Ranking Tables

Question: I Just printed out the weekly ranking tables which were very successful over the past week, I am not sure if I have settings wrong or something but your top 10 ranking are completely different to mine, not sure how that is possible.

Also what exactly does the column G1Sc mean?

TRB Response: The G1sc column is the number of lengths short of what we consider to be a decent G1 standard for that category. 

The figures we publish post-race and in those charts you are looking at... they're normalised to weight-for-age, so that horses can be directly compared regardless of age, sex, distance or time of the year.

When they come to compete in a race, they get allocated a weight, which is usually different to WFA (unless it's a WFA race)

That means all past performances need to be adjusted from the WFA value, to allow for having either less or more weight than our WFA value.

This creates values that we call "at the weights". In other words, the level the horse could run to at the weight to be carried, if they repeated their last start, second last start run etc. 

If you find a WFA race, then you will see the values in the charts you look at are identical to what you see in GTX. 

2YOs and early 3YOs are typically carrying much more than WFA in races, so you will see the value in GTX are significantly lower than the WFA figures you see in those charts.

GTX allows you to compare horses at the weights they are set to carry. The ranking tables allow you to compare horses on the basis of pure talent at a weight consistent with their WFA.