Morning News – 30/07/2021

Good morning...

I am very sorry for the slight lack of a Morning News yesterday.

I overslept.

It seems that having a new bar next door isn't such a great idea.

The new bar seems to have become the go to spot for late night beer, pizza and ice cream.

Now, I don't mind people having a bit of fun...

I just wish that they would be a little bit quieter;

After all, some of us do have to sleep at night!

Wednesday night there were a bunch of people celebrating a birthday and...

The singing and general noise went on until just after 1am.

I am also running a little bit behind today and, a as result, the selections and so forth will be coming out a bit later than normal.

Free Trial...

If you want to take a 7 day free trial of Focus Ratings, just click here... Free Trial.

You will get the Focus Ratings morning email but also the Advance Ratings email and can ask for the R9 Portfolio selections.

On top of that, you can also ask for the Hong Kong Compass Ratings and the European Spotlight Ratings...

As well as the UK & Irish Ante Post Ratings, for free...

During the period of your free trail.

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Task List...

In order to be honest and truly transparent with you...

I will now be publishing my task list on the Morning News.

You will be able to see what I am working on and, more importantly, what progress I am making.

Here are the current tasks...

T01). Work out a number of strategies to utilise R9 and provide Focus Rating members free Portfolio Betting selections across a number of different betting strategies (win backing, place backing, dutching, laying and, the other thing that I described that I don't know what it is called) on a daily basis.

T02). For Compass Ratings, display, on screen and via a email PDF, the twice weekly updated trainer/jockey win/place strike rates.

T03). For Compass Ratings, complete the eBook that explains all the weird and wonderful things that I have learned about Hong Kong Horse racing.

T04). Complete PaperTradeIt.com - a free site where you can privately log your bets and get Strike Rate, POI (to ISP and BSP) data and losing run analysis on those bets.

I'm trying to knock off the easy/quick jobs first in order to reduce the size of the list; the size of the list scares me sometimes and, believe me, I have twice as many jobs on the Admin/BAU (Business As Usual - things like automated scripts, backups and server log file analysis - stuff that all website owners have to do) task list to get through as well.

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Focus Ratings

Here are the results in the Traffic Light Results PDF format... Yesterday's Traffic Light Results

Yesterday's Results, show a strike rate (for our top rated horse) of 16.67%.

Yesterday's Live Ratings, show a strike rate (for our top rated horse) of 15.38%.

Yesterday's - Link to Follow - results for All Races (including previously unrated races), show a strike rate (for our top rated horse) of 9.76% from all 41 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 63.83 units returned to 74 units staked. The Overall Profit Index was, thus, -13.74%

Top Rated Horse - There were 4 winners from the top rated horses from 24 Races. If you had blindly backed the top rated horse in all of the races you would have had 13.25 units returned to 24 units staked. The Top Rated Profit Index was, thus, -44.79%

2nd Rated Horse - There were 2 winners from the second rated horses from 25 Races. If you had blindly backed the 2nd rated horse in all of the races you would have had 7.25 units returned to 25 units staked. The 2nd Rated Profit Index was, thus, -71%

3rd Rated Horse - There were 6 winners from the third rated horses from 25 Races. If you had blindly backed the 3rd rated horse in all of the races you would have had 43.33 units returned to 25 units staked. The 3rd Rated Profit Index was, thus, 73.32%

Non Handicap Races - Top Rated Horse - There were 10 non-handicap races yesterday. From these races there were 3 Top Rated winners. Thus, the Strike Rate (for Top Rated Horses) was 30%

Top Rated Horse - If you had blindly backed the top rated horse in all of the races you would have had 10.63 units returned to 10 units staked. The Top Rated Non-Handicap Profit Index was, thus, 6.3%

Non Handicap Races - Top Three Rated Horses - There were 10 non-handicap races yesterday. From these races there were 7 Top Three Rated winners. Thus, the Strike Rate (for the Top Three Rated Horses) was 70%

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Investment Betting

There were three Investment Betting selections (using the new R8 based system) yesterday...

Nottingham - 13:25 - Dark Tulip - 1st @ 3.25 ISP (3.98 BSP)

Stratford - 17:00 - Small Bad Bob - NR

Epsom - 20:05 - Hope Probe - 4th

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EarlyBird Ratings

There were no Diamonds and Gold (Platinum) selections yesterday...

Focus Ratings and Place Profit members can subscribe to these selections for free,

Just send me a mail and I'll set it up.

The selections normally come out about 5:30pm the evening before the day of the race.

PlaceProfits.com members - if you wish to receive the EarlyBird Ratings Diamond and Gold selections until the racing settles down and we start getting Place Profits selections again, just email me and I'll put you on the list.

You can see the independently proofed results for the EarlyBird Ratings Diamonds and Gold selections here... https://www.racing-index.com/tipsters/proofed/ebr-diamondsandgold.html

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Compass Ratings

Compass Ratings supplies horse racing ratings for the two meetings a week at Happy Valley and Sha Tin.

There are no more Hong Kong horse racing meetings until September.

I shall be spending the summer working on statistics,

If you are not a Compass Ratings member (it's free to Focus Ratings, Early Bird Rating and Place Profits members - you just have to ask to be added to the list) but want to try it out, send me an email.

Focus Ratings, EarlyBird Ratings and Place Profits members can subscribe to Compass Ratings for free.

Just email me and I'll set up your account.

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Advance Ratings

Advance Ratings...

3.10 - Nottingham - Imperial Eight - 2nd

3.20 - Stratford - Chapmanshype - 4th

4.35 - Galway - Tax For Max - 2nd

5.00 - Stratford - Small Bad Bob - NR

5.45 - Galway - Fan De Blues - 1st @ 4.50 ISP

7.15 - Galway - M C Muldoon - 1st @ 2.37 ISP

8.15 - Galway - Dads Lad - 7th

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Spotlight Ratings

Spotlight Ratings are ratings for International Graded, Group and Listed races.

Focus Ratings, EarlyBird Ratings and Place Profits members can subscribe to Spotlight Ratings for free.

Just email me and I'll set up your account.

Please let me know which service you currently subscribe to.

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Ante Post Ratings

Ante Post Ratings supplies advance ratings for top grade UK and Irish racing.

Currently Listed...

16th March 2021 – Cheltenham - Day 1 (5 races rated.)

17th March 2021 – Cheltenham - Day 2 (5 races rated.)

18th March 2021 – Cheltenham - Day 3 (4 races rated.)

19th March 2021 – Cheltenham - Day 4 (5 races rated.)

27th March 2021 – Doncaster – 15:10 – Unibet Lincoln – Class 2

New - 10th April – 2021 – Aintree – 17:15 – Randox Grand National Handicap Chase – Class 1

22nd May 2021 – Curragh (IRE) – 19:15 – Tattersalls 2,000 Guineas – Group 1

23nd May 2021 – Curragh (IRE) – 16:00 – Tattersalls 1,000 Guineas – Group 1

Focus Ratings, EarlyBird Ratings and Place Profits members can subscribe to Spotlight Ratings for free.

Just email me and I'll set up your account.

Please let me know which service you currently subscribe to.

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Place Profits

Selections - New System

Nottingham - 13:25 - Dark Tulip - 1st @ 1.50
Stratford - 14:10 - Franz Klammer - 1st @ 1.98
Goodwood - 15:00 - Wordsworth - 5th
Epsom - 19:35 - Poets Magic - 2nd @ 2.04
Epsom - 20:05 - Hope Probe - 4th

Selections - Original System

Original System (without the recent refinement to improve Strike Rate.)

Nottingham - 13:25 - Dark Tulip - 1st @ 1.50
Epsom - 19:05 - Firth Of Clyde - 2nd @ 1.26

Original System (with the recent refinement to improve Strike Rate.)

Nottingham - 13:25 - Dark Tulip - 1st @ 1.50
Epsom - 19:05 - Firth Of Clyde - 2nd @ 1.26

Original System (200% Confidence.)

Nottingham - 13:25 - Dark Tulip - 1st @ 1.50

R9 Portfolio Place Selections

Place Bets - 10 Points bet on top 5 Place selections.

Race 1 - Goodwood - 15:00 - Wordsworth (Place Bet) - 4.35 Points - 5th

Race 2 - Goodwood - 15:35 - Audarya (Place Bet) - 2.61 Points - 5th

Race 3 - Galway - 19:15 - M C Muldoon - 1st @ 1.41

I have updated the results (20th July 2021) and, from now on, be updating them on a daily basis and, thus, be keeping it up to date.

The recent results be seen here... http://placeprofits.com/results/

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Intelligent Betting

Intelligent Betting is a collection of tools designed to aid your horse racing betting process.

A number of systems are combined to create system selections.

Click on the image to see it full size.

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Something to make you smile...

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A Quickie...

A man goes into a restaurant and is seated.

All the waitresses are gorgeous.

A particularly voluptuous waitress wearing a very short skirt and legs that won't quit came to his table and asked if he was ready to order:

"What would you like, sir?"

He looks at the menu and then scans her beautiful frame top to bottom, then answers, "A quickie."

The waitress turns and walks away in disgust.

After she regains her composure she returns and asks again,

"What would you like, sir?"

Again the man thoroughly checks her out and again answers,

"A quickie, please."

This time her anger takes over, she reaches over and slaps him across the face with a resounding "SMACK!" and storms away.

A man sitting at the next table leans over and whispers,

"Um, I think it's pronounced 'QUICHE.'"

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Today

Whatever you are up to today...

Stay safe and healthy.

As always...

My kindest regards