BACK ON TRACK: An online guide to Emerald Downs
Understanding past performances

This is a complete past performance profile from Daily Racing Form for the horse, Record Boom. Each individual past performance line in the profile depicts a previous race; specific explanations for each symbol are provided below the profile.

[Sample page from Daily Racing Form, with numbered pointers]

  1. Horse, Country of origin (if foreign), Owner, Jockey with record

  2. Claiming price

  3. Color, Sex, Age, Month of foaling, Sire (sire's name), Dam (dam's name), Breeder, State or country of foaling, Trainer with record at meet

  4. Medication, Weight to be carried today

  5. Lifetime record in all races, Record for current and prior year, Record at today's track (separate for turf and dirt), Lifetime record in turf races, Lifetime record on wet tracks, Record at today's distance

  6. Claimed-from line

  7. Single and double layoff lines (single indicates layoff of under a year; double indicates layoff of year or more)

  8. Date, Race number, Track, Track condition, Distance, Surface

  9. Fractional times for horse in lead, Final time of winner

  10. Age, Sex, Restrictions, Class of race

  11. Beyer speed figure

  12. Post position, Fractional calls with margins, Finish with margin

  13. Jockey, Medication, Weight, Equipment

  14. Workouts: date, track distance, track condition,final time, comment, ranking

  15. Odds to $1 (* indicates favorite), Speed rating, track variant

  16. First three finishers, Weights, Margins

  17. Comment line, Number of starters


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