A horse's races
Everything the horse has run, with a summary at the top and the detail race by race underneath.
The summary
Five figures: the number of races, the wins, the places, the earnings and the profit.
The last one is the only one that says anything useful. The earnings are what the horse has brought in; the profit is what it has brought in minus what it has cost in entry fees. A horse can show handsome earnings and a negative profit: it has been entered too often, or too high. That is the figure to look at before deciding whether it deserves to go on.
The detail
One line per race, and each line carries seven pieces of information: the race and its date, its type and its class, the handicap or the weight depending on the speciality, the place obtained, the cost of the entry and the earnings, the time, and the kilometre reduction.
The kilometre reduction is the measure that lets you compare two races of different distances: it is the time brought back to the kilometre. A horse that improves its reduction really is progressing, even if its place does not show it.
The filter
Three criteria: the horse's age at the time of the race, the class — regulated, free, competition, cup — and the distance.
The distance filter is the one that serves most: it answers the question “over what distance is this horse at its best?”, and the answer decides all its future entries. The age filter, for its part, shows how it has progressed.
Two peculiarities
The list is complete. The history is not read from the database but from a document attached to the horse, and it is loaded in one go: the window therefore scrolls without pagination, even if you have chosen the paginated display elsewhere. Nothing is missing and nothing has to be fetched.
It outlives the horse. The races themselves disappear from the game after about two months, but this history stays attached to the horse — and it stays even after its retirement, readable from its memorial card. It is the last place to read the career of a horse that is no longer there. See The horses.