Morning News

Good morning...

Back to normal, yesterday...

Whatever normal is.

We got an averagely decent strike rate and...

I totally failed to catch any fish.

Le plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

As I was out all day yesterday, I need to spend some time and go back through the York results to see if I can identify any trends or errors.

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 24.56%.

Yesterday's Live Ratings, show a strike rate (for our top rated horse) of 24.79%.

Yesterday's - Link to Follow - results for All Races (including previously unrated races), show a strike rate (for our top rated horse) of 23.44% from all 64 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 143.26 units returned to 175 units staked. The Overall Profit Index was, thus, -18.14%

Top Rated Horse - There were 14 winners from the top rated horses from 57 Races. If you had blindly backed the top rated horse in all of the races you would have had 53.87 units returned to 57 units staked. The Top Rated Profit Index was, thus, -5.49%

2nd Rated Horse - There were 9 winners from the second rated horses from 59 Races. If you had blindly backed the 2nd rated horse in all of the races you would have had 58.38 units returned to 59 units staked. The 2nd Rated Profit Index was, thus, -1.05%

3rd Rated Horse - There were 7 winners from the third rated horses from 59 Races. If you had blindly backed the 3rd rated horse in all of the races you would have had 31.01 units returned to 59 units staked. The 3rd Rated Profit Index was, thus, -47.44%

Forecasts

There were 3 forecasts yesterday.

Sandown 16:35:00 - The CSF paid £13.65

Bath 19:30:00 - The CSF paid £2.09

Chelmsford (AW) 20:15:00 - The CSF paid £4.80

Reverse Forecasts

There were 2 reverse forecasts yesterday.

Chester 16:05:00 - The CSF paid £30.96

Curragh 17:50:00 - The CSF paid £9.52

Tricasts/Trifectas

There were 0 tricasts/trifectas yesterday.

Combination Tricasts/Trifectas

There were 3 combination tricasts/trifectas yesterday.

Newton Abbot 13:55:00 - The Trifecta paid £4.60

Killarney 17:05:00 - The Trifecta paid £2.70

Chelmsford (AW) 18:45:00 - The Trifecta paid £46.90

Winners

From the 60 rated races there were 30 winners (from the top 3 rated horses.) 8 of those were at nice prices.

Course	Time	Horse	ISP	BSP
Sandown	14:50	Exosphere (11)	7.50	8.40
Sandown	15:25	Chilworth Icon (9)	7.50	7.66
Chester	15:30	Sound Advice (2)	6.00	6.73
Newton Abbot	15:40	Sleeping City (5)	7.00	8.60
Chester	16:05	Kingston Kurrajong (4)	13.00	15.53
Curragh	17:20	Hes Our Music (1)	12.00	15.14
Chelmsford (AW)	19:45	Borough Boy (8)	8.00	9.00
Chelmsford (AW)	21:15	Big City Boy (4)	9.00	14.00

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.

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Place Betting Strategy

Chester 14:20:00 - Pity Cash - Unplaced
Perth 18:35:00 - Lucy MC - 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 2 points on the day and have made a loss of 8.269 points for August.

For the new strategy we made a loss of 1.356 points on the day and have made a loss of 6.989402 points for August.

I have added a new section to the spreadsheet to indicate the results should we ignore the odds on selections.

For the refined strategy we made a loss of 1.356 points on the day and have made a loss of 5.510445 points for August.

Today

Today's early test ratings show 22 rated races from three meetings.

Have a great day's racing!

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As always...

My kindest regards