Morning News – 11/06/2021

Good morning...

Not a good day for the new Focus Ratings R9 based service, in terms of results but...

I did get the dutching part finished.

Today I've got to finish an additional Place Betting system to add to the portfolio.

I'm also going to identify the Laying opportunities.

Then I have to do the really difficult part and write the blog posts to document the service.

As I tend not to get too many emails over the weekend I shall attempt to get that done and dusted for Monday.

The whole idea is to identify all potential bets for any R9 rated race.

Then, grade those races in terms of Reward/Risk.

Thus, every race will get a sort of rating.

You will be able to choose to bet the top rated rate or the top two and so forth.

For every race a nominal 10 point stake will be split into the different stakes for each of the individual bets for that race.

If two races are chosen then the 20 points stake will be divided across the two races but, it won't be 10 points for each race, the more potentially profitable (and, thus, higher rated) race will get a higher percentage of the total stake.

Anyway, that's the idea and that's how I do my horse racing over here in France.

As an example...

If, for a race, R8=4 - thus, there are four horses showing on the R9 PDF,

There might be a Dutch Bet for all four horses or just the top three horses.

There might be a Win bet on the top rated horse.

There may be a Place bet on the top rated horse.

There may be a Place bet on the second rated horse (and, even, a Place bet on the third rated horse.

There may also be a lay bet on the fourth rated horse should the price be low enough.

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Task List...

In order to be honest and truly transparent with you...

I will now be publishing my task list on the Morning News.

You will be able to see what I am working on and, more importantly, what progress I am making.

Here are the current tasks...

T01). Work out a number of strategies to utilise R9 and provide Focus Rating members free Portfolio Betting selections across a number of different betting strategies (win backing, place backing, dutching, laying and, the other thing that I described that I don't know what it is called) on a daily basis.

T02). For Compass Ratings, display, on screen and via a email PDF, the twice weekly updated trainer/jockey win/place strike rates.

T03). For Compass Ratings, complete the eBook that explains all the weird and wonderful things that I have learned about Hong Kong Horse racing.

T04). Complete PaperTradeIt.com - a free site where you can privately log your bets and get Strike Rate, POI (to ISP and BSP) data and losing run analysis on those bets.

I'm trying to knock off the easy/quick jobs first in order to reduce the size of the list; the size of the list scares me sometimes and, believe me, I have twice as many jobs on the Admin/BAU (Business As Usual - things like automated scripts, backups and server log file analysis - stuff that all website owners have to do) task list to get through as well.

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Focus Ratings

Here are the results in the Traffic Light Results PDF format... Yesterday's Traffic Light Results

Yesterday's Results, show a strike rate (for our top rated horse) of 33.33%.

Yesterday's Live Ratings, show a strike rate (for our top rated horse) of 33.33%.

Yesterday's - Link to Follow - results for All Races (including previously unrated races), show a strike rate (for our top rated horse) of 4.44% from all 45 Races (including previously unrated races.)

The Overall Profit Index. If you had blindly backed every top three rated horse in all of the races you would have had 14.17 units returned to 17 units staked. The Overall Profit Index was, thus, -16.65%

Top Rated Horse - There were 2 winners from the top rated horses from 6 Races. If you had blindly backed the top rated horse in all of the races you would have had 8.67 units returned to 6 units staked. The Top Rated Profit Index was, thus, 44.5%

2nd Rated Horse - There were 0 winners from the second rated horses from 6 Races. If you had blindly backed the 2nd rated horse in all of the races you would have had 0 units returned to 6 units staked. The 2nd Rated Profit Index was, thus, -100%

3rd Rated Horse - There were 1 winners from the third rated horses from 5 Races. If you had blindly backed the 3rd rated horse in all of the races you would have had 5.5 units returned to 5 units staked. The 3rd Rated Profit Index was, thus, 10%

Non Handicap Races - Top Rated Horse - There were 2 non-handicap races yesterday. From these races there were 0 Top Rated winners. Thus, the Strike Rate (for Top Rated Horses) was 0%

Top Rated Horse - If you had blindly backed the top rated horse in all of the races you would have had 0 units returned to 2 units staked. The Top Rated Non-Handicap Profit Index was, thus, -100%

Non Handicap Races - Top Three Rated Horses - There were 2 non-handicap races yesterday. From these races there were 1 Top Three Rated winners. Thus, the Strike Rate (for the Top Three Rated Horses) was 50%

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Investment Betting

There were four Investment Betting selections (using the new R8 based system) yesterday...

Nottingham - 13:00 - Love De Vega - 1st @ 1.72

Newbury - 13:15 - Gaius - 3rd

Newbury - 14:20 - Subtle Beauty - 2nd

Haydock - 19:00 - I'm A Gambler - 5th

This is what the recent proofed results look like...

Click on the image to see it full size.

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EarlyBird Ratings

There was one Diamonds and Gold (Platinum) selection yesterday...

Uttoxeter - 17:40 - Master Templar - RO

This is what the recent proofed results look like...

Click on the image to see it full size.

Focus Ratings members can subscribe to these selections for free,

Just send me a mail and I'll set it up.

The selections normally come out about 5:30pm the evening before the day of the race.

PlaceProfits.com members - if you wish to receive the EarlyBird Ratings Diamond and Gold selections until the racing settles down and we start getting Place Profits selections again, just email me and I'll put you on the list.

You can see the independently proofed results for the EarlyBird Ratings Diamonds and Gold selections here... https://www.racing-index.com/tipsters/proofed/ebr-diamondsandgold.html

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Compass Ratings

Compass Ratings supplies horse racing ratings for the two meetings a week at Happy Valley and Sha Tin.

There is a meeting at Sha Tin on Sunday.

The ratings for that meeting will be compiled and sent out today.

If you are not a Compass Ratings member (it's free to Focus Ratings, Early Bird Rating and Place Profits members - you just have to ask to be added to the list) but want to try it out, send me an email.

Focus Ratings, EarlyBird Ratings and Place Profits members can subscribe to Compass Ratings for free.

Just email me and I'll set up your account.

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Advance Ratings

Advance Ratings...

7.10 - Uttoxeter - Olympic Conqueror - 1st @ 2.20 ISP (2.38 BSP)

8.40 - Uttoxeter - Pop Mistress - 1st @ 2.62 ISP (2.82 BSP)

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Spotlight Ratings

Spotlight Ratings are ratings for International Graded, Group and Listed races.

Focus Ratings, EarlyBird Ratings and Place Profits members can subscribe to Spotlight Ratings for free.

Just email me and I'll set up your account.

Please let me know which service you currently subscribe to.

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Ante Post Ratings

Ante Post Ratings supplies advance ratings for top grade UK and Irish racing.

Currently Listed...

16th March 2021 – Cheltenham - Day 1 (5 races rated.)

17th March 2021 – Cheltenham - Day 2 (5 races rated.)

18th March 2021 – Cheltenham - Day 3 (4 races rated.)

19th March 2021 – Cheltenham - Day 4 (5 races rated.)

27th March 2021 – Doncaster – 15:10 – Unibet Lincoln – Class 2

New - 10th April – 2021 – Aintree – 17:15 – Randox Grand National Handicap Chase – Class 1

22nd May 2021 – Curragh (IRE) – 19:15 – Tattersalls 2,000 Guineas – Group 1

23nd May 2021 – Curragh (IRE) – 16:00 – Tattersalls 1,000 Guineas – Group 1

Focus Ratings, EarlyBird Ratings and Place Profits members can subscribe to Spotlight Ratings for free.

Just email me and I'll set up your account.

Please let me know which service you currently subscribe to.

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Place Profits

Selections - New System

Nottingham - 13:00 - Love De Vega - 1st @ 1.35
Uttoxeter - 19:10 - Olympic Conqueror - 1st @ 1.30
Haydock - 21:00 - Il Bandito - 2nd @ 1.39

Selections - Original System

Original System (without the recent refinement to improve Strike Rate.)

Newbury - 13:45 - Seattle Rock - 1st @ 1.40
Newbury - 14:20 - Subtle Beauty - 2nd @ 1.51
Uttoxeter - 19:10 - Olympic Conqueror - 1st @ 1.30

Original System (with the recent refinement to improve Strike Rate.)

Newbury - 13:45 - Seattle Rock - 1st @ 1.40
Uttoxeter - 19:10 - Olympic Conqueror - 1st @ 1.30

Original System (200% Confidence.)

There are no selections today.

I have updated the results (24th May 2021) and, from now on, be updating them on a daily basis and, thus, be keeping it up to date.

The recent results be seen here... http://placeprofits.com/results/

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Intelligent Betting

Intelligent Betting is a collection of tools designed to aid your horse racing betting process.

A number of systems are combined to create system selections.

Click on the image to see it full size.

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Something to make you smile...

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A Dog's Life...

If your dog is fat, you aren't getting enough exercise.
- Unknown

Some days you're the dog; some days you're the hydrant.
- Unknown

Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot about puppies.
- Gene Hill

In dog years, I'm dead.
- Unknown

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
- Aldous Huxley

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
- Robert Benchley

Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives.
- Sue Murphy

I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
- August Strindberg

No animal should ever jump up on the dining room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
- Fran Lebowitz

Ever consider what they must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul -- chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!
- Anne Tyler

I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.
- Rita Rudner

My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to 99 cents a can.
That's almost $7.00 in dog money. - Joe Weinstein

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
- James Thurber

You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets. - Nora Ephron

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
- Ann Landers

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
- Robert A. Heinlein

In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him.
- Dereke Bruce, Taipei, Taiwan

Of all the things I miss from veterinary practice, puppy breath is one of the most fond memories!
- Dr. Tom Cat

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
- Ben Williams

When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
- Edward Abbey

Cat's motto: No matter what you've done wrong, always try to make it look like the dog did it.
- Unknown

Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
- Unknown

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
- Christopher Morley

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.
- Josh Billings

Man is a dog's idea of what God should be.
- Holbrook Jackson

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person. - Andrew A. Rooney

He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion.
- Unknown

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
- Mark Twain

Things that upset a terrier may pass virtually unnoticed by a Great Dane.
- Smiley Blanton

I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
- John Steinbeck

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Today

Whatever you are up to today...

Stay safe and healthy.

As always...

My kindest regards