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Recruit to a yard good with new arrivals, after a heavy beating for its old trainer
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- 17 Oct, 05:14
Where it stands: No. The strong-yard subset (0.81 on 84) is nested inside the general rule, and the vault puts the general rule at 1.02 on 1793. Nothing is left to support a strong-yard-specific over-betting effect.
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Hypothesised17 Oct, 04:56
Recruit to a yard good with new arrivals, after a heavy beating for its old trainer KILLED red
To answer: Is the yard's new-recruit edge concentrated in horses whose last run for their old trainer was a heavy beating?
because Owners move horses after bad runs. A yard with a proven record of improving recruits brings a new routine, a new vet, new tack and a trip or ground better suited to the horse. That fixes what went wrong under the old trainer, and the heavy beating shows how much there was to fix.
and the market misses it because The form line shows a 15+ length beating, and the public reads it as declining ability. The trainer change is visible, but the market prices a generic switch. The receiving yard's specific record with recruits is not on the card, and the ugly run puts people off.
predicting positive, A/E 1.12 to 1.25 on 200+ bets
and it is wrong if A/E below 1.03 on 150+ bets, or recruits to the same yards with a close last run score as high or higher
trainer_id <> last_trainer_id AND tx_new_yard_runs >= 15 AND tx_new_yard_wins >= 1.3 * tx_new_yard_exp AND last_field_size >= 6 AND last_position >= 0.6 * last_field_size
Where it started
Owners move horses after bad runs. A yard with a proven record of improving recruits brings a new routine, a new vet, new tack and a trip or ground better suited to the horse. That fixes what went wrong under the old trainer, and the heavy beating shows how much there was to fix.