Morning News

Good morning...

Well, a pretty sorry start to May.

I put it all down to it being a bank holiday here in France.

Seriously, I didn't watch the results coming in but I have just updated my print out and nothing looks too amiss.

Although I do have to pop out for a few hours today, I will watch the results this afternoon - it looks like a pretty good day's racing.

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 17.86%.

Yesterday's Live Ratings, show a strike rate (for our top rated horse) of 17.86%.

Yesterday's - Link to Follow - results for All Races (including previously unrated races), show a strike rate (for our top rated horse) of 17.86% from all 28 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 49.8 units returned to 82 units staked. The Overall Profit Index was, thus, -39.27%

Top Rated Horse - There were 5 winners from the top rated horses from 28 Races. If you had blindly backed the top rated horse in all of the races you would have had 14.42 units returned to 28 units staked. The Top Rated Profit Index was, thus, -48.5%

2nd Rated Horse - There were 5 winners from the second rated horses from 27 Races. If you had blindly backed the 2nd rated horse in all of the races you would have had 17.38 units returned to 27 units staked. The 2nd Rated Profit Index was, thus, -35.63%

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 18 units returned to 27 units staked. The 3rd Rated Profit Index was, thus, -33.33%

Forecasts

There were 0 forecasts yesterday.

Reverse Forecasts

There were 2 reverse forecasts yesterday.

Salisbury 15:10:00 - The CSF paid £2.44

Sligo 17:40:00 - The CSF paid £31.76

Tricasts/Trifectas

There were 0 tricasts/trifectas yesterday.

Combination Tricasts/Trifectas

There was 1 combination tricast/trifecta yesterday.

Salisbury 16:25:00 - The Trifecta paid £67.70

Winners

From the 28 rated races there were 13 winners (from the top 3 rated horses.) 4 of those were at nice prices.

Course	Time	Horse	ISP	BSP
Newmarket	13:50	Oasis Fantasy (7)	8.00	10.00
Hamilton	14:10	Sir Domino (8)	7.50	7.80
Salisbury	14:35	Short Work (7)	5.50	5.85
Hamilton	16:30	Tawdeea (1)	6.00	6.60

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). Salisbury 13:35 - Co Ridge - Place Bet - Unplaced

2). Hamilton 14:10 - Aprovado - Place Bet - Unplaced

3). Sligo 14:20 - Somebodytoldme - Win Bet - 3rd

Place Betting Strategy

Salisbury 13:35:00 - Abaco Ridge - Unplaced
Salisbury 15:10:00 - Fastnet Spring - 2nd - Betfair paid 1.72 fpr the place.
Hamilton 15:55:00 - Holy Grail - Unplaced

We made a loss of 1.316 points on the day and have made a loss of 1.316 points for May.

For the new strategy we made a loss of 0.642744 points on the day and have made a loss of 0.642744 points for May.

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 2.034 points yesterday and we have made a profit of 2.034 points for April.

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

Something to make you laugh

One Stone

There once was an Indian who had only one testicle, and whose given name was Onestone.

He hated that name and asked everyone not to call him Onestone.

After years and years of torment, Onestone finally cracked and said, "If anyone calls me Onestone again I will kill them!"

The word got around and nobody called him that any more.

Then one day a young woman named Blue Bird forgot and said, "Good morning, Onestone."

He jumped up, grabbed her and took her deep into the forest where he made love to her all day and all night.

He made love to her all the next day, until Blue Bird died from exhaustion.

The word got around that Onestone meant what he promised he would do.

Years went by and no one dared call him by his given name until a woman named Yellow Bird returned to the village after being away.

Yellow Bird, who was Blue Bird's cousin, was overjoyed when she saw Onestone.

She hugged him and said, "Good to see you, Onestone."

Onestone grabbed her, took her deep into the forest, then he made love to her all day, made love to her all night, made love to her all the next day, made love to her all the next night, but Yellow Bird wouldn't die!

What is the moral of this story?

You can't kill two birds with one stone!!

Today

Today's early test ratings show 51 rated races from seven meetings.

Have a great day's racing!

As always...

My kindest regards