Here's what I would love available in my handicapping if I was to use horse weights as a factor
1) I would want scale weights done morning of the race
2) I would want scale weights done after the race.
If I'm being greedy I would want scale weights done every 14 days if a layoff lasts that long.
Then using PPs and replays, I would look for inefficient and/or troubled trips and/or washy looks to sort of just get a vibe of how efficiently the horse worked. If he ran poorly, zigged in and out to get out of trouble, and was needlessly used in the stretch, and lost a lot of weight...I'd have a certain opinion. And obviously horses that have a hard time keeping weight on or gaining it back would speak to me as well. And so on.
If I was working with someone like Cratos, I would value his energy expended data tremendously.
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