Race 5

8
Makybe Diva $ 2.5
1
Grand Armee $ 3.00
3
County Tyrone $ 5.00
4
Another Warrior $ 9.00
10
Outback Prince $ 15.00

Race 7
5
Undoubtedly $ 3.00
4
Stratum $ 3.25
1
Snitzel $ 4.75
11
Media $ 8.00
10
Fashions Afield $ 9.75

Raced back home from holidays just for this comp. HA HA HA.


The BMW

1. Grand Armee
2. Makybe Diva
3. Vouvray
4. Outback Prince
5. Hugs Dancer


The Slipper

1. Fashions Afield
2. Written Tycoon
3. Undoubtedly
4. Domesday
5. Al Samer

Good Punting

Well done Dr Ron in finding the Slipper first4 in your top 5 rated horses.

This week:

Dr Ron (65 + 70) 135
zorro (87.5 + 42.5) 130
QuickFunBet (75 + 55) 130
Sportz (92.5 + 32.5) 125
kiwi (60 + 55) 115
Chrome Prince (65 + 47.5) 112.5
La Mer (62.5 + 42.5) 105
Top Rank (92.5 + 12.5) 105
xpt driver (92.5 + 10) 102.5
ubetido (85 + 12.5) 97.5
Jimmy (85 + 10) 95
Duritz (70 + 7.5) 77.5
Heavyweight (57.5 + 12.5) 70
The mug (52.5 + 10) 62.5

Overall:

Sportz 972.5
zorro 897.5
La Mer 862.5
Top Rank 860
Dr Ron 830
QuickFunBet 830
Jimmy 830
Duritz 745
xpt driver 727.5
Heavyweight 727.5
ubetido 700
Chrome Prince 600
The mug 592.5
Filante 510
kiwi 402.5
Shaun 292.5

Coming to the end of this little comp. How do you guys feel about doing ratings for Saturday AND Monday over the Easter weekend?

I'm good to go!

My preference would be to to draw the line on Saturday - too many family commitments over the rest of the holiday period.
Congrat's Sportz you've been too good.

Now that we are near the end of the challenge I reckon it's time to declare how we actually arrive at our ratings.
I use :
1) My speed ratings (Beyer based)
2) A set of ratings based on sectional times - I only do these on Melbourne races
3)A commercially available set of ratings - usually Price Predictor.
My final selections are based on a consensus of the 3 sets of ratings.
I guess it's not surprising but I've found that over the last three years the consensus has out-performed any of the individual sets of ratings.

My ratings are based on a method I invented myself concerned with ranking of certain factors. To be honest most of the races that were rated were not races I bet on.

Good Punting

Thanks sportz, a pity my top pick came nowhere!! neverthe less my climb up the ladder continues. I am happy for both days over easter sportz. The more races there are the more chance Ive got of catching you. although i think ive left my run too late. You have been very consistent and deserve the accolades sportz.

Okay. Well, as Zorro suggested, we'll finish up the comp this weekend. However, I do think it would be good to include the Doncaster in our comp, so this is what I think we'll do. We'll rate 3 races this week, the 2 main races on Saturday and also the Doncaster on Monday. But, to be fair to the people who might find it a bit tough to post their ratings for Monday, we'll only count everybody's two best scores from the 3 races.

SATURDAY
RAND R5-2.35 AJC SIRES PRODUCE STAKES 1400 M ($422460) 2YO SW
1 STRATUM Paul Perry L Beasley 6 56.5
2 DOMESDAY John Hawkes 8 56.5
3 THE RHINE John Hawkes 12 56.5
4 POWER OF DESTINY Kevin Moses J Cassidy 7 56.5
5 PENDRAGON (NZ) Bart Cummings G Boss 1 56.5
6 JOHNNY Kris Lees L Cassidy 2 56.5
7 EL DE LAGO Bart Cummings D Nikolic 4 56.5
8 FASHIONS AFIELD Gai Waterhouse D Beasley 11 54.5
9 MNEMOSYNE John Hawkes 3 54.5
10 OPPORTUNITY (NZ) Tony Vasil D Oliver 5 54.5
11 ANOTHER TIME Gratz Vella D Dunn 10 54.5
12 FLORA DANICA Kris Lees D McLellan 9 54.5

RAND R6-3.15 AJC AUSTRALIAN DERBY 2400 M ($1937860) 3YO SW
1 OUTBACK PRINCE Anthony Cummings D Dunn 8 56.5
2 EREMEIN Allan Denham C Brown 3 56.5
3 JYMCAREW Bob Thomsen G Boss 11 56.5
4 XCELLENT (NZ) Michael Moroney M T Coleman 10 56.5
5 STELLA GRANDE Lee Freedman D Beadman 4 56.5
6 WESTERN BEAU Marc Conners D Nikolic 12 56.5
7 SVENSKA (NZ) Graeme Rogerson D Beasley 1 56.5
8 KING JOHNY (NZ) Raymond Connors L Beasley 5 56.5
9 TAISHO Greg Kennedy L Cassidy 6 56.5
10 SLY DOG Rod Byrnes C Rixon 7 56.5
11 RAILINGS John Hawkes 9 56.5
12 HIGH CEE (NZ) Bart Cummings D Oliver 2 56.5

MONDAY
RAND R6-3.05 DONCASTER HANDICAP 1600 M ($1910360) 3YO+
1 DESERT WAR Gai Waterhouse D Beasley 11 56.5
2 COURT'S IN SESSION Guy Walter G Boss 12 55.5
3 TOULOUSE LAUTREC John Hawkes 4 55.5
4 MODEM Lee Freedman D Oliver 15 55
5 NATURAL BLITZ Doug Harrison 7 55
6 THIS MANSHOOD Tim Martin Z Purton 1 55
7 PATEZZA Guy Walter D Nikolic 18 54.5 1.5
8 IKE'S DREAM John Hawkes 10 54
9 OSCA WARRIOR Gwenda Markwell S Seamer 17 54
10 SKY CUDDLE Peter G Moody 14 54
11 WINNING BELLE (NZ) Gai Waterhouse N Ryan (a) 9 54
12 CHARNWOOD GREEN Chris Wood 8 53.5
13 NIPS Clarry Conners J Innes 13 53.5
14 AL MAHER Gai Waterhouse L Cassidy 6 53
15 DANNI MARTINE Guy Walter R S Dye 5 53
16 UTZON Les Bridge J Cassidy 2 52.5
17 TUI SONG (NZ) Graeme Rogerson 3 51
18 JOHAN'S TOY Guy Walter J Ford 16 49.5

You don't have to post ratings for all 3 races by Saturday. You can of course wait til Monday to post your Doncaster ratings if you wish.

Good luck.

By the way, I've thought up an idea for another entirely different comp that we can have a go at in a couple of week's time. I think it'll prove to be pretty interesting. It involves us picking a 'stable' of horses to follow over a period of 2 or 3 months or so, and we tally up the winnings from bets placed on these horses at each start. What do you think of that idea?