Morning News

Good morning...

Not such a great day, yesterday but...

These things happen.

One bright eyed member noticed that I'd made a mistake in my profit calculations for the PBS selections yesterday.

I have rectified this and also checked the recent results and noticed that I'd also missed out a winner and have adjusted that according.

Obviously, I've been working on the potential strategy for laying the PBS selections.

So far we have had 119 selections (taking the 5 non runners into account) and they have only produced 7 horses who came 1st.

That's a 94.11% strike rate for a laying system and that's a petty good starting point for a laying system in my eyes.

Work will continue over the next few days.

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 20%.

Yesterday's Live Ratings, show a strike rate (for our top rated horse) of 22.86%.

Yesterday's - Link to Follow - results for All Races (including previously unrated races), show a strike rate (for our top rated horse) of 19.44% from all 36 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 65.23 units returned to 102 units staked. The Overall Profit Index was, thus, -36.05%

Top Rated Horse - There were 7 winners from the top rated horses from 35 Races. If you had blindly backed the top rated horse in all of the races you would have had 23.4 units returned to 35 units staked. The Top Rated Profit Index was, thus, -33.14%

2nd Rated Horse - There were 9 winners from the second rated horses from 32 Races. If you had blindly backed the 2nd rated horse in all of the races you would have had 34.08 units returned to 32 units staked. The 2nd Rated Profit Index was, thus, 6.5%

3rd Rated Horse - There were 2 winners from the third rated horses from 35 Races. If you had blindly backed the 3rd rated horse in all of the races you would have had 7.75 units returned to 35 units staked. The 3rd Rated Profit Index was, thus, -77.86%

Forecasts

There were 0 forecasts yesterday.

Reverse Forecasts

There was 1 reverse forecast yesterday.

Sandown 19:35:00 - The CSF paid £4.32

Tricasts/Trifectas

There were 0 tricasts/trifectas yesterday.

Combination Tricasts/Trifectas

There were 4 combination tricasts/trifectas yesterday.

Redcar 14:55:00 - The Trifecta paid £7.80

Redcar 17:50:00 - The Tricast paid £17.40 - The Trifecta paid £26.20

Sandown 19:35:00 - The Tricast paid £11.70 - The Trifecta paid £14.20

Leicester 19:50:00 - The Trifecta paid £81.10

Winners

From the 36 rated races there were 18 winners (from the top 3 rated horses.) 3 of those were at nice prices.

Course	Time	Horse	ISP	BSP
Redcar	17:15	Tango Sky (3)	6.00	6.80
Sandown	18:25	Zambeasy (2)	5.50	6.49
Leicester	20:20	Commanche (4)	5.50	5.90

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

Redcar 13:50:00 - Kingthistle - Unplaced
Galway 15:00:00 - Snaidhm - Unplaced
Sandown 19:00:00 - Bulge Bracket - Unplaced
Galway 19:10:00 - BoomBox - Unplaced

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

We made a loss of 4 points on the day and are currently running at a profit of 8.78195 points for the last 29 days.

For the new strategy we made a loss of 5.424 points on the day and are currently running at a profit of 20.17 points for the last 29 days.

Something to make you chuckle

WISDOM FROM TRAINING MANUALS

'Never tell the Platoon Sergeant you have nothing to do.'
- Unknown Infantry Recruit-

'If you see a bomb technician running, try to keep up with him.'
- Infantry Journal-

'Yea, Though I Fly Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, I Shall Fear No Evil. For I am at 50,000 Feet and Climbing.'
- Sign over SR71 Wing Ops-

'You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3.'
- Paul F. Crickmore (SR71 test pilot)-

'The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire.'
-Unknown Author-

'If the wings are traveling faster than the fuselage it has to be a helicopter -- and therefore, unsafe.'
- Fixed Wing Pilot-

Today

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

Have a great day's racing!

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As always...

My kindest regards