Morning News

Good morning...

Well, a quieter day, yesterday.

However, even though the overall strike rate wasn't so impressive, the actual results didn't look so bad to me.

For example, for the first 8 races, the winner was a top three rated horse.

If I can crow about the 40% strike rate days...

I guess that I have to accept that some days won't be so good.

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 15%.

Yesterday's Live Ratings, show a strike rate (for our top rated horse) of 15%.

Yesterday's - Link to Follow - results for All Races (including previously unrated races), show a strike rate (for our top rated horse) of 14.29% 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 58.24 units returned to 59 units staked. The Overall Profit Index was, thus, -1.29%

Top Rated Horse - There were 3 winners from the top rated horses from 20 Races. If you had blindly backed the top rated horse in all of the races you would have had 3.74 units returned to 20 units staked. The Top Rated Profit Index was, thus, -81.3%

2nd Rated Horse - There were 6 winners from the second rated horses from 21 Races. If you had blindly backed the 2nd rated horse in all of the races you would have had 26.62 units returned to 21 units staked. The 2nd Rated Profit Index was, thus, 26.76%

3rd Rated Horse - There were 4 winners from the third rated horses from 18 Races. If you had blindly backed the 3rd rated horse in all of the races you would have had 27.88 units returned to 18 units staked. The 3rd Rated Profit Index was, thus, 54.89%

Forecasts

There were 2 forecasts yesterday.

Wetherby 15:20:00 - The CSF paid £1.46

Wolverhampton (AW) 16:35:00 - The CSF paid £14.44

Reverse Forecasts

There were 4 reverse forecasts yesterday.

Taunton 14:00:00 - The CSF paid £4.85

Taunton 15:05:00 - The CSF paid £4.43

Wolverhampton (AW) 16:00:00 - The CSF paid £3.90

Wetherby 16:25:00 - The CSF paid £5.58

Tricasts/Trifectas

There were 2 tricasts/trifectas yesterday.

Wetherby 15:20:00 - The Trifecta paid £2.00

Wolverhampton (AW) 16:35:00 - The Trifecta paid £48.20

Combination Tricasts/Trifectas

There were 3 combination tricasts/trifectas yesterday.

Wolverhampton (AW) 13:50:00 - The Trifecta paid £23.30

Taunton 14:00:00 - The Trifecta paid £10.40

Wolverhampton (AW) 16:00:00 - The Trifecta paid £7.20

Winners

From the 20 rated races there were 13 winners (from the top 3 rated horses.) 3 of those were at nice prices.

Course	Time	Horse	ISP	BSP
Wetherby	14:10	Beyondtemptation (7)	17.00	14.72
Taunton	14:30	Allchilledout (3)	5.50	6.34
Taunton	16:45	Delta Borget (6)	9.50	11.73

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

Taunton 17:20:00 - Cove Lodge - Unplaced

We made a loss of 1 point on the day and have made a profit of 0.0955 points for February.

For the new strategy we made a loss of 1.356 points on the day an have made a loss of 6.753219 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 loss of 1.356 points for the day and we have made a loss of 5.54977 points for February.

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

Something to make you laugh

Good Advice

People who live in glass houses should make love in the basement.

Never read the fine print. There ain't no way you're going to like it.

If you let a smile be your umbrella, then most likely your butt will get soaking wet.

The only two things we do with greater frequency in middle age are urinate and attend funerals.

The trouble with bucket seats is that not everybody has the same size bucket.

To err is human, to forgive - highly unlikely.

Do you realize that in about 40 years, we'll have thousands of old ladies running around with tattoos?

Money can't buy happiness -- but somehow it's more comfortable to cry in a Porsche than in a Hyundai.

Drinking makes some husbands see double and feel single.

Living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween.

After a certain age, if you don't wake up aching in every joint, you are probably dead.

Today

Today's early test ratings show 26 rated races from four meetings.

Every race is rated.

Have a great day's racing!

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As always...

My kindest regards