--- title: "Beaten By / Beating on a horse's… — RatingTheRaces Support" description: "On a horse's history, the Beaten By / Beating column names the winner that beat each run, or the runner-up a winner beat, linking to that horse." url: https://ratingtheraces.com/understanding-the-ratings/beaten-by-beating/ date_modified: "2026-09-14" --- [Help Centre](https://ratingtheraces.com/support/) / [Understanding the Ratings](https://ratingtheraces.com/understanding-the-ratings/) /Beaten By / Beating on a horse's history # Beaten By / Beating on a horse's history Concept all plans new Form is only as good as the horses a run was measured against. Beaten By / Beating tells you exactly who that was, and takes you straight to their record. When you read a horse's form, the next question is always: **beaten by what?** A narrow defeat by a future Group winner is worth far more than a win over nothing much. The **Beaten By / Beating** column puts that answer on every row of the history. [![A horse's history showing the Result, Beaten, Beaten By / Beating, Race Win SR, Race Place SR and ORC +/- columns](https://ratingtheraces.com/help/beaten-by-beating/0-history-columns.webp)](#zoom-help-beaten-by-beating-0-history-columns) [![A horse's history showing the Result, Beaten, Beaten By / Beating, Race Win SR, Race Place SR and ORC +/- columns](https://ratingtheraces.com/help/beaten-by-beating/0-history-columns.webp)](#close) ## What it shows It sits straight after the **Beaten** column: - **A beaten run**: the name of the horse that **won** that race. - **A winning run**: the name of the **runner-up** it beat. A dead heat for first lists both winners. You'll see a dash where nobody is known yet: a non-runner, a run abroad, or a race whose placings aren't in. Every name is a link to that horse's own history, opening in a new tab. So in one click you can check whether the horse that beat yours has gone on to prove itself, or whether the one it beat has since won. ## Hover for the finish Hover the **Beaten** or **Beaten By / Beating** cell and a card shows how the run finished: where the horse came, how many lengths it was behind the winner (or what it won by), how far it was behind the horse in front, and who won. The table rounds distances to the nearest quarter of a length; the card gives you the exact figure. [![The Beaten hover: finished 14th, 49.75 lengths behind the winner, with the winner named](https://ratingtheraces.com/help/beaten-by-beating/1-beaten-hover.webp)](#zoom-help-beaten-by-beating-1-beaten-hover) [![The Beaten hover: finished 14th, 49.75 lengths behind the winner, with the winner named](https://ratingtheraces.com/help/beaten-by-beating/1-beaten-hover.webp)](#close) ## Where you'll find it Beaten By / Beating is on a horse's history page for every member, and on jockey, trainer and sire history pages too. To go a step further and see how the **whole field** from a race has fared since, use [Race Win SR and Race Place SR](https://ratingtheraces.com/understanding-the-ratings/race-win-place-sr/), and for how the handicapper has rated those runners since, [ORC +/-](https://ratingtheraces.com/understanding-the-ratings/orc-plus-minus/). For getting around the history pages themselves, see [Form study: horse, jockey, trainer and sire history](https://ratingtheraces.com/tools-features/form-study-history/). Was this article helpful? ### Related articles [ ### What do the R figures (R1 to R10) mean? R figures are RatingTheRaces calculated performance figures for each run, R1 is the most recent outing, working back through R2 to R10 for older form. ](https://ratingtheraces.com/understanding-the-ratings/r-figures/)[ ### What do AV3, AV10 and their ranks mean? AV3 is the average of a horse's last 3 R scores and AV10 the last 10, smoothing recent form; the matching ranks compare every runner across the race. ](https://ratingtheraces.com/understanding-the-ratings/av3-av10/)[ ### What is the R1 Rank? R1 Rank ranks every horse in a race by its most recent R1 performance figure, so you can instantly spot the runner arriving in the sharpest current form. ](https://ratingtheraces.com/understanding-the-ratings/r1-rank/)