Horse Racing Selection Hunter Filter - LTO_Report
The latest addition to the Horse Racing Selection Hunter is the filter called LTO_Report. This is the individual race report for the horse in its last race as per the Racing Post.
By searching for common phrases found in the Race Report we can look at how the horse faired in its previous run. It can gives us an indication of the style of horse. For instance, does it like to lead from the front ? It can also give us an indication of how the Horse faired at the distance it was running at. Did it weaken towards the end of the race ?
Example LTO_Reports
- Always behind, pulled up before last
- Awkward start, soon prominent, weakened over 2f out
- Awkward start, pressed leader, disputed lead over 1f out, weakened towards finish
- Briefly led, soon prominent, led again 4th, headed approaching last, not fluent last, weakened run-in
- Didn’t always jump with fluency, held up in rear, headway into midfield before 3 out, kept on but no impression after 2 out
- Didn’t jump with fluency, disputed lead early, not fluent and pushed along briefly 2nd, prominent before 3rd, no extra before last, weakened run-in
- Disputed lead early, prominent before 3rd, lost position before 2 out, weakened quickly before last
- Disputed lead, led after 1st, jumped left 2nd, headed before 3rd, outpaced then lost ground after 4 out, soon weakened
- Disputed lead, weakened over 1f out, eased towards finish
- Dwelt start, in rear throughout
- Dwelt start, in rear, some headway from over 1f out, never dangerous
- Held up in last, headway after 3 out, went second before 2 out, ridden approaching last, kept on run-in, no match for winner
- Held up in midfield, headway 3f out, edged right 1f out, weakened inside final furlong
- Held up in rear, headway after 4 out, soon disputing third, challenging when stumbled last, weakened final 110yds
- In rear but in touch with leaders, weakened from 4 out
- In rear, outpaced over 2f out, rallied over 1f out, keeping on when jinked right inside final furlong, no match for first two
- In touch with leaders, dropped to midfield after 1st, reminder after 4th, no impression after 3 out
- In touch with leaders, headway before 2 out, soon went second, lost position last, weakened run-in
- In touch with leaders, headway from over 4f out, pushed along when led over 2f out, soon clear, comfortably
- In touch with leaders, bit short of room over 1f out, weakened final furlong
- In touch with leaders, outpaced 3f out, weakened from over 1f out
- In touch with leaders, weakened 3 out
- Led early, headed and prominent after 1f, led over 1f out, headed and no extra final 110yds
- Led early, headed and chased clear leader after 1f, pushed along over 3f out, weakened from over 2f out
- Led, headed halfway, weakened over 1f out
- Made all, not fluent 4th, carried head high and not fluent 3 out, left clear 2 out, pushed along run-in, unchallenged
- Midfield, good headway and prominent on inner 4 out, weakened from 3 out
- Midfield, headway from over 3f out, prominent from over 1f out, led inside final furlong, headed towards finish
- Midfield, weakened over 2f out
- Never better than midfield
- Pressed leader, prominent after 1f, pushed along to lead inside final furlong, faced challenge inside final 110yds, kept on well
- Prominent, led going easily 2 out, went clear pushed out run-in, comfortably
- Prominent, outpaced over 2f out, weakened final furlong
- Prominent, weakened inside final furlong
- Raced in second, led over 6f out, ridden 2f out, soon hung left, kept on well inside final furlong
- Slowly away, always behind
- Slowly away, towards rear, midfield over 2f out, no impression
- Took keen hold, always behind
- Took keen hold, in touch with leaders, weakened over 1f out
- Took keen hold, midfield, no impression
- Towards rear throughout
- Towards rear, outpaced and no impression from over 3f out
- Travelled strongly, prominent, led approaching last, kept on well, readily
- Upset in stalls, slowly away, held up in rear, headway on near side of group over 3f out, outpaced 2f out, rallied inside final furlong, kept on well final 110yds
Common Phrases
As we can see each report is written in a standardised format. Below is a sample set of common phrases found in the example above.
- Always Behind
- Prominent / Soon Prominent
- Weakeaned over / weakned run-in / weakened quickly before last / weakened inside final furlong / weakened towards finish / weakened from over
- no extra final
- Briefly led / led / led after 1st,
- Made all
- In Rear / In Rear Throughout
- Held up / Held up in midfield / held up in rear
- soon clear
- headed halfway
- rallied inside final furlong
- pressed leader
- prominent / prominent, led / prominent, weakened
- travelled strongly
- slowly away
- took keen hold
- towards rear throughout
- unchallegened
- upset in stalls
- kept on / kept on well
Using LTO_Report in TSM
LTO_Report is a String Filter in TSM. We can either search for individual strings/phrases or we can search for Multiple strings/phrases. Lets start off by looking for an individual phrase. It can appear anywhere in the Race Report so we need to use wild cards either side of the string/phrase we are searching for. That means we want to use the *LIKE* operator.
A better way of searching strings can be by using the LIST operator. This allows us to provide a comma separated list of strings to search for inside the LTO_Report. We dont need to worry about wildcards. When we use LIST, we only need one of the strings to be found.
This is the equivalent of writing ‘led or prominent’. We only need one of these strings to be found for it to fulfil the criteria. If we want to make sure ALL our strings in the LIST are found in the LTO_Report then we need to use the LIST (AND) Operator as below :
Lets have look at the results of the above query.
The number of results returned exceeds the built-in limit of 15,000. Lets have a closer look at this set of results by pressing –> Analyse Results –> Additional Breakdown
We could choose any of these angles to look at in more detail.
Note – Our original number of results exceeded 15,000. This meant that only results up to September 2024 was shown. As we add additional filters,the time span available to us will increase until the query results are less than 15,000.
One example system built on this set of phrases in the LTO_Report can be found on the Selection Hunter Examples Page under The Striver
Other Ideas To Explore
Look for Horses that ‘Weakened’ and have dropped back in distance. (DistanceChange). In the same way, look for horses that ‘Kept On’ and have gone up in distance or dropped in class (ClassChange).
Below is a really simple example for looking at Horses that weakened right at the end of their last race. The LIST Value used is ‘weakened inside final furlong, weakened over 1f out, weakened towards finish’. Distance Change is <= -1. Favourite Rank is less than or equal to 4.
In the example below we are looking for horses that ‘kept on’ in their last race. A few filters have been added to compliment the type of horses/races we are looking for.
If you are into Laying Horses then look for Horses that were ‘towards rear throughout’ or ‘held up’.
As a base to build on or just as an additional filter to a system you already have, I think we can all agree the LTO_Report opens quite a few avenues to explore.
