Morning News

Good morning...

Well...

I doubt that I'll get too much work done today.

The weather is forecast to hit 37 degrees today and,

On top of that, my computers put out a fair amount of heat.

Still, I'll get done what I can get done and...

Then go to the coolest part of the village.

What, strangely enough, is the terrace behind the PMU.

What a coincidence.

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Focus Ratings

Yesterday's Results

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 41.38%.

Yesterday's Live Ratings, show a strike rate (for our top rated horse) of 40.63%.

Yesterday's - Link to Follow - results for All Races (including previously unrated races), show a strike rate (for our top rated horse) of 39.39% from all 33 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 77.85 units returned to 86 units staked. The Overall Profit Index was, thus, -9.48%

Top Rated Horse - There were 12 winners from the top rated horses from 29 Races. If you had blindly backed the top rated horse in all of the races you would have had 31.77 units returned to 29 units staked. The Top Rated Profit Index was, thus, 9.55%

2nd Rated Horse - There were 4 winners from the second rated horses from 26 Races. If you had blindly backed the 2nd rated horse in all of the races you would have had 20.38 units returned to 26 units staked. The 2nd Rated Profit Index was, thus, -21.62%

3rd Rated Horse - There were 5 winners from the third rated horses from 31 Races. If you had blindly backed the 3rd rated horse in all of the races you would have had 25.7 units returned to 31 units staked. The 3rd Rated Profit Index was, thus, -17.1%

Non Handicap Races - Top Rated Horse - There were 7 non-handicap races yesterday. From these races there were 5 Top Rated winners. Thus, the Strike Rate (for Top Rated Horses) was 71.43%

Top Rated Horse - If you had blindly backed the top rated horse in all of the races you would have had 10.05 units returned to 7 units staked. The Top Rated Non-Handicap Profit Index was, thus, 43.57%

Non Handicap Races - Top Three Rated Horses - There were 7 non-handicap races yesterday. From these races there were 7 Top Three Rated winners. Thus, the Strike Rate (for the Top Three Rated Horses) was 100%

Forecasts

There were 3 forecasts yesterday.

Bath 14:10:00 - The CSF paid £5.18

Leopardstown 14:30:00 - The CSF paid €4.63

Stratford 16:15:00 - The CSF paid £5.63

Investment Betting

There were five Investment Betting selections yesterday...

Leopardstown - 13:00 - Pretty Gorgeous - 2nd
Leopardstown - 13:30 - Cadillac - NR
Ripon - 13:45 - Awsaaf - 2nd
Leopardstown - 14:30 - Thundering Nights - 1st @ 2.375 ISP (2.48 BSP)
Leopardstown - 15:00 - Sea The Lion - 5th

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EarlyBird Ratings

There were two Diamonds and Gold selections yesterday...

Stratford - 16:15 - Courtandbould (a Diamonds and Gold selection) - 1st @ 1.66 ISP (1.79 BSP)

Stratford - 20:20 - Beholden (a Gold selection) - 3rd

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.

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

There is no more racing in Hong Kong until Saturday 5th of September.

Many thanks to Chris D for reminding me of this.

During the quiet period...

I'll start looking at some of the statistics for the races so far this year.

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Spotlight Ratings

There are no Spotlight Ratings for today.

There is nothing showing up for the next few days but I will keep my eyes open.

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Ante Post Ratings

Later this 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.

I will be spending one day next week updating the Ante Post Ratings.

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Place Profits

There were two Place Profits selections yesterday.

Bath - 14:10 - Vedute - 1st @ 1.29

Ripon - 16:20 - Finely Tuned - 1st @ 1.04

The recent results be seen here... http://placeprofits.com/results/

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Something to make you smile...

Bull

My wife and I went to the County Agricultural Show and one of the first exhibits we stopped at was the breeding bulls.

We went up to the first pen and there was a sign attached that said:

THIS BULL MATED 50 TIMES LAST YEAR

My wife playfully nudged me in the ribs ..... Smiled and said, "He mated 50 times last year, that's almost once a week".

We walked to the second pen which had a sign attached that said:

THIS BULL MATED 150 TIMES LAST YEAR

My wife gave me a healthy jab and said, "WOW~~That's more than twice a week! .......... You could learn a lot from him".

We walked to the third pen and it had a sign attached that said:

THIS BULL MATED 365 TIMES LAST YEAR

My wife was so excited that her elbow nearly broke my ribs, and said, "That's once a day .. You could REALLY learn something from this one".

I looked at her and said, "Go over and ask him if it was with the same cow".

My condition has been upgraded from critical to stable and the doctors say I should eventually make a full recovery.

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Today

Whatever you are up to today...

Stay safe and healthy.

As always...

My kindest regards