I’ve developed my own method of assessing a trainer’s form and, always keen to learn more, I’m particularly interested in how you created your dataset and the criteria you’ve used. Your ‘earnings per run’ is something I hadn’t considered before and I’ll investigate that further with a view to incorporating it into my work.

Thanks again for maintaining the content and quality of geegeez.co.uk during these pandemic lockdown days.

Fair point. There’s always a lot of writing, unapologetically so. Readers may skip the text and view the data as they wish.

The point about different presentation of some factors is perfectly fair. I could definitely have done a graph of the top ten overall by each ranking factor.

Will consider that for next time.

Matt

Thank you very much, James, for those very kind words.

Regarding trainer breakdown by discipline, that certainly is interesting. Anthony’s stats are always much better for both NHF and chases, mainly because plenty of horses have at least three runs where they can’t be competitive before acquiring a handicap mark. Once in the appropriate grade, they can show what they have; that often comes, as you mention, in the following seasons over a fence.

Catch up soon,
Matt

Sorry to hear you’ve been poorly, Mal, and very glad to hear you’re on the mend.

Good to hear from you, stay well now.

Matt

Hi Gordon,

Yes, absolutely they are! As I said in the article, that’s for another day.

But it’s certainly something worth knowing and, for any given runner on any given day, you can see that information within Gold’s Trainer Snippets report (and in the Trainer Data view inline on the cards).

Best,
Matt

Keep up the great work, best regards to Chris – Mal