For trainers, owners and racing operations
I've been rating racehorses since I was eighteen. Every run gets its own number, and the scale is the same in every country.
I now take on work for trainers, owners and racing operations who want more to go on when they place a horse, buy or sell one, or tell owners how things are going. You get the numbers, and we read them together. If you're missing a tool, I build that too.
Mention a horse when you write. It gives us something concrete to talk about.
What I can help with
Most people in racing have a good eye for a horse. What I add is an independent figure for every single run, and the time to dig into it.
An official mark is a single number. The horse may be better at one trip than another, or improving faster than the mark has caught up with. I look at where the horse has run best, and then we look for races that fit.
Horses move between Britain, Ireland, France, Hong Kong, Australia and the UAE all the time, and form is hard to compare from one country to the next. I have them all on one scale, so you can see what a horse has run to, translated into the marks you use at home.
If you're selling or advertising a horse, it helps to show what it has done. I put together a summary of its ratings and its best runs, on a scale the buyer knows.
Owners want to know how it's going, including the days the horse finishes seventh. After each run they get a rating and a few lines on what happened, and before the next one they see the form of the opposition. That comes ready-made as My Horses. If you want something closer for your yard or syndicate, I'll build it.
See My HorsesIf you keep a training diary or notes of your own, we can lay them next to the ratings. You see which horses respond to the work and which are losing their form. The clock alone is a poor guide. Pace, wind and ground shift the time while the horse stays as good as it was.
I have profiles on around 8,000 sires, worked out from what their progeny have run to: average rating, how many reach the top level, and which trips and surfaces suit them. Close to 1,400 have enough runners for the figures to be trusted. Worth a look before you raise your hand at a sale.
Have another question the data might answer? Ask. I have more than two million rated runs to look through.
Behind it
The numbers come from Mr. World Pool, the platform I built for people who study form. You can see them at work there.
A rating scores one performance, not the horse in general. That lets you watch a horse improve, peak and go off the boil from one run to the next.
It allows for track speed, distance and the weight carried. A 120 means the same at Ascot, Meydan or Sha Tin.
I rate from the horses more than from the clock. The runners bring their established ratings into a race, and the margins between them show how strong it was.
Expect a margin of one to two points on any single run. When later evidence shows I rated a race wrong, I fix it.
Rounded figures, October 2026.
A rating is only useful if you can read it, so I translate mine into the official scales.
The translation is measured. For every official mark I looked at what horses carrying it ran to, across ten countries and every season since 2016. It never becomes an official mark, but you can quickly see what a rating means.
How we start
The first conversation costs nothing. I find this so interesting that I share what I see anyway, and then we work out whether there's something to do together.
A couple of lines by email or on X will do. You don't need to know what to order. Name a horse if you can, so we have something to look at.
I show you what the numbers say about the horse, and I don't hold back. You tell me what you need. Some want an opinion before a purchase, others something regular for the whole yard.
You know what you get and what it costs before I start. The My Horses owner subscription has a fixed price per horse, and you can cancel anytime.
You'll be talking to me
I started putting numbers on racehorses when I was eighteen, first in Scandinavia and later in Dubai, Hong Kong and Britain. That's about twenty years ago, and I still haven't found a better way to spend a Saturday afternoon.
I love talking to people who care about this as much as I do. So in the first conversation I share what I see, whether or not any work comes of it.
In the summer of 2025 I quit my job to build the thing I'd always wanted: Mr. World Pool. I built the database, the models and the website myself. So I can do the sums on the horses and build the tools around them, whether that's an owner page, a report that goes out after every run or an overview of the whole yard.
Before that I worked in tech, with organisational development, apprentices and product, and I have a master's in work and organisational psychology. AI is a big part of my toolbox. You deal with me, and I answer for what I deliver.
I'm on X as @akselnwe, and most of it is about racing.
Other things I've built are at prosjekter.anedvardsen.no.
No. A rating says how well a horse has run. Mr. World Pool is made for people who study form, but this is about your own horses and the decisions around them.
The handicapper gives a horse one number for its general level, and that number sets the weight and decides which races it can run in. I put a number on every single run. That shows patterns the single mark hides.
Britain, Ireland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Australia, the UAE, Japan and all of Scandinavia, plus the biggest races in a number of other countries. The coverage isn't equally deep everywhere. Ask about the country or the horse you have in mind and I'll tell you what I have.
Then there's no rating yet. The sire profiles tell you something about what to expect. Two-year-olds are the hardest to rate in any case, until there's enough form to measure against.
Yes, and it doesn't have to be built on my numbers. It could be an overview of your own, reports for the owners, an analysis of a training routine or a website for the yard. We agree what it is and what it costs before I begin.
Let's look at a horse
Send me a few lines about you, the yard or the horse. The first conversation costs nothing, and I'm happy to talk racing either way. Then we work out whether there's something to do together.