Morning News

Good morning...

Well, you know what they say about Friday the 13th.

A disappointing day, yesterday, for the overall figures but there were some bright spots.

In the Gold Cup, our top rated horse was a non-runner and the Live Ratings promoted Coneygree to our new third rated horse.

Obviously, Coneygree won at 8.0 ISP (9.0 BSP.)

In fact, taking the non-runner out of the equation, the first four horses came from the top five rated horses.

Anyway, let's get on and take a quick look at yesterday's results in more detail....

Yesterday's Results

Yesterday's Results, show a strike rate (for our top rated horse) of 12.9%.

The Overall Profit Index. If you had blindly backed every top three rated horse in all of the races you would have had 67.46 units returned to 89 units staked. The Overall Profit Index was, thus, -24.2%

Top Rated Horse - If you had blindly backed the top rated horse in all of the races you would have had 8.58 units returned to 31 units staked. The Top Rated Profit Index was, thus, -22.32%

2nd Rated Horse - If you had blindly backed the second rated horse in all of the races you would have had 38.88 units returned to 32 units staked. The Second Rated Profit Index was, thus, 21.5%

3nd Rated Horse - If you had blindly backed the third rated horse in all of the races you would have had 20 units returned to 26 units staked. The Third Rated Profit Index was, thus, -23.08%

Forecasts

There was 1 forecast yesterday.

Dundalk (AW) 19:05:00 - The CSF paid £2.11

Reverse Forecasts

There were 2 reverse forecasts yesterday.

Lingfield (AW) 14:30:00 - The CSF paid £4.37

Lingfield (AW) 17:05:00 - The CSF paid £45.13

Tricasts/Trifectas

There was 1 trifecta yesterday.

Dundalk (AW) 19:05:00 - The Trifecta paid £4.80

Combination Tricasts/Trifectas

There was 1 combination tricast/trifecta yesterday.

Cheltenham 13:30:00 - The Tricast paid £95.18. The Trifecta paid £50.30

Winners

From the 32 rated races there were 14 winners (from the top 3 rated horses.) 7 of those were at nice prices.

Course	Time	Horse	ISP	BSP
Cheltenham	16:00	On The Fringe (16)	7.00	8.84
Fakenham	16:55	Benevolent (4)	5.50	5.64
Lingfield (AW)	17:05	The Dapper Tapper (4)	11.00	10.59
Wolverhampton (AW)	18:15	Snow Dancer (2)	7.00	7.8
Dundalk (AW)	18:35	Almadaa (9)	6.00	7.39
Wolverhampton (AW)	19:15	Lycidas (3)	5.50	6.39
Dundalk (AW)	21:05	Cristy's Call (1)	9.00	15.34

The Portfolio

There was both a Banker's Bet and a Chancer's Bet yesterday.

And strangely, they were both for the same horse.

Bankers Bet = AW Handicap Claimers - Season Proper - where R4 Status = 1 and where Race Type = All Weather and where the Race is a Claimer and where the Race is a Handicap Race and the Month is January or the Month is February or the Month is March or the Month is April or the Month is October or the Month is November or the Month is December

Selection = Back to ISP - Lingfield (AW) - 15:05:00 - Investissement (6)

Races (over last year): 16 Wins: 4 Strike Rate: 25.00% ROI: 152.00% AV SP: 6.08

Investissement came fourth.

Chancers Bet = AW High RC2 Handicaps - where R4 Status = 1 and where Race Type = All Weather and where the Race is a Handicap Race and the Race\'s RC2 is greater than 60% and Runners was equal to or less than 8

Selection = Back to ISP - Lingfield (AW) - 15:05:00 - Investissement (6)

Races (over last year): 21 Wins: 3 Strike Rate: 14.29% ROI: 103.46% AV SP: 7.24

Investissement came fourth.

On the Portfolio Page there is now a link to the Banker's Bet Proofing Page and, also to the Chancer's Bet proofing page.

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Today

Today's early test ratings show 41 rated races from seven meetings.

And, as yesterday, I'll be sending out the speed ratings just after the normal ones have gone out.

Have a great day's racing!

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As always...

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