The final PLACE-led report position. Lower is stronger.
Report guide
Read the signal.
Keep the context.
The V2 report is a structured view of a race, not a betting instruction. This guide explains what each layer contributes and how to interpret it without turning analysis into false certainty.
A sensible race-reading workflow
Use the report to organise your investigation. The ranking is the starting point; confidence and context tell you how strongly to hold that view.
- Choose the race
Use the track and race controls to move through the day. Check field size, code, surface, going and race type before focusing on a runner.
- Read the Hoofs Ranking
The published report order is PLACE-led. Rank 1 is the model’s strongest all-round candidate, not a guaranteed winner.
- Check all three confidence ratings
They answer different questions about the whole order, the first-ranked runner and the leading trio.
- Look for agreement and disagreement
Component medals show which specialist models support a runner. Agreement is useful evidence; disagreement is useful uncertainty.
- Open the companion
Review pace, setup, class, form, finishing profile and stable context before reaching your own conclusion.
Analysis, not instruction
Hoofs does not prescribe stakes, promise returns or sell a system. It gives you a consistent evidence framework for forming your own view.
What the Hoofs Ranking means
The Hoofs Ranking combines the usable signals from several specialist models into one coherent runner order. The published list is PLACE-led, with a separate WIN view used as a tie-break.
The three runners the analysis rates most strongly overall.
Designed around robust contender strength, not simply first-past-the-post probability.
Retained as additional evidence rather than replacing the report order.
Three ratings, three questions
Confidence is applied after the order is fixed. It describes expected reliability and never moves a runner up or down.
How much trust should you place in the overall shape and ordering of this race?
How likely is the first-ranked runner to achieve an official paid place? This is not a win probability.
How dependable is the leading trio as an ordered group? It is not simply “winner in the top three”.
A historical reference band. Ten means the strongest historical tenth for that question—not certainty.
Do not compare unlike scales
A 7/10 Overall rating and a 7/10 Top 1 rating describe different targets. Read each against the question printed above.
What the model medals add
Medals are specialist opinions. They help reveal consensus and tension inside the report order, but they do not override the Hoofs Ranking.
Broad form and context
Established profile, recent form, race conditions, official ratings and connections.
Intent, conditions and tactical fit
Mark, class and trip movements, affinities, partnerships and the likely demands of today’s race.
Pace, sectionals and race shape
How the contest may unfold through run style, speed, setup and sectional evidence.
Connections and placement
Quieter signals in how horses are campaigned, entered and partnered.
Final Hoofs Ranking
Combines agreement, disagreement and race context into the published report order.
Minimum-back prices
The WIN and PLACE minimum-back columns translate calibrated model chances into commission-aware exchange thresholds. They are not bookmaker forecasts.
How to read the number
A market price above the displayed threshold may indicate theoretical value under the model’s assumptions. It does not guarantee a return, remove uncertainty or account for every execution risk.
Use the companion to challenge the rank
The companion adds readable context around pace, setup, class, ability, recent form, fitness, finishing patterns and stable performance. Its threat label is an explanatory flag—not another ranking model.
Pay particular attention when the leading runner appears pace-dependent, the race is described as chaotic, specialist models disagree, or confidence is low. Those are reasons to investigate, not inconvenient details to ignore.
Put the guide into practice
Open the latest V2 report and work through a race from rank to context.