Judging Horse Fitness by race and workout data
I'm mostly interested in a horse's current form cycle and pretty much discount its previous cycles as irrelevant to today's race.
I look for "break" dates in the horses races and workouts histories in an attempt to see the beginning date of its current form cycle. Usually these break dates are easy to see, such as in the example posted below.
The break date could have been 4 weeks ago or 4 months ago. I don't set any arbitrary cut off date parameter. I want to see how the horse has raced and trained since the break point. My seconds per furlong calculation takes the data from the horse's last break point forward to get a result.
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