Morning News

Good morning...

A less than stellar day, yesterday but...

We've still got a strike rate of 31.72% (for the top rated horse) for the month so far.

And, we got a 50% strike rate for our PBS selections, so it's not all bad.

As a result, we made a profit and are over 14 points up for 21 points staked.

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 18.52%.

Yesterday's Live Ratings, show a strike rate (for our top rated horse) of 18.52%.

Yesterday's - Link to Follow - results for All Races (including previously unrated races), show a strike rate (for our top rated horse) of 17.86% from all 28 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 49.35 units returned to 78 units staked. The Overall Profit Index was, thus, -36.73%

Top Rated Horse - There were 5 winners from the top rated horses from 27 Races. If you had blindly backed the top rated horse in all of the races you would have had 9.35 units returned to 27 units staked. The Top Rated Profit Index was, thus, -65.37%

2nd Rated Horse - There were 6 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 22.25 units returned to 25 units staked. The 2nd Rated Profit Index was, thus, -11%

3rd Rated Horse - There were 3 winners from the third rated horses from 26 Races. If you had blindly backed the 3rd rated horse in all of the races you would have had 17.75 units returned to 26 units staked. The 3rd Rated Profit Index was, thus, -31.73%

Forecasts

There were 2 forecasts yesterday.

Wolverhampton (AW) 12:50:00 - The CSF paid £3.00

Wolverhampton (AW) 15:20:00 - The CSF paid £2.57

Reverse Forecasts

There were 2 reverse forecasts yesterday.

Chelmsford (AW) 14:00:00 - The CSF paid £10.64

Wolverhampton (AW) 14:50:00 - The CSF paid £18.94

Tricasts/Trifectas

There were 2 tricasts/trifectas yesterday.

Wolverhampton (AW) 12:50:00 - The Trifecta paid £4.00

Wolverhampton (AW) 15:20:00 - The Tricast/Trifecta paid £4.80

Combination Tricasts/Trifectas

There were 2 combination tricasts/trifectas yesterday.

Wolverhampton (AW) 14:50:00 - The Trifecta paid £91.00

Chelmsford (AW) 15:30:00 - The Tricast/Trifecta paid £16.40

Winners

From the 27 rated races there were 14 winners (from the top 3 rated horses.) 2 of those were at nice prices.

Course	Time	Horse	ISP	BSP
Chelmsford (AW)	13:00	Bosham (1)	6.00	6.75
Kempton (AW)	16:10	San Quentin (5)	8.50	9.63

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

Huntingdon 12:40:00 - Muthabir - 2nd - Betfair paid 3.26 for the place.
Huntingdon 13:10:00 - Sarpech - Unplaced

We made a profit of 1.147 points on the day and have made a profit of 14.816 points for January.

For the new strategy we made a profit of 0.777666 points on the day an have made a profit of 15.551964 points for January.

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 0.777666 points on the day and have made a profit of 14.456994 points for January.

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

Something to make you laugh

Stranded

Three guys, stranded on a desert island, find a magic lantern containing a genie, who grants them each one wish.

The first guy wishes he was off the island and back home.

The second guy wishes the same.

The third guy says "I’m lonely. I wish my friends were back here."

Rigor Mortis

Little Billy came home from school to see the families pet rooster dead in the front yard.

Rigor mortis had set in and it was flat on its back with its legs in the air.

When his Dad came home Billy said, "Dad our roosters dead and his legs are sticking in the air. Why are his legs sticking in the air?"

His father thinking quickly said, "Son, that's so God can reach down from the clouds and lift the rooster straight up to heaven."

"Gee Dad that's great," said little Billy.

A few days later, when Dad came home from work, Billy rushed out to meet him yelling, "Dad, Dad we almost lost Mom today!"

"What do you mean?" said Dad.

"Well Dad, I got home from school early today and went up to your bedroom and there was Mom flat on her back with her legs in the air screaming, "Jesus I'm coming, I'm coming"

If it hadn't of been for Uncle George holding her down we'd have lost her for sure!"

Today

Today's early test ratings show 19 rated races from three meetings.

Every race is rated.

Have a great day's racing!

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As always...

My kindest regards