A horse is backed overnight. The obvious question is what that has meant before, for this yard and for this horse. Market history answers it. It began as a card on Market Movers, and this week it reached every trainer, jockey, owner and horse profile. The video above walks through all of it; this is the same ground in words.
The card
On Market Movers, and on the Market Movers tab of any racecard, a runner that has moved 5 points or more of chance between the 8.30pm price and the 10.30am price has a Market history link. Open it and you get two lines.
- The yard: how many of its last 1,000 runners moved this far the same way, how many won, and what they returned to level stakes at the 10.30am price, with best odds guaranteed and at Betfair SP.
- The horse: whether it has been backed or has drifted like this before, and how it ran.
In the race in the video two horses were backed that morning. One won. The other finished fourth. The card is a record of what past moves did, not a tip.
New: from the card to the runs
Each line of the card now ends in a link. See these runs opens the trainer's profile on exactly the runners that line counts. See every run opens the horse.
New: the Market tab on profiles
Trainer, jockey and owner profiles have a Market tab. It has one row for each size of move, backed above and drifted below: 5, 10, 15 and 20 points or more. Each row shows how many runners moved that far, how often that happens, how many won, and the return at the three prices. Click a row and its runs are listed underneath, each with its 8.30pm, 7.30am and 10.30am prices, SP, Betfair SP and result.
The table opens on the last 1,000 runners, the same runners the card counts. One click switches it to everything on file, back to April 2016.
New: the move on the day
The overnight move is only half the story. A horse can be backed at breakfast and friendless by the off. So a second table measures the move on the day, from the 10.30am price to Betfair SP, over the same runners. That move is only known once the race is off, so it is a record of what happened, and its returns are shown at Betfair SP only. Every list of runs now has two columns, Overnight and On the day, side by side.
A horse's own record
A horse's Market tab says how often it has been backed or has drifted, overnight and on the day, how many of those runs it won, and lists every run with its prices and both moves. The horse in the video shows why both matter: one run backed overnight, drifted on the day and beaten; another backed overnight, steady on the day, and a winner. Two runs, two different days.
The filter, the chips and the card on a profile
- Market move filter: at the top of a profile, choose Backed 5+ points (or any other move) and every other tab reads those runs only: by course, by jockey, profit and loss.
- Chips: on the Races tab a small chip marks each run that was backed or drifted.
- Opened from a racecard: when you open a profile from a racecard, the Market history card for that runner in that race is at the top.
- Less scrolling: every section of the Market tab opens and shuts from its heading, and a long list of runs starts with the latest 20.
Market history comes with Market Movers. It shows what past moves did. What you make of it is up to you.
