All aged handicaps as implied by the title are races where the age conditions for each horse is wide. 

There are a number of races of this type carded throughout the year and for turf handicaps in particular there is a mixture of older horses where their form is exposed running against younger horses that have yet to show their potential. 

As always the trainer’s ability plays a key role in a horse’s development and knowledge of their record in with younger horses in handicaps forms part of the selection process. 

In this video we show you how you can determine which trainers exceed expectations when aiming their 3yo horses at all aged handicaps using the unique tools within Proform Professional.

We will assumed that you have completed the installation process seeking guidance on how to use the system builder or pointers to enable you to develop your own system so to get your started, in this video we demonstrate how to enter and evaluate a simple system using the Proform Professional Software.

The race classification filters allow you to restrict races to very specific race types.

Race Classifications
You can filter the races according to Classifications. You can select one, two or many Classifications.

Use the Match Any tickbox above the Classification list to decide whether to Match Any of the classifications you select or untick the Match Any tickbox to only search races that match all the Classification you choose.

Remember  

• Most races will match more than one classification i.e. a Maiden Handicap Hurdle is three classifications, Maiden, Handicap and Hurdle.

Unticking just one classification does not mean that this classification will be ignored, if another classification matches a race that includes the unticked classification that race will still be analysed, here is an example to explain this in more detail

• If you unticked Handicaps but still have ticked Amateur races and Match Any selection then any Amateur Handicap races will still be matched because a match on Amateur was found and the Match Any rule kicks in.

If all Classifications are ticked, then all races will pass the Classifications filter.

You can quickly select or de-select all Classifications by right clicking on the list of Classifications and making your choice from the resulting pop-up menu.

and NOT Classifications

You can also ignore race classifications by selection one or more of them from the NOT Classifications list.

i.e.  To ignore Group races just tick Group 1, Group 2 and Group 3 and no group races will be in your results.

The race course and going filters tab allows you to restrict your searches to specific courses and goings.

Courses

Use the course list to restrict your research to one or many courses.

You can quickly select just Left Hand or Right Hand courses by using the two buttons under the course list. You can quickly select just courses with specific characteristics by using the five buttons under the course characteristics heading. You can also quickly untick or tick all courses by right clicking inside the list.

Actual Goings

Use the actual goings list to restrict your search to races run on the actual goings you choose. he actual going is based on the race times recorded at each course on the day of racing.

On many occasions it differs from the official going and is a more accurate reflection of what the going was at any given meeting. Mixing the ticks and unticks in the actual and official going lists can cause odds results, so it is best to use one or the other. You can quickly untick or tick all actual goings by right clicking inside the list.

The actual going can not be used in a saved system that you wish to find qualifiers for. This is because the actual going is not known until after the races are run.

Official Goings

Use the official goings list to restrict your search to races run on the official goings you choose. 

The official going is what was officially reported. Mixing the ticks and unticks in the actual and official going lists can cause odds results, so it is best to use one or the other. You can quickly untick or tick all official goings by right clicking inside the list. The official going can not be used in a saved system that you wish to find qualifiers for.

This is because the official going is not known until after the races are run.

The race date filters allow you to research the past in a variety of ways, below the screen image is a description of each filter.

Filtering by Days, Weeks, Months & Years

Using the first date filter you can restrict your research to a number of days, weeks, months or years backwards from today's date.

Filtering by Years

The list of years allows you to restrict the search to one, two or multiple years by unticking each year. You can quickly untick or tick all years by right clicking inside the list.

Filtering out Months

Use the list of months to filter out any months you do not require by unticking them. You can quickly untick or tick all months by right clicking inside the list.

Filtering by Declaration Types

This filter allows you to only research horses, jockeys or trainers that had runners on the day you choose in the calendar box.
This is useful in many ways, for instance, you may want to find the horses running on a day that have good form on the prevailing going, whatever that might be, this tool makes that simple.

You can also use this to look at past runners on any day and research statistics that happened prior to the day you are seeking. 

Filtering by Race

With the relevenat  race declaration type selected, use this list to select a sepecifc race carded on the date selected in the calander 

Filtering by Course 

With the relevenat  race declaration type selected, use this list to select a sepecifc cousre for the date selected in the calander 

The race filters tab is just one of the tabs that allow you to control all aspects of which races to research.

Race Types

Use this to restrict your research to one or more race types by unticking the race types you do not require.
You can quickly untick or tick all race types by right clicking inside the list.

Handicaps/NON Handicaps

You can choose to restrict your research to just handicaps or NON handicaps with this filter, default is all races.

Race Name Search

You can use the race name filters to find a specific race for analysis, i.e. trend analysis

Enter a word or words from the race name such as:-
grand national or gold cup

Also you can use the AND/OR operator to use a second word or words to find, just click AND/OR from the radio button box and then enter the second word or words in the 2nd race name box.

So you could search for champion hurdle in name box 1 and choose AND in the operator and then enter trial in the name box 2 to return and races which contain the words champion hurdle and trial somewhere in the race name.

You can use the NOT race name filters to IGNORE races that contain the words or words you enter.

Enter a word or words from the race name such as:-
gold or champion

Any race with the entered words will be ignored.

You can use use the logical operations AND/OR to use a second word or words to ignore.

Just click AND/OR from the radio button box and then enter the second word or words in the 2nd race name box. So you could search for champion hurdle in name box 1 and choose AND in the operator and then enter trial in the name box 2 to ignore races, which contain the words champion hurdle and trial somewhere in the race name.

Race Value

Use the race value filter to restrict your searches to certain race values.

Examples of valid expressions to use with the value field are:-
 between 4000 and 15000
 > 7000
 < 60000
 >= 10000 and <= 20000

Race Distance

Enter the distance criteria for the race.

Distances are entered in total yards and you can use expressions such as:- >= > < <= and 1f = 220 yards, below is a list of race distances and yards for the most common distances

5f = 1100 yards
6f = 1320 yards
7f = 1540 yards
1m = 1760 yards
1m 1f = 1980 yards
1m 2f = 2200 yards
1m 3f = 2420 yards
1m 4f = 2640 yards
1m 5f = 2860 yards
1m 6f = 3080 yards
1m 7f = 3300 yards
2m = 3520 yards
2m 1f = 3740 yards
2m 2f = 3960 yards
2m 3f = 4180 yards
2m 4f = 4400 yards
2m 5f = 4620 yards
2m 6f = 4840 yards
2m 7f = 5060 yards
3m = 5280 yards
3m 1f = 5500 yards
3m 2f = 5720 yards
3m 3f = 5940 yards
3m 4f = 6160 yards
3m 5f = 6380 yards
3m 6f = 6600 yards
3m 7f = 6820 yards
4m = 7040 yards
4m 1f = 7260 yards
4m 2f = 7480 yards
4m 4f = 7920 yards

Race Runners

Use the runners filter to restrict your search to races with a set number runners or a range of runners

Examples of valid expressions are:-
12

between 5 and 12
>= 5
=< 12
> 6 and < 15
>= 5 and <= 14

Race Classes

You can choose to filter out race class by the original class letters or by the new class numbers. Mixing the ticks and unticks in both class lists can cause odds results, so it is best to use one or the other. The new class numbers start in the database on 1st September 2004 for Flat Turf and Flat All Weather races and on 1st January 2006 for Jumps races.

Hcap Limit

Enter the handicap limit for the race

Examples of valid expressions are:
110 = will result in only analysing 110 rated handicaps
between 110 and 150
>= 110
=< 85
> 80 and < 90
>= 95 and <= 105

Min Age Limit

Enter the min age limit for the race. You can use this filter in conjunction with the max age limit

Examples of valid expressions are:
4 = will result in only analysing races that are 4yo or above
between 3 and 5
>= 3

Max Age Limit

Enter the max age limit for the race. You can use this filter in conjunction with the min age limit

Examples of valid expressions are:

OPEN = set the max age limit to OPEN and you will only analyse all age races i.e. 3yo+ or 4yo+
2 = would result in a max age limit of 2yo
between 3 and 5
>= 3

Leave this filter blank for all max age limits including blanks