Wizard Daily Report Friday, 1 November 2024
- Melbourne Cup schedule
- Using Wizard Reports - Wizard Essentials: Fining down the field.
- Daily Wizard Freebie - Wizard Essentials Wrat4 Report for Wagga
- Wizard Ratings and Raceday Results, Thursday October 31
Melbourne Cup
The full coverage (ratings, form, comments, stats, etc) for the Melbourne Cup meeting on Tuesday will be available on Sunday afternoon, around the same time we produce the normal Monday Wizard files.
As part of this coverage there will be a Wizard Daily Report on Melbourne Cup favourites, also made available on Sunday.
Using Wizard Reports - Wizard Essentials: Fining down the field.
One of the most discussed topics among race handicappers is the need to fine down a field to the main chances so that (form-analysis) attention can be focused on those runners with the best chance of success.
The Wizard Essentials Wrat4 Report is specifically designed to help in this regard.
Historically, the Wizards top 4 rated runners (the Wrat rating) win some 70% of all races run. The winners not included in the top 4 Wrat are most likely to be first time starters, horses in the market but not rating on current form, and horses at long odds that simply do not have acceptable revealed form.
The stats contained in the Essentials single data line is a great starting point to evaluate their chances.
By focusing on a limited number of runners in what you consider to be the beatable and bettable races you give yourself time to delve deeper into the form history of these four main chances using the great interactive form-analysis tools offered by Wizard:
- Speed Maps
- Form History Performance Graphs
- Sortable career history
- Colour coded form history
- Trainer and Jockey performance
- Etc etc etc
Wizard Essentials Wrat4 can be a great time saver and a genuinely valuable tool in your form-analysis toolkit.
Daily Wizard Freebie - Wizard Essentials (Wrat4) Report Wagga
Each day The Wizard will publish on this page one of its Wizard reports or special features, either completely or a part thereof. Today the Wizard Freebie is the Wizard Essentials (Wrat4) Report for Wagga. The full and abridged Wizard reports for all meetings for today are available now for subscribers.
Wizard Ratings Results for Thursday, October 31
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.
| Thu 31.10.24 | | Race 1 | Race 2 | Race 3 | Race 4 | Race 5 | Race 6 | Race 7 | Race 8 | Top rated | Top 2 rated |
| | SOT | WMHER | WMHER | WMHER | WMHER | WMHER | WMHER | WMHER | WMHER | WMHER | WMHER |
| KILCOY | g4 | 1 1 2 1 1 | - 2 3 - - | - - 2 - 0 | 3 - - 2 - | - 3 - - - | - - - - - | - 3 2. 3 - | | 1 1 0 1 1 | 1 2 3. 2 0 |
| NORTHAM | s5g4 | - 3. 3 - - | 1 1 2 1 1 | - - 2 3. - | - - - - - | 1 - 1 1. 1 | - - 3 - - | 2 - 1 2. - | | 2 1 2 2. 2 | 3 1 4 3. 0 |
| SAPPHIRE COAST | g4 | 1 1 1 1 1 | - - - - 0 | 2 - 1 3 - | - 2 - - - | 1 1 - - 1 | - - - - - | 1 - - 2 - | | 3 2 2 1 2 | 4 3 2 2 0 |
| WARRNAMBOOL | g4 | 1 1 1 1. 1 | 1 1 2. 2. 1 | 2 2 2 1 1 | 2 1 - 1 1 | 2 - 1 2. - | 1 2 1 - 1 | 3 2 - - - | - - 3 3. - | 3 3 3 3. 5 | 6 6 5. 5. 0 |
| WYONG | g4g3 | - - - - - | 3 3 - 3 - | 1 2 3 3. 1 | 2 1 - - 1 | - 2 3 - - | 1 1 - - 1 | 2 1 3. - - | 3 - 3 3. - | 2 3 0 0 3 | 4 5 0 0 0 |
| | | | | | | | | | | Wrat 11 37 | Wrat 18 37 |
| | | | | | | | | | | 29.70% | 48.60% |
| | | | | | | | | | | Rday 13 35 | Rday no qual |
| | | | | | | | | | | 37.10% | |
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