WE are well into the jump season now and, to celebrate, I would like to introduce our new Jump metric you may have seen across the RacingTV broadcast recently: The RaceiQ Jump Index (RJI), writes Page Fuller.

Where Lengths Gained Jumping was so good at comparing the performances of horses within a race, the Jump Index compares a horse’s jumping against all ‘jumps’ in our RaceiQ database. This enables us to compare the efficiency, speed and fluency of a horse against these and assign it a score out of 10 to quantify their jumping ability.