Morning News

Good morning...

I'm always a bit unsure when a meeting is abandoned...

Whether that improves our strike rate or otherwise.

However, with only two meetings yesterday we did average for a Monday and are currently running at a 32.17% strike rate for our top rated horse for the month of January.

Today doesn't look too exciting, to my eyes anyway.

Anyway, we'll see, 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 21.43%.

Yesterday's Live Ratings, show a strike rate (for our top rated horse) of 21.43%.

Yesterday's - Link to Follow - results for All Races (including previously unrated races), show a strike rate (for our top rated horse) of 19.05% from all 21 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 30.33 units returned to 42 units staked. The Overall Profit Index was, thus, -27.79%

Top Rated Horse - There were 3 winners from the top rated horses from 14 Races. If you had blindly backed the top rated horse in all of the races you would have had 8.08 units returned to 14 units staked. The Top Rated Profit Index was, thus, -42.29%

2nd Rated Horse - There were 4 winners from the second rated horses from 15 Races. If you had blindly backed the 2nd rated horse in all of the races you would have had 19.25 units returned to 15 units staked. The 2nd Rated Profit Index was, thus, 28.33%

3rd Rated Horse - There were 1 winners from the third rated horses from 13 Races. If you had blindly backed the 3rd rated horse in all of the races you would have had 3 units returned to 13 units staked. The 3rd Rated Profit Index was, thus, -76.92%

Forecasts

There was 1 forecast yesterday.

Wolverhampton (AW) 14:50:00 - The CSF paid £18.60

Reverse Forecasts

There were 2 reverse forecasts yesterday.

Kempton 14:10:00 - The CSF paid £5.50

Kempton 14:40:00 - The CSF paid £5.94

Tricasts/Trifectas

There were 0 tricasts/trifectas yesterday.

Combination Tricasts/Trifectas

There was 1 combination tricast/trifecta yesterday.

Wolverhampton (AW) 15:25:00 - The Trifecta paid £59.90

Winners

From the 20 rated races there were 8 winners (from the top 3 rated horses.) 2 of those were at nice prices.

Course	Time	Horse	ISP	BSP
Wolverhampton (AW)	15:25	Zakatal (3)	5.50	5.60
Wolverhampton (AW)	18:00	Les Gar Gan (3)	6.50	7.40

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

Kempton 13:35:00 - Guantoshol - Unplaced
Kempton 14:10:00 - Grandmaster George - Unplaced
Wolverhampton 17:30:00 - Afonso de Sousa - Unplaced

We made a loss of 3 points on the day and have made a profit of 31.114 points for January.

For the new strategy we made a loss of 2.712 points on the day an have made a profit of 27.702402 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 2.712 for the day and we have made a profit of 19.854213 points for January.

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

Something to make you laugh

The Perfect Sermon

It was Saturday night and the preacher still hadn't been able to think of a sermon for the next morning. About 9:00 p.m. he finally said to his wife, "Dear, I think I've come up with the perfect sermon! I'm going to give a sermon about horseback riding!"

She said, "Don't be silly! You can't give a sermon about horseback riding!"

He replied, "Well, it's going to have to do because I've preached on just about every other subject I can think of."

The next morning as they were driving to church, she said, "I can't believe that you're insisting on doing this! You know, If you're going to give that silly sermon on horseback riding, I'm just going to stay in the car during the service."

He said, "OK, then, suit yourself!", so she stayed in the car.

Entering church before the service, the preacher had a sudden inspiration and gave a hell-fire and brimstone sermon on SEX that just had the congregation in awe.

As the congregation filed out of the church, some of he members saw his wife sitting in the car and approached her window.

One of them said, "Wow! you just missed the best sermon your husband has EVER given!"

She said, "Yeah, right! What does he know about it! He talks big but he's only tried it twice in his life! Once before we were married and once after, and he fell off both times!"

Today

Today's early test ratings show 18 rated races from three meetings.

Every race is rated.

Have a great day's racing!

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As always...

My kindest regards