@HeyHomie, I could try. I’ve certainly done it before, although that was in person. Here, we’d be doing it in writing. But I’d be happy to give it a try.
I do want to address this …
… which is an excellent point. Unlike the baseball player, who plays almost every day; or the football player, who plays once a week; or the hockey player, who plays two or three times a week; a horse may race weeks or months after its last race. It is not unusual, for example, especially in the spring, to find horses that have not raced since last fall.
Most of the owners and trainers that I know will not race their horses more often than once every two weeks, at least. And even that is cutting it short; some like to go longer. Of course, the horse does get some exercise out on the track during that time, including timed workouts (with a jockey up, the horse runs a measured distance, often 4 or 5 furlongs, under various conditions meant to approximate race conditions). Workouts, their distances, and conditions, are reported in the horse’s Past Performances, so you can see them, by the way.
But a very good point. Is this horse coming off a six-month layoff with only one workout six weeks ago; or did he race three weeks ago, with a workout just last Tuesday? That can make a difference in my selections.