Morning News

Good morning...

Well, yesterday's big day of racing didn't seem to do us any favours.

Still, we've had a few good days in a row and we have to expect the occasional bad one.

Today, with only four meetings, looks easier (to my eyes, anyway.)

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 16.36%.

Yesterday's Live Ratings, show a strike rate (for our top rated horse) of 16.36%.

Yesterday's - Link to Follow - results for All Races (including previously unrated races), show a strike rate (for our top rated horse) of 16.07% from all 56 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 86.05 units returned to 155 units staked. The Overall Profit Index was, thus, -44.48%

Top Rated Horse - There were 9 winners from the top rated horses from 55 Races. If you had blindly backed the top rated horse in all of the races you would have had 26.17 units returned to 55 units staked. The Top Rated Profit Index was, thus, -52.42%

2nd Rated Horse - There were 11 winners from the second rated horses from 54 Races. If you had blindly backed the 2nd rated horse in all of the races you would have had 39.88 units returned to 54 units staked. The 2nd Rated Profit Index was, thus, -26.15%

3rd Rated Horse - There were 3 winners from the third rated horses from 46 Races. If you had blindly backed the 3rd rated horse in all of the races you would have had 20 units returned to 46 units staked. The 3rd Rated Profit Index was, thus, -56.52%

Forecasts

There were 2 forecasts yesterday.

Navan 13:55:00 - The CSF paid £5.18

Cartmel 14:05:00 - The CSF paid £9.37

Reverse Forecasts

There were 2 reverse forecasts yesterday.

Beverley 16:10:00 - The CSF paid £13.97

Haydock 17:30:00 - The CSF paid £20.01

Tricasts/Trifectas

There were 0 tricasts/trifectas yesterday.

Combination Tricasts/Trifectas

There were 2 combination tricasts/trifectas yesterday.

Beverley 13:50:00 - The Trifecta paid £29.10

Catterick 14:20:00 - The Trifecta paid £64.80

Winners

From the 55 rated races there were 23 winners (from the top 3 rated horses.) 3 of those were at nice prices.

Course	Time	Horse	ISP	BSP
Chester	14:15	Secret Hint (1)	6.50	7.91
Catterick	16:40	Swift Approval (1)	7.00	7.60
Navan	16:50	Ceol Na Nog (10)	9.00	13.00

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). Chester 13:45 - Cuppacoffee - Place Bet - Unplaced.

2). Beverley 13:50 - Geno - Win Bet - 1st @ 2.18 BSP.

3). Navan 13:55 - Magnification - Win Bet - 2nd.

4). Cartmel 14:05 - Jovial Joey - Win Bet - 2nd.

Place Betting Strategy

Navan 13:55:00 - Milos Lass - Unplaced
Cartmel 14:05:00 - Jovial Joey - 2nd - Betfair paid 1.60 for the place.
Beverley 14:25:00 - Mailshot - Unplaced
Navan 14:30:00 - Miracle Ninetynine - Unplaced
Beverley 15:00:00 - Spin Doctor - 3rd - Betfair paid 1.70 for the place.
Salisbury 17:50:00 - Spin Top NR
Salisbury 18:50:00 - Big Chill - Unplaced
Ffos Las 19:05:00 - Deebaj - NR
Ffos Las 19:35:00 - Sahara Haze - Unplaced
Ffos Las 21:05:00 - The Draconian - NR

We made a loss of 3.765 points on the day and have made a loss of 7.935 points for May.

For the new strategy we made a loss of 2.62047 points on the day and have made a loss of 7.899717 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 2.62047 points yesterday and we have made a loss of 14.757009 points for May.

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

Something to make you laugh

Inheritance

A man in a bar sees a friend at a table, drinking by himself.

Approaching the friend he comments, "You look terrible. What's the problem?"

"My mother died in August," his friend replied, "and left me $25,000.

Then in September my father died, leaving me $90,000."

"Losing both parents in two months. No wonder you're depressed."

"And last month my aunt died, and left me $15,000."

His friend continued.

"Three close family members lost in three months? How sad."

"Then this month," concluded, the friend, "absolutely nothing!"

Today

Today's early test ratings show 30 rated races from five meetings.

Have a great day's racing!

As always...

My kindest regards