Over the last fortnight, trainer form was the most-asked question in the RaceMetrics query box by a distance — 112 asks from 16 different members, roughly a fifth of everything typed. Every single one of them got an answer.
That last part matters. Nothing was missing. Members were typing the question out each morning because they had not found the place that already answers it. One member asked the same question on fourteen separate days; he is a Proform Premium member, he has five saved systems, and he already has the morning email switched on.
So this is a signpost, not a launch. Here are the three places trainer form already lives.
1. The temperature reading on the card — free
Next to every trainer's name on a racecard sits a small temperature reading. It scores the yard's last fourteen days against its own five-season record, which is what makes it fair between a 200-horse operation and a small string: a big stable running at 12 per cent can read cold, and a smaller yard at the same strike rate can read hot.
On the Wolverhampton handicap in the video, one trainer reads 98 and another reads 4 — and the cold one is cold precisely because his own long-run figure is 17.9 per cent, not because 6 per cent is a bad number in isolation. The reading only appears when the fortnight is genuinely unusual, and it costs nothing.
2. The Form Stats columns on My Card — Proform Premium
For the whole field at once, open the customise panel and add the trainer columns from the Form Stats group: runners, wins, strike rate and percentage of rivals beaten, over fourteen days and over twenty-eight. Every figure is measured as at the day of the race, so opening a past card shows you the form each yard actually carried into that day rather than today's numbers.
Sort by the fourteen-day strike rate and the race changes shape. Then read the rivals-beaten column beside it, because the two answer different questions. On this card one yard is winning at 8.7 per cent — which looks cold — while its runners beat 61.7 per cent of the field on average across 46 runners. Another is at 0 per cent with 29.1 per cent of rivals beaten and thirty runners since its last winner. Only one of those two is actually cold.
3. The same thresholds as System Builder rules
The two heaviest versions of the question were thresholds — trainers above a strike rate at the course they have runners at today, and trainers above a rivals-beaten figure with runners today. Both are rules, and rules belong in the System Builder.
The first is trainer strike rate at course of 25 per cent or better with at least ten runs. Worth knowing what that filter actually measures: five years at today's course and in today's race type, which is narrower than an all-time figure and better matched to the race in front of you. The second is trainer rivals-beaten over fourteen days at 60 or higher, again with at least ten runners behind it so the sample is worth something.
And then the builder does the thing a typed question cannot: it back-tests them. From 2018 to today, on real Betfair prices, after commission.
Both come back at an actual-versus-expected figure of almost exactly 1.00 — market par. The strike rates are genuinely higher (the course rule runs at 19.9 per cent across 42,225 qualifying runs, an impact value of 1.84), so the yards really are performing better. The market has simply priced it already. That is worth knowing before you build anything on top of it, and it is why both of these are better used as one condition among several than as an angle on their own.
Then stop asking
Save the system and leave it active. The Qualifiers tab runs your rules against today's declared runners, and the Today's Qualifiers page does it for every active system you have — deduplicated, grouped by off time, with a badge on each runner showing which of your systems flagged it. A horse two systems agree on is worth a longer look.
On that page, turn on the morning email. Your qualifiers arrive around 8am, after the morning prices have landed, and if non-runners or a price move create new ones later in the day you get those too. On days when nothing qualifies, nothing arrives.
It is research rather than tips — but it is research you only have to set up once.
