Aw, Diddums

It is still early days but the hard work we put in to improve the strike rate of the Speed Ratings has paid off the first three days of the week. The rest of the week will tell us more, but on Tuesday they again almost matched our main handicap ratings, which themselves performed very well.

Just a word about The Owl, whose selections we began putting up yesterday. When we first put TowerForm on the net in the summer of 2002, we included The Owl as a free daily tipping service. The selections can be likened (loosely) to the Racing Post's Signpost section. But there is only one selection a day. The Owl's job is to spot possible hidden aspects in the form of a horse. The selection will be a top three rated horse on the handicap that looks good value when one or more aspects of the horse's past form points to a big run. Favourites are never selected (unless there are numerous non runners overnight), so the selection can be viewed as a win, each way, or place selection. That part will be up to whoever decides to bet the selection.

So to Wednesday:

Best at Each Meeting:
Redcar: 2-50 Ghost Dancer
Perth: 4-10 Grand Diamond
Goodwood: 3-10: Honours Graduate
Kempton: 6-20 Felsham

The Owl:
3-10 Goodwood: Diddums

The Handicap Ratings and Speed Ratings combined top three strike rate for Tuesday was 86% following Sunday and Monday's 68% -- an in running weekly average of 74.6%

There were six from six successful (4) and (5) UK graded races Tuesday, giving a top two strike rate of 100% following Sunday and Monday's 75% -- an in running weekly average of 83.3%

The Select Pick dutching races provided a 100% strike rate, Tuesday, following Sunday and Monday's 75% -- an in running weekly average of 83.3%

The full top three summary for Tuesday:

The clear top rated winning strike rate of the (4) and (5) graded races Tuesday was 50% following Sunday and Monday's 50% -- an in running weekly average of 50%

HANDICAPS
Clear top rated strike rate was 38%. Best top rated SP was 15/2
Top two strike rate (incl joints) was 71%. Best 2nd top SP was 4/1
Top three strike rate was 81%. Best 3rd top SP was 7/1

SPEED RATINGS
Clear top rated strike rate was just 33%. Best top rated SP was 15/2
Top two strike rate (incl joints) was 62%. Best 2nd top SP was 16/1
Top three strike rate was 71%. Best 3rd top SP was 6/1
note: Unless there are overnight withdrawals there is always one clear top rated horse (in both services). There are never more than three horses (in either service) in the top two in any race where there are joint 2nd tops (one top rated two joint 2nd top). There are never more than four horses in the top three (in either service) in any race where there are either joint 2nd or joint third tops.

If a horse isn't in the top three rated of the handicaps or the speed ratings, then it is highly likely it won't win.

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