Form Analyser

Once you are logged in, the first page in FA takes you to the fields and form pages. Meetings are shown at the various stages they are in; nominations, weights acceptances. Select a meeting and click on for details.

When you select a meeting, the fields page will display. Click on to a race number or race name to display the field for that race. On this page, all horse's details underlined in green can be clicked to reveal further information. Customers should note that by subscribing to Horse Search as well as Form Analyser, they will be able to view additional trainer & jockey data.

When you click on to a specific race, this is the page that you will see:

The page also contains the following details:

• Race note – enables you to make any notes about the race. Can add/edit notes and also search for previous notes in the archive section on menu bar.
• Jockey/trainer - shows upcoming rides/runners (if linked with Horse Search) plus premiership details and other statistics.
• FF5 ratings – AAP's specially formulated ratings for the upcoming race.
• Career ratings – historical ratings for last start, distance and track.
• Career stats – various snap-shot statistics.
• Note – allows you to make a note about any horse in the field. A pencil icon will appear once you have saved your note, which appears when you click on the icon and also when in a horse's form page. You can view or edit your note at any time.

This page also has a sub menu bar with the following headings:

Default market percentage/market range

FA users can set their market percentage and market range to a pre determined setting and then just select FF5 Dry (shows dry track ratings) or FF5 Wet (shows wet track ratings) depending on track conditions. This will provide a very good guide to the best chances in the race and an accurate assessment of the horse's price.

For example in the image above, the market percentage has been set to 80 and the default market range to 3.0. This means that only those horses rated within 3 (kilo rating) of the top rated horse displays odds. Setting the percentage to 80 allows this punter a 20% margin on every horse he backs to win $100 in the race with a chance; e.g. the 6 & 7 are equal top picks and 4 is the only other horse considered a chance. Therefore the staking on this race would be:

• $31 on Nmb 6 @ odds of $3.21 (or better) to win approx $100
• $31 on Nmb 7 @ odds of $3.21 (or better) to win approx $100
• $18 on Nmb 4 @ odds of $5.64 (or better) to win approx $100
• Outlay: $80 to win $100, a profit of $20 which ever main pick wins at the stipulated odds; an overlay if you obtain greater odds.

Handy Hint: This is a good setting to use if looking for likely races to play, as it quickly shows races with only a few winning chances. Races that throw up 5 or more horses all closely rated to each other (within 3 kilos of each other's rating), tell you it's a hard race to play, with many winning chances.

Ratings to Use - User – When you use this setting, it will enable you to key in your own ratings (and thus change the default odds) by up to 4 different categories. You can edit two of these category headings by going to Functions-Options-Ratings. For example, you may want to call a category "trainer" or "owner", and penalise them according to your own figures.

Odds to use - User & Calculated. If selecting User, a new column will appear on the fields page called My Odds which enables you to key in your own odds. This column allows you to frame your own market. You can save or revert back to the original odds at any time.

By selecting both Ratings to use; User and Odds to use; User – you can edit the ratings and odds to your own settings.

Odds format – can be either fractional or decimal.

Filter form enables you to zero in on a particular item for a horse. For example; if you want to see a horse's record on slow tracks only, go to Going, tick the box with slow option and click on save. You can do this for all horses in the field or just a single horse. To filter form for an individual horse, you need to be in the form page. Other filter options include:

• Track - this track only, or metropolitan, provincial, country.
• From Spell - shows performances from spell at 1st up, 2nd up, 3rd up and 4th up stages.
• Distance From – Distance To - allows filtering for any distance range you want to focus on.
• Finish position or margin - select win, place or all positions you wish to see in a horse's form. Or select the margin from the winner in lengths. After making selections click on to save.
• Sort Field - by number, barrier, rating, pace.
• Scratchings – tick a horse's box and save, the word "SCRATCHED" will appear in the jockey/trainer column.
• Speedmap – provides you with a snapshot of runners on settling. Because it's interactive, you can rearrange runners into different positions. To edit, just drag and drop horses into the positions you want them on the grid and save. Speedmap also allows you to make notes and print.

When you click on to an individual horse's form, this is the page you will see:

The horse's form including all starts, ratings, prize money, breeding, colours, full race record etc is displayed. You can click on to anything in green and underlined such as jockey/trainer/sire/dam to get further details of all those.

Horse note – enables you to make a note about an individual horse in the field. Save the note and you will see an icon appear in the notes section of the fields page. You can click on to this to read or edit your note. You can also search for horse notes in the archive section on the menu bar.

Long form – enables you to view the horses form in long form format.

Form links – shows if horse has met any other horse in the race previously; what weight difference advantage/disadvantage they may have.

Rating odds – same as in previous section except you can also do it here in an individual horse form page.

Pace – allows you to change the default pace setting of a horse and select another. Choices are: lead, lead/handy, handy/mid, mid, rear, unknown.

Graph – shows a horse's previous preparation graphed according to its historic ratings (up to previous 20 starts):

Located on main menu bar. You can choose by date/day/venue and can go back 30 days to retrieve results. Levels of details on horse form, dam, sire, jockey, trainer vary depending on whether a client also is a subscriber to Horse Search.

Allows you to search All Meetings by date, Track Name, Races with Notes and Horses with notes.

PDF Reports

Generate PDF reports.

Options

Change ratings to use, form ratings and rating adjustment headings. Can also adjust form format, notes and steward's reports and odds.

Export Form

Export files in a CSV format. Select meeting by date/venue and select all races or tick only those you wish to export. Click on export and the 3 files you need; Race, Horse and Form file will appear. There is also a delimited file spec you can download to help understand the various headings in the files. You can open or save the file to your own desktop.

For further enquiries contact AAP Megaform on 1800 811 358 or send email enquiries to: salesandadmin@aap.com.au