STARSTATZ RACING 19 DECEMBER 2010

GoogleWith the last day of racing to go Racing Guide chalked up 3 wins to go on 253 wins while Starstatz Racing chalked up a single win to be on 235 wins

I earnestly hope for the sake of racing and the survival of the tabloid Vixtory Trail that they do something vigorous and change the menu on offer for next season. If they continue on their present course without any significant change for next season then I believe they will remain a distant 3rd both in terms of sales and tipping performance in relation to Racing Guide and Punters Way. Unlike most SPH ventures they will continue to bleed red ink for a long time before they can turn the corner(if ever at all). The people in charge should pause and take a deep breath and review the results so far. If sales are flat it is obvious something needs to be done to change the tide. In general I would give this advice to race publications it is not good enough to fill in with a journalist who writes good articles but seconded from other sports like soccer to write in depth articles on Cup races. In general they should improve their existing standards by hiring horse racing experts either in handicapping or assessing condition of horses in track reports. The publications are short changing the race goer by bringing in sub standard work with strike rates as bad as the average race goer with scores of less than 20% over the season. If the scores of these journalists are not tracked I pose the question ...where is the credibility and accountability to the reader? For next season I urge the STC to set an example by making a tally on the strike rate of all their presenters and journalists including the articles on the advertorials in the Srtaits Times. With no tracking of strike rates mediocrity and complacency will set in and they will not take pride in their work.

Racing Guide have done well (not just their strike rates) in their innovations over the past season and I urge Punters Way and Victory Trail to follow their lead and introduce new information and data for the benefit of the readers and not do what they have been doing for the past 5 seasons with no improvements at all.

I also strongly urge the STC computer data team to use this 2 week December break to set their house in order by getting all the missing weight data and missing sectional times corrected. It is embarassing that Racing Guide and Punters Way can get it right but the official source has missing weight data of recent races within less than 3 months!

With exotic bet investments in 9 races including 7 joker bets I managed to strike 1 trio of $8 one tierce in Race 2 at$27, one tierce in Race 4 at $3895 and one tierce in Race 6 at $830 and one quartet in Race 2 at $68. We spent a total of $220 on trio , $680 on tierce and $2040 on quartets. We actually bagged a quartet of $7325 in Race 6 if we had played one banker box with 6 selections but we taggged it a joker exotics bet thus leaving the 4th horse out of the equation so it was not counted in my tally .Nevertheless we managed a return of $4828 from an investment of $2940 this howing a nett profit for the day of $1888. Our overall nett profit now stands at a respectable $10783

Should be there any query on the scores tabulated do drop me an email at insiders111@yahoo.com.sg

Generally it has been a mediocre season for Starstatz Racing and we look forward to new challenges next season. The only highlights were our top media tipster performance of 9 winners in a day in a card of 12 races which we shared the accolade with Michael Maxworthy and our record breaking Quartet albeit with the advantage of 3 additional picks but we did make it an official bet by officially investing $240 which could have shown an embarrassing loss for us..

We urge the organisers of the Winner21 challenge to change the format to dividend based next year as a more equitable contest for all concerned. Tipping is not all about tipping favourites only or outsiders only as a methodology but to decide on the merits of each indvidual race. We have shown our versatility and relative consistency despite having a below par season but we still ended up a strong 2nd despite trailing in Racing Guide's slipstream. We will learn from our mistakes and hope to give Racing Guide a good run for their money and look forward to matching my wits with the new kid on the block and test their tipping mettle. I do hope they take part in the Winner21 challenge as well as the STC tipsters as I find it tedious tracking their scores and will have my hands full keeping track of my exotic bet plays. Who knows I may introduce a new feature called “BAGMAN'S DEAD DUCKS' AND PIN POINT OVERHYPED WEAK FAVOURITES. the blog for Race 1 were posted before the start of Race 1 and the rest were posted before the start of Race 2. and we managed a flying start with the winning selection. i SHALL ONLY BE BETTING BIG TRIO/BIG TIERCE/BIG QUARTET BETS TODAY. jOKER BET SHALL APPLY USING 2 BANKERS AND DROPPING THE 7TH SELECTION.

My selections are :-

RACE 1 SMALL...2-1-6-8-3-12-4

RACE 2 MEDIUM...4-6-11-8-1-2-12...JOKER EXOTIC BET...INVEST BET

RACE 3 MEDIUM...2-7-6-5-3-10-12...INVEST BET...JOKER EXOTIC BET

RACE 4 MEDIUM ...9-7-3-12-1-4-6...INVEST BET...JOKER EXOTIC BET

RACE 5 MEDIUM...6-3--4-7-2-5-10...JOKER EXOTIC BET

RACE 6 MEDIUM... 2-5-7-8-3-6-9 ....JOKER EXOTIC BET

RACE 7 MEDIUM 1-6-2-9-3-5-11...JOKER EXOTIC BET

RACE 8 MEDIUM...5-1-6-7-4-8-11....JOKER EXOTIC BET

RACE 9 MEDIUM 3- 2-5--4-7-10-11...JOKER EXOTIC BET

RACE 10 BIG...5-6-8-2-4-1-11....INVEST BET...NOTE SLIGHT CHANGE IN ORDER FROM SINGAPORE NAP...BEST BET OF THE DAY

RACE 11 MEDIUM...5-3-6-2-9-4-1...JOKER EXOTIC BET

RACE 12 MEDIUM...-2-4 -5-10-1-3-6....INVEST BET/JOKER EXOTIC BET...VAL BET