Speedratings
identify the primary factors for success in racing:
speed & fitness
Cox Plate winner Maldivian @ $10.10 had 2nd best recent
speed & was a recommended selection.
11/10/2008: Three Group One feature races on program were
won by: Douro Valley (best speed profile) @ $35.60; Alamosa
(best recent speed) @ $9.60 & Whobegotyou (best speed
profile & best recent speed) @ $3.10.
On 20/9/2008: Top 2 recent speed horses first and 2nd in
feature Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes- Orange County @
$6.90.
On 13/9/2008: Top 2 recent speed horses win Manikato Stakes
& Stock Stakes at Moonee Valley @ $7.50 &
$4.80.
Once
again on 16/8/2008 the horse with best recent speed wins a
feature race: Princess Gisella @ $9.20.
2/8/2008:
Commanding Hope winner of Bletchingly Stakes @ $16.60 had
best recent speed for the race.
1/3/2008:
Brilliant performance by
Speedratings with 5 top rated winners: Whisper Bay @ $3.80
(best recent speed); Bel Mer @ $4.10 (best recent speed);
Niconero @ $5.50 (best speed profile); About Face @ $7.60
(best recent speed) & Surfside Christmas @ $8.10 (best
recent speed). Including the quaddie of $2592.50 with all
winners being top rated.
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)
RacingWrite
(horse racing blog)
Melbourne
Cup 2006:
Brilliant performance by speedform with top rated winner of
Melbourne Cup Delta Blues @ $17.50. He was one of the four
horses included in todays speed stable which also included
Flame Of Sydney @ $7.20. Top rated winners were: Delta
Blues; Flame Of Sydney; Unabated @ $10.10 & Polar Bear
@ $3.00. Race 2 exacta with top 2 speed horses (Unabated
& Vitesse Dane) returned $189.60 plus a trifecta of
$1062.90. Melbourne Cup exacta (rated 1st & 3rd)
returned $91.80. Winners with top 2 recent speed
performances: Unabated @ $10.10; Cocinero @ $7.20; Flame Of
Sydney @ $7.20; Delta Blues @ $17.50 & Polar Bear @
$3.00. Running double races 6 & 7 (both top rated) paid
$126.00.
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.
The speed information is produced for the benefit of
clients only. That means there will be no publication of
past figures on the Website. Only subscription clients will
now have the benefit of this tried and true resource.
(Viewing results from 2004 or earlier will offer examples
of how the Speedguide is presented to clients).
From September 2008 to further protect the investment of
clients the abbreviated Speedguide will no longer be
published in results. It has been too easy for people to
glean information about how horses were progressing and
performing with their Speedratings. After requests from
clients this information will be for the benefit of
subscription clients only.
Upon paying for Subscription the past 3 Speedguides will be
provided with a receipt - with a money-back guarantee that
all results published match the information provided in the
Speedguide.
The
recent speed figures produced
in the speedguide identify those horses racing at peak
fitness. Fit horses win races. Here are just a few examples
from November 2004:
Cosmic
Beam 1st $6.50; $2.00.
Best recent speed performance: Cosmic Beam
179...
Grundy's
Crossing 1st $7.90; $2.70. Fifeshire 2nd $10.00 . Exacta
$182.80.
Best recent speed performance: Fifeshire 169; Grundy's
Crossing 130.
Lots Of Swing 1st $32.80; $6.50
Best recent speed performance: Mr. Magoo 144; Lots Of Swing
140...
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.