USFIGS
Yearling
I am struggling with race ratings/figures. I can't find anything that sort of rating comparable to Timeform, Racing Post, Beyer speed figures, etc. like I am used to in the states. I have spent many hours over the past year on international racing and have found sources for the type of data I am accustomed to for Australia, Singapore, South Africa and Korea but nothing for France. The only figures I know of are made by
TheBluesBrother and I know he doesn't make them commercially available (I believed they only covered PMU tracks as well). Timeform has them for the Paris tracks but that's it. I got as far as making what I think is a good set of race pars (average winning figures for each class) for France but pars are just that, averages. It doesn't tell me enough about the specific race I am trying to rate. Some are obviously worse than the class average, and some better. Final time on its face is virtually useless because of the way races are run and because the state of the ground can vary so dramatically. Not to mention the French lie about it as well.
Believe it or not, I have been working on this for 5 years now...

Believe it or not, I have been working on this for 5 years now...