Statistics

One table, and one single setting. This screen counts your horses and their races, and the View list decides how the lines are cut up: by Age, by Speciality, by Earnings or by Sex.

It is your horses as owner that are counted. The same screen exists in the Trainer and Jockey menus, and then counts the horses for which you hold that role.

The columns

They never change, whatever the view.

• Not born yet, Active, Retired: the numbers by state. A horse is not born yet until its date of birth, retired from its retirement date, and active in between.
• Total: the sum of the three.
• Runs: the number of races whose result has been calculated.
• Cancelled: the races that did not gather enough entries to be run. Your entry fee was refunded to you.

One point about those last two columns: they count all the horse's races, and not only those it ran for you. A horse that is bought therefore arrives with its past, and a horse that is sold takes its own away. It is a measure of the activity of your current string, not a count of your own entries.

An empty cell means zero. That is deliberate: with eighteen age lines, a table riddled with zeros would no longer read.

Races deleted by their manager, for their part, are counted nowhere — neither as run nor as cancelled. You lose nothing by it, on the contrary: your entry fee is refunded and the manager pays you an indemnity of 9% of the entry cost, taken from his own till. An internal message announces it to you.

Deleting a race therefore costs its organiser money, and the game refuses it to him if he has not got the means to indemnify every entry. Which is to say it is rare — and that there is nothing to take from it for your stable's record.

The four views

Age, the default view, gives one line per age from 1 to 16, framed by a Not born yet line and a Retired line. It is the only view where each line carries one single state — a foal to be born counts on the Not born yet line and not on the line of its future age. So expect to see one single column filled per line, it is normal.

In the other three views, on the contrary, the three states are spread over the same line: you read at a glance how many mares you have in activity, how many to be born and how many in retirement.

Speciality divides between flat, hurdle and trot. Sex between the three sexes. Earnings uses the game's earnings bands, the same as those used to classify races.

Two points about that last view.

• It is the extended earnings that serve for the classification, and that is deliberate: they are the ones with an established sporting value, since they come from events open to all and hard to arrange. A horse that has only won in free races therefore appears in a low band, and that is the right reading. See A horse's card on the distinction between the two totals.
• The bands overlap — “0 to 4,999” then “2,500 to 9,999”, and so on. They are not filing boxes but the thresholds used to create races, and the overlap is deliberate: it softens the passage from one band to the next. Each horse is counted only once, in the first band that contains it.

That overlap is not just a display matter, it is an entry judgement. When a horse approaches the top of its band, it also belongs to the following band: you can therefore enter it in the races of one or of the other. Those of the higher band are better funded, but it will meet horses richer than itself there. It all depends on what you reckon its potential to be, and it is one of the real choices of the trade.

What it is for

Seeing your stable as it is, and not as you imagine it. Three uses keep coming up.

Spotting an imbalance. The Age view shows at a glance whether your stable is ageing without renewal — many horses between 10 and 16, nothing below — or the opposite. It is the best moment to decide to breed, or to sell.

Measuring real activity. The Runs column, crossed with the Age view, reveals the horses you forget to enter: a well-filled age line with few races to its credit signals a part of the stable that is asleep.

Seeing where you win. The Earnings view says whether your results come from a few good horses or from an even set — and the Speciality view, whether you have specialised without having decided to.

The other statistics

These bear on a string. For the detail of one horse — its record, its summary by age — go through its card and the Races button: see A horse's card.