Equipment – the headgear the horse is wearing. The abbreviations are as follows and can be combinations of any of them. Also a 1 signifies the first time wearing of the headgear shown :-
b = Blinkers
p = Cheek Pieces
es = Eye Shield
h = Hood
t = Tongue Tie
v = Visor
ws = Wind Op

In this release, we have added the exact distance of the race in brackets after the distance label on the racecard and results screen.

If there are no brackets, then the distance is already the exact distance.

In a future software releases we will be moving to just exact distances in the software but for now in some cases we will show you two distances. 

This is the horses finishing position. When the horse did not finish these are the abbreviations used:-

WD = Withdrawn
DQ = Disqualified
CO = Carried Out
UR = Unseated Rider
SU = Slipped Up
BD = Brought Down
FE = Fell
VO = Void
RR = Refused to Race
RE = Refused
PU = Pulled Up
RO = Ran Out

In the system builder and on data exports the finishing position for horses who did not finish are code numbers as follows:-

244 = Withdrawn
245 = Disqualified
246 = Carried Out
247 = Unseated Rider
248 = Slipped Up
249 = Brought Down
250 = Fell
251 = Void
252 = Refused to Race
253 = Refused
254 = Pulled Up
255 = Ran Out

Proform Professional is the only all-in-one horse racing form book that has been the professionals’ choice since 1995.

If you’re looking for powerful racing statistics and dynamic horse ratings then there is only one computer form book and research tool for UK and Irish horse racing you should be using and in this video, we provide an overview of the Proform formbook in the Proform Professional software.

Going Adjustments

We have always created going adjustments (GA) internally, which we use to create the Proform Speed Figures, however we have never released them, until now.

GA’s show you have much the ground on the day was speeding up or slowing down horses in seconds per mile.

A going adjustment of 0 would represent perfect Good ground in races on turf or perfect Standard ground on the a all-weather surface.  We then have positive or negative GA’s to varying degrees.

GA Lookup Table

GA’s are very useful particular when the ground is extremely slow.  You can see in the table we have the standard going descriptions ranging from Firm to Heavy and Fast to Slow but particularly in races on grass we four more going descriptions for when the ground is very bad.

There are some horses, sires, dams and damsires that only show their best when performing in demanding conditions and GA’s in Proform will allow you to find these horses on days when the ground is truly terrible.

So, what have we added to the Proform Software regarding GA’s?

System Builder
There is a new GA field in the system builder in the race tab.

You can present by GA in the presentation screen in the system builder

You can add GA to system builder drill downs in the system builder preferences tab, which means you use this for exporting GA’s.

Form Book
When viewing a result in the form book dataview the actual going and GA are show in the header

Horse Form
When viewing a horses form a column for GA was added.

NOTE: The new field will be at the very right-hand side of the fields, you may need to scroll sideways to find it.  You can then move it where you wish etc.

Prior Form
GA is added to prior form screen.

NOTE: The new field will be at the very right-hand side of the fields, you may need to scroll sideways to find it.  You can then move it where you wish etc.

Calendar
When viewing the calendar for a past days racing the GA is shown with lots more new fields.

Form Book Filters

GA has been added to the form book main filters screen on the race related filters tab.

This means you can create any number of filters to quickly filter form in the form book using GA’s.

To refresh yourself on how filters work visit this help link.

We have also changed the distance filters to yards on the same screen.  This is because the old method contains a bug when new distances were introduced which meant filters kept breaking.

By using yards instead this fixes that issue.

Highest Class

The HC field is a high class indicator field, it works like this :-
The software looks at the last x runs for the horse under the same code of racing as today and notes the highest speed rating achieved in these x runs. It then grabs the class of race that this speed rating was achieved in. This is what is displayed in the column.

x runs can be changed in the preferences under the speed rating tab and defaults to 3

It also works with any filters set. So for instance with no filters set, it is looking at the last x races from the same racing code in races prior to the race you are viewing, and finds the highest speed rating and displays the class of the race.

If you had filters set to ignore turf races and you were viewing a turf race then no HC class figures would be shown.