Twenty sires were behind 33% of every jumps winner in Britain and Ireland last season. We put every one of their 13,581 runners through the same test as our jockey and trainer forensics: what did the Betfair price expect, and what did the progeny deliver?
The short version
The champion sire came ...
You built a system on the favourite. Roughly one race in twenty, it is not the horse you think it is. The video shows why, and which rule to use in the System Builder for each meaning of "the favourite".
SP or Betfair?
In the System Builder, Favourite Status means the favourite at the industry sta...
The same owner can race under more than one name. J P McManus, for example, has one name on his British runners and another on his Irish runners, and partnerships and syndicates are often written slightly differently from one card to the next. In the standard Owner breakdown that splits one owner ac...
Twenty trainers sent out 52 or more jumps winners in Britain and Ireland last season, and between them they trained more than a third of every jumps winner run. We put every one of their 11,197 runners through the same test as our jockey forensics: what did the Betfair price expect, and what did the...
Twenty-one jockeys rode 44 or more jumps winners in Britain and Ireland last season, and between them they rode more than a third of every jumps winner run. We put every one of their 10,173 rides through the same test: what did the Betfair price expect, and what did the rider deliver?
The short ve...
If you used the Proform desktop software, you'll know its in-running reports: every horse on the day's cards with a habit of trading a long way below its Betfair starting price (BSP) in running. A returning member asked us where they had gone. They are in the System Builder now, one click away, and ...
This is The Thursday Take — our weekly column on RaceMetrics, where we take the topic racing is talking about and put it to the test against the Proform database. No hunches, no hype. Just what the data says. This week, a question we have wanted to answer properly for a long time: does the betting m...
Top rated on the tissue, top on the power rating, top on speed, top on pace: quite often that is four different horses. So which ranking should you follow? The video tests all four on one course, and the method takes a couple of minutes.
One question, asked four times
One of our members has been w...
A member asked us whether they could see a year of sectionals for one horse, or only race by race. The answer is better than a year: every run the horse has had, in one table, and one click to download it.
Every run in one table
Open the horse's profile and click the Runs card. That brings up ever...
If a back-test reads a horse's rating as it stands today, it already knows which horses went on to improve. The results look better than anything you could have bet at the time. The video shows the problem on one real race, and how the System Builder avoids it.
One race, two sets of ratings
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