Creating Your Own Ratings

[RIO2014]

Re: Creating Your Own Ratings

Hmmm...not exactly a great start!

Dont beat yourself up, Its a long game the ratings game, most definately done by the month, and ratings are just like a Formula 1 car, little tweek here n there, and it starts to run sweet. GL m8

[BillyHills]

Re: Creating Your Own Ratings Good luck Kryten, hope all the hard work pays off mate:ok

[Toast]

Re: Creating Your Own Ratings Good luck to the OP. This was something I looked into doing a few years ago, but pretty much gave up after a few weeks. Its a lot more difficult than people actually think. Nowadays I just stick to the RP ratings, which,IMO, are an excellent guide. One thing I did learn though was the importance of grade/ group race form over handicap form. As such I rate: + Group 1......160+ Group 2......150-160 Group 3......135-150 I only bet class 3 handicaps and group races, class 4 and lower is pretty much poor fare and difficult to evaluate, whilst class 2 tend to be potentially listed/ group level and again, difficult to ascertain how good the horse is. But the major flaw with ratings is that they are rated on every run, which can be misleading as a lot of horses need certain parameters to show their best. eg, Carruthers looks best in small field, heavy ground races, despite winning a large field Hennesey for which he was handicapped to the hilt, until the other day at Fos Llas. Still good luck, be interesting to see what your Gold Cup ratings are at the moment.