The Prize Per Run column

How much has this horse been earning each time it runs? Prize Per Run puts its career prize money over its runs in one figure, a quick read on the class of race it has been running in.

A member asked for this one. A horse that picks up decent money most times it runs has been running, and placing, in decent races, and one figure for that is a quick way to size up the company each horse has been keeping. Prize Per Run puts it on the card. It is a Professional column, and it is off until you switch it on.

Switching it on

It is not shown by default. Open Tools, click Select Columns, tick Prize Per Run and press Update. See Customising your ratings view if you have not used the column picker before.

What the cell shows

The column is headed £/Run and sits beside Class. Each cell is the horse's prize money from all its earlier runs in Britain and Ireland, divided by the number of those runs. A horse that has won £12,000 from 10 runs shows £1,200.

The cells are coloured across the race, like the other heat columns: the greenest is the horse that has earned the most per run of this field, the red the least. Click the header to sort the field by it.

A dash means there is nothing to show: a horse having its first run, or one whose only runs were abroad.

The hover

Hover the figure for the detail:

• Per run, and the total the horse has won, with the number of runs it came from.
• The split by Turf Flat, All-Weather and Jumps, when the horse has run in more than one, so you can see where the money was earned.
• How many of its earlier runs, if any, are left out because we hold no prize money for those races.

How the money is counted

• Every place a race paid counts. Each run is paid the prize for the place it finished, down to the last place the race paid. That is often 7th and 8th, and in the Grand National it goes down to 10th.
• A fall, a pull up or a finish outside the places counts as £0, and it still counts as a run.
• A dead heat shares the prizes for the places it covers, as the prize money itself is shared.
• Irish prize money is paid in euros, so it is converted to pounds at the exchange rate on the day of the race.
• Only runs in Britain and Ireland count. A run abroad is left out of both sides of the sum, so a horse that began its career in France is judged on its British and Irish runs alone.
• Our prize money goes back to January 2015. Any run before that is left out of both sides too, so it can never drag a figure down.

How to read it

Prize Per Run tells you about the races a horse has been running in, and how often it has been earning in them. A horse dropping out of valuable races into a modest one will usually carry a big figure; one that has been beaten out of the places in small races all its life will carry a small one.

Two things to keep in mind. A lightly raced horse can carry a big figure off a single good run, so glance at the number of runs on the hover. And an older horse's figure covers its whole career, including the seasons when it was better than it is now.

It is a guide to class, not a tip. We have not tested it as a betting signal, so treat it as part of a horse's story, next to its RTR figures for today, rather than as a reason to back something by itself.