Morning News

Good morning...

It was a bit of a pretty damn good day for us yesterday.

And I'm not talking about the strike rate...

Although a 42% strike rate (for our top rated horse - 44.44% if you use the Live Ratings) isn't to be sniffed at but,

I finally (after many, many hours of investigation) resolved an issue that meant that I couldn't manually update some of the pages on the website.

I couldn't update the results page (or the front page) due to this issue and there were some maintenance jobs that I couldn't do.

This was, in the end, all down to a change in one of the programming languages that I use.

I really have been round the block trying to identify this problem but, in the end, it turned out to be blindingly simple and obvious.

So blindingly simple and obvious in fact that it was staring me in the face all the time.

Anyway, enough of that, 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 42.11%.

Yesterday's Live Ratings, show a strike rate (for our top rated horse) of 44.44%.

Yesterday's - Link to Follow - results for All Races (including previously unrated races), show a strike rate (for our top rated horse) of 42.86% from all 21 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 37.37 units returned to 53 units staked. The Overall Profit Index was, thus, -29.49%

Top Rated Horse - There were 8 winners from the top rated horses from 19 Races. If you had blindly backed the top rated horse in all of the races you would have had 22.43 units returned to 19 units staked. The Top Rated Profit Index was, thus, 18.05%

2nd Rated Horse - There were 1 winners from the second rated horses from 16 Races. If you had blindly backed the 2nd rated horse in all of the races you would have had 1.44 units returned to 16 units staked. The 2nd Rated Profit Index was, thus, -91%

3rd Rated Horse - There were 2 winners from the third rated horses from 18 Races. If you had blindly backed the 3rd rated horse in all of the races you would have had 13.5 units returned to 18 units staked. The 3rd Rated Profit Index was, thus, -25%

Non Handicap Races - Top Rated Horse - There were 8 non-handicap races yesterday. From these races there were 2 Top Rated winners. Thus, the Strike Rate (for Top Rated Horses) was 25%

Top Rated Horse - If you had blindly backed the top rated horse in all of the races you would have had 4.92 units returned to 8 units staked. The Top Rated Non-Handicap Profit Index was, thus, -38.5%

Non Handicap Races - Top Three Rated Horses - There were 8 non-handicap races yesterday. From these races there were 3 Top Three Rated winners. Thus, the Strike Rate (for the Top Three Rated Horses) was 37.5%

Forecasts

There were 3 forecasts yesterday.

Plumpton 13:30:00 - The CSF paid £2.55

Wolverhampton (AW) 14:10:00 - The CSF paid £3.58

Plumpton 15:30:00 - The CSF paid £11.15

Reverse Forecasts

There were 0 reverse forecasts yesterday.

Trifectas

There were 0 tricasts/trifectas yesterday.

Combination Tricasts/Trifectas

There was 1 combination tricast/trifecta yesterday.

Wolverhampton (AW) 15:10:00 - The Trifecta paid £21.80

Winners

From the 19 rated races there were 11 winners (from the top 3 rated horses.) 2 of those were at nice prices.

Course	Time	Horse	ISP	BSP
Wolverhampton (AW)	15:10	El Campeon (3)	7.00	11.00
Wolverhampton (AW)	17:10	Sands Chorus (1)	6.50	8.29

The Portfolio

There was a Banker's Bet (but not a Chancer's Bet) yesterday.

Bankers Bet = All Weather Bankers - where R4 Status = 1 and where Race Type = All Weather and Horse's last run was less than 42 days ago and the Race's RC1 is greater than 86% and the Horse's Confidence is greater than 150% and the Forecast Starting Price was less than 3.1

Selection = Back to ISP - Wolverhampton (AW) - 15:10:00 - High Command (2)

Races (over last year): 24 Wins: 15 Strike Rate: 62.50% ROI: 120.00% AV SP: 1.92

Profit/Loss (to £10 stakes): is £48.00

High Command came second.

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

Plumpton - 12:30:00 - Give Him Time (7) - Runners = 14 - Unplaced
Ffos Las - 13:15:00 - Classi Massini (15) - Runners = 15 - Unplaced
Plumpton - 13:30:00 - Sissinghurst (6) - Runners = 9 - Unplaced
Wolverhampton (AW) - 14:40:00 - Happy Jack (1) - Runners = 5 - Unplaced

The results from the 1st of July 2015 may be seen on this spreadsheet... pbs_results.csv

Something to make you smile...

Slide Down the Banister

As You Slide Down the Banister of Life, Remember:

1. Jim Baker and Jimmy Swaggert have written an impressive new book. It's called "Ministers Do More Than Lay People."

2. Transvestite: A guy who likes to eat, drink and be Mary.

3. The difference between the Pope and your boss...the Pope only expects you to kiss his ring.

4. My mind works like lightning. One brilliant flash and it is gone.

5. The only time the world beats a path to your door is if you're in the bathroom.

6. I hate sex in the movies. Tried it once. The seat folded up, the drink spilled and that ice, well, it really chilled the mood.

7. It used to be only death and taxes were inevitable. Now, of course, there's shipping and handling, too.

8. A husband is someone who, after taking the trash out, gives the impression that he just cleaned the whole house.

9. My next house will have no kitchen - just vending machines and a large trash can.

10. A blonde said, "I was worried that my mechanic might try to rip me off. I was relieved when he told me all I needed was turn signal fluid."

11. I'm so depressed. My doctor refused to write me a prescription for Viagra. He said it would be like putting a new flagpole on a condemned building.

12. My neighbor was bit by a stray rabid dog. I went to see how he was and found him writing frantically on a piece of paper. I told him rabies could be treated, and he didn't have to worry about a Will. He said, "Will? What Will? I'm making a list of the people I want to bite."

13. Definition of a teenager? God's punishment for enjoying sex.

14. As you slide down the banister of life, may the splinters never point the wrong way.

And one from me (from my Christmas Wish List...)

Today

Today's early test ratings show 20 rated races from 3 meetings.

Have a great day's racing!

As always...

My kindest regards