Knowing which trainer and jockey is top rated is only half the battle and the graphs in our printable form guide are designed to show how the trainer and jockey have performed when they have been top rated.

Just because a trainer or jockey has their horse top rated does not necessarily mean it has the best chance of winning, although it’s a good place to start. This is where our graphs come in, you can see with just a fleeting look whether it’s a downward or upward trend.

We will take a look at the Chester 2-20 race and see how things work. The column with the letter (H) above it is the horse rating. This is the same rating that was used in the old printable form guide and in total there are five sets of rating shown. (see the sample file click here)

The top rated is coloured green as it is with all the ratings. The top rated horse in this case is Hamalka which is trained by B W Hills and ridden by Michael Hills.

The graph for the horse ratings can be found at the top of the right hand column. The write up above the graph says B W Hills has a 30% strike rate, which means when his horses have been top rated in the horse ratings column they have won 30% of their races.

Now, although the trainer has a 30% strike rate when his horses have been top rated you would however of made a loss of £-14.06 backing them all to a pound stake.

The dark coloured line is the trainer and the other is the jockey. You may notice that the graph lines are not always the same length, this is normal and just means one has been top rated more times than the other.

By showing the graphs it can give a better view of what is happing, rather that just the using the figures. In this case its basically down hill most of the way, most likely reason is that Barry Hills is one of the more popular trainers and punters bet accordingly.

Now there will be other cases where by looking at the graphs you may find that the line goes consistently up or has been doing so lately. It may even show false profits. E.G. The figures could show that the trainer has managed to break even, but in fact he/she could of been consistently going down hill.

They may have dropped to minus 30 and then got lucky with at 33/1 shot. By looking at the graph you would of seen things going slowly down hill then the would have been a very sharp rise.

However, if the graph has been constantly going down hill and then
there is a change and now its going up this may very well be of
benefit. They may of changed their training habit or a jockey
may suddenly of started to concentrate on sprit races, which
they may be better suited.

To give an example, if we now move down to the trainer
ratings graph it says that the top rated is Time Control. This
can be doubled checked by looking at the ratings column marked
(T) and you can see that with this set of ratings it is top rated with a
mark of 93.7

This top rated looks slightly more promising because while both trainer and jockey lost early on when they were top rated, lately they have been breaking even. Therefore using Betfair it would be reasonable to assume that a profit could of been made.

There is also the chance that they may get a lucky big priced winner and even if they don’t, you should be able to break even.