The article explains company lines in horse racing, detailing how the top 3 finishers, race comments, and number of starters are presented. Horses returning to win next races are italicized, those in today's race are bolded, and those meeting both criteria are bold italics. Examples in PDFs and data files are shown.
Company lines include:
Top finishers, comment, and number of starters: Provides information on:
- The top 3 finishers in the race with lengths separating them at the finish. Horses that came back to win their next race are in Italics. Horses in today's race appear in bold print. Horses that won their next race and are in today's race will be in bold italics.
- The comment will tell about the trip the horse had or how he or she ran the race.
- The number of starters in the race.
In PDF past performances, they appear like this:
In data files, they appear in the data files structures as symbols: