Hello Tom. I'm available most weekdays. Can help you get started. I'll send a message to your inbox-- Jim

Dave R., in the Reports > The Report Sets-- there's a Set titled s: FTS Friendly. Load that Set and you'll find 15 FTS Friendly reports. I have not tried all of them. I have two (2) that I use that have the following Fields.
FTS's: 31, 32, 33, 29, 34, 38
FTS 2 Year-Olds: 34, 31, 33, 32, 27, 201
The above seem to work pretty well.
In the HSH Factors list you'll find these fields and a few others if you wanted to create and test your own reports.

Nice hits. I've found the workout reports to be very helpful. Also, SAR R6, just before your hit. The #4 and #2, both FTS's, were the top 2 in the 2 year-old workout report. The #2 won at $21.40. $384.50 double with your #10 in R7.

Hello Bob. Rating #224 is Days - Days Since Last Race. Rating #225 is DaysWR - Days Since Last Race or WO. Example: If #224 is 43 means the horse last raced 43 days ago. If #225 is 6 that means the horse had a workout 6 days ago (since 6 days is less than 43). Then you know that the horse had a workout since the last race and you can check the Workout report(s). You can also add #415 - Number of times on track in the last 30 days. In the about example that would equal 2. Once for the race 43 days ago and once for the workout 6 days ago.
If you need the Workout reports or have any other questions, let me know, happy to help.

224 Days - Days Since Last Race and 225 DaysWR - Days Since Last Race or WO. If the days are different, factor 225 days is less than factor 224, then you know the horse had a workout. 227 Work14 - (last 14 days) then gives you the WO rating if the WO was in the last 14 days. There's also 228 Work30 If you want to check workouts further out from today's race.

Do you have a race example? I usually just handicap the race unless I have time to dig a little deeper.

I'm available.

My question is: "dots represent races where the horse was asked to do something different
from what he is being asked to do today." What is different?
Could the race distance be 1/16th different versus 1/8th? Blinkers On or blinkers Off?
Guessing some would be races taken off the Turf and moved to dirt or Tapeta. Many horses at GPX will not scratch out of Turf races moved to the Tapeta.
Also, as claiming horses win, they lose that condition and move up (NW2L to NW3L). Horses that lose may then be moved down in claiming price. Are these considered different?
I think that most trainers figure out what's best for the horse, but have to do something different based on the horse's class condition and the availability of similar races in the condition book.

Rumor is that NYRA/TS worked things out today. Guess we'll see tomorrow.

Reports: The first Column on the left is Pct, and then there's Reynolds 2 (Rey2). I notice that some horses may have a low Pct, but are a Rey2 = 1. Trying to understand the difference.

My question: How to create a report to determine if a horse is dropping in class today? Also, class in general-- a report to show which horses have the best class (maybe a ranking).

I'll be there.

Yes, I tried the other step. Not sure what the problem is.

I went thru and downloaded/imported. My PRX09 looks different than yours. Still have the blanks.

No, this was yesterday-- PRX races R6 and R9. RKnave is showing Odds where I was not. I don't recall a manual scratch, but I'm not 100%. So if I did a manual scratch, that could be what's causing those horses to be blank.

No, not a foreign horse.

I don't recall any manual scratches, but not 100% sure. So that may be it. We can move on with the 1.0004 release and see if I or anyone else sees it again.

No, not FTS's. It's an Allowance race. Also, same day, PRX R6-- the #6 is blank. Both are Chaos 5. But, the other C5 races are okay.

Not sure. Today at IND-- C5's R1 $5.20 and R3 $4.20. Low payouts plus a difficult to handicap R2 $45.40 winner who was last in aML and PSR. The R3 and R4 double paid $6.10.
PRX had very nice payouts so far-- $17.00, $7.20, $18.60, $19.20 and $13.00. But, 5 out of the last 6 races at PRX were C5's-- so going all is not reasonable.
I think you could look at all's when one of the connecting races is a BALO where you can throw out the low price favorite and hook up 1-2 contenders with an all C5.
Otherwise look at Ken's strategy, or something like it, where you narrow the contenders down to two price horses. If you're unable to get to two price horses or there's what looks like an unbeatable 3-5 horse-- then simply pass the race. There's enough C5's so that you can move on to the next one.

I saw those. Unfortunately I was on one of the other bombs. Still a couple more C5's today.