This is The Thursday Take — our weekly column on RaceMetrics, where we take a racing talking point and put it to the test against the Proform database. No hunches, no hype. Just what the data says. This week, a talking point nobody has raised: a number in the in-running record that has quietly falle...
RaceMetrics has a new look. Every page now shares one clean design, from the racecard and the dashboard to the System Builder and the profile pages, and every page comes in a light mode and a dark mode. The video above takes a minute to show it.
Light or dark, your choice on every page
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Comparing four rankings at one course does not need four systems. Build it once with no rating rule, run it, and the Breakdowns tab lays every ranking out from the same run. The video does it at Wolverhampton, then Newcastle.
One system, no rating rule
In the System Builder, add two rules: Course ...
Limerick (Saturday 17 to Sunday 18 October): this weekend's big jumps meeting. For each we went through every jumps runner at the course in the same month since 2018 and asked one question: did they win more often than their Betfair price said they would? That is A/E: actual winners divided by the w...
A horse wins, and the obvious question is how to find the next one like it. The answer is not the horse. It is the race. The video builds a system from one winning race in the System Builder, step by step.
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We take a six-furlong Class 6 handicap at Newcastle on Friday 2 October, won by...
Twenty owners won 10% of every jumps race in Britain and Ireland over the last three jumps seasons. We put all 8,257 of their runners through the same test as our jockey and trainer forensics: what did the Betfair price expect, and what did the horses deliver?
The short version
14 of the 20 beat ...
Proud Nation finished fifth of nine at Chester on 13 June, beaten nearly three lengths. On the result alone it's a form line you would skip. The sectionals say it was the best horse in the race. The video shows why, then turns that verdict into a rule in the System Builder.
What the form lines show...
A member asked us how to back-test the lone likely leader using pre-race data only. In the System Builder, two fields do most of the work, and the video builds the system and reads what it says.
Pace Rating
Pace Rating looks at the horse's last three runs: 4 points each time it led, 2 when it race...
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, with the Cesarewitch on Saturday, the trend every preview of the race repeats: b...
Some horses love a sharp, turning track. Others need a long straight and a stiff finish. RaceMetrics now describes every course and trip in Britain and Ireland from Proform's course maps, and puts each runner's record on tracks like today's beside it.The course and trip being runIn the System Builde...
