Morning News

Good morning...

A bit of a strange day for me yesterday as a lot of the little 5 minutes jobs that I had planned...

All ended up taking far longer than they should.

Which meant that I didn't get all the stuff done.

Still, these things happen and today's another day.

Overall the day was quite reasonable and nothing really stood out to my eyes.

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 23.33%.

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 20% from all 35 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 65.65 units returned to 95 units staked. The Overall Profit Index was, thus, -30.89%

Top Rated Horse - There were 7 winners from the top rated horses from 30 Races. If you had blindly backed the top rated horse in all of the races you would have had 17.39 units returned to 30 units staked. The Top Rated Profit Index was, thus, -42.03%

2nd Rated Horse - There were 7 winners from the second rated horses from 33 Races. If you had blindly backed the 2nd rated horse in all of the races you would have had 23.6 units returned to 33 units staked. The 2nd Rated Profit Index was, thus, -28.48%

3rd Rated Horse - There were 5 winners from the third rated horses from 32 Races. If you had blindly backed the 3rd rated horse in all of the races you would have had 24.66 units returned to 32 units staked. The 3rd Rated Profit Index was, thus, -22.94%

Forecasts

There were 2 forecasts yesterday.

Ripon 14:00:00 - The CSF paid £5.21

Leicester 18:40:00 - The CSF paid £18.89

Reverse Forecasts

There were 3 reverse forecasts yesterday.

Sligo 19:30:00 - The CSF paid £4.18

Chelmsford (AW) 19:50:00 - The CSF paid £5.07

Chelmsford (AW) 20:50:00 - The CSF paid £12.46

Tricasts/Trifectas

There were 0 tricasts/trifectas yesterday.

Combination Tricasts/Trifectas

There were 3 combination tricasts/trifectas yesterday.

Ripon 14:30:00 - The Trifecta paid £41.80

Sligo 19:30:00 - The Trifecta paid £12.60

Chelmsford (AW) 20:50:00 - The Tricast paid £28.19 - The Trifecta paid £45.50

Winners

From the 35 rated races there were 19 winners (from the top 3 rated horses.) 4 of those were at nice prices.

Course	Time	Horse	ISP	BSP
Sligo	18:00	Shamash (11)	5.50	6.39
Leicester	18:40	Socialites Red (9)	5.50	5.70
Chelmsford (AW)	20:20	Cape Castle (4)	9.00	10.50
Chelmsford (AW)	20:50	Baileys En Premier (2)	5.50	6.40

The Portfolio

There was a Banker's Bet (but not a Chancer's Bet) yesterday.

Bankers Bet = Flat Big Field Maiden Favs - where R4 Status = 1 and where Race Type = Flat and where the Race is a Maiden Race and Runners was equal to or more than 16 and Horse was a Favourite, Joint Favourite or a Co Favourite

Selection = Back to ISP - Sligo - 18:00:00 - Give Battle (8)

Races (over last year): 25 Wins: 11 Strike Rate: 44.00% ROI: 130.68% AV SP: 2.97

Profit/Loss (to £10 stakes): is £76.70

Give Battle 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.

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

Ripon 15:30:00 - Champagne City - 1st. Betfair paid 1.55 for the place
Sligo 16:55:00 - Jingle Jangle - Unplaced

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

We made a loss of 0.4775 points on the day and have made a loss of 4.515 points for August.

For the new strategy we made a profit of 0.03051 points on the day and have made a loss of 7.650213 points for August.

Today

Today's early test ratings show 40 rated races from six meetings.

Have a great day's racing!

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As always...

My kindest regards