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Racecard views: the same field, read a different way

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Above every racecard is a row of buttons that change what the grid shows. Same horses, same order, different columns, so you can read the race the way you want without a single hover.

Hovers are fine for checking one horse. They are no use when you want to compare the whole field at once. Views fix that: pick one and the grid keeps your horses exactly where they are, then swaps the columns for the ones that answer a different question.

The view strip above a racecard: Ratings, Odds Movement and Weight and Form Strength with Premium stickers, Price Record and My Systems with Pro stickersThe view strip above a racecard: Ratings, Odds Movement and Weight and Form Strength with Premium stickers, Price Record and My Systems with Pro stickers

Everyone sees the strip, including signed-out visitors, and each button carries a sticker when it needs a plan. A view above your plan shows a padlock, and clicking it tells you what it would take to open it. Your choice sticks as you move from race to race.

Ratings

The card as you know it, and where you start. On a free account the first button reads Races instead.

Odds Movement

What the market has done since the card opened. Premium and Professional.

The Odds Movement view: opening price, latest price, a Drifted or Backed percentage and a line showing the price since openingThe Odds Movement view: opening price, latest price, a Drifted or Backed percentage and a line showing the price since opening

You get the Opening price, the Latest, and the Move as a percentage, labelled Drifted or Backed so there is no arithmetic to do. The line on the right draws the whole story since the card opened: a drifter climbs, a horse being backed falls away. One glance across the column tells you where the money has gone.

Weight

Every runner's weight laid out flat across the field, so the handicap is a shape rather than a list of numbers. Premium and Professional.

Form Strength

How strong the races were that each horse has been running in. Premium and Professional.

The Form Strength view: an average figure per horse, then a block for each of its last five races with position, win percentage, place percentage and ORCThe Form Strength view: an average figure per horse, then a block for each of its last five races with position, win percentage, place percentage and ORC

The first column is the horse's average over its last five completed races, and it sorts, so you can bring the horses out of the strongest form to the top. After that there is one block per race, newest first, with the horse's position, the Win % and Plc % of the rest of that field since, and the ORC. Hover a block for the course and date, click it to open that race.

The point is context. A horse beaten four lengths in a race where the others have since won plenty has been running in a hot race, and that is worth more than it looks on the form line.

Price Record

Each horse's wins and runs at today's price band. Professional. It has its own article: The Price Record column.

My Systems

Your own saved ProStats systems, applied to the race in front of you. Professional.

For every system you have saved that has a runner in this race, you get a column with a tick against the horses that qualify, and a count so you can see at a glance which horse is in more than one. Click a system's name and the rest of the field fades back, leaving its qualifiers. Below the grid there is a card per system with its record, the horses it has picked here and a button through to it in ProStats.

Systems with nothing running in this race are left out, so the view stays short. If you have not saved any systems yet, there is nothing to show: save a filterset in ProStats first.

Views change what you see, never the ratings themselves. Your choice is remembered on the device you are using, so the card opens the way you left it.