Question about DBMS_PREDICTIVE_ANALYTICS and non-linear data

Hi,
I am executing DBMS_PREDICTIVE_ANALYTICS against some data, but it's not giving me good predictions for my null data. Should I be using different data mining techniques ?
The data has the following fields 1) Position, 2) Odds, 3) Selection & 4) Event.
Position and Odds and linear, since the smaller the number the higher the likelihood of winning, but Selection is a lookup based on a Name, so therefore non-linear, but can be used to look at previous form in the same data set. Event is a way to group Selection's into an Event.
What's the best way to tackle this ?

Sorry for delay, been on vacation.
I'm trying to improve odds for predicting winners, given the form, odds, previous history, and form of other runners in the race.
Take a look at data.betfair.com for a list of data elements available to me.
I'm currently using the data where the latest_taken column has the highest value. i.e. the odds and ranking just before the race starts.

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