Morning News

Good morning...

A bit of a nightmare day for me, yesterday.

Although, the ratings seemed to do their job and we ended up with a reasonable strike rate for the top rated horse.

My issues were more down to an ISP that was not able to connect me to my server (in a data center in Germany), an overheating laptop and a router that saw all the confusion going on and decided to give up the ghost.

It all got resolved in the end but it was a day wasted on boring stuff rather than the real work.

So, I guess that that mean working over the weekend so that I can catch up.

Anyway, I'll get to that, firstly 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 28.26%.

Yesterday's Live Ratings, show a strike rate (for our top rated horse) of 27.08%.

Yesterday's - Link to Follow - results for All Races (including previously unrated races), show a strike rate (for our top rated horse) of 27.08% from all 48 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 114.35 units returned to 135 units staked. The Overall Profit Index was, thus, -15.3%

Top Rated Horse - There were 13 winners from the top rated horses from 46 Races. If you had blindly backed the top rated horse in all of the races you would have had 40.03 units returned to 46 units staked. The Top Rated Profit Index was, thus, -12.98%

2nd Rated Horse - There were 8 winners from the second rated horses from 44 Races. If you had blindly backed the 2nd rated horse in all of the races you would have had 40.74 units returned to 44 units staked. The 2nd Rated Profit Index was, thus, -7.41%

3rd Rated Horse - There were 6 winners from the third rated horses from 45 Races. If you had blindly backed the 3rd rated horse in all of the races you would have had 33.58 units returned to 45 units staked. The 3rd Rated Profit Index was, thus, -25.38%

Forecasts

There were 0 forecasts yesterday.

Reverse Forecasts

There were 3 reverse forecasts yesterday.

Doncaster 14:30:00 - The CSF paid £9.05

Cartmel 15:10:00 - The CSF paid £12.16

Wolverhampton (AW) 15:55:00 - The CSF paid £49.85

Tricasts/Trifectas

There were 0 tricasts/trifectas yesterday.

Combination Tricasts/Trifectas

There were 4 combination tricasts/trifectas yesterday.

Wolverhampton (AW) 14:20:00 - The Trifecta paid £6.90

Doncaster 14:30:00 - The Trifecta paid £13.50

Newcastle 18:10:00 - The Trifecta paid £14.80

Newcastle 18:40:00 - The Trifecta paid £62.80

Winners

From the 47 rated races there were 27 winners (from the top 3 rated horses.) 6 of those were at nice prices.

Course	Time	Horse	ISP	BSP
Wolverhampton (AW)	15:55	Monsieur Chevalier (2)	6.50	8.40
Cartmel	16:20	Cool Star (4)	8.50	10.50
Newmarket - July	18:20	Lady Macapa (6)	6.00	6.40
Chester	20:05	Balducci (3)	8.00	10.00
Newmarket - July	20:25	Artful Prince (1)	8.00	8.80
Chester	20:35	Clockmaker (2)	15.00	17.74

The Portfolio

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

Bankers Bet = Flat Claimers - big priced boys - where R4 Status = 1 and where Race Type = Flat and where the Race is a Claimer and Horse = Male (Stallion, Colt or Gelding) and the Forecast Starting Price was more than 3

Selection = Back to ISP - Chester - 20:05:00 - Al Khan (2)

Races (over last year): 23 Wins: 8 Strike Rate: 34.78% ROI: 131.82% AV SP: 3.79

Profit/Loss (to £10 stakes): is £73.20

Al Khan came second by a neck.

Chancers Bet = High priced Beaten Favs on the Flat - where R4 Status = 1 and where Race Type = Flat and where the Race is Not a Handicap Race and Horse was a Beaten Favourite and the Forecast Starting Price was more than 7.5

Selection = Back to ISP - Newmarket - July - 18:20:00 - Alaskan Phantom (2)

Races (over last year): 7 Wins: 1 Strike Rate: 14.29% ROI: 242.93AV SP: 17.00

Profit/Loss (to £10 stakes): is £100.00

Alaskan Phantom came fifth.

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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Place Betting Strategy

We had 4 selections yesterday but only one of them placed.

Cartmel 14:10 - Dr. Robin came 2nd and Betfair paid 2.96 for the place.

Today

Today's early test ratings show 42 rated races from eight meetings.

Have a great day's racing!

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As always...

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