Morning News

Good morning...

Well,

It was a quiet end to the year.

I hope that you all had a great evening celebrating the new year.

Things were very quiet here at Focus Ratings Towers as my recent stomach upset still is not quite gone so...

I'll be having my new year in about a week's time.

Anyway, enough of that, 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 28%.

Yesterday's Live Ratings, show a strike rate (for our top rated horse) of 29.63%.

Yesterday's - Link to Follow - results for All Races (including previously unrated races), show a strike rate (for our top rated horse) of 27.59% from all 29 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 52.58 units returned to 74 units staked. The Overall Profit Index was, thus, -28.95%

Top Rated Horse - There were 7 winners from the top rated horses from 25 Races. If you had blindly backed the top rated horse in all of the races you would have had 17.58 units returned to 25 units staked. The Top Rated Profit Index was, thus, -29.68%

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 11.5 units returned to 25 units staked. The 2nd Rated Profit Index was, thus, -54%

3rd Rated Horse - There were 3 winners from the third rated horses from 24 Races. If you had blindly backed the 3rd rated horse in all of the races you would have had 23.5 units returned to 24 units staked. The 3rd Rated Profit Index was, thus, -2.08%

Forecasts

There was 1 forecast yesterday.

Warwick 12:40:00 - The CSF paid £12.11

Reverse Forecasts

There were 0 reverse forecasts yesterday.

Tricasts/Trifectas

There were 0 tricasts/trifectas yesterday.

Combination Tricasts/Trifectas

There were 2 combination tricasts/trifectas yesterday.

Lingfield (AW) 14:00:00 - The Trifecta paid £6.20

Uttoxeter 14:50:00 - The Trifecta paid £12.40

Winners

From the 27 rated races there were 12 winners (from the top 3 rated horses.) 3 of those were at nice prices.

Course	Time	Horse	ISP	BSP
Uttoxeter	12:50	Catchin Time (5)	7.50	7.60
Lingfield (AW)	13:30	Shypen (13)	11.00	13.50
Warwick	15:10	Merchant Of Milan (5)	6.50	7.20

The Portfolio

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

Bankers Bet = All Weather Wonders - Season Proper - where R4 Status = 1 and where Race Type = All Weather and where the Race is Not a Handicap Race and Horse\'s last run was less than 28 days ago and RC1 was more than 90% and RC2 was more than 60% and the Month is January or the Month is February or the Month is March or the Month is April or the Month is September or the Month is October or the Month is November or the Month is December

Selection = Back to ISP - Lingfield (AW) - 14:00:00 - Captain Lars (6)

Races (over last year): 51 Wins: 26 Strike Rate: 50.98% ROI: 141.21% AV SP: 2.77

Profit/Loss (to £10 stakes): is £210.20

Captain Lars won @ 1.83 (1.94 BSP.)

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

Punchestown 12:05:00 - Goulane Chosen - Unplaced
Uttoxeter 12:20:00 - Solomn Grundy - Unplaced
Lingfield 14:00:00 - Breakheart - Unplaced
Warwick 14:40:00 - Miss Tongabezi - Unplaced
Warwick 15:40:00 - Premier Rose - Unplaced

We made a loss of 5 points on the day and have made a profit of 11.134 points for December.

For the new strategy we made a loss of 4.746 points on the day an have made a profit of 4.849395 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 4.746 points on the day and have made a profit of 5.973858 points for December.

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

Something to make you laugh

Thoughts for the Day

I don't suffer from insanity; I enjoy every minute of it.

I work hard because millions on welfare depend on me!

I used to have a handle on life, but it broke.

Don't take life too seriously; No one gets out alive.

You're just jealous because the voices only talk to me.

Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.

Earth is the insane asylum for the universe.

I'm not a complete idiot. Some parts are missing.

Out of my mind. Back in five minutes.

NyQuil, the stuffy, sneezy, why-the-heck-is-the-room-spinning medicine.

God must love stupid people; He made so many.

The gene pool could use a little chlorine.

Consciousness: That annoying time between naps.

Ever stop to think, and forget to start again?

Being "over the hill" is much better than being under it!

Procrastinate Now!

I have a degree in liberal arts; do you want fries with that?

A hangover is the wrath of grapes.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.

Stupidity is not a handicap. Park elsewhere!

He who dies with the most toys is nonetheless dead.

A picture is worth a thousand words, but it uses up three thousand times the memory.

Ham and eggs. A day's work for a chicken, a lifetime commitment for a pig.

The original point and click interface was a Smith and Wesson.

Make your words sweet & tender today, for tomorrow you may have to eat them.

Today

Today's early test ratings show 47 rated races from seven meetings.

Have a great day's racing!

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As always...

My kindest regards