Morning News

Good morning...

I was going to start this post by saying... "A not so good day, yesterday" but,

I've just realised that a 28% strike rate for the top rated horse isn't so bad after all.

And, it would have been profitable to have blindly backed that horse in every race.

A good day for the Place Betting Strategy...

With 3 out of the 5 selections winning (or being profitably placed) and we have recovered the losses we made on Wednesday.

I mentioned, yesterday, that one of the members had spotted an error in the spreadsheet. I've fixed that problem and another member is independently reviewing all the numbers. Just by a quick look at the spreadsheet I think that I may have missed out on declaring profits in 2 races and so I shall be going through the spreadsheet line by line as well, ready for the month end report.

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 28.21%.

Yesterday's Live Ratings, show a strike rate (for our top rated horse) of 29.27%.

Yesterday's - Link to Follow - results for All Races (including previously unrated races), show a strike rate (for our top rated horse) of 26.19% from all 42 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 107.09 units returned to 113 units staked. The Overall Profit Index was, thus, -5.23%

Top Rated Horse - There were 11 winners from the top rated horses from 39 Races. If you had blindly backed the top rated horse in all of the races you would have had 41.26 units returned to 39 units staked. The Top Rated Profit Index was, thus, 5.79%

2nd Rated Horse - There were 7 winners from the second rated horses from 37 Races. If you had blindly backed the 2nd rated horse in all of the races you would have had 34.33 units returned to 37 units staked. The 2nd Rated Profit Index was, thus, -7.22%

3rd Rated Horse - There were 7 winners from the third rated horses from 37 Races. If you had blindly backed the 3rd rated horse in all of the races you would have had 31.5 units returned to 37 units staked. The 3rd Rated Profit Index was, thus, -14.86%

Forecasts

There was 1 forecast yesterday.

Nottingham 14:55:00 - The CSF paid £26.72

Reverse Forecasts

There were 2 reverse forecasts yesterday.

Galway 15:30:00 - The CSF paid £16.08

Nottingham 17:10:00 - The CSF paid £16.52

Tricasts/Trifectas

There were 0 tricasts/trifectas yesterday.

Combination Tricasts/Trifectas

There were 2 combination tricasts/trifectas yesterday.

Goodwood 15:10:00 - The Trifecta paid £74.00

Epsom 18:25:00 - The Tricast paid £91.84 - The Trifecta paid £88.70

Winners

From the 41 rated races there were 25 winners (from the top 3 rated horses.) 8 of those were at nice prices.

Course	Time	Horse	ISP	BSP
Galway	15:00	Princess Aloof (6)	7.00	7.80
Goodwood	15:10	Big Orange (4)	7.00	9.04
Galway	15:30	Laviniad (4)	6.00	6.67
Galway	16:45	Quick Jack (18)	5.50	7.2
Stratford	17:05	Faustina Pius (1)	6.00	7.00
Nottingham	17:10	Oscars Journey (3)	5.50	6.53
Epsom	18:25	English Summer (3)	5.50	6.26
Ffos Las	20:20	Cape Victoria (3)	7.00	7.51

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

Galway 14:20:00 - Shadow Catcher - Unplaced
Nottingham 14:55:00 - Waslawi - 2nd - Betfair paid 4.0 for the place
Galway 16:05:00 - Credo Start -2nd - Betfair paid 3.75 for the place
Ffos Las 17:40:00 - Every Instinct -2nd- Betfair paid 1.76 for the place
Galway 18:00:00 - Moylisha Tim - 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 profit of 4.18545 points on the day and are currently running at a profit of 12.966455 points for the last 30 days.

For the new strategy we made a profit of 4.091391 points on the day and are currently running at a profit of 24.261391 points for the last 30 days.

Something to make you chuckle

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Today

Today's early test ratings show 48 rated races from seven meetings.

Every race is rated.

Have a great day's racing!

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As always...

My kindest regards