Morning News

Good morning...

Not too much that I can say about yesterday.

I spent most of the day working on Jill's computer and didn't watch the results coming in (not that it would have made any difference if I had.)

Being Sunday, today is a day off for me but I am gagging to get on with the new strategy tomorrow.

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 12.77%.

Yesterday's Live Ratings, show a strike rate (for our top rated horse) of 12.5%.

Yesterday's - Link to Follow - results for All Races (including previously unrated races), show a strike rate (for our top rated horse) of 12.24% from all 49 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 104.78 units returned to 140 units staked. The Overall Profit Index was, thus, -25.16%

Top Rated Horse - There were 6 winners from the top rated horses from 47 Races. If you had blindly backed the top rated horse in all of the races you would have had 17.49 units returned to 47 units staked. The Top Rated Profit Index was, thus, -62.79%

2nd Rated Horse - There were 8 winners from the second rated horses from 47 Races. If you had blindly backed the 2nd rated horse in all of the races you would have had 47.88 units returned to 47 units staked. The 2nd Rated Profit Index was, thus, 1.87%

3rd Rated Horse - There were 7 winners from the third rated horses from 46 Races. If you had blindly backed the 3rd rated horse in all of the races you would have had 39.41 units returned to 46 units staked. The 3rd Rated Profit Index was, thus, -14.33%

Forecasts

There was 1 forecast yesterday.

Kelso 15:05:00 - The CSF paid £9.14

Reverse Forecasts

There was 1 reverse forecast yesterday.

Leopardstown 14:55:00 - The CSF paid £6.39

Tricasts/Trifectas

There were 0 tricasts/trifectas yesterday.

Combination Tricasts/Trifectas

There were 0 combination tricasts/trifectas yesterday.

Winners

From the 48 rated races there were 21 winners (from the top 3 rated horses.) 5 of those were at nice prices.

Course	Time	Horse	ISP	BSP
Cheltenham	14:10	Boondooma (4)	8.00	9.49
Cheltenham	15:20	Whats Happening (8)	11.00	14.64
Cheltenham	16:30	Art Mauresque (1)	6.00	6.20
Cheltenham	17:40	Aurillac (5)	17.00	25.01
Chelmsford (AW)	20:10	My Mo (7)	9.00	10.00

The Portfolio

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

Bankers Bet = High priced Beaten Favs on the Flat - where R4 Status = 1 and where Race Type = Flat and where the Race is Not a Handicap Race and Horse was a Beaten Favourite and the Forecast Starting Price was more than 7.5

Selection = Back to ISP - Newbury - 13:20:00 - Bay Of St Malo (2)

Races (over last year): 12 Wins: 3 Strike Rate: 25.00% ROI: 283.25% AV SP: 11.33

Profit/Loss (to £10 stakes): is £219.90

Bay of St. Malo came seventh.

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

Kelso 13:55:00 - Valnamixe du Mee -Unplaced
Wexford 14:05:00 - Conn Job - Unplaced
Leopardstown 14:20:00 - Wexford Voice - NR
Wexford 15:50:00 - Hughies Bay - Unplaced
Cheltenham 16:30:00 - Azorian - Unplaced
Doncaster 17:30:00 - Highland Court -Unplaced

We made a loss of 6 points on the day and have made a profit of 14.7145 points for October.

For the new strategy we made a loss of 6.102 points on the day and have made a profit of 17.42799 points for October.

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

For the refined strategy (the one that you should be using) we made a loss of 6.102 points for the day. We have made a profit of 13.483386 points for October.

The spreadsheet of all of the results is available at… http://focusratings.com/data/PBSOct.xls

Something to make you smile

Thanks to Derek H. for this.

Dumber and dumber...

Two parents take their son on a vacation to a nude beach.

The father goes for a walk on the beach and the son goes and plays in the water.

The son comes running up to his mom and says... "Mommy, I saw ladies with boobies a lot bigger than yours!"

The mom says... "the bigger they are, the dumber they are."

So he goes back to play.

Several minutes later he comes running back and says... "Mommy, I saw men with dingers a lot bigger than Daddy's!"

The mom says... "the bigger they are, the dumber they are."

So he goes back to play.

Several minutes later he comes running back and says... "Mommy, I just saw Daddy talking to the dumbest lady I ever saw and the more and more he talked, the dumber and dumber he got!"

Today

Today's early test ratings show 29 rated races from four meetings.

Every race is rated.

Have a great day's racing!

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As always...

My kindest regards