Morning News

Good morning...

A disappointing day for us yesterday.

Although we did get 2 out of 2 for our First Page Strategy.

I had other things on my mind, though.

Two of our members' email providers have marked Focus Ratings as spam.

These are Blueyonder.co.uk and Ntlworld.com

I am working with these companies to remove the spam listing; this sort of thing happens every few months or so but it does take a day or two to get through the bureaucracy.

If you don't get your ratings today you can download them from the website or ask me and I'll send them manually from my personal email account.

Your System Selections are available from your Members page.

So, with that out of the way, 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 16.67%.

Yesterday's Live Ratings, show a strike rate (for our top rated horse) of 15.63%.

Yesterday's - Link to Follow - results for All Races (including previously unrated races), show a strike rate (for our top rated horse) of 15.15% from all 33 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 85.44 units returned to 92 units staked. The Overall Profit Index was, thus, -7.13%

Top Rated Horse - There were 5 winners from the top rated horses from 30 Races. If you had blindly backed the top rated horse in all of the races you would have had 18.74 units returned to 30 units staked. The Top Rated Profit Index was, thus, -37.53%

2nd Rated Horse - There were 6 winners from the second rated horses from 32 Races. If you had blindly backed the 2nd rated horse in all of the races you would have had 28.37 units returned to 32 units staked. The 2nd Rated Profit Index was, thus, -11.34%

3rd Rated Horse - There were 4 winners from the third rated horses from 30 Races. If you had blindly backed the 3rd rated horse in all of the races you would have had 38.33 units returned to 30 units staked. The 3rd Rated Profit Index was, thus, 27.77%

Forecasts

There was 1 forecast yesterday.

Chelmsford (AW) 18:40:00 - The CSF paid £31.61

Reverse Forecasts

There were 4 reverse forecasts yesterday.

Newmarket 14:10:00 - The CSF paid £16.04

Limerick 14:15:00 - The CSF paid £6.25

Limerick 14:50:00 - The CSF paid £7.35

Newmarket 16:30:00 - The CSF paid £7.73

Tricasts/Trifectas

There were 0 tricasts/trifectas yesterday.

Combination Tricasts/Trifectas

There were 0 combination tricasts/trifectas yesterday.

Winners

From the 32 rated races there were 15 winners (from the top 3 rated horses.) 5 of those were at nice prices.

Course	Time	Horse	ISP	BSP
Ripon	16:20	Ladweb (9)	10.00	13.83
Newmarket	16:30	Stormy Antarctic (4)	5.50	6.50
Newmarket	17:05	Accession (14)	21.00	24.17
Ripon	17:30	Ronnie Baird (5)	9.00	10.50
Chelmsford (AW)	18:40	Daisy Boy (5)	9.00	9.83

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.

First Page Strategy

1). Newmarket 14:10 - Jadaayil - Win Bet - 1st - Betfair paid 4.56

2). Limerick 14:15 - Plain Talking - Win Bet - 1st - Betfair paid 3.12

Place Betting Strategy

Newmarket 14:10:00 - Natural Wonder - Unplaced
Limerick 14:15:00 - Whispering Hope - Unplaced
Limerick 16:35:00 - Pack Your Bags - Unplaced
Ripon 17:30:00 - Ronnie Baird - 1st - Betfair paid 2.32 for the place.

We made a loss of 1.746 point on the day and have made a profit of 49.9365 points for April.

For the new strategy we made a loss of 1.183788 points on the day and have made a profit of 40.790175 points for March.

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 1.183788 points yesterday and we have made a profit of 39.76809 points for April.

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

Something to make you laugh

The Psychotherapist

A psychotherapist was enjoying a growing practice since he graduated college. So much so that he could now afford to have a proper sign advertising his services.

So he told a kid to paint a signboard for him & put it above his clinic entrance.

Instead of his business building up, it declined steeply.

He had especially noticed the ladies shying away from his clinic after reading the sign.

So he decided to check it out for himself.

One look and he understood why.

The boy only found a small wooden board to paint the sign on and he had split the word psychotherapist into the 3 words.

His new sign read:

Psycho-
the-
rapist

Today

Today's early test ratings show 45 rated races from seven meetings.

Have a great day's racing!

As always...

My kindest regards