Morning News

Good morning...

Yesterday was pretty unexciting with just three meetings and...

The results were just as unexciting.

Today looks far more interesting with six meetings but I guess that we're all more interested in next week's festival.

And why not?

For four days I'll be cursing internet TV and watching some of the best racing of the year.

Most of the time I only see the races as numbers (the elements that go to make up the ratings) and so it'll be nice to actually watch the beasts running.

Anyway, I'm looking forward 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 20%.

Yesterday's Live Ratings, show a strike rate (for our top rated horse) of 20%.

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 20 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 40.13 units returned to 59 units staked. The Overall Profit Index was, thus, -31.98%

Top Rated Horse - There were 4 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 12.25 units returned to 20 units staked. The Top Rated Profit Index was, thus, -38.75%

2nd Rated Horse - There were 6 winners from the second rated horses from 19 Races. If you had blindly backed the 2nd rated horse in all of the races you would have had 22.38 units returned to 19 units staked. The 2nd Rated Profit Index was, thus, 17.79%

3rd Rated Horse - There were 1 winners from the third rated horses from 20 Races. If you had blindly backed the 3rd rated horse in all of the races you would have had 5.5 units returned to 20 units staked. The 3rd Rated Profit Index was, thus, -72.5%

Forecasts

There were 0 forecasts yesterday.

Reverse Forecasts

There were 4 reverse forecasts yesterday.

Carlisle 14:35:00 - The CSF paid £2.09

Southwell (AW) 14:45:00 - The CSF paid £4.13

Southwell (AW) 15:15:00 - The CSF paid £4.27

Chelmsford (AW) 17:50:00 - The CSF paid £5.35

Tricasts/Trifectas

There were 0 tricasts/trifectas yesterday.

Combination Tricasts/Trifectas

There was 1 combination tricast/trifecta yesterday.

Southwell (AW) 14:45:00 - The Trifecta paid £3.70

Winners

From the 20 rated races there were 11 winners (from the top 3 rated horses.) 3 of those were at nice prices.

Course	Time	Horse	ISP	BSP
Carlisle	14:00	Captain Redbeard (3)	6.00	6.74
Carlisle	15:05	Gevrey Chambertin (1)	5.50	5.76
Southwell (AW)	17:35	Footlight (3)	6.00	5.68

The Portfolio

There was both a Banker's Bet and a Chancer's Bet yesterday.

Bankers Bet = All Weather Wonders - Season Proper - where R4 Status = 1 and where Race Type = All Weather and where the Race is Not a Handicap Race and Horse\'s last run was less than 28 days ago and RC1 was more than 90% and RC2 was more than 60% and the Month is January or the Month is February or the Month is March or the Month is April or the Month is September or the Month is October or the Month is November or the Month is December

Selection = Back to ISP - Southwell (AW) - 14:45:00 - Northside Prince (4)

Races (over last year): 51 Wins: 25 Strike Rate: 49.02% ROI: 131.86% AV SP: 2.69

Profit/Loss (to £10 stakes): is £162.50

Northside Prince came second.

Chancers Bet = All Weather Wonders - Season Proper - where R4 Status = 1 and where Race Type = All Weather and where the Race is Not a Handicap Race and Horse\'s last run was less than 28 days ago and RC1 was more than 90% and RC2 was more than 60% and the Month is January or the Month is February or the Month is March or the Month is April or the Month is September or the Month is October or the Month is November or the Month is December

Selection = Back to ISP - Chelmsford (AW) - 18:20:00 - Grecian King (3)

Races (over last year): 51 Wins: 25 Strike Rate: 49.02% ROI: 131.86AV SP: 2.69

Profit/Loss (to £10 stakes): is £162.50

Grecian King came fifth.

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.

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Place Betting Strategy

There were no PBS selections yesterday.

Something to make you laugh

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Today

Today's early test ratings show 38 rated races from six meetings.

Have a great day's racing!

As always...

My kindest regards