Warren Block's Daily Report - Monday, 19 May 2025
- Jockeys - Worth Noting
- Matrix - day by day analysis for Monday and Tuesday racing
- Wizard Freebie - Wizard Essentials report
- Wizard Ratings, Raceday, Matrix, and Selectives Results
Jockeys - Worth Noting
Two jockeys in NSW have recently caught my attention.
First, Jace McMurray, who is currently on a three-month loan to trainer Michael Freedman.
Jace is one of those apprentices who has shown genuine ability right from the start and in his first 12 months he has ridden around 100 winners already.
Good judges regard him as a natural, and with this natural ability and reportedly a good work ethic, he has the potential to be the next rising (apprentice) star on the NSW provincial and metropolitan tracks, where he can claim 1.5kg and 3kg respectively.
Jace rode two winners last week, at Scone and Hawkesbury, one for Michael and one for Scott Singleton.
I was very impressed with his record in Queensland, and if he can repeat that form in NSW he will be worth watching.
The second rider who caught the eye last week was Ireland-born Robbie Downey, who relocated to Australia some three years ago.
At Kembla Grange Robbie rode a treble, from four rides.
Two of the wins were on favourites from the in-form Bjorn Baker stable, and the other was an easing $16.00 winner for Ciaron Maher. Bjorn has been giving Robbie rides on the country circuit recently and the association has been successful.
I really liked Robbie's positive riding, especially over the latter stages; a real determination to win the race, and that is always a good sign.
Typical for provincial/country jockeys, most often Robbie has been associated with lesser profile stables. To win these races last Saturday for the Baker and Maher stables could be a turning point in his fortunes. I hope so, and if these stables continue to engage Robbie his rides for other stables will be worth noting as well.
Matrix - day by day analysis for Monday and Tuesday racing
The tables show the results for the past eight weeks for the day on which racing occurred. So, today being Monday, this Matrix DOW (Day of Week) report covers the past eight Monday and Tuesday results. The day-after results are included so that they are available on race-eve, rather than only on race morning. (The daily Matrix report aims to assist subscribers contain the number of bets to manageable proportions and improve the strike rate.)
Wizard Freebie - Wizard Essentials report
The Wizard publishes on this page one of its Wizard reports or special features, either completely or a part thereof. Today it is a Wizard Essentials Wrat 4 report. The full report and all other reports for all meetings for today are available now for subscribers.
The Wizard Essentials report is a really useful source for the key data that all race handicappers need at their fingertips. Included are the Wizard's four ratings assessments, each focusing on different time-proven ways of rating runners, and other key (likely) performance indicators, some of which are unique to the Wizard. For example, the Filter and Negatives assessments, the in-running (pace) insights, and form pattern stats (RFS).
Click here for this full Explanation of the Essentials report.
In addition to this Essentials WRat4 report there is also an Essentials Full-Field version available. Here is one race from that report for this meeting:
Wizard Ratings, Raceday, Matrix, and Selectives results and Weekly Summary
We publish these full results daily so that subscribers can see the results of the Wizard's ratings options, and Report-content, and thereby formulate a selecting and betting strategy that suits them individually. The Wizard ratings should not be seen as "tips", rather as objective assessments that can be used to inform one's own judgement as to the relative chances of the runners in a race.
The full day-by-day results for Wizard (Wrat) top 4 rated runners, the Raceday Qualifier, and the Matrix (MaxR) 100 pointer, the MaxR top-two, the Matrix *EOam-MaxR100 qualifier, the Matrix W1-MaxR100 qualifier, and the Matrix W1+*EO+MaxR100 qualifier. Also included are the overall results for last week and the previous four weeks. The 2023-2024 column shows the WRat results for the full 2023-2024 racing season. This results summary is colour coded so that it is easier for readers to track the relative performance of the Top Rated (blue) and Top-Two Rated (green) ratings options on a daily, and longer term, basis. The best overall qualifier (yellow) is also highlighted. (The Matrix report is posted to this website between 10:30am and 10:45am, and updated around 12 noon, each day.
The following table shows this week's results of alternative options with respect to possible Matrix Selectives combinations, as well as weekly summaries. These combinations, which draw directly on the contributions of the Raceday and Magic reports, are accessible via the Wizard MATRIX report which is posted to our website around 10:30am, and updated at 12 noon, each day.
(Key: The first of the two columns for each Selective combination shows number of qualifying races and the second column shows the strike rate. Headings: RWM is Raceday,Watch,Magic, RWM 2/3 means two or three qualifying, Rday is Raceday report qualifier , Magic is Magic report qualifier, R/M is Raceday and Magic, WR1 is Wrat 100, MR1 is MaxR 100.)
Some of the more notable double-figure winners last week that were top rated on WMod, WHcp, WExpk and/or top-rated (WRat-1) or rated second top (WRat-2):
The following table shows where the winner of each race run yesterday was rated by WRat, WMod, WHcp, and WExpk and was the qualifier in the Wizard Raceday Report. (Note: The Wrat [W] winner results report on both the top rated and top-two rated winners.) The Raceday Report winners under the Top Rated column are from those races where there was only one Raceday qualifier, and under the Top 2 Rated on the rare occasions where there were two qualifiers in a race.
Header: WMHER = WRat (W), WMod (M), WHcp (H), WExpk (E), Raceday (R).
For a full explanation of the table click: How to read the Wizard Ratings Results