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Pro-form springs to mind,BJ?

My rationale:
2 horses (Minella Indo & Frodon) both short in the market, patently failed to live up to market expectation owing to going to going too quick, too early. The same logic dictates that...

A shock result's a shock for a reason, and both Timeform and the OH appear to have failed to fathom the KG rationale, miserably.

No, simply on all racing bets. Arithemtic may prove a little shy, in these Covid times, but the potential is there to cover levy handsomely in norrmal circs. Done properly, all racing could be free...

They wouldn't; if the UK adopted the Irish Model. I've said it many times before, but a simple 1% tax would easily cover the levy, and rule out the bookmaker's hold on our sport - altogether.

In this case, the NH signifies National Hunt - though it's hard to argue Epatante and Altior weren't recent examples of the above phenomenon.

Agree: there are too many conditions races (flat and jumps), resulting in small fields - generally of horses just out for a spin. Pretty sure NH's fixation with the Cheltenham Festival just adds to...

Methinks the OH should have another look.:lol:

I'd consider his 116 laughable and will be thotoughly tested tomorrow. He's supposedly 5lb superior to Dakota Gold, yet receives 5 here. DG beat him around that number of lengths, last time they met,...

So, Brando went into the race off 107, and came out of it at 116.:) You couldn't make it up - unless it's part of the job to do so.
Also, Dream Of Dreams is a speed horse, and couldn't produce his...

Wonder where the OH gets his York sectionals from - any ideas?

The handicappers do, occasionally, take account of sp's, and the finishing order of the rest of the field - often a valid tool for assessing the merit of the form as a whole.
In Polyydora's case, he...

Don't agree, DO.
What it demonstrates is his taking 2 horses with near-identical profiles, yet dissing one, and elevating t'other, thus tailoring the form to suit his own view of the outcome....

The presence of Stormy Antarctic in fourth gives a major clue as to the level of the contest, that gelding having never run higher than 114 in twenty-three previous starts and I see no obvious reason...

Still puts Vautour 4lbs behind Don Cossack on theirKG run, which clearly cannot be right!

To have recorded a 130 performance he would have needed to have improved physically by 6lb between the Eclipse and the Arc assuming he is equally effective at 1m4f as he is at 1m2f. He has improved,...

Thanks, EC and Col.
I was rather hoping this was some innovation, where they actually published data for the better AW races. Maybe it's my inbuilt scepticism, but I find it hard to believe the OH...

Sectionals - for Lingfield?
Anyone on here know where he got them from?

Thanks Rory; I do hope you don't think my intention was to malign you personally in any way. :cool:
I do, however, have a bee in my bonnet about race standardisation being anything more than a minor...

Trackside
I'm aware Timeform don't use race standardisation in isolation, but it's clear - both from SR's article, and Rory's post on the International - that the use of it is being promoted as...

Just my opinion, but race standardisation isn't nearly the tool that Timeform would have us believe, and the whole idea that the nuances of pace, ground, actual effort and class of opposition in an...

So Excelebration ran to 125 all season (QA apart), but suddenly found 5lbs of improvement in the last one?:)

My rationale is clear. Last year Frankel beat Excelebration three times, twice by four lengths (in the Greenham and in the QEII) and yet on Saturday he had extended that superiority to five lengths....

Be surprised if they didn't, Granger, as his owner has long had a policy of buying horses with the GN specifically in mind..

I'd find it easier to believe that Dream Ahead ran below form, rather than Genki suddenly found 5lb from somewhere.