Morning News

Good morning...

Yesterday was, for me...

Largely a day of joy and celebration.

After all, a 4-1 win against West Ham means 14 league games unbeaten.

And for the first time this month, we made a profit (albeit a very small one) for the Place Betting Strategy.

Oh, and mustn't forget that it was Jill's birthday as well!

I feel like I'm banging my head against a brick wall trying to work out why November has been so bad for PBS but I have a horrible feeling that it'll end up just having to be put down to a blip.

Anyway, 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 22.22%.

Yesterday's Live Ratings, show a strike rate (for our top rated horse) of 22.22%.

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 20 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 27.01 units returned to 54 units staked. The Overall Profit Index was, thus, -49.98%

Top Rated Horse - There were 4 winners from the top rated horses from 18 Races. If you had blindly backed the top rated horse in all of the races you would have had 9.93 units returned to 18 units staked. The Top Rated Profit Index was, thus, -44.83%

2nd Rated Horse - There were 2 winners from the second rated horses from 19 Races. If you had blindly backed the 2nd rated horse in all of the races you would have had 9.5 units returned to 19 units staked. The 2nd Rated Profit Index was, thus, -50%

3rd Rated Horse - There were 2 winners from the third rated horses from 17 Races. If you had blindly backed the 3rd rated horse in all of the races you would have had 7.58 units returned to 17 units staked. The 3rd Rated Profit Index was, thus, -55.41%

Forecasts

There were 0 forecasts yesterday.

Reverse Forecasts

There was 1 reverse forecast yesterday.

Exeter 14:30:00 - The CSF paid £7.35

Tricasts/Trifectas

There were 0 tricasts/trifectas yesterday.

Combination Tricasts/Trifectas

There was 1 combination tricasts/trifectas yesterday.

Exeter 15:00:00 - The Trifecta paid £34.40

Winners

From the 18 rated races there were 8 winners (from the top 3 rated horses.) 1 of those was at a nice price.

Course	Time	Horse	ISP	BSP
Uttoxeter	14:20	Cochinillo (6)	5.50	7.00

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.

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Place Betting Strategy

Exeter 15:00:00 - Kenobe Star - Unplaced
Navan 15:40:00 - Billy's Hope - 3rd - Betfair paid 2.27 for the place.

We made a profit of 0.2065 points on the day and have made a loss of 43.736925 points for November.

For the new strategy we made a profit of 0.280014 points on the day and have made a loss of 40.0330863 points for November.

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 profit of 0.280014 points on the day and have made a loss of 39.616896 points for November.

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

Something to make you smile

A couple so true ones about the death of conversation from David O.

Today

Today's early test ratings show 17 rated races from three meetings.

Have a great day's racing!

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As always...

My kindest regards