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Morning News – 2022/04/16

Posted by Keith Eckstein on Apr 16, 2022 in Blog | 0 comments

Good morning...

Yesterday I finished updating the results for the Focus Ratings R10 betting strategy.

I call this The Annuity Plan.

The whole idea is that you start off with a 50 point bank, you bet to level stakes and, at the end of every month, you work out your profit for that month.

You then take out 80% of that month's profits and increase the next month's stakes to one fiftieth of the new bank.

You do that every month until the end of the year when you reset the bank to the original bank and start again.

The spreadsheet that shows the selections, the crib sheet and the Annuity Plan is available at... R10_master.xlsx

The important tab is tab 5. Annuity - 50 point bank - Annual Reset

It shows that, with an initial investment of £500, annual takeouts have generated the following amounts...

2016 - £3,133
2017 - £2,725
2018 - £6,945
2019 - £4,525
2020 - £4,357
2021 - £1,610

This equates to an average annual takeout of £3,882 - obviously, the initial £500 bank is still intact.

The lowest the bank ever fell to was in September 2021 where it fell to £367.75 - this suggests that a 50 point bank is about right.

Over the 6 year period there were 7 losing months.

Over the 6 years there have been some standout moments; the one that I had to double check was the 14:00 at Ludlow (2022-02-09) where Not Long Now (our second rated horse) was Place Bet and came 3rd in a 15 runner race - Betfair paid 34.73 for the place.

There were no selections yesterday.

I shall be doing some more work on this strategy over the weekend. I've overslept this morning and, as a result, everything is chaos.

Over the next 2 days I shall look at how I can distribute these selections;

Obviously, Focus Ratings members have access to the R10 ratings PDF (and, of course, the Crib Sheet) and, thus can work out the selections themselves (I am always here to help them check the selections but it's really very easy to do, even if the Crib Sheet does look daunting.)

I may introduce an automated service for Focus Ratings members for a small additional fee.

People who are not Focus Ratings members will be offered the automated service for a fee.

I'll be working out the details over the weekend.

The one thing that I have to emphasise is that the spreadsheet is very much Warts and All.

There are losing runs; there are even losing months but...

Every one of the 6 years has seen annual takeouts of at least 3 times the initial bank (with, of course, the initial bank remaining.)

More news on Monday.

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 28.57%.

Yesterday's Live Ratings, show a strike rate (for our top rated horse) of 28.57%.

Yesterday's - Link to Follow - results for All Races (including previously unrated races), show a strike rate (for our top rated horse) of 28.57% from all 21 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 42.94 units returned to 63 units staked. The Overall Profit Index was, thus, -31.84%

Top Rated Horse - There were 6 winners from the top rated horses from 21 Races. If you had blindly backed the top rated horse in all of the races you would have had 23.57 units returned to 21 units staked. The Top Rated Profit Index was, thus, 12.24%

2nd Rated Horse - There were 2 winners from the second rated horses from 21 Races. If you had blindly backed the 2nd rated horse in all of the races you would have had 8 units returned to 21 units staked. The 2nd Rated Profit Index was, thus, -61.9%

3rd Rated Horse - There were 3 winners from the third rated horses from 21 Races. If you had blindly backed the 3rd rated horse in all of the races you would have had 11.37 units returned to 21 units staked. The 3rd Rated Profit Index was, thus, -45.86%

Non Handicap Races - Top Rated Horse - There were 8 non-handicap races yesterday. From these races there were 5 Top Rated winners. Thus, the Strike Rate (for Top Rated Horses) was 62.5%

Top Rated Horse - If you had blindly backed the top rated horse in all of the races you would have had 20.45 units returned to 8 units staked. The Top Rated Non-Handicap Profit Index was, thus, 155.63%

Non Handicap Races - Top Three Rated Horses - There were 8 non-handicap races yesterday. From these races there were 6 Top Three Rated winners. Thus, the Strike Rate (for the Top Three Rated Horses) was 75%

A pen and a magnifying glass focusing on a chart.

Investment Betting

There was one Investment Betting selection (using the new R8 based system) yesterday...

Newcastle - 15:10 - El Caballo - 1st @ 2.61 BSP

EarlyBird Ratings

There were no Diamonds and Gold (Platinum) selections yesterday...

Focus Ratings and Place Profit 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.

Portfolio Betting

A portfolio of micro systems that...

Work together to produce long term profits.

At the end of every month, the results are analysed and the systems are tweaked to maintain consistency.

There were five Portfolio Betting selections yesterday.

Lingfield - 13:45 - Protected Guest (2 points) - 2nd
Newcastle - 15:10 - El Caballo - 1st @ 2.61 BSP
Chelmsford - 16:30 - Blackcurrent - 2nd
Lingfield - 16:35 - Baldomero - 5th
Newcastle - 16:45 - Living Legend (2 points) - 1st @ 8.56 BSP

Advance Ratings

Advance Ratings...

There was one selection yesterday.

Lingfield - 13:15 - Red Flyer - 12th

Place Profits

Selections - Place Profits Plus

There are no selections today.

Selections - New System

Newcastle - 15:10 - El Caballo - 1st @ 1.32 BSP
Chelmsford - 16:30 - Blackcurrent - 2nd @ 2.28

Selections - Original System

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

There are no selections today.

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

There are no selections today.

Original System (200% Confidence.)

There are no selections today.

I have updated the results (15th April 2022) 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/

Intelligent Betting

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

Intelligent Betting has recently has a slight tweak to refine the selections.

In addition, there is also a new Place Betting option.

There were two selections yesterday.

Lingfield - 14:55 - Vespasian (Win Bet) - 6th

Something to make you smile...

A Husband and Wife at Custody court...

The judge looks sternly at the ex wife.

Judge: “why do you think you deserve custody of the child?”

Ex wife: “I brought him into this world so I should have custody of him”

Judge: “that is a simple yet good reason.”

Then the judge looks towards the Ex husband.

Judge: “why do you think you deserve custody of the child, sir?”

The ex husband thought long and hard about his response, after a brief moment of silence. He replies

Ex Husband: “if I put money into a Pepsi machine and a Pepsi comes out. Is it mine or the machine's?”