Minutes to Post

One of the coolest things about Horsegrader is that anyone can easily determine how much time they have to apply their handicapping skills to an upcoming race. At a glance, I know if I have the time to cover all my bases or if I should just look at the attributes that I find the most valuable (i.e. Lone Speed, Top Speed, Race Shape, etc.). Let’s take a look at a section of the Race Selection screen as shown in the following snippet:

The arrow is indicating the Post Time column, which is showing that there are 18 minutes before the race starts - plenty of time to handicap with Horsegrader! The horse racing term for the countdown to the start of the race is referred to as Minutes To Post (MTP). Horsegrader uses colors to show MTP with Green indicating 15 minutes or more, Yellow indicating 10 to 15 minutes and Red indicating less than 10 minutes. The following two clips show the color change as the MTP is counting down:

14 Minutes to Post - Yellow

8 Minutes to Post - Red

Basically, when I see a Red MTP, I know that I have to hurry if I'm going to handicap that race!