Morning News

Good morning...

Another good day for us, yesterday as...

Our top rated horse won 42.31% of all races.

As a result, we are running at a strike rate (for our top rated horse) of 33.68% for January.

We've got another quiet Saturday to look forward to, with only 4 meetings.

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 42.31%.

Yesterday's Live Ratings, show a strike rate (for our top rated horse) of 42.31%.

Yesterday's - Link to Follow - results for All Races (including previously unrated races), show a strike rate (for our top rated horse) of 44.44% from all 27 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 106.86 units returned to 78 units staked. The Overall Profit Index was, thus, 37%

Top Rated Horse - There were 11 winners from the top rated horses from 26 Races. If you had blindly backed the top rated horse in all of the races you would have had 44.86 units returned to 26 units staked. The Top Rated Profit Index was, thus, 72.54%

2nd Rated Horse - There were 7 winners from the second rated horses from 26 Races. If you had blindly backed the 2nd rated horse in all of the races you would have had 35.5 units returned to 26 units staked. The 2nd Rated Profit Index was, thus, 36.54%

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 26.5 units returned to 26 units staked. The 3rd Rated Profit Index was, thus, 1.92%

Forecasts

There were 4 forecasts yesterday.

Doncaster 12:45:00 - The CSF paid £5.68

Lingfield (AW) 15:15:00 - The CSF paid £3.12

Wolverhampton (AW) 18:15:00 - The CSF paid £44.49

Dundalk (AW) 19:30:00 - The CSF paid £32.52

Reverse Forecasts

There were 2 reverse forecasts yesterday.

Lingfield (AW) 14:10:00 - The CSF paid £9.57

Lingfield (AW) 15:50:00 - The CSF paid £7.12

Tricasts/Trifectas

There were 0 tricasts/trifectas yesterday.

Combination Tricasts/Trifectas

There were 3 combination tricasts/trifectas yesterday.

Lingfield (AW) 13:05:00 - The Trifecta paid £234.50

Lingfield (AW) 13:35:00 - The Trifecta paid £166.30

Doncaster 13:50:00 - The Trifecta paid £9.60

Winners

From the 26 rated races there were 21 winners (from the top 3 rated horses.) 9 of those were at nice prices.

Course	Time	Horse	ISP	BSP
Lingfield (AW)	13:35	Bookmaker (4)	6.00	7.20
Wolverhampton (AW)	17:15	Madame Barker (1)	5.50	5.70
Wolverhampton (AW)	17:45	Inaam (3)	6.50	7.39
Wolverhampton (AW)	18:15	Pensax Lad (4)	8.50	9.78
Dundalk (AW)	18:30	Ishebayorgrey (7)	11.00	16.54
Wolverhampton (AW)	18:45	Cahar Fad (6)	6.00	6.89
Dundalk (AW)	19:00	Excelli (1)	5.50	6.00
Dundalk (AW)	19:30	Political Policy (1)	7.00	8.33
Dundalk (AW)	20:30	Hello Humpfrey (10)	17.00	28.00

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.

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

Doncaster 12:45:00 - Legal Exit - Unplaced
Doncaster 15:00:00 - Kara Tara - Unplaced

We made a loss of 2 points on the day and have made a profit of 12.816 points for January.

For the new strategy we made a loss of 1.356 points on the day an have made a profit of 14.19564 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 loss of 1.356 points on the day and have made a profit of 13.100994 points for January.

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

Something to make you laugh

Old Monk

A young monk arrives at the monastery. He is assigned to helping the other monks in copying the old canons and laws of the church by hand.

He notices, however, that all of the monks are copying from copies, not from the original manuscript. So, the new monk goes to the head abbot to question this, pointing out that if someone made even a small error in the first copy, it would never be picked up! In fact, that error would be continued in all of the subsequent copies.

The head monk, says, "We have been copying from the copies for centuries, but you make a good point, my son."

He goes down into the dark caves underneath the monastery where the original manuscripts are held as archives in a locked vault that hasn't been opened for hundreds of years. Hours go by and nobody sees the old abbot.

So, the young monk gets worried and goes down to look for him.

He sees him banging his head against the wall and wailing.

"We missed the R!
We missed the R!
We missed the R!"

His forehead is all bloody and bruised and he is crying uncontrollably. The young monk asks the old abbot, "What's wrong, father?"

With A choking voice, the old abbot replies, "The word was..

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Today

Today's early test ratings show 27 rated races from four meetings.

Have a great day's racing!

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