Morning News

Good morning...

Another average day but...

Our PBS selections made a profit for the first time this month.

I'm guessing that the severe weather might make things difficult for the next couple of days but,

There's always the All Weather to fall back on.

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 25.93%.

Yesterday's Live Ratings, show a strike rate (for our top rated horse) of 27.59%.

Yesterday's - Link to Follow - results for All Races (including previously unrated races), show a strike rate (for our top rated horse) of 20% from all 35 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 79.18 units returned to 82 units staked. The Overall Profit Index was, thus, -3.44%

Top Rated Horse - There were 7 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 21.91 units returned to 27 units staked. The Top Rated Profit Index was, thus, -18.85%

2nd Rated Horse - There were 6 winners from the second rated horses from 28 Races. If you had blindly backed the 2nd rated horse in all of the races you would have had 29.02 units returned to 28 units staked. The 2nd Rated Profit Index was, thus, 3.64%

3rd Rated Horse - There were 3 winners from the third rated horses from 27 Races. If you had blindly backed the 3rd rated horse in all of the races you would have had 28.25 units returned to 27 units staked. The 3rd Rated Profit Index was, thus, 4.63%

Forecasts

There were 2 forecasts yesterday.

Wetherby 13:00:00 - The CSF paid £1.69

Lingfield (AW) 14:55:00 - The CSF paid £8.00

Reverse Forecasts

There was 1 reverse forecast yesterday.

Wetherby 15:55:00 - The CSF paid £2.74

Tricasts/Trifectas

There was 1 tricast/trifecta yesterday.

Lingfield (AW) 14:55:00 - The Trifecta paid £25.00

Combination Tricasts/Trifectas

There was 1 combination tricast/trifecta yesterday.

Leopardstown 14:30:00 - The Trifecta paid £20.80

Winners

From the 35 rated races there were 16 winners (from the top 3 rated horses.) 4 of those were at nice prices.

Course	Time	Horse	ISP	BSP
Sandown	12:40	Akavit (2)	11.00	12.79
Leopardstown	12:55	Footpad (3)	15.00	22.77
Sandown	16:05	Pinnacle Panda (3)	5.50	6.40
Leopardstown	16:15	You Must Know Me (10)	10.00	16.45

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

Sandown 12:40:00 - Akavit - 1st - Betfair paid 4.47 for the place
Sandown 14:25:00 - Maximiser - NR
Leopardstown 14:30:00 - Monksland - 2nd - Betfair paid 3.40 fpr the place
Wetherby 14:45:00 - Native River - Unplaced

We made a profit of 4.5765 points on the day and have made a loss of 7.9225 points for February.

For the new strategy we made a profit of 1.746867 points on the day an have made a loss of 12.151455 points for February.

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 1.746867 points for the day and we have made a loss of 12.1515 points for February.

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

Something to make you laugh

Mississippi Notes

I promise you cannot read these and not laugh out loud! These are real notes written from parents in a Mississippi school
district. (Spellings have been left intact.)

My son is under a doctor's care and should not take P.E. today. Please execute him.

Please excuse Lisa for being absent. She was sick and I had her shot.

Dear School: Please ekscuse John Henry being absent on Jan. 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, and also 33

Please excuse Gloria Jean from Jim today. She is administrating

Please excuse Roland from P.E. for a few days. Yesterday he fell out of a tree and misplaced his hip.

John has been absent because he had two teeth taken out of his face.

Carlos was absent yesterday because he playing football. He hurt in the growing part.

Ethel Pearl could not come to school today because she has been bothered by very close veins.

Please xcuse LeRoy from school, he ain't got no rain cot and it was missing rain.

Please excuse Bowdiddly fom school cause he uncle died. Bow say, "I sho glad it want me."

Lugene will not be in school cus he has an acre in his side .

Please excuse Ray Friday from school. He has very loose vowels.

Please excuse Pedro from being absent yesterday. He had(diahre)(dyrea)(direathe) the s----. [Words were crossed out in the ( )'s}

Please excuse Tommy for being absent yesterday. He had diarrhea and his boots leak.

Irving was absent yesterday because he missed his bust.

Please excuse Jimmy for being. It was his father's fault.

I kept Billie home because she had to go Christmas shopping because I don't know what size she wear.

Please excuse Jennifer for missing school yesterday. We forgot to get the Sunday paper off the porch, and when we found it Monday, we thought it was Sunday.

Sally won't be in school a weak from Friday. We have to attend her funeral.

My daughter was absent yesterday because she was tired. She spent a weekend with the Marines.

Please excuse Willie being absent yesterday. He had a cold and could not breed well.

Please excuse Mary Ann for being absent yestitty. She was in bed with gramps.

Lizie was absent yesterday as she was having a gangover.

Please excuse Brenda, she been sick and under the doctor.

Maryann was absent December 11-16, because she had a fever, sore throat, headache and upset stomach. Her sister was also sick,
fever and sore throat, her brother had a low grade fever and ached all over. I wasn't the best either, sore throat and fever. There must be something going around, her father even got hot last night.

Today

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

Have a great day's racing!

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As always...

My kindest regards