Morning News

Good morning...

Well, a decent return to form just in time for next week.

I'm getting excited...

Can you tell?

The thought of watching some decent racing and keeping myself refreshed with a supply of beer and...

Pretending that it's all in the name of work,

Puts a smile on my face.

Still, a few more days to go (it's a bit like waiting for Christmas, isn't it) so, 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 29.73%.

Yesterday's Live Ratings, show a strike rate (for our top rated horse) of 28.95%.

Yesterday's - Link to Follow - results for All Races (including previously unrated races), show a strike rate (for our top rated horse) of 30.77% from all 39 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 81.54 units returned to 111 units staked. The Overall Profit Index was, thus, -26.54%

Top Rated Horse - There were 11 winners from the top rated horses from 37 Races. If you had blindly backed the top rated horse in all of the races you would have had 32.88 units returned to 37 units staked. The Top Rated Profit Index was, thus, -11.14%

2nd Rated Horse - There were 8 winners from the second rated horses from 37 Races. If you had blindly backed the 2nd rated horse in all of the races you would have had 31.66 units returned to 37 units staked. The 2nd Rated Profit Index was, thus, -14.43%

3rd Rated Horse - There were 3 winners from the third rated horses from 37 Races. If you had blindly backed the 3rd rated horse in all of the races you would have had 17 units returned to 37 units staked. The 3rd Rated Profit Index was, thus, -54.05%

Forecasts

There was 1 forecast yesterday.

Sandown 17:00:00 - The CSF paid £3.72

Reverse Forecasts

There were 2 reverse forecasts yesterday.

Ayr 17:25:00 - The CSF paid £6.02

Dundalk (AW) 18:05:00 - The CSF paid £33.50

Tricasts/Trifectas

There were 0 tricasts/trifectas yesterday.

Combination Tricasts/Trifectas

There were 6 combination tricasts/trifectas yesterday.

Leicester 14:20:00 - The Trifecta paid £14.20

Ayr 15:05:00 - The Trifecta paid £19.70

Leicester 16:00:00 - The Trifecta paid £8.00

Ayr 16:15:00 - The Trifecta paid £17.00

Leicester 16:35:00 - The Trifecta paid £5.40

Dundalk (AW) 19:05:00 - The Trifecta paid £21.90

Winners

From the 38 rated races there were 22 winners (from the top 3 rated horses.) 3 of those were at nice prices.

Course	Time	Horse	ISP	BSP
Sandown	14:10	Loves Destination (9)	5.50	6.29
Chelmsford (AW)	17:45	Kristal Hart (6)	8.00	9.00
Dundalk (AW)	18:05	Midnitemudcrabs (8)	7.00	8.36

The Portfolio

There was a Banker's Bet (but not 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 - Chelmsford (AW) - 19:45:00 - Cee Jay (2)

Races (over last year): 53 Wins: 25 Strike Rate: 47.17% ROI: 126.89% AV SP: 2.69

Profit/Loss (to £10 stakes): is £142.50

Cee Jay came third.

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

There were no PBS selections yesterday.

Something to make you laugh

Another one from Lee - an oldie but a goodie..

For all of us who feel only the deepest love and affection for the way computers have enhanced our lives, read on.

At a recent computer expo (COMDEX),

Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated,

"If Ford had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon."

In response to Bill 's comments, Ford issued a press release stating:

If Ford had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics:

1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash.........twice a day.

2.. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car.

3... Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this.

4.... Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.

5..... Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive - but would run on only five percent of the roads.

6...... The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single "This Car Has Performed An Illegal Operation" warning light.

7....... The airbag system would ask,"Are you sure?" before deploying.

8........ Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna.

9......... Every time a new car was introduced car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.

10.......... You'd have to press the "Start" button to turn the engine off.

PS - I'd like to add that when all else fails, you could call "customer service" in some foreign country and be instructed in some foreign language how to fix your car yourself!

Today

Today's early test ratings show 34 rated races from five meetings.

Have a great day's racing!

As always...

My kindest regards