Morning News

Good morning...

A not such a good day for the ratings, yesterday.

However, we did get 2 out of 3 for the Place Betting Strategy.

I've had a lot of feedback about the strategy and have written a post passing some of it on to you.

You can read that at... http://focusratings.com/articles/place-betting-strategy-7/

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 19.05%.

Yesterday's Live Ratings, show a strike rate (for our top rated horse) of 21.28%.

Yesterday's - Link to Follow - results for All Races (including previously unrated races), show a strike rate (for our top rated horse) of 16.33% from all 49 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 119.42 units returned to 129 units staked. The Overall Profit Index was, thus, -7.43%

Top Rated Horse - There were 8 winners from the top rated horses from 42 Races. If you had blindly backed the top rated horse in all of the races you would have had 25.48 units returned to 42 units staked. The Top Rated Profit Index was, thus, -39.33%

2nd Rated Horse - There were 6 winners from the second rated horses from 42 Races. If you had blindly backed the 2nd rated horse in all of the races you would have had 24.32 units returned to 42 units staked. The 2nd Rated Profit Index was, thus, -42.1%

3rd Rated Horse - There were 12 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 69.62 units returned to 45 units staked. The 3rd Rated Profit Index was, thus, 54.71%

Forecasts

There were 2 forecasts yesterday.

Ascot 14:05:00 - The CSF paid £11.79

Salisbury 18:15:00 - The CSF paid £7.41

Reverse Forecasts

There were 1 reverse forecasts yesterday.

Lingfield 18:00:00 - The CSF paid £5.28

Tricasts/Trifectas

There was 1 tricasts/trifectas yesterday.

Ascot 14:05:00 - The Trifecta paid £23.10

Combination Tricasts/Trifectas

There were 2 combination tricasts/trifectas yesterday.

York 16:05:00 - The Tricast/Trifecta paid £40.10

Newcastle 16:30:00 - The Tricast/Trifecta paid £39.10

Winners

From the 47 rated races there were 26 winners (from the top 3 rated horses.) 9 of those were at nice prices.

Course	Time	Horse	ISP	BSP
York	14:55	Tullius (7)	11.00	11.50
Newmarket - July	15:05	Wee Jean (1)	7.00	7.89
York	15:30	Tanzeel (7)	6.50	9.30
Ascot	15:50	Postponed (5)	7.00	7.59
Wexford	16:10	Duke Of Medina (4)	8.00	9.57
Newmarket - July	16:50	Darrington (5)	5.50	6.24
Newcastle	17:05	Pavers Star (6)	8.00	9.33
York	17:10	Bint Aldar (7)	7.50	8.60
Wexford	17:20	Askmour (2)	9.00	10.50

The Portfolio

There was neither a Banker's Bet nor a Chancer's Bet yesterday.

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.

You may subscribe to my Portfolio. To do so, you need to go to your Members Page and change option 4 on the Your Profile bit.

If you haven't subscribed, the button will say Yes - just click on it and you'll be signed up.

Place Betting Strategy

Newcastle 14:10 - Be Kool - Unplaced

Wexford 14:25 - For Goodness Sake - 1st. Betfair paid 1.58 for the place

Wexford 15:35 - Kennady - 2nd. Betfair paid 2.53 for the place

I have updated the spreadsheet of all of the results. It may be found at... http://focusratings.com/data/PBSJuly.xls

We made a profit of 1.0045 points on the day and are currently running at a profit of 9.43645 points for the last 25 days.

Today

Today's early test ratings show 20 rated races from three meetings.

Have a great day's racing!

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As always...

My kindest regards