Swings And Roundabouts: An Apology

Monday, dear reader, and wet and miserable one at that. Welcome to October, and to the Autumn.

The perfect context then for yours truly to munch on a spot of humble pie (well it makes a change from the teeth-rotting biscuits).

In Friday's post containing Saturday's runners, I made a couple of untypical mistakes in the selections. I have been known to do this roughly once every six months, but Friday - for some bizarre reason - I made two on the same day!

One of the mistakes was in your favour, as Ramonti won at 5/1. He was however a 5yo, and we are only interested in Saeed bin Suroor's 3 and 4yo's in Group and Conditions races. As such, he was a 5/1 winner who shouldn't have been nominated.

That was the winning roundabout. The disappointing swing, as TTS guide owners will (and indeed some have!) testify, was that - because I gave out the Market Rasen selections based on the jocked up horses from the five day declarations - some horses ran that weren't put up, and one didn't run in the right race, and one didn't run at all.

The full results as they should have been are as below:

Market Rasen	Prestbury Knight	1	3
Market Rasen	Iron Man	1	6
Market Rasen	Always Waining	3	10
Market Rasen	Pigeon Island	1	4.5
Market Rasen	Decisive	2	8.5
Market Rasen	Nudge And Nurdle	1	3.5
Market Rasen	Apollo Creed	4	1.88

What that means is that we missed Pigeon Island and Nudge And Nurdle. I can only apologise. I am human, and I'm very sorry for this.

Hopefully, this was in some way offset by a 'winner' at 5/1 (Ramonti) and two legit winners at 3/1 and 6/1.

Normal service will now hopefully be resumed.

The tale of the tape at the end of September, for TTS subscribers, is a relatively healthy one, with a profit of £194 to £20 stakes on betfair (16% better than SP, less 5% commission).

Win and place percentages were as follows for the month:

Wins	Runs	Win %age
10	34	29.41%
Place	Runs	Place %age
21	34	61.76%

The place percentage is very high, and I expect that to come down to something nearer 45-50%, if history is anything to go by.

More info and signup details are at www.TrainerTrackStats.com

Elsewhere, and finally we have our first Nag Nag Nag Fantasy Football League Manager of the Month. And the winner is.... drumroll.... trumpet fanfare.... hushed silence.... my mate Steve Frazer, with whom I've just been to Thailand.

The bad news for everyone else (me especially, as I never hear the end of it!) is that he's actually 2,407th in the country. Might not sound like much, until you realise there are 1,390,942 players globally. That put him ahead of 99.82% of players!

Good effort Frazer - if only you could pick shares like you can fantasy football teams! (For irregular readers, Steve is the editor of the national shares magazine, Shares).

Never mind, one month down, and still much to play for. So don't despair yet. The podium positions and the next dirty dozen look like this:

#	Team	Manager	Gameweek	Total
1	Frazek HotSpurs	Steven Frazer	61	436
2	Baddow Cougars	Mark Boorman	41	393
3	Kicking Kings	Paddy Meagher	52	371
4	Dind Dang Doo	malik aldeiri	57	352
5	PURPLE AKI'S BOYZ	Craig Baugh	63	348
6	Tottering Legends	Gary Maxen	43	345
7	Cupid's Skirts	Stephen Miller	40	344
8	SmokinTree&Strokin3s	Irvin Lim	28	343
9	Rafalution	Pete Yogi	44	332
10	roll overs	danny edwards	21	326
11	Taffy's Tornados	Steve Jones	45	325
12	Nag Nag Goooooal	Matt Bisogno	33	321
13	inter da net	stuart gash	49	321
14	Kiwi	Kerry Singleton	57	309
15	Darren Smith	Darren Smith	38	308

If you're not in the Top 15, you need to pull your finger out! (I may not be there next month!!)

Tomorrow's racing is at Sedgefield and Warwick, as well as Wolves.

Not much to float my boat, though I will be looking out for Free Fallin of Peter Chapple-Hyam's at Warwick. Very small stakes only.

Matt