Morning News

Good morning...

After a nice few days off,

It was nice to see such a good result for the Boxing Day racing.

I hope that you all had a great Christmas...

Although I hope you didn't eat quite as much I managed to do.

I'm avoiding the scales for the next few weeks.

Anyway, enough of my weight problems, 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 32.69%.

Yesterday's Live Ratings, show a strike rate (for our top rated horse) of 28.81%.

Yesterday's - Link to Follow - results for All Races (including previously unrated races), show a strike rate (for our top rated horse) of 24.32% from all 74 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 110.64 units returned to 159 units staked. The Overall Profit Index was, thus, -30.42%

Top Rated Horse - There were 17 winners from the top rated horses from 52 Races. If you had blindly backed the top rated horse in all of the races you would have had 42.78 units returned to 52 units staked. The Top Rated Profit Index was, thus, -17.73%

2nd Rated Horse - There were 7 winners from the second rated horses from 56 Races. If you had blindly backed the 2nd rated horse in all of the races you would have had 36.41 units returned to 56 units staked. The 2nd Rated Profit Index was, thus, -34.98%

3rd Rated Horse - There were 6 winners from the third rated horses from 51 Races. If you had blindly backed the 3rd rated horse in all of the races you would have had 31.45 units returned to 51 units staked. The 3rd Rated Profit Index was, thus, -38.33%

Forecasts

There were 6 forecasts yesterday.

Sedgefield 12:10:00 - The CSF paid £2.56

Wolverhampton (AW) 13:00:00 - The CSF paid £4.06

Fontwell 13:30:00 - The CSF paid £1.70

Sedgefield 13:55:00 - The CSF paid £39.07

Kempton 14:35:00 - The CSF paid £2.80

Wolverhampton (AW) 15:40:00 - The CSF paid £7.79

Reverse Forecasts

There was 1 reverse forecast yesterday.

Wincanton 15:25:00 - The CSF paid £21.30

Tricasts/Trifectas

There were 0 tricasts/trifectas yesterday.

Combination Tricasts/Trifectas

There were 2 combination tricasts/trifectas yesterday.

Kempton 14:00:00 - The Trifecta paid £33.10

Wincanton 15:25:00 - The Trifecta paid £104.90

Winners

From the 72 rated races there were 30 winners (from the top 3 rated horses.) 5 of those were at nice prices.

Course	Time	Horse	ISP	BSP
Fontwell	12:20	Harley Rebel (3)	9.00	11.76
Down Royal	14:30	Conright Boy (8)	11.00	14.44
Wolverhampton (AW)	14:35	Nokhada (2)	5.50	6.08
Wincanton	14:50	Sadma (2)	8.50	9.62
Fontwell	15:45	Hassadin (1)	6.00	6.10

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.

If you haven't subscribed, the button will say Yes - just click on it and you'll be signed up.

Place Betting Strategy

Clonmel 12:50:00 - Lake Takapuna - Unplaced
Sedgefield 12:10:00 - Grand Enterprise - Unplaced
Fontwell 12:20:00 - Fizzlestix - Unplaced
Leopardstown 12:45:00 - Master Ruffit - Unplaced
Huntingdon 12:45:00 - Lord's Park Star - Unplaced
Limerick 13:40:00 - Get out of Jail - Abandoned
Down Royal 14:00:00 - Incitatum - Unplaced
Kempton 14:00:00 - Southfield Royale - 2nd - Betfair paid 3.25 for the place.
Limerick 14:10:00 - Emcon - Abandoned
Down Royal 14:30:00 - Conright Boy - 1st - Betfair paid 3.47 for the place.
Sedgefield 15:30:00 - Eastview Boy - 3rd - Betfair paid 2.22 for the place.
Limerick 15:50:00 - Siberian Vixen - Abandoned
Wincanton 15:55:00 - North Hill - Unplaced

We made a loss of 0.357 points on the day and have made a profit of 18.2795 points for December.

For the new strategy we made a loss of 0.685119 points on the day an have made a profit of 9.425556 points for December.

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 0.685119 points on the day and have made a profit of 10.988007 points for December.

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

Something to make you laugh

From David O.

British Humour

I saw my mate Charlie this morning, he's only got one arm bless him.

I shouted - "Where you off to Charlie?"

He said, "I'm off to change a light bulb."

Well I just cracked up, couldn't stop laughing, then said,

"That's gonna be a bit awkward init?"

"Not really." he said. "I still have the receipt, you insensitive bastard."

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Went out last night and got really wasted.

I woke up this morning next to a fat old bird who was snoring and farting ... so, at least I got home OK.

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The wife's back on the warpath again.

She was up for making a home video last night, and all I did was suggest we should hold auditions for her part.

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Angela Merkel arrives at Passport Control in Athens airport.

"Nationality?" asks the immigration officer.

"German," she replies.

"Occupation?"

"No, just here for a few days."

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As the coffin was being lowered into the ground at a Traffic Warden's funeral, a voice from inside screamed:

"I'm not dead, I'm not dead. Let me out!"

The Vicar smiles, leans forward, sucking air through his teeth and mutters,

"Too late, mate, the paperwork's already done."

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I woke up this morning at 8.00 and could sense something was wrong.

I got downstairs and found the wife face down on the kitchen floor, not breathing! I panicked. I didn't know what to do.

Then I remembered - the local cafe serves breakfast until 11.30.

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"Jesus Loves You."

Nice to hear in church, but not in a Mexican prison.

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Got caught having a pee in the local swimming pool today.

The lifeguard shouted at me so loud I nearly fell in.

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Today

Today's early test ratings show 26 rated races from four meetings.

Have a great day's racing!

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As always...

My kindest regards