Class of race

[twmills]

HI Is the highest official rating of a race the class of the race, or is it an average of all the official ratings of the race that determines the class of the race.
what im looking for is how to rate the class of a race, not an indivual horse, but the class of the whole field.
horse
1 78
2 75
3 72
4 71
5 70

Is the class 78, or 73, can I put a single number on the class of the race, is what im trying to do. Or is there other ways to do this.

[TROY111]

TW all the info you need is in the race card

[Marlingford]

The official rating of a race just indicates which horses it is intended to be for e.g. 0-90 would be for horses whose official rating falls in that range.

How good the race actually ends up being will depend on which horses are actually entered, and how well they perform on the day. Determining how good a race was after it has happened is a very subjective matter, and different people will place different weights on a huge number of different criteria such as official ratings, times, jockeys, the draw, the going etc.

[Gingertipster]

Good explanation Marlingford.

Value Is Everything

[Marlingford]

Thanks Gingertipster, glad my post made some degree of sense!

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