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Warren Block's Daily Report - Thursday, 19 March 2026
- BETTING ESSENTIALS - Book extract and Results update
- Matrix day-by-day results for Thursday and Friday racing
- Wizard Ratings, Raceday, Matrix, and Selectives Results
BETTING ESSENTIALS - Book extract and Results update
There is a lot of statistical information in my book, Betting Essentials. Over time I will update some of this information via these Daily Reports.
In the Trainer and Jockey chapter there are stats based on data contained in the Wizard Magic Report. The stats covered the 2024-2025 race season.
Extract from the book:
There are many ways trainer-related data can be employed. For example, the information in Magic can be used in conjunction with Wizard ratings.
One element of the horses data line in the Magic report highlights when a runner has been flagged in Wizard Filter and/or No-Negatives analysis. Both these indicators are directly related to trainer-ability, hence their inclusion in the Magic report.
In addition to this trainer-related content, the Magic report also contains market information. Wizard includes the (average) odds offered by corporates on race eve and on race morning and highlights any runner that has firmed by 3% or more by around 9.30am on raceday.
When this information is combined - Wrat 100 and F and/or N and market move - a horse is not only rated to win, but its credentials have been franked by trainer-related information and early price-takers.
Wizard introduced the Magic report into its daily schedule on 14 September 2024. The results delivered in the 2024-2025 season under this (Wrat-F/N-odds) scenario have demonstrated the value of integrating this type of information into form analysis and selecting.
Results Update:
Answering the question - what has happened with respect to this application of Wizard information on results for the current 2025-2026 season.
Pleasingly, the significance of the results published in the book has been confirmed by the results achieved in the current season. As one of the readers of Betting Essentials noted, there are many angles canvassed in the book. This is just one worth thinking about.
Matrix day-by-day results for Thursday and Friday racing
The tables show the results for the past eight weeks for the day on which racing occurred. So, today being Thursday, this Matrix DOW (Day of Week) report covers the past eight Thursday and Friday 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. The report is posted to our website between 10:30am and 10:45am each day with an update at 12 noon.)
Wizard Ratings, Raceday, Matrix, and Selectives results
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 W1+MaxR100 qualifier, and the Matrix W1+*EO+MaxR100 qualifier. Also included are the overall results for last week and the last 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 following table shows this week's results of alternative options with respect to possible Matrix Selectives combinations, as well as weekly summaries. These combinations are accessible via the Wizard MATRIX report which is posted to our website between 10:30am and 10:45am 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.)
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