Hello again…
Possibly inspired by the French Ratings that I sent out earlier on, Daniel (who advises me on the Hong Kong racing) kindly shared a video with me.
I actually got a little bit emotional watching this video (the weepy stuff starts at about 1 minute 50 seconds.)
Now, it’s not very often that I get emotional (generally only when Spurs win a football match – once again, not very often) but for a moment I thought that I might have some dust behind my contact lenses…
Until I remembered that I don’t wear contact lenses.
You can download the video here… http://focusratings.com/french/An_Unusual_Horse.mp4 or…
You catch watch it on You Tube… https://youtu.be/Rn5FZHlbbL4
Strangely enough, my local old people’s home/care home/geriatric hospital has animals; 4 donkeys, lots of chickens and, recently, they have adopted some cats and dogs.
The old people also receive visits from a travelling pet service where they can pet guinea pigs and dogs and so on – the link is here… https://www.letelegramme.fr/finistere/huelgoat/ehpad-mont-leroux-des-animaux-mediateurs-24-10-2019-12417040.php#slide-1
Apparently these pet visits have massively improved the quality of life (and the outlook on life) for the old people.
What a great idea.
Back to the video – what a wonderful horse Peyo is!
I hope that I have brightened up your Sunday with this, slightly not horse racing related, post.
Have a great day but it might be an idea to have a tissue to hand at around 2 minutes into the video.
As always…
My kindest regards
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Good morning...
Although a very good day for the ratings yesterday...
Unfortunately, our Place Profits selection came 4th.
Still, we are still in profit for January 2021 and,
Long term, the strike rate always balances out.
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Good morning...
Well, it had to happen.
We've had our first loser for Place Profits.
The good news is that we're still in profit for the month.
I never expected Place Profits to have a 100% strike rate but...
A loser still hurts.
I am planning to take the weekend off but,
I am doing some work for one member (a potential Dutching strategy based upon R8) and this will continue over the weekend.
Once we are both happy with the strategy, I will then share it with you. Read more →
Good morning...
I did promise myself...
That I wasn't going to prattle on about Place Profits today but,
I'm afraid that I'm going to have to do so.
Now, it's not so much the PlaceProfits.com results but, more a case of being so excited bout the R8 ratings that they are based upon.
The more I delve into my Master (win) spreadsheet, the opportunities I can see.
And not just for place betting but also for Win betting and Dutching.
Having said that.
Place Profits had 2 selections yesterday (from the new R8 based strategy) and both were placed.
That means that, over the last week (since the new strategy has been operational) there have been 9 selections,
One of which was a non-runner (not much I can do about that) and...
The other 8 have been successful place selections.
So, we're kind of running at a 100% strike rate, to date.
And I'm not really sure how I can improve on that.
On another note...
My code seems to be having problem when there are abandoned meetings.
This only shows up with the Early Bird Preview ratings.
Sometimes the ratings get sent out without any races.
When this happens, don't worry;
I will fix the problem and send out the full ratings as soon as I can. Read more →
Good morning...
A busy day, yesterday...
Where a lot of my time was spent answering questions about Place Profits.
Today I shall be coming up with a staking plan similar to the Annuity Plan but with a range of take out options and,
Based upon the 5 years of data that I based the new Place Profits strategy on.
Read more →
Good morning...
Yesterday there were 2 place profits selections.
Both came third in races that paid 3 places.
That means that...
Since the 1st of January we have had 7 selections over 5 days.
One of those was a non-runner and the other 6 have either won or been placed.
And, the average prices paid are higher than for the previous system.
Now, I do understand that I am waffling on quite a bit about place profits at the moment but,
Of all the thing (Ratings related) that I am excited about at the moment, it's high strike rate place betting strategies that are exciting me the most. Read more →
Good morning...
Have you ever had one of those days when...
Everything that you attempt,
Goes horribly wrong.
Yesterday was that day for me.
I never could get the hang of Mondays.
I hope that today goes better; I certainly have plenty to do. Read more →
Good morning...
Sadly, our only Place Profits selection yesterday....
Was a non-runner.
I am still looking into which race types,
That we can expect winners (rather than just place winners) from these selections.
I am also looking into other ways of using the R8 (when a horse is top rated on Focus Ratings R4 and Advance Ratings) selections.
There seem to be numerous opportunities.
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Good morning...
Another good day for the new system at PlaceProfits.com
3 selections and all 3 won (and obviously won the place.)
It's kind of interesting to me (although I'm aware that it's early days) but over the last 2 days, all 4 of our new selections have actually won their races.
So, I guess that I'll be looking into that later on today.
Also, GE (a member) mentioned that sometimes it's better to bet on the 2nd rated horse and, after some thinking (it's weird what comes into your mind at 2am in the morning, isn't it?), I think that there is some value in this.
Imagine a race where the top rated horse is a really great horse like Kauto Star (or Hurricane Fly), the second rated horse is a decent horse and the third rated horse is Dennis the Donkey (sometimes called Denis the Three Legged Donkey by unhappy punters.)
Now Kauto Star is going to win that race but, the starting price is so low that it may not be worth win backing the horse; in any case it would be silly to place back the horse if you are taking the all the risk just to see it get placed at 1.03.
As all the money is, quite rightly, on Kauto Star, Speedy Simon should have a pretty good price and, thus, be a value place bet.
So, I guess that GE could be right and I'm going to do some work on identifying those races.
If I can do so, and decide to share the resulting selections, then these will be kept separate from the new system and the old one.
I'll let you know how I get on. Read more →
Good morning...
It seems that the link to the new R8 ratings working fine yesterday.
However, having taken a good look at the Focus Ratings morning ratings email...
I have decided that it's time to spruce it up a bit.
So, if over the next week or so, it starts to look different,
Don't worry; it'll have all the same links, in pretty much the same places - it'll just look slightly different.
On another point...
Yesterday was the first day for the new Place Profits system.
We had one selection; Southwell - 15:00 - Silent Queen
Silent Queen won at 2.11 BSP = Betfair paid 1.44 for the place.
Click on the image to see it full size.
That's now 25 winning place bets from the last 28 selections.
That equates to an 89.28% strike rate.
In fact, yesterday was a great day all round...
Taking the abandoned meeting into account,
Investment Betting, Advance Ratings Sys 1 and EarlyBird Ratings Diamonds and Gold all had a 100% strike rate. Read more →
Good morning...
If all goes well...
There will be a new link at the top of the ratings email.
This link points to the PDF file that shows those horses that are both top rated on Focus Ratings (R4) and also on Advance Ratings.
I am calling these selections R8.
I spent a lot of time yesterday...
Working on potential uses for these ratings.
I have found one rather sweet system that yields a 34.84% strike rate with a POI of 27.56%
I need to do the losing run analysis today but it may be a decent upgrade to our current Investment Betting selections.
I will let you know before I make any changes. Read more →