One Runner Stats explained

One Runner Stats picks out the trainers and jockeys with just one runner today or tomorrow, and shows their record over the last five years on the days they had a single runner.

There's an old saying that when a small yard sends one horse a long way, it's often worth a second look. One Runner Stats is the dashboard section that puts a number on it. It's a Professional feature, at the bottom of your dashboard.

What it shows

Every trainer with a single runner (and, on the other tab, every jockey with a single ride) today or tomorrow, alongside their record over the last five years on the occasions when that was all they had. The P&L figures are to £1 level stakes at the exchange Starting Price.

The idea is simple: a stable's whole plan for the day riding on one horse, or a jockey travelling for a single booking, is a signal the raw ratings don't capture. This section surfaces those runners and tells you whether that pattern has paid before.

Getting the view you want

• Trainers / Jockeys tabs switch between the two angles, and Today / Tomorrow switches the day.
• Only runner of the day counts a trainer's one and only runner anywhere that day. Only runner at the meeting counts their only runner at that particular track, whatever they have elsewhere.
• Min runs (All, 5+, 10+, 25+) hides records built on too few past runs, so you're not reading into a 1-from-2. It defaults to 5+.
• The Trainer / Course / Jockey checkboxes narrow the record. You're always looking at the trainer; tick Course to see their record with a single runner at this track, or Jockey to see it with today's booked rider, or both. The "Showing:" line tells you which split you're reading.

Reading the table

Each row gives the trainer, the runner (with silks), the race, today's RTR Rank, the current odds, their Record (wins-runs and strike rate for the chosen split) and the P&L. Three more columns tell you how that record was earned:

• A/E is actual winners against the winners the prices implied, so 1.00 is par. Every run counts towards it, not just the ones that won, which makes it a fairer read on a small sample than the strike rate alone.
• Trend is a sparkline of the running P&L, oldest run on the left. A steady climb is a record; one big step is one horse.
• Steady scores that shape out of 100. It wants a line that climbed throughout, and marks down a total that came out of one purple patch, one that spiked and then handed it back, and one that got there through big peaks and troughs. A negative score means the line fell just as reliably. Hover it for the two figures behind the number. Around a third of records score exactly 0, usually because a single winner made more than the whole final profit, and that is the point: a profitable record built on one 100/1 shot is not the same as one that has paid steadily.

Sort by Record, A/E, P&L or Steady to bring the strongest angles to the top. Steady is the one to sort by when you want the yards and riders whose solo runners have paid evenly, rather than the one that once hit a big price.