Ratso

5th -  mostly tracked leader, hit 3rd, went left and lost place 8th, behind from 5 out, beaten when went left 3 out, soon eased, tailed off
Shishkin 14.31 Huntingdon 14 Pts Win @ 4\11 (bog)
Irish point/bumper winner who looked a really exciting prospect when winning 14-runner novice at Newbury impressively last month. Outstanding claims up in trip. 
 

Hi Xtc, you've been very unlucky mate. I can't be with you on Paint the Dream today, the Wisdom of the Crowd seems to be against it and I can see that it has drifted considerably on the Exchanges but I wish you luck any way

Well that was pretty special ...1st and 3rd ...about 230 pts returned 

Royal hunt cup ive narrowed to 3 horses ...
Affaak 
Raising sand 
Circus couture 
Could go ew 5 or 6 places but ill take the enhanced ew prices for 3 places 
Afaak 5pts ew 33/1 bet365 3 places 
Raising sand 5pts ew 11/1 3 places
Circus couture 5pts ew 45/1 3 places 

Brilliant Froment, thank you so much this will do the trick nicely. Once again, thank you
Ratso

Results
3rd 10/1 EW, Won 10/11
Stakes: 70pts
Returns: 36.59pts
Loss of 150.76pts
Poor end to the year but we are in profit overall I suppose.
New thread starts on Jan 1st with new rules as we spoke about before
Calendar and tracks will be posted in the new thread later.
Thanks all

I think you are right to concentrate on the areas that have previously proven themselves. Your excellent Ratings are now the basis for my betting and I apply a few rules of my own which so far have netted over 15 Points profit since the 15th December. I will continue to test this and perhaps  illuminate further in the New year. Keep up the brilliant work Mr Hills

Thread going forward 2019
The main reason this thread started was to try and narrow down the vast amount of selections that the PL Tips publish every day. I started the tip back in August 2016 and after a years worth of data started to track the performances of each track, just to see if it was worth following anything significant.
With varying degrees of success I have now decided to take it to the next level in 2019 by trying to weed out some of the less profitable races that we have on each card. I think its important to stress I work on a ratings method, thats the only way I can trawl through the mass of races on a daily basis, the problems with this are obvious, certain races have many debutants which can not be rated, some races are just not suitable to the way i work such as Hunter Chases and Claiming races etc..
By doing the ratings for this long you get to know what is required to win a certain type of race. Lets say our 'top rated' horse in a Class 5 maiden has a figure of 75. Also in the line up is a debutant trained by John Gosden and another one trained by Willie Haggis. You just know the top rated one is not going to be good enough so your only hope is backing it each way - if the price is big enough. 
I've decided in such circumstances I just take a view and sometimes miss the race out all together, we may miss the odd winner but believe me they don't win very often.
So from Jan 1st 2019 i will try the new method
No Bumpers, No Hunter Chases, No Sellers or Claimers, Maidens/Novices reduced.
 
For anyone wanting to carry on following all of the selections they can always have a look at the Tips page as they will carry a full service as usual.

https://www.punterslounge.com/tips/free-horse-racing-tips

Brilliant yet again Xtc

This is an excellent thread VT, thanks for taking the time to post these up

Brilliant yet again Xtc

This is an excellent thread VT, thanks for taking the time to post these up