Morning News

Good morning... Although we didn't get such a good strike rate yesterday... There were lots of high priced winners (from the top three rated horses) and it would have been profitable to have blindly done the forecast in every race. Once again, had you blindly backed every top rated horse in the first 7 races (the first page of the ratings) you would have made a profit - yesterday we would have returned 13 points to 7 points staked (to ISP.) For more detail, here are the results in the Traffic Light Results PDF format... Yesterday's Traffic Light Results Anyway, I'll get to that, firstly let's get on and take a quick look at yesterday's results in more detail....

Morning News

Good morning... Well, it's hard to be upbeat this morning after waking up to the terrible news from Manchester. So, it would be churlish to waffle on about yesterday's results. Obviously, thoughts go out to anyone affected... Including the emergency services. For more detail, here are the results in the Traffic Light Results PDF format... Yesterday's Traffic Light Results Anyway, I'll get to that, firstly let's get on and take a quick look at yesterday's results in more detail....

Morning News

Good morning... A 35% strike rate (for the top rated horse) isn't anything to complain about. Today I am going through the code, line by line, to ensure that I get rid of some of the errors that we've suffered from recently. For more detail, here are the results in the Traffic Light Results PDF format... Yesterday's Traffic Light Results Anyway, I'll get to that, firstly let's get on and take a quick look at yesterday's results in more detail....

Morning News

Good morning... Well, I know that it's been a while since we've had one of these but I'm going to try to make them far more frequent. I know that we've had some problems with the ratings recently and I am working on them. However, I fix one thing and three other things go wrong. Something that I have noticed recently is the performance of the top rated horse on the first page of the ratings. I know that we've already got a First Page Strategy which is a mix of win bets and place bets - yesterday it returned about 5 points (after commission) for 3 points staked - that's not too bad, really, is it? Yesterday wasn't a great example but... 5 days a week we make a profit from blindly backing the top rated horse on the first page of the ratings (with no filters or conditions added) - perhaps that something you might want to take a look at. I'm hoping to have today off - I've been a bit stressilcated recently (no, I'm not sure if that's a real word or not but it does sum up how I feel) and I have sat up all night to try to work out why we don't always get the right Traffic Lights Results PDFs. Still, from tomorrow I shall be going through the ratings, element by element, to ensure that they are correct - I'll update you on my progress. I do have to say that the actual ratings (the R4 number) are correct - it's just that sometimes the Race Title is missing (and many other things like that.) For more detail, here are the results in the Traffic Light Results PDF format... Yesterday's Traffic Light Results Anyway, I'll get to that, firstly let's get on and take a quick look at yesterday's results in more detail....

An Update

Good afternoon... I just wanted to update you on the updates to the system to fix the bugs that are affecting parts of the system. I hope to be posting (at least) one of these updates each day until all the problems are resolved. 1). Handicap Weight : These are now being shown on the ratings. 2). Live Ratings : The Live Ratings are now working again 3). Member's Proofing Pages : I have written a fix to sort out the problem with your systems proofing page. This has run and the system proofing pages should now be working. Conclusion : I shall carry on today to resolve some of the formatting issues on the daily ratings.. As always... My kindest regards

An Update…

Good afternoon... I just wanted to update you on the updates to the system to fix the bugs that are affecting parts of the system. I hope to be posting (at least) one of these updates each day until all the problems are resolved. 1). Forecast Prices : I have fixed the problem with missing forecast prices. This morning's ratings had forecast prices for 99% of all the runners. I do have to add another chunk of code tomorrow to make the forecast prices more accurate but that's almost an add on rather than a bug fix. 2). Betfair Prices : I have updated all the missing Betfair Win prices. I still need to do the Place prices but that's another job for tomorrow.

System Updates…

Good morning... Just a quick note to let you all know that I am working on updates to the system to fix the bugs that are affecting parts of the system. I hope to be posting one of these updates each day until all the problems are resolved. Today I am working on the forecast prices to ensure that every horse has an accurate forecast price. If I get that finished in time, then I shall move on to resolve the Betfair prices problem. I'll let you know how I get on and what I am moving on to next tomorrow morning. As always... My kindest regards

Morning News

Good morning... Overall, yesterday was a pretty good prelude to Aintree. Let's hope it continues over the next three days. The strike rate for the top rated horse was very respectable at 34.48% and... Both the First Page Strategy and the Place Betting Strategy were profitable with the FPS returning 33.39 points (after commission) to 3 points staked. Obviously, had you blindly done either the forecast or the tricast in every race you would have made decent profits; the one Tricast returned £137.79. For more detail, here are the results in the Traffic Light Results PDF format... Yesterday's Traffic Light Results Anyway, I'll get to that, firstly let's get on and take a quick look at yesterday's results in more detail....

Morning News

Good morning... Well, I know that yesterday was a silly day... With only two meetings and just 14 races but, Out top rated horse did win 7 of those 14 races which means that we've had another 50% strike rate day. Had you stuck to the non handicaps you would have had a 66.67% strike rate. And, had you done the forecast in every race, you would have had £28.91 returned to your £14 in stakes. For more detail, here are the results in the Traffic Light Results PDF format... Yesterday's Traffic Light Results Anyway, I'll get to that, firstly let's get on and take a quick look at yesterday's results in more detail....

Morning News

Good morning... Result! We've got results again. I'm sorry about the lack of results over the last week but I've been busy sorting out problems/issues with the underlying code of the site. Part of the problem is that, when I started Focus Ratings, it was a very simple site. Over the years people have asked for additions and I have added them. This has kind of made the code a bit messy and I have been trying to sort it out. I really wanted to start the Flat season with everything done but that was a big ask. I still need to go back and update the last week's results and will do that today and tomorrow. There are also some other issues to resolve; they'll get done over the next week. So, what about yesterday... Well, the overall results don't look so good but what a great start to the day. Look at the first page of the Traffic Lights Results report... Click on the image to see it full size - use your back button to return here. From the first 7 races we got 4 winners. Starting off with a nice 16/1 (24.00 BSP) winner in the first race. It hasn't escaped my notice that, had you stuck to the non handicap races yesterday, you would have had a 25% strike rate (for the top rated horse) but would have made a 65% profit on your stakes. For more detail, here are the results in the Traffic Light Results PDF format... Yesterday's Traffic Light Results Anyway, I'll get to that, firstly let's get on and take a quick look at yesterday's results in more detail....