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SPEEDRATINGS

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Speedratings is Australia’s best alternative formguide for thoroughbred racing in Melbourne and Sydney. Full of unique information that gives subscription clients a winning edge. Not only do you receive a comprehensive easy-to-read assessment of the speedfigures of the competing horses, but in addition clients receive a weekly newsletter that highlights the best speed races that follow from the past weekend.

Access to information - as opposed to confusing and differing opinions - makes The Speedguide an essential addition for any serious punter.


21/11/2009: Sensational performance by Speedratings. Our one (and only) best bet for the day Custodian won easily @ $4.20 ($5.00 MaxiDiv) and was supported from over $7.00 on TAB's with 5 minutes of betting remaining. But to top it off our top selection in the feature race the Eclipse Stakes Bashful Girl (speed best - 2nd best recent speed) won @ $18.80 ($19.90 MaxiDiv). Other winners were: Umanugget (2nd best speed) @ $3.50; Tariks (best speed -speed best ) @ $4.60; North East Smile (2nd best speed) @ $3.00 & Sheedy (speed 2nd best) @ $3.40. Where else can you consistently find top rated winners such as Bashful Girl and Custodian? Tempo of all races is taken into account when the Speedguide is being complied. Why waste money on speed maps when this is incorporated into the Speedguide anyway? Without the use of speedratings you are only fooling yourself if you think you have sufficient information to make an informed decision on horse racing.


16/09/2009: Huge performance by Speedratings from a selected 4 race Speedguide for Sandown Hillside today. Winners were: Devil May Care @ $42.70 (Best speed & 2nd best recent speed - best recent speed Whiston ran 2nd and the exacta paid $188.90). Also Definitely Ready @ $1.60 (2nd best recent speed). Comments from the Speedguide: Devil May Care (2nd best recent speed) flies & has competed against Eagle Falls & Secret Flyer at her past 2 starts. She should take a lot of catching here.

27/6/2009: Only by using The Speedguide could you know that Take The Rap @ $7.30; Pacino @ $5.60 & Gran Sasso @ $4.00 had best recent speed for their races. Only through The Speedguide could you know that Gran Sasso (1st); Allied Force (2nd behind Gran Sasso and paying $3.20 for the place) & Pacino (1st) were the horses who recorded the top 3 last start speedfigures for this entire meeting. Only The Speedguide can provide you with this unique information.



14/3/2009: Brilliant performance from Speedratings. Winners were: Zarock @ $5.40 (top rated with 2nd best speed profile); Iamzeus @ $3.50 (2nd best recent speed); Renewable @ $2.70 (top rated - best recent speed); Fifth Avenue Lady @ $3.30 (top rated - best recent speed/best recent speed for this entire meeting); Wilander @ $2.50 (top rated - best recent speed) & Pinnacles @ $4.50 (2nd best recent speed). In addition Grand Destiny @ $16.30 had best speed profile for his race. Clients also received bonus Sydney speedfigures for 5 races which resulted in: Manhattan Rain @ $2.40 (best recent speed); Bhutane Dane @ $4.50 (2nd best recent speed); Headway @ $4.90 (2nd best recent speed) & in the feature of the Royal Randwick Guineas Metal Bender @ $23.70 (2nd best recent speed). Mic Mac had best recent speed - making Metal Bender the best of the locals.



7/03/2009: Huge performance by Speedratings. Winners rated in top 2 speed selections were: Niconero @ $14.40 (best recent speed); Scenic Blast @ $12.50 (best recent speed); Heart Of Dreams @ $3.80 (best speed profile); Rostova @ $2.20 (2nd best recent speed); Gallica @ $3.20 (2nd best recent speed); Delyara placed @ $8.20 (2nd best recent speed). The Group 1 feature races of Newmarket Handicap; Cadbury Guineas & Australian Cup, were won by the horses with best speed performances. Without the use of speedfigures you are merely guessing.

WHY YOU SHOULD CONSIDER SPEEDRATINGS:

Speedratings is a niche service provided to the racing industry. It has been in successful operation for more than 10 years.

The client base comes primarily from within the racing industry, or from word-of-mouth recommendation by long time clients.

Speedratings provides information you cannot acquire from anywhere else. It has never been successfully copied.

Have a look through the highlights over the past many years and see for yourself if Speedratings can provide you with the information that is necessary to truly understand the facts behind racehorse performance.





Flemington Spring Carnival 2007 (4 days):

Speedratings rated 34 races.

9 winners were top rated. A $1.00 investment on all top rated horses (34 races) returned $64.00. A $100.00 investment on all top rated Speedratings horses during the week of the Flemington Melbourne Cup carnival would have returned a profit of $3,000.00.

The winners who were top rated and/or who had best recent speed performances were:

Soleil @ $18.00 (top rated & best speed profile)
Flash Trick @ $16.60 (top rated & best recent speed)
Zavite @ $13.60 (best recent speed)
Swick @ $8.50 (top rated)
Guild @ $5.70 (top rated & best recent speed)
Gamble Me $4.90 (top rated & best recent speed)
Kibbutz @ $4.60 (top rated & 2nd best recent speed)
Miss Marielle @ $4.30 (best recent speed)
Belcentra @ $2.10 (top rated)
Extend @ $2.00 (top rated & best recent speed)
Divine Madonna @ $1.80 (best recent speed)
Weekend Hussler @ $1.60 (top rated & best recent speed)



THE SPEED FACTOR


Since 1998 Speedratings has provided a quality alternative form guide for the Australian horseracing fan.

Over this time many influential racing identities have used this information as a tool for their punting and also as a means to plot and plan a campaign for their horses.

The speed data supplied to clients clearly identifies the fastest speed performances (for each race) during the past 24 months and importantly the fastest recent speed performances (from the past 4 runs).

Speedratings identifies the fastest and fittest horses engaged at each race meeting.

The speedguide is the alternative and essential form guide for the racing enthusiast. While other punters ponder over the usual racing summaries and selections, the users of the Speedguide have access to unique information that provides the insight so lacking in traditional formguides. On one level the speed profiles can be used similar to Timeform Ratings determining the class of the horse. On a secondary level the recent speed performances indicate both fitness and how individual horses are progressing against their benchmark best speedfigures. Better knowing this than the usual confusing comments regarding a horse running a good third at Bendigo or fifth at Flemington.

With all the known variables in horse racing, comparisons are extremely difficult to make. The only constant can be the speedfigures measuring the fastest and the fittest horses.

In addition clients have access to the weekly emails that identify the best speed events of the previous week from metropolitan & provincial Melbourne, Sydney & Adelaide. This update allows clients to use this unique information on Interstate and Victorian provincial events.


History of Speedratings

In the mid-eighties to early nineties I was employed as a pedigree expert by the premier thoroughbred sales and auction house in Victoria (Dalgety Bloodstock-since taken over by William Inglis & Son).


Much of my research involved preparation of pedigrees that involved International bloodlines. While studying the breeding and racing scene in the USA I became interested in the traditional US practice of speedratings.

These concepts could not translate easily to Australian conditions and over the next many years I began adapting, reworking and rethinking the concept with regards to Australian racing.

Ultimately this study led to Speedratings (www.speedratings.com.au) which is a construct of pure speed analysis and speed class analysis. In effect it incorporates two fundamentals: speed and class.

Speedratings has published and proven very successful since 1998. It has always been the intention that Speedratings (through the speedguide) would become the viable alternative form guide for Australian punters.