Morning News

Good morning...

An average day, yesterday...

With not too much to say about it.

I hoping that today will be more exciting.

I'm told that this weekend is going to be very hot so I'll probably be taking it off.

I'll try to catch up with any outstanding emails today so that I can make that happen.

Anyway, how about we 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 22.92%.

Yesterday's Live Ratings, show a strike rate (for our top rated horse) of 22.45%.

Yesterday's - Link to Follow - results for All Races (including previously unrated races), show a strike rate (for our top rated horse) of 22.45% from all 49 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 108.79 units returned to 143 units staked. The Overall Profit Index was, thus, -23.92%

Top Rated Horse - There were 11 winners from the top rated horses from 48 Races. If you had blindly backed the top rated horse in all of the races you would have had 33.03 units returned to 48 units staked. The Top Rated Profit Index was, thus, -31.19%

2nd Rated Horse - There were 10 winners from the second rated horses from 47 Races. If you had blindly backed the 2nd rated horse in all of the races you would have had 41.63 units returned to 47 units staked. The 2nd Rated Profit Index was, thus, -11.43%

3rd Rated Horse - There were 8 winners from the third rated horses from 48 Races. If you had blindly backed the 3rd rated horse in all of the races you would have had 34.13 units returned to 48 units staked. The 3rd Rated Profit Index was, thus, -28.9%

Non Handicap Races - Top Rated Horse - There were 19 non-handicap races yesterday. From these races there were 5 Top Rated winners. Thus, the Strike Rate (for Top Rated Horses) was 26.32%

Top Rated Horse - If you had blindly backed the top rated horse in all of the races you would have had 17.22 units returned to 19 units staked. The Top Rated Non-Handicap Profit Index was, thus, -9.37%

Non Handicap Races - Top Three Rated Horses - There were 19 non-handicap races yesterday. From these races there were 10 Top Three Rated winners. Thus, the Strike Rate (for the Top Three Rated Horses) was 52.63%

Forecasts

There were 3 forecasts yesterday.

Salisbury 17:15:00 - The CSF paid £5.28

Tramore 17:40:00 - The CSF paid £24.02

Yarmouth 18:05:00 - The CSF paid £6.34

Reverse Forecasts

There were 2 reverse forecasts yesterday.

Salisbury 13:40:00 - The CSF paid £4.66

Salisbury 14:40:00 - The CSF paid £19.86

Tricasts/Trifectas

There were 0 tricasts/trifectas yesterday.

Combination Tricasts/Trifectas

There were 3 combination tricasts/trifectas yesterday.

Salisbury 13:40:00 - The Trifecta paid £22.20

Worcester 14:30:00 - The Trifecta paid £23.80

Leopardstown 20:00:00 - The Trifecta paid £143.33

Winners

From the 49 rated races there were 29 winners (from the top 3 rated horses.) 6 of those were at nice prices.

Course	Time	Horse	ISP	BSP
Worcester	15:00	Poisoned Berry (11)	5.50	5.34
Beverley	15:50	Gabrials Star (1)	6.50	7.70
Leopardstown	18:30	Mcguigan (3)	6.00	7.30
Yarmouth	18:35	Willow Spring (10)	7.00	8.75
Tramore	18:40	Borderlinedecision (3)	6.00	5.97
Leopardstown	20:00	Udogo (4)	9.00	11.50

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 13:40 - Gravity Wave - Win Bet - 1st @ 3.23

2). Beverley 13:50 - One Too Many - Win Bet - Unplaced.

3). Worcester 14:00 - For N'Against - Place Bet - 2nd @ 2.85

4). Salisbury 14:10 - Crystal Secret - Place Bet - Unplaced.

5). Worcester 14:30 - Benissimo - Win Bet - 3rd

A total of 5.776 points returned to 5 points staked.

So far this month we have had 23.8735 points (after commission) returned to 31 points staked.

Place Betting Strategy

Salisbury 13:40:00 - Party Nights - 3rd @ 3.6
Beverley 13:50:00 - La Haule Lay - Unplaced
Salisbury 14:10:00 - Crystal Secret - Unplaced
Worcester 16:30:00 - Premier Rose - Unplaced
Yarmouth 17:05:00 - Sassoferrato - Unplaced

We made a loss of 1.53 points on the day and have made a loss of 15.7855 points for August.

For the new strategy we made a loss of 2.39334 points on the day and have made a loss of 13.392534 points for August.

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 2.39334 and we have made a loss of 13.983072 points for August.

The spreadsheet of all of the results is available at… http://focusratings.com/data/PBSAug16.xls

Something to make you laugh

The Lawnmower

This preacher was looking for a good used lawnmower one day. He found one at a yard sale that Little Johnny happened to be manning.

"This mower work, son?" the preacher asked.

Little Johnny said, "Sure does -- just pull on the cord hard, though."

The preacher took the mower home and when he got ready to mow he yanked and pulled and tugged on that cord. Nothing worked. It wouldn't start.

Thinking he'd been swindled, he took the mower back to Little Johnny's house. "You said this would work if I pulled on the cord hard enough."

"Well," Johnny said, "you need to curse at it sometimes."

The preacher was aghast. "I've not done that in years!"

"Just keep yanking on that cord, Preacher. It'll come back to you."

Today

Today's early test ratings show 39 rated races from six meetings.

Have a great day's racing!

As always...

My kindest regards