What about the form improvement, consistent improvers? Good to find a horse on the improve. What's a quick way to establish that? So you think, Chief, that form numerals for last races eg. 4061 are suspect because that 6th second last race might have only been by a length in a blanket finish? True, but for convenience, don't we have to forgo too much detail and expect that any form of analysis is, at best, only an indicator, not an exact science. Agree about the multiplication of numbers though. It gets very abstract and remote from what its supposed to be about, namely horses.