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As a trip handicapper if I looked at that chart I would want to watch the replay and focus on the 3rd horse as it did some things that were unusual relative to its competition. It may turn out to be a very live horse to watch or even claim if you're into that aspect. When I gambled full time most of my major bets were on horses that I 'followed' because while race watching I had identified in those horses what I believed to be hidden ability and made an effort to understand some of their preferences. A horse that runs third but with an easier trip should've won is another horse that I might follow. A horse second or third off the layoff that flashes speed in some segment against a race flow I might follow, a horse however that does it but visually does it under a ride while others are in hand I might decide not to follow. So it's not just mechanical, there's a subtlety involved that doesn't show on paper, there's more still that I would be looking at but no point in commenting further. There's a lot of nuance involved with trip handicapping and the result charts do capture some of what goes on. All of the data being offered up and processed comes out of the charts and good result chart analysis can point to some live horses to at least follow up on. Does it work is a good question to ask, that's best answered by consistent annual positive ROI. Simply put if it didn't work we wouldn't be trip handicapping.