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ASCOT RATINGS now posted – 8.50am

Remainder by 10.45

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Thanks for all your understanding and patience. She is only 9 months, so wife was in a panic when she looked to be struggling etc. She is brighter now but again, sorry for the late postings of the ratings and the other services. I appreciate your understanding and kind words. Thank you.

Matt

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REMAINDER now posted. Apologies. My little girl was suddenly taken ill, call from wife, stopped what I was doing. Rushed home. Seen doctor, all ok, save for severe viral infection – at one stage we thought it was meningitis or worse.

Panic over, ratings now done. Thank you for your patience.

What a morning!
M

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ASCOT RATINGS now posted – 8.38am

Remainder by 11.15 latest.

Matt

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RATINGS (REMAINDER) now posted -9.26am

Good luck!
Matt

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ASCOT RATINGS now posted – 9.05am

Remainder will be posted by 11.00 (ASAP)

Matt

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RATINGS – The remainder of todays meetings are now published.

9.18am

Good luck and HEED the warning please re Ascot!!!!!

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ASCOT RATINGS now posted 9.05am

Remainder to be uploaded now. Just wanted you to get them asap.

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RATINGS now posted – time 9.27am

Good luck.

Matt

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RATINGS now posted – time: 9.50am

Good luck, but PLEASE heed the warning!!!!!!

Matt

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RATINGS now posted – 10.11am

Good luck – awfully tricky today – best bet is not to have a bet!

Enjoy the Sunny weather instead!! 🙂

Matt

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RATINGS posted – 1.05am for Fridays racing.

Good luck
Matt

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Many thanks to all the posts following my “war and peace” effort this time last night.

I tried to be considered in the piece and I remain committed to improve the service for all members and I will following discussions with Jason, report back.

We are trying to ascertain the author of the review.

As I say, I don’t see it as a negative – criticism is sometimes just and I actually think some of the points are valid. Whilst disappointed to be labelled amateurish, there are a few things we can work on and get better. I try to remain objective and often try to step back from the service and see if from a members perspective. I welcome input, good and bad. WE are a community here. The forum is respectful, nurturing and inclusive. I think its a great part of the service and enables members to share views, strategies and come to people’s aid.

Long may the collective continue as well as good ratings – strong finish to proceedings at Haydock today
11/1 winner
7/2 winner
7/4 winner
All 1st rated 🙂

Matt

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RATINGS now posted – 8.42am

good luck.

TPS will also be making a £100 donation to the victims of the London Tower tragedy.

Matt

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Good evening guys and ladies

I’ve read the forum and also read the article. I just wanted to start by saying no post was deleted by me as the forum is place for all members to air their views and their opinions, good and bad. Its unique to any other ratings site.

Its never nice receiving criticism and especially from a faceless reviewer who never once contacted us (me) to say they were reviewing the service or asking for feedback. I am disappointed whoever reviewed the service, only did so for 1 month and that they also made some glaring errors in their overview.

However, some of their criticism was valid to a degree and Jason and I are in discussion – so perhaps its been a good thing.

The Inform Racing service produces some wonderful pages of numbers, drop down boxes and other cosmetically pleasing figures. The service is stacked full of statistics, facts and figures and what remains their biggest bug bare amongst their membership??? It takes their members too long to assimilate the information and that its difficult for them to understand what all the numbers mean and how they can use the info to successfully pick a winner. The author of the service continually throws up new strategies or tinkers daily with existing ones, almost responding to member concerns or how a previous days racing has panned out.

As you will no doubt understand and hopefully expect, I keep a constant eye on the competition. I review and analyse all the main competitors as I want to judge my ratings against theirs. I also want to see if I can take bits of their site I like and bring it to this one.

Jason and I are planning major development of the Service and have been busy these past 2-3 months starting the process. It takes time and resources. We’ve introduced a chat feature as you reach the home page and other features will follow.

Speed ratings who I consider the main rival to the ratings, produces a very nice website. They show a massive loss at SP but somehow record a profit at BSP. They produce differently coloured numbers and produce FULL race cards. They also often put a ZERO against many horses, horses I have picked as 1st or 2nd rated and that win. They’ll get lucky with a 36/1bsp winner and shout about it, not mentioning the 15 days of losing selections before. We have had 100/1+ in running winners or 20+/1 bsp winners.

My point is that however aesthetically pleasing a site is, however much info I put on the site and litter it with numbers, 100% of you are ONLY interested in winners. Backing winners whether that be win, ew, place – IF I litter the ratings selections with FULL race cards full of numbers you are only going to focus on the top 2 or possibly 3. What do the numbers mean? Do you know what 1.220 (speed) x 4.00 (track) x 3.4 (trainer/jock) x 5 (variable for a certain distance) x any other variable I use? IF I apply a % change for newly raced horses based on my pedigree stats, how are you to work out what they all mean unless I tell you the power to that that % signifies?

When I devised the ratings and the service of 4 years, I wanted to keep it simple. 2 horses rated 1st and 2nd. That was it. No fancy looking numbers beside the horse or countless pages of stats you have to spend 30 mins on each race to determine which one to bet on (Inform Racing!)

I wanted it to be about 2 horses or 3 if they were close.

I wanted an interactive site and I wanted to produce winning selections.

The strategies, criticised by the author of the article, are organic, and have been created by members using the ratings. How can that ever be a criticism? It should be celebrated. The strategies are successful long term and are sustainable. From Pippins, to Jacq’s to James’ to A v B, to Stan’s place picks, to them ALL! They have been created USING the ratings, they dovetail the ratings and give members an angle on how to use the ratings.

The marketing emails that Jason sends out are factual in their content and are designed to highlight the good points or successes of the day. They are marketing tools to which to entice new members. There is no embellishment or exaggeration as far as I am aware. IF there is please tell me.

The subscription price is, IMO fair and reasonable for the effort that goes into producing the ratings and the service as a whole. Its less than a cup of coffee a day. The core price has not increased in the 4 years we’ve run the service. We offer trial prices, special offer prices and discounts for longer subscriptions.

Its all about choice and opinions. Members are free to think with their feet and generally do if they haven’t got the discipline or patience to make these ratings work.

I take the ratings and your views very seriously. I am a genuine guy trying to give you all extra info and an extra edge when it comes to betting on horses. And to be fair, I am pretty good at it, generally. We certainly have far more good days than bad – todays afternoon results produced a 71% strike rate of placed selections. (thanks Richard for the stat). Some of those selections lost by less than 1/2 length, a few more lost by less than a head. Margins of error. The odds on chance tonight getting completely mullered by the rank outsider at a crucial part of the race, came 3rd by a neck – margins of error.

I agree that certain things could be tightened up on the service, like a fully laid out results page and I’ll work to fix that, but going forward the ratings format of 2 horses set out the way they are will not change. Its simple to follow – its easy to read and in conjunction with all the strategies on the page it doesn’t take members long to adopt a method that suits them. I maintain that these ratings should enable most members to make £20-£30 a day or £7000+ / £10,000+ pa. Today, first race, winner at 7/4sp £20 bet – £35 net win. Finished for the day. Some of you may have got 9/4, so even better. Yesterday the 2nd 1st rated winner of the day won at 9/4, Hermosita.

Ive never shied away from criticism and I don’t always get it right. I put myself up every day to be shot down. Sometimes I feel the horse Gods just aren’t with me, other times I think they smile on me, when my system picks out beepeecee at 10/1 sp – not one other site had it as a selection. Not even Richard matched it.

There is always room for improvement, and I shall take on board the reviewers comments, chew them over and implement suggestions that can benefit the service.

But you cannot please all the people all the time and whatever I do to certain aspects of the service will make members happy and equally, members mad.
However, I shall be talking to Jason about improving some areas. If you want fancy numbers, drop down boxes, 5 page excel spreadsheets full of meaningless numbers to cross reference, then please join inform racing or a dumbed down version, speedratings.com – Join them for 3 months and come back to me via email and tell me how many winners you had. tell me your profit/loss and whether ALL those figures helped or hindered your ability to select a winner. You need 3 months to really review the service.

I thank each and every one you for being members. I value you all and take seriously my obligations and responsibility.

I hope the majority of you stick with the service. If the article is enough for some of you to question your membership, then I wish you all the success with other services and would ask you simply drop me a line from time to time to tell me if the grass was really that much greener.

I firmly believe we really are first amongst equals and we are the best rating service out there. I think in terms of winner % and placed %, no one touches us. But then again I would say that. Its my ratings. I hope a few of you at least also share my conviction and have the betting banks to prove it.

At 12.25am I’ll bid you a good morning!

Matt

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