Future Form: Understanding Recent Race Quality and Performance
Future Form is an Enterprise-exclusive feature that measures the strength of a horse's recent form by analysing its last three races and the subsequent performance of its opponents. Rather than assessing a single race in isolation, Future Form aggregates opponent quality and the horse's own performance across a three-race window to produce a single, comparable score.
How Future Form Works
For each runner in a racecard, the system identifies its last three completed races. It then retrieves Race Workout data for each of those races — essentially tracking what every other horse from those races did in their subsequent runs. This information is combined into a Future Form Score between 0 and 100.
A high score indicates the horse has been racing against opponents who went on to perform well, and performed well itself in those races. A low score suggests weaker opponent quality or poor relative performance.
The Future Form Score Formula
The FF Score splits equally between two components: Race Quality (0–50 points) and Own Performance (0–50 points).
Race Quality measures the average Percentage of Rivals Beaten (PRB) of all other runners from that prior race in their subsequent runs. If those opponents went on to beat many rivals later, the race quality scores higher.
Own Performance reflects the horse's PRB in that prior race. Winning a race scores 100% PRB (50 points); finishing last scores 0%.
When a horse has multiple prior races, scores are weighted by recency — more recent races carry greater influence.
Accessing Future Form
Open any racecard and select the purple Future Form tab, positioned fourth after Ratings, Form Expert, and At-a-Glance. Data loads on demand on first access. Enterprise subscribers see full data for all runners instantly; lower tiers see the first horse as a sample with remaining runners locked behind an upgrade prompt.
