Worth Knowing: what our tools noticed about a race

Every race hides a few things worth a second look. Worth Knowing gathers them under the card: who is unusually well rated, who has been off for months, who has headgear on for the first time.

The ratings already tell you who we make the best horse. Worth Knowing is the layer underneath: the handful of facts our tools noticed while they were working the race out, written in plain English and listed under the grid. It is a Premium and Professional feature.

Turning it on

It is off until you switch it on. Open Tools and turn on Worth Knowing, described there as the facts our tools noticed, under each race. It then appears as the first section below every racecard, and you can collapse it again from its own heading.

What you get

The heading tells you how many it found: 9 things our tools noticed in this race. Facts, not tips. The three it rates most unusual are shown, and Show all opens the rest.

Each card names the horse, states the fact, and carries a label for the kind of thing it is. Between them they cover:

• Rating: where a horse stands out, for example top rated by a clear margin, or two or three of them within a point of each other.
• Market: a horse priced well above the odds our ratings suggest it should be.
• Form: whose recent form was run in the strongest races, and whose wins came in the weakest.
• Layoff: a first run for 90 days or more, with the exact number.
• Kit and weight: first-time headgear, a first run since being gelded, a jockey claiming three pounds or more, a move up or down in class.
• Beaten favourite: sent off favourite last time and beaten.
• Your systems: on a Professional account, which of your saved ProStats systems have a runner here.

Click a card and the rest of the field fades back so you can see the horse in the grid, and where a fact belongs to a particular view there is a link straight to it.

Facts, not tips

That line in the heading is deliberate. Worth Knowing never says a horse will win and nothing on the list is a selection. A 345-day layoff is a fact; whether it matters is your call, and for some yards it means very little. Read it as the notes a form student might scribble in a margin, then make your own mind up.

The lines only appear when there is genuinely something to say. A rating line, for instance, fires when the margin is unusual rather than on every race, because a note that appears every time tells you nothing.