Thank you for your patience, dear reader, for which I hope I can offer some recompense in the form of the end of week review of System Ultra.
My regular viewer will know that I have been following this system since last Wednesday, and have endeavoured to flag up potential selections in advance. This has presented one or two anomalies, as we’ll get to in due course.
First, a summary of the system: something of a novelty these days, System Ultra encourages you to back horses as opposed to the current system fashion of laying the blighters.
Not just any horse, though. To qualify, a nag must start favourite, and herein lies a problem for those of you who can’t track the pre-race market. Especially at this time of year, when there is a lot of volatility in the betting (mainly due to lack of liquidity on course), horses that look solid favourites end up going off less fancied than other runners.
So caution is advised. Of course, in many instances there are standout jollies which you can be pretty certain will still be favoured come post time.
Certain courses are discounted (due to historically poor records), and system followers only play in certain types of race. There are the usual (and, I think, reasonable) price and age criteria, as well as a couple of simple stipulations around jumping ability in one race type.
If this makes things sound complicated, I can tell you that after a week of tracking System Ultra, my only reference back to the system now is to check whether the course is a qualifier. (And I already know that all of the sand tracks, bar Kempton, are in.)
So how did things go?
Well, during the eight days of the trial, there were no fewer than 54 selections, of which 17 won (31.48%). A rather frustrating 13 (24.07%) finished in the silver medal position, meaning that well over half of runners in the trial were in the first two. 64.81% (just about two thirds) were in the first three.
Profit, for System Ultra did finish in the black, was £86 to £20 stakes, with my usual betfair rules applying (14% over SP, less 5% deduction on winners).
I do have a slight reservation about a touch of retro-fitting regarding course selection, and it has also been suggested to me that this system has been generated from Adrian Massey’s excellent systemite site (sounds plausible enough). If you don’t know of it, check it out at:
http://www.adrianmassey.com
I’ve posted the full results sheet here, to save space on the blog.
Overall, the system has performed with credit and has made money, so it’s unfair to be too harsh. Historical records obviously show that you’d have made money following this strategy last year too.
If you like your action thick and fast, then this may satisfy both of those requirements, and it could be lucrative enough. The niggle about retro fitting puts me off only slightly.
Nevertheless, I’ll give System Ultra 6.5/10 and recommend it as worth a try (mindful that you can get a refund if you’re not happy).
You can acquire it, should you wish to, through this link: System Ultra
Elsewhere, and it was a busy day for TTS followers. After days with little or no jumping action, there were bumper fields at Musselburgh and Huntingdon.
One of the more obscure trainers on the TTS roster, Mr S Donohoe, who actually trains in Ireland, is a man for us at Musselburgh, and so it proved, as his one qualifier, the topically named The Joker (RIP Heath Ledger by the way), was backed from 16/1 into 10/1 and fairly bolted up by 16 lengths from Johnny Roche (7/2, and the other TTS runner in the race).
11/2 winner Sherwoods Folly popped some Huntingdon jam on top of the Musselburgh cream, as it was high teas all round today.
Full TTS results can be found here, in case you haven’t seen it.
It’s my aim to try to preview some of the Cheltenham races before the end of the week, so stay tuned for what could be another profitable post soon.
Toodlepip!
Matt