems no longer exist.
But the principles behind them — the engineering discipline, the structured logic, the focus on mispriced opportunities — those stayed with me.
So I rebuilt from nothing.
Using the only thing that couldn’t be taken from me: the knowledge behind the original engines. I focused on the part of racing the market consistently misprices — horses undervalued for a place — and built a new model that isolates structural inefficiencies, removes noise, and delivers stable, repeatable selections.
Simple Selections is the evolution of that work — the modern successor to Marvin’s Daily Mail, built on the same principles but without the limitations, compromises, or fragility of the past. It isn’t flashy, because the information matters more than the packaging.
If you want hype, there are plenty of tipsters. If you want selections built by the architect behind Horsetorque and Marvin’s Daily Mail — welcome aboard.