Morning News

Good morning...

Well, the overall results weren't too impressive but...

It certainly didn't seem that way whilst I was watching the results coming in.

So far this month we have only had 3 sub 20% days and...

15 30% plus days (5 of them being 40% plus) so I guess that puts things into perspective.

Anyway, enough naval gazing, 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 16%.

Yesterday's Live Ratings, show a strike rate (for our top rated horse) of 16%.

Yesterday's - Link to Follow - results for All Races (including previously unrated races), show a strike rate (for our top rated horse) of 21.43% 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 51.99 units returned to 74 units staked. The Overall Profit Index was, thus, -29.74%

Top Rated Horse - There were 4 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 12.37 units returned to 25 units staked. The Top Rated Profit Index was, thus, -50.52%

2nd Rated Horse - There were 5 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 22.12 units returned to 25 units staked. The 2nd Rated Profit Index was, thus, -11.52%

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 17.5 units returned to 24 units staked. The 3rd Rated Profit Index was, thus, -27.08%

Forecasts

There were 2 forecasts yesterday.

Thurles 13:10:00 - The CSF paid £4.19

Kempton (AW) 17:40:00 - The CSF paid £4.97

Reverse Forecasts

There were 2 reverse forecasts yesterday.

Lingfield (AW) 15:45:00 - The CSF paid £35.02

Lingfield (AW) 16:15:00 - The CSF paid £4.12

Tricasts/Trifectas

There was 1 tricast/trifecta yesterday.

Thurles 13:10:00 - The Trifecta paid £10.50

Combination Tricasts/Trifectas

There were 2 combination tricasts/trifectas yesterday.

Lingfield (AW) 14:00:00 - The Trifecta paid £68.90

Lingfield (AW) 15:45:00 - The Trifecta paid £191.40

Winners

From the 25 rated races there were 12 winners (from the top 3 rated horses.) 5 of those were at nice prices.

Course	Time	Horse	ISP	BSP
Thurles	13:45	Nine Stiches (8)	6.00	11.02
Lingfield (AW)	14:00	Subtle Knife (5)	6.00	7.11
Catterick	14:25	Tomkevi (5)	5.50	6.10
Thurles	15:25	Positive Approach (6)	6.00	7.40
Lingfield (AW)	15:45	Sonnythenavigator (6)	8.00	9.65

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

Thules 14:50:00 - Kiera Royale - Unplaced

We made a loss of 1 point on the day and have made a profit of 29.114 points for January.

For the new strategy we made a loss of 0.678 points on the day an have made a profit of 26.346402 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 0.678 for the day and we have made a profit of 18.498213 points for January.

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

Something to make you laugh

Mid-Life

Mid-life is when you go to the doctor and you realize you are now so old, you have to pay someone to look at you naked.

The good news about mid-life is that the glass is still half- full...
Of course, the bad news is that it won't be long before your teeth are floating in it.

Mid-life women no longer have upper arms, They have wingspans...
They are no longer women in sleeveless shirts, they are flying squirrels in drag.

Mid-life has hit you when you stand naked in front of a mirror and can see your rear end without turning around.

Mid-life brings the wisdom that life throws you curves...and that you're now sitting on your biggest ones.

Mid-life is when you want to grab every firm young lovely in a tube top and scream, "Listen, honey, even the Roman Empire fell, and those things will too!"

Mid-life is when you start to repeat yourself...and your chins follow suit.

You become more reflective in mid-life. You start pondering the "big" questions -- what is life, why am I here...how
much Healthy Choice ice cream can I eat before it's no longer a healthy choice?

Today

Today's early test ratings show 30 rated races from five meetings.

Have a great day's racing!

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As always...

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