Morning News

Good morning...

Another busy day for me yesterday...

I was busy working on the new Secret Squirrel Mystery Service X (in collaboration with a long term Focus Ratings member) that I am hoping to launch late next week.

I have also been working on AntePostRatings.com - the website isn't finished yet but it'll probably be all done by first thing Monday.

And, on top of that, emails are coming in faster than I can reply to them - I may just need to clone myself.

Luckily for me, it rained over here yesterday morning so...

I couldn't sneak out for a cheeky beer on the terrace at the PMU and,

Obviously, I didn't need to water my plants.

So...

More time for me to get down to work.

Now, I have to say that today's ratings are going to come out a little bit later than normal.

I have started to install the new scripts to automate some of the things that I have to do every morning.

Please don't worry, once I have worked out how long those scripts are going to take to run, I'll just start the main script running a little bit earlier to compensate.

Those of you with very beady eyes will have noticed that a new option has popped up on the menu on the Focus Ratings website.

As I started doing (when GB racing closed down,) I shall start compiling details of Draw Bias (where applicable) and Focus Ratings historical Strike Rate/POI for different race types for each course. I may add in some Trainer stats as well.

I imagine that this will take me the best part of three months to complete (what with all the other things going on) but, once done, there will be a PDF for every race course in GB and IRE.

These will individually be updated once a year.

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Focus Ratings

A 30% strike rate is higher than the average and, for the third day in a row, it was profitable to blindly back the top rated horse in every race.

Yesterday's Results

For greater detail, here are the results in the Traffic Light Results PDF format... Yesterday's Traffic Light Results

Yesterday's Results, show a strike rate (for our top rated horse) of 30.77%.

Yesterday's Live Ratings, show a strike rate (for our top rated horse) of 30.77%.

Yesterday's - Link to Follow - results for All Races (including previously unrated races), show a strike rate (for our top rated horse) of 30.77% from all 13 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 16 units returned to 39 units staked. The Overall Profit Index was, thus, -58.97%

Top Rated Horse - There were 4 winners from the top rated horses from 13 Races. If you had blindly backed the top rated horse in all of the races you would have had 16 units returned to 13 units staked. The Top Rated Profit Index was, thus, 23.08%

2nd Rated Horse - There were 0 winners from the second rated horses from 14 Races. If you had blindly backed the 2nd rated horse in all of the races you would have had 0 units returned to 14 units staked. The 2nd Rated Profit Index was, thus, -100%

3rd Rated Horse - There were 0 winners from the third rated horses from 12 Races. If you had blindly backed the 3rd rated horse in all of the races you would have had 0 units returned to 12 units staked. The 3rd Rated Profit Index was, thus, -100%

Non Handicap Races - Top Rated Horse - There were 3 non-handicap races yesterday. From these races there were 2 Top Rated winners. Thus, the Strike Rate (for Top Rated Horses) was 66.67%

Top Rated Horse - If you had blindly backed the top rated horse in all of the races you would have had 3.5 units returned to 3 units staked. The Top Rated Non-Handicap Profit Index was, thus, 16.67%

Non Handicap Races - Top Three Rated Horses - There were 3 non-handicap races yesterday. From these races there were 2 Top Three Rated winners. Thus, the Strike Rate (for the Top Three Rated Horses) was 66.67%

We had one Investment Betting selection yesterday; unfortunately Ventura Rebel came fifth.

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EarlyBird Ratings

Since the return of GB racing we have only had 3 EarlyBird Diamonds and Gold selections.

2 of those 3 selections won.

So our strike rate, so far, is 66.67%

We have made 7.38 points profit to ISP and...

10.60 points profit to BSP (assuming a 2% commission.)

Our Profit on Stakes to BSP is 353.3%

Focus Ratings members can subscribe to these selections for free,

Just send me a mail and I'll set it up.

The selections normally come out about 5:30pm the evening before the day of the race.

There were no selections for yesterday.

PlaceProfits.com members - if you wish to receive the EarlyBird Ratings Diamond and Gold selections until the racing settles down and we start getting Place Profits selections again, just email me and I'll put you on the list.

You can see the independently proofed results for the EarlyBird Ratings Diamonds and Gold selections here... https://www.racing-index.com/tipsters/proofed/ebr-diamondsandgold.html

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Compass Ratings

I've had a quick look at Sunday's racing at Sha Tin.

There are 10 races on Sunday and they all look pretty good to rate.

The link to Sunday's ratings (top 3 rated horses) for Sha Tin is here... http://compassratings.com/data/compassratings-2020-06-07.pdf

The link to Sunday's ratings (all horses) for Sha Tin is here... http://compassratings.com/data/compassratings-full-2020-06-07.pdf

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Spotlight Ratings

There were no Spotlight Rating yesterday.

There are none for today.

However, for Saturday...

I do have 2 Australian Group/Graded/Listed Races

I also have 1 South African race,

3 French races and...

1 American race that I can rate for Saturday's Spotlight Ratings.

The link to Saturday's Spotlight Ratings is here... http://spotlightratings.com/data/SpotlightRatings-2020-06-06.pdf

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Ante Post Ratings

From next week I shall be rating (well in advance) any decent races that need to be rated as part of my Ante Post Ratings service.

Obviously, you as Focus Ratings members will get access to these ratings for free.

Now, I anticipate that I should be able to produce Ante Post Ratings for all big race entries about month before the race.

I shall be mainly concentrating of the big GB festivals such as Epsom, Goodwood, Cheltenham, Boxing Day, Ascot and so forth but...

I'll also be covering the Irish festivals as well.

In addition, I'll be covering the big International meetings/festivals/races as well.

Races like the Japanese Derby (did I mention that our top rated horse won that race?)

And races like the French 2000 Guineas (did I mention that our top rated horse won that race?)

I'm also quite excited about doing the Melbourne cup and, in the States, the Breeders Cup and so forth.

I will be updating the PDFs twice a week (Mondays and Thursday) to weed out any horses that aren't going to actually run.

If you think that there are any decent races/meetings/festivals that I'm missing out on, please let me know.

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Place Profits

Our Place Profits members celebrated a good return to racing with 2 selections yesterday.

Newcastle - 13:35 - Brunch - 1st @ 2.04 BSP (Place = 1.19 BSP.)

Newcastle - 14:10 - Al Salt - 1st @ 4.02 BSP (Place = 1.41 BSP.)

So, a nice start for us.

This makes it 4 wins and 5 seconds from the last 10 races (taking the 2 non-runners into account.)

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Something to make you smile...

Cross Country

A woman from New York was driving through a remote part of Arizona when her car broke down.

An American Indian on horseback came along and offered her a ride to a nearby town.

She climbed up behind him on the horse and they rode off.

The ride was uneventful, except that every few minutes the Indian would let out a 'Ye-e-e-e-h-a-a-a-a' so loud that it echoed from the surrounding hills.

When they arrived in town, he let her off at the local service station, yelled one final 'Ye-e-e-e-h-a-a-a-a!' and rode off.

'What did you do to get that Indian so excited?' asked the service-station attendant.

'Nothing,' the woman answered. 'I merely sat behind him on the horse, put my arms around his waist, and held onto the saddle horn so I wouldn't fall off.'

'Lady,' the attendant said, 'Indians don't use saddles.

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Today

Whatever you are up to today...

Stay safe and healthy.

As always...

My kindest regards