Sunday 17 May 2009

Some Cracking Racing At Ripon

Once again I am left to update things on here! Last weekend Gags was on a marathon walk for a good cause, this weekend it's a couple of days in Blackpool in aid of a completely different cause!

I've had a really good look at two or three of todays races at Ripon and whilst I like the chances of a couple of horses I don't believe there's enough of an edge, or enough value, to warrant a bet.

Obviously we're pleased with how things have turned out this week. We weren't far off a much bigger payout with one selection just failing by a nose to get up and another (winner at 9/2 in to 3/1) not making our list as we'd missed the prices. Anyone reading our analysis can see we've not been far out even during our recent poor run of results, but this game is ultimately about results so it's nice to get things heading back in the right direction.


WEEKLY SUMMARY
8 BETS
1 WINNER (12.50%)
3 PLACED (37.50%)
PROFIT / LOSS +8.25 POINTS


YEAR TO DATE SUMMARY
88 BETS
16 WINNERS (18.18%)
33 PLACED (27.50%)
PROFIT / LOSS +49.36 POINTS
RETURN ON INVESTMENT 23.96%


BLOG BETS (POSTED ON HERE IN ADVANCE OF RACING) YEAR TO DATE SUMMARY
42 BETS
5 WINNERS (11.90%)
15 PLACED (35.71%)
PROFIT / LOSS +17.55 POINTS
RETURN ON INVESTMENT 16.56%



As promised last week we have highlighted the actual year to date performance and the "blog" year to date performance for those interested. Whilst we may have secured better prices when placing our own bets, the profits shown on here are calculated to prices which were generally available at the time. As an example, yesterday the winning selection was available all day at 13/2 with a couple of firms yet we have calculated profits on here using a price of 6/1. The same has been true of a number of our past winners, but regardless we will continue to quote prices which are readily available. We will also continue to show all of our selections, win or lose, on the right hand side of the blog. Hopefully we'll soon see a lot more red and green over there and a lot less yellow!

Gags will be on here tomorrow with our views and bets for Monday if we are getting involved, assuming he makes it back from Blackpool in one piece!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Mick/Gags,

Still here reading your Analysys.
I was on Red Wine also, hopefully you've turned the corner after a poor couple of weeks. Not that I've done any better myself, plenty of AW races today with e/w potential to pick from.

Rgds,

Nick

Gags said...

Hi Nick,

Glad to hear you're still following the analysis and sounds like you have been getting a few decent winners to boot!!

Whilst the last few weeks have been more than a little frustrating, we have taken heart from the fact that the analysis has been virtually spot on each time and every favourite that we have wanted to oppose has been turned over. The hard bit is coming up with the winner but on at least three or four occasions recently the double figure priced winner has been on our shortlist of 3 or 4 and we have decided to overlook it for one reason or another.......very annoying when they then go and win and the selections run badly but it shows that we are not a million miles away from some cracking returns!!

Keep on following mate and keep up your own good work!

All the best

Gags

Anonymous said...

Cheers for the words of encouragement, if you've been dropping by the forum you'll have seen there's been a few decent price winners last week including your own from Saturday.