That Feel Good Number…

As promised... The following is an article which explains how I came up with the Investment Betting strategy or... More accurately, it explains my processes when I attempt to come up with a strategy for Focus Ratings. The data that I refer to can be found at...http://focusratings.com/data/InvestmentBetting.xlsx The data cover a nearly 2 year period - 102 weeks to be exact.

1). Top on R5

If you download and open the spread sheet you'll see that it consists of 8 tabs (at the bottom of the screen.)

Morning News

Good morning... A decent enough day for the normal ratings and... A better one for the new R6 Plus ratings. For the new ratings 55.80 points were returned to the 40 points staked - this equates to a POI (Profit on Investment) of 39.50% The Investment Betting selections showed a strike rate of 38.46% and a POI of 88.73% to ISP. The more beady eyed amongst you will have noticed that I've started work on Builder + - this is a new system builder that will allow you to chose from which ratings you want your query to be based upon. I hope to have something workable to show you by the end of next week. For more detail of yesterdays ratings, here are the results in the Traffic Light Results PDF format... Yesterday's Traffic Light Results Anyway, let's get on and take a quick look at yesterday's results in more detail....

Morning News

Good morning... A nice day for the ratings yesterday... With 3 decent winners contributing to the profits. At the 15:00 at Ayr, our top rated horse, Welcome Ben won at 8/1 (10.97 BSP.) At the 15:35 at Ayr, our top rated horse, Diggin Deep won at 8/1 (10.17 BSP.) At the 18:40 at Ballinrobe, our top rated horse, Acronym won at 8/1 (12.43 BSP.) In this race we got the first 3 in the right order; the Trifecta paid £119.50 for a £1 stake. For more detail, here are the results in the Traffic Light Results PDF format... Yesterday's Traffic Light Results Anyway, let's get on and take a quick look at yesterday's results in more detail....

Morning News

Good morning... Yesterday was an average day for us for the normal ratings. However, it was an excellent day for the new R6 Plus Ratings... From the 20 rated races we had 7 top rated winners; this equates to a strike rate of 35%. 24.188 points (to ISP) were returned to the 20 points staked. This equates to a POI (Profit on Investment) of 20.94% For more detail, here are the results in the Traffic Light Results PDF format... Yesterday's Traffic Light Results Anyway, let's get on and take a quick look at yesterday's results in more detail....

Morning News

Good morning... All round, a pretty good day yesterday. A 32.50% overall strike rate is pretty good for a ratings agency and... For the non-handicap races we got an strike rate of 46.67% with a POI (to ISP) of 31.27% for those top rated horses. Our new Investment Betting strategy gave us 3 winners from the 5 selections. That equates to a strike rate of 60%. 7.985 points (to ISP) were returned to the 5 points staked; this equates to a POI (Profit on Investment) of 37.38% For more detail, here are the results in the Traffic Light Results PDF format... Yesterday's Traffic Light Results Anyway, let's get on and take a quick look at yesterday's results in more detail....

Morning News

Good morning... Another decent day for us, yesterday and... A 29.27% strike rate is not too shabby for April (one of the most difficult months of the year.) The new R6 Plus ratings did slightly better with a strike rate (for the top rated horse) of 33.33% For more detail, here are the results in the Traffic Light Results PDF format... Yesterday's Traffic Light Results However, I have something important to announce....

Investment Betting

Having recently published the new R6 and R6 Plus ratings (having been testing them for almost a year) I have had many emails asking how to best benefit from them. Now, I do have a strategy based upon R6 Plus and proof the selections to Racing-Index.com. In order to do this I have to have a commercial site - my one is called InvestmentBetting.com. Now, I have never promoted InvestmentBetting.com and don't plan to do so in the immediate future; I'm not a natural tipster and I've got more than enough on my plate running a ratings agency - believe me! However, rather than try to come up with some strategies from scratch to show the power of the R6 Plus ratings I have decided to share the Investment Betting selections with Focus Ratings members, instead. Below is a screen shot of this morning's league table (we are in 4th place)... The strategy is really quite simple...

Morning News

Good morning... Another nice day yesterday... A perfectly respectable strike rate and, had you blindly backed the top rated horse in every race (not something that I would recommend), you would have made a 15.65% POI (Profit on Investment) to ISP. The new R6 Plus ratings also did well with a strike rate of 34.61% (for the top rated horse) and a POI (for the top rated horse) of 6.58% to ISP. For more detail, here are the results in the Traffic Light Results PDF format... Yesterday's Traffic Light Results Anyway, let's get on and take a quick look at yesterday's results in more detail....

Morning News

Good morning... Whilst yesterday was a perfectly respectable day for the normal R4 ratings... It was a wonderful day for the new R6 Plus ratings. From the 24 rated races we had 7 top rated winners; this equates to a strike rate of 29.17% To ISP 29.89 points were returned to the 24 points staked; this equates to a POI (Profit on Investment) of 24.54% The highlights, as far as the new R6 Plus ratings are concerned were... 1). In the 15:40 at Fairyhouse we got the first two in the right order; the forecast paid £20.29 to a £1 stake. 2). In the 17:55 at Lingfield we got the first two in the right order; the forecast paid £4.65 to a £1 stake. 3). We also had a high priced winner (both of the top rated horses in the aforementioned forecasts came in at 5/1) in the 19:40 at Wolverhampton; Eesha my Flower won at 13/2 For more detail, here are the results in the Traffic Light Results PDF format... Yesterday's Traffic Light Results Anyway, let's get on and take a quick look at yesterday's results in more detail....

Morning News

Good morning... Easter Sunday gave us a perfectly respectable strike rate and few surprises. To my eyes, the highlight of the day was the 16:10 at Southwell; we got the first three in the right order and the Trifecta paid £115:00 to a £1 stake. As today is a bank holiday I'll only be around for part of the day; once again, if you email me you may need to wait until tomorrow for a reply. Enjoy your Easter Monday! For more detail, here are the results in the Traffic Light Results PDF format... Yesterday's Traffic Light Results Anyway, let's get on and take a quick look at yesterday's results in more detail....

Morning News

Good morning... For such a massive day's racing... We didn't do too badly yesterday. There were no real standouts but there were some decent priced winners along the way. Today is my day off so, if you email me today I may not get round to replying until first thing tomorrow morning. Have a great Easter! For more detail, here are the results in the Traffic Light Results PDF format... Yesterday's Traffic Light Results Anyway, let's get on and take a quick look at yesterday's results in more detail....