Ratings & Rankings

Every horse on ROX carries a public rating — a single number that records what it has actually done on the track. Ratings decide which classes a horse may enter, seed the rankings on every leaderboard, and are the number a stud fee or an auction price gets argued from.

How a rating moves

A rating moves by a zero-sum points table multiplied by the weight of the class the race was run in. Zero-sum means the points a field hands out and the points it takes back cancel exactly, whatever the field size — so the board as a whole cannot inflate, and a horse only climbs by taking rating off the horses it beat.

A horse starts with a rating set by its bloodline and its DNA tier together. The bloodline gives the band — Hyperion 185–280, Starfire 90–160, Neutron 30–70, Cosmo 0–20 — and the DNA tier decides where in that band the horse begins, with a hidden per-horse deviation on top. The tiers deliberately overlap: a lucky DN5 can start above an unlucky DN4, which is what makes ability something racing reveals rather than something the certificate already told you. Everything after that is earned.

Points move by a weighted rule: the base change for a result, multiplied by the weight of the class it was won in — ×1 at Class VII rising to ×12 at G1. The full table lives on Race Classes & Entry Fees.

Rankings

Where a horse's standing shows today, all read from the same stored results that power every race page:

• Road to the Crown on Tournaments — this month's ROX Monthly qualifying order: wins, then places, then points gained, in paid races only.
• The Roster — every racehorse, sortable by rating and by wins in paid races.
• A horse's own page — its paid record, its class ladder and a separate Maiden line.

Maiden races are training: they never count towards a ranking, a record or a win rate.

Rankings are recomputed from stored results — the same race records anyone can recompute from the published seed — so a horse's place on the board follows from the races that put it there, and cannot be adjusted without changing those races.

That is the same claim Technology & Fair Play makes, and it carries the same limit: a finish provably follows from its seed, but ROX draws the seed. We do not claim more for the rankings than we claim for the races.

Course records are published on each racecourse's own page: the fastest winning time ever run there. A settled race stores every runner's finishing time alongside its position, so a record follows from the same stored results as everything else on this page. A Maiden never sets one — a free training race ranks nobody.