The race course and going filters tab allows you to restrict your searches to specific courses and goings.

Courses

Use the course list to restrict your research to one or many courses.

You can quickly select just Left Hand or Right Hand courses by using the two buttons under the course list. You can quickly select just courses with specific characteristics by using the five buttons under the course characteristics heading. You can also quickly untick or tick all courses by right clicking inside the list.

Actual Goings

Use the actual goings list to restrict your search to races run on the actual goings you choose. he actual going is based on the race times recorded at each course on the day of racing.

On many occasions it differs from the official going and is a more accurate reflection of what the going was at any given meeting. Mixing the ticks and unticks in the actual and official going lists can cause odds results, so it is best to use one or the other. You can quickly untick or tick all actual goings by right clicking inside the list.

The actual going can not be used in a saved system that you wish to find qualifiers for. This is because the actual going is not known until after the races are run.

Official Goings

Use the official goings list to restrict your search to races run on the official goings you choose. 

The official going is what was officially reported. Mixing the ticks and unticks in the actual and official going lists can cause odds results, so it is best to use one or the other. You can quickly untick or tick all official goings by right clicking inside the list. The official going can not be used in a saved system that you wish to find qualifiers for.

This is because the official going is not known until after the races are run.

The race date filters allow you to research the past in a variety of ways, below the screen image is a description of each filter.

Filtering by Days, Weeks, Months & Years

Using the first date filter you can restrict your research to a number of days, weeks, months or years backwards from today's date.

Filtering by Years

The list of years allows you to restrict the search to one, two or multiple years by unticking each year. You can quickly untick or tick all years by right clicking inside the list.

Filtering out Months

Use the list of months to filter out any months you do not require by unticking them. You can quickly untick or tick all months by right clicking inside the list.

Filtering by Declaration Types

This filter allows you to only research horses, jockeys or trainers that had runners on the day you choose in the calendar box.
This is useful in many ways, for instance, you may want to find the horses running on a day that have good form on the prevailing going, whatever that might be, this tool makes that simple.

You can also use this to look at past runners on any day and research statistics that happened prior to the day you are seeking. 

Filtering by Race

With the relevenat  race declaration type selected, use this list to select a sepecifc race carded on the date selected in the calander 

Filtering by Course 

With the relevenat  race declaration type selected, use this list to select a sepecifc cousre for the date selected in the calander 

The race filters tab is just one of the tabs that allow you to control all aspects of which races to research.

Race Types

Use this to restrict your research to one or more race types by unticking the race types you do not require.
You can quickly untick or tick all race types by right clicking inside the list.

Handicaps/NON Handicaps

You can choose to restrict your research to just handicaps or NON handicaps with this filter, default is all races.

Race Name Search

You can use the race name filters to find a specific race for analysis, i.e. trend analysis

Enter a word or words from the race name such as:-
grand national or gold cup

Also you can use the AND/OR operator to use a second word or words to find, just click AND/OR from the radio button box and then enter the second word or words in the 2nd race name box.

So you could search for champion hurdle in name box 1 and choose AND in the operator and then enter trial in the name box 2 to return and races which contain the words champion hurdle and trial somewhere in the race name.

You can use the NOT race name filters to IGNORE races that contain the words or words you enter.

Enter a word or words from the race name such as:-
gold or champion

Any race with the entered words will be ignored.

You can use use the logical operations AND/OR to use a second word or words to ignore.

Just click AND/OR from the radio button box and then enter the second word or words in the 2nd race name box. So you could search for champion hurdle in name box 1 and choose AND in the operator and then enter trial in the name box 2 to ignore races, which contain the words champion hurdle and trial somewhere in the race name.

Race Value

Use the race value filter to restrict your searches to certain race values.

Examples of valid expressions to use with the value field are:-
 between 4000 and 15000
 > 7000
 < 60000
 >= 10000 and <= 20000

Race Distance

Enter the distance criteria for the race.

Distances are entered in total yards and you can use expressions such as:- >= > < <= and 1f = 220 yards, below is a list of race distances and yards for the most common distances

5f = 1100 yards
6f = 1320 yards
7f = 1540 yards
1m = 1760 yards
1m 1f = 1980 yards
1m 2f = 2200 yards
1m 3f = 2420 yards
1m 4f = 2640 yards
1m 5f = 2860 yards
1m 6f = 3080 yards
1m 7f = 3300 yards
2m = 3520 yards
2m 1f = 3740 yards
2m 2f = 3960 yards
2m 3f = 4180 yards
2m 4f = 4400 yards
2m 5f = 4620 yards
2m 6f = 4840 yards
2m 7f = 5060 yards
3m = 5280 yards
3m 1f = 5500 yards
3m 2f = 5720 yards
3m 3f = 5940 yards
3m 4f = 6160 yards
3m 5f = 6380 yards
3m 6f = 6600 yards
3m 7f = 6820 yards
4m = 7040 yards
4m 1f = 7260 yards
4m 2f = 7480 yards
4m 4f = 7920 yards

Race Runners

Use the runners filter to restrict your search to races with a set number runners or a range of runners

Examples of valid expressions are:-
12

between 5 and 12
>= 5
=< 12
> 6 and < 15
>= 5 and <= 14

Race Classes

You can choose to filter out race class by the original class letters or by the new class numbers. Mixing the ticks and unticks in both class lists can cause odds results, so it is best to use one or the other. The new class numbers start in the database on 1st September 2004 for Flat Turf and Flat All Weather races and on 1st January 2006 for Jumps races.

Hcap Limit

Enter the handicap limit for the race

Examples of valid expressions are:
110 = will result in only analysing 110 rated handicaps
between 110 and 150
>= 110
=< 85
> 80 and < 90
>= 95 and <= 105

Min Age Limit

Enter the min age limit for the race. You can use this filter in conjunction with the max age limit

Examples of valid expressions are:
4 = will result in only analysing races that are 4yo or above
between 3 and 5
>= 3

Max Age Limit

Enter the max age limit for the race. You can use this filter in conjunction with the min age limit

Examples of valid expressions are:

OPEN = set the max age limit to OPEN and you will only analyse all age races i.e. 3yo+ or 4yo+
2 = would result in a max age limit of 2yo
between 3 and 5
>= 3

Leave this filter blank for all max age limits including blanks

You can use the race name filters to find a specific race for analysis, i.e. trend analysis

Enter a word or words from the race name such as:-
grand national or gold cup

Also you can use the AND/OR operator to use a second word or words to find, just click AND/OR from the radio button box and then enter the second word or words in the 2nd race name box.
So you could search for champion hurdle in name box 1 and choose AND in the operator and then enter trial in the name box 2 to return and races which contain the words champion hurdle and trial somewhere in the race name.

You can use the NOT race name filters to IGNORE races that contain the words or words you enter.
Enter a word or words from the race name such as:-
gold or champion

Any race with the entered words will be ignored. Also you can use the AND/OR operator to use a second word or words to ignore.
Just click AND/OR from the radio button box and then enter the second word or words in the 2nd race name box.
So you could search for champion hurdle in name box 1 and choose AND in the operator and then enter trial in the name box 2 to ignore races, which contain the words champion hurdle and trial somewhere in the race name.

The ratings filters allow you to filter by the rank, top rated etc, by the value of the ratings and also by how far clear the top rated is from the second highest rated. 

All your choices can be combined so you could search for results where a horse was top rated on all the ratings.

Ratings by Rank

Use the Ratings Rank filter to restrict your system to look for horses ranked 1st or lower, or in the top 2 ranks or a group of ranks etc.

Examples of valid Ratings Rank filters are:-

• 1 (This would restrict the system to look for the highest ranked horse, i.e. top rated)
• >= 5 (This would restrict the system to look for only horses ranked 5th or higher)
• >= 1 and <= 2 (This would restrict the system to look for horses ranked 1st or 2nd)

You can also group ranks together to see how ratings perform in conjunction with each other, i.e.'
Set Main Ratings Rank to 1 and Trainer Stats Ratings Rank to 1 to see how horses ranked 1st on both ratings have performed.
or
you could set them both to >= 1 and <= 2 to see how horses ranked 1st or 2nd in both the ratings have performed, the combinations are endless.

Ratings by Value

You can use the Ratings Value filter to restrict your system to look for horses with specific ratings values in the respective fields

Examples of valid Ratings Values filters are:

• >= 500 (This would restrict the system to look for only horses with a ratings value of 500 or higher in the ratings field you entered the value)
• >= 0 and <= 200 (This would restrict the system to look for horses with a ratings value of 0 to 200)

The maximum and minimum values for each rating are as follows:-
Main Ratings = -400 to 375
Main+Stats Ratings = -650 to 770
Stats Ratings = -400 to 400
Tissue Ratings = 0 to 170
PFR Ratings = -12 to 140
Trainer Stats Ratings = -50 to 100
Jockey Stats Ratings = -70 to 100
Trainer/Jockey Comb Stats Ratings = -50 to 100
Horse Stats Ratings = -360 to 100
Pace Ratings = 0 to 12
Official Ratings = 0 to 179

The dates when each rating started are:-
Main Ratings = 11/03/2006
Main+Stats Ratings = 11/03/2006
Stats Ratings = 11/03/2006
Tissue Ratings = 29/05/2003
PFR Ratings = 11/10/2002
Trainer Stats Ratings = 11/03/2006
Jockey Stats Ratings = 11/03/2006
Trainer/Jockey Comb Stats Ratings = 11/03/2006
Horse Stats Ratings = 11/03/2006
Pace Ratings = 15/01/2005
Official Ratings = 01/01/1997

Clear by

The Clear By filter is used to check if a top rated horse is clear of the 2nd rated horse by a set number of points or more.

Enter the number of points clear by in the box next to the rating you wish to analyse. The rating rank of the rating you choose will be forced to 1 when the query runs.

You can combine clear by checks i.e. you could put a clear by value in one, two or multiple ratings to check for horses that were clear by the entered amounts on all of the ratings chosen.

Restrict your system to look for horses ranked 1st or lower, or in the top 2 ranks or a group of ranks etc.

Examples of valid Ratings Rank filters are:-

1 (This would restrict the system to look for the highest ranked horse, i.e. top rated)

>=5 (This would restrict the system to look for only horses ranked 5th or higher)

>=1 and <=2 (This would restrict the system to look for horses ranked 1st or 2nd)

You can also group ranks together to see how ratings perform in conjunction with each other,

i.e. Set HA Career Best Ratings Rank to 1 and MR Career Best Ratings Rank to 1 to see how horses ranked 1st on both ratings have performed. or you could set them both to >= 1 and <= 2 to see how horses ranked 1st or 2nd in both the ratings have performed.