What Does the WHGR Ranking Actually Show?
── Quantifying the Aura of Winning Horses ──
What 4,711 races in 2024–2025 reveal about the true nature of WHGR
Our articles frequently use notations like “WHGR +490 ★★” or “WHGR -580 — eliminate.” On the Oka Sho (Japanese 1000 Guineas) race day of April 12, WHGR ★★ horses swept the top three finishers in four races, and the WHGR leader finished first in three races. Yet the data also shows that “blindly betting all WHGR-positive horses doesn’t work.”
So what exactly is WHGR? What can it do — and what can’t it do? This article explains how WHGR works and presents the correct way to use it.
1. What Is WHGR?
WHGR (White & Green Rating) is an energy indicator that quantifies the unique aura possessed by each horse and jockey.
Every person and every horse has an inherent frequency. You may have felt it — “that person has an aura.” WHGR converts that frequency into numbers, measuring the degree of tension and harmony between the subject and the race day.
The horse’s WHGR and the jockey’s WHGR are combined to produce the overall energy score for that race-day combination.
★★ (+200 or above) — Strong tailwind. The aura is at maximum output.
◎ (+1 to +199) — Gentle tailwind.
Negative — Headwind. Especially below -300: a candidate for elimination.
2. Full Disclosure — Where WHGR Doesn’t Work
We randomly sampled 4,711 races from the entire 2025 season and examined win rates by WHGR band.
| Combined WHGR Band | Races | Win Rate | Place Rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Combined < -200 | 1,127 | 7.4% | 21.6% |
| -200 ≤ Combined < 0 | 1,026 | 7.2% | 19.9% |
| 0 ≤ Combined < +200 | 1,236 | 7.7% | 21.7% |
| Combined ≥ +200 | 1,322 | 5.7% | 20.0% |
The difference is nearly zero. When you lump all horses and jockeys together, you cannot say “positive WHGR means more wins.” In fact, the positive band actually trends slightly lower in win rate.
This result makes sense. In horse racing, 18 horses run and only one wins. If five horses in the same race have WHGR +300, four of them will lose. WHGR +300 doesn’t mean “will win.” It means “holds a relatively advantageous position within the same race.”
3. Where WHGR Works — Three Applications
Application 1: Intra-Race Ranking
Don’t look at the absolute value (+200 or -200). Instead, select horses that rank highest in WHGR among the runners in the same race. This is how WHGR is meant to be used.
The April 12 results prove it.
4 races where WHGR ★★ swept the top three:
Shunrai Stakes: 1st +270★★ / 2nd +380★★ / 3rd +270★★ (Trifecta ¥1.34M)
Wasurenagusa Sho: 1st +600★★ / 2nd +340★★ / 3rd +300★★ (Trifecta ¥760K)
Kyobashi Stakes: 1st +450★★ / 2nd +270★★ / 3rd +450★★
Hiuchigatake Tokubetsu: 1st +250★★ / 2nd +450★★ / 3rd +380★★
In every case, the horses with the highest WHGR within that race swept the top three. The absolute values varied from +250 to +600. What mattered was relative ranking within the race.
Application 2: The “Eliminate” Filter
WHGR’s greatest weapon is not “buy” — it’s “eliminate.”
4/12 — Popular horses with negative WHGR:
Road Fore Ace (Shunrai S) — WHGR -580 → 2nd favorite, finished 12th
Validissimus (Kyobashi S) — WHGR -260 → 1st favorite, finished 15th (dead last)
Fortune Ride (Wasurenagusa Sho) — Jockey WHGR -340 → 5th favorite, finished 13th
Simply removing a popular horse with a deeply negative WHGR from your tickets dramatically improves expected value.
The win rate of the 1st favorite is about 34%. That means it loses two out of three times. The question is whether you can identify which favorite will lose beforehand. WHGR provides the signal: “This favorite’s aura is dimmed today.” Whether you could eliminate Validissimus (Kawada Yuga, 1st favorite, fastest morning workout of all runners) in the Kyobashi Stakes — that alone changes your day’s P&L.
Application 3: Specific Jockey Interactions
We identified jockeys with the largest performance gaps across WHGR bands in 2024–2025 data.
Sakai Ryusei — The jockey most responsive to WHGR:
Jockey WHGR < -200: Win rate 10.6% (141 rides)
Jockey WHGR 0 to +200: Win rate 18.2% (538 rides)
→ 7.6 percentage point gap
Tosaki Keita — 47.3% place rate in ★★ band:
Overall: 1,581 rides, 16.8% win rate, 42.4% place rate
Combined WHGR ≥ +200 (★★): 414 rides, 19.3% win rate, 47.3% place rate
→ Nearly 1 in 2 finishes in the money
Lemaire & Kawada Yuga — WHGR has no effect:
Virtually zero performance gap across WHGR bands. The quality of their mounts is so high that raw ability overrides energy headwinds.
The hypothesis is clear: WHGR works best on jockeys with variable mount quality. Jockeys like Lemaire and Kawada always ride strong horses, so horse ability cancels out aura headwinds. Jockeys like Sakai and Tosaki ride both strong and weak horses, so aura tailwinds and headwinds translate directly into results.
4. Limitations of WHGR
The age barrier cannot be overcome.
Caliborn (10 years old) in the Shunrai Stakes had the top WHGR at +490, but finished dead last in 16th. No matter how bright the aura, physical decline cannot be compensated.
Accidents cannot be predicted.
Winsukran (WHGR +340, top-ranked) in the Fukushima Minpo Hai finished a distant 15th. The finishing time suggests a probable injury. WHGR cannot foresee in-race accidents.
Best used in combination with other factors.
WHGR alone is less reliable than when combined with training analysis (pre-race trackwork, week-over-week fitness progression). On 4/12, four of the winners had “WHGR ★★ + Training A-grade” double confirmation.
5. Conclusion — WHGR Is a Weather Forecast
If you had to describe WHGR in one phrase, “weather forecast” comes closest.
When the weather forecast says “sunny tomorrow,” not everyone who leaves without an umbrella stays dry. Sudden rain happens. But checking the forecast and deciding whether to carry an umbrella is rational behavior.
WHGR works the same way. Knowing “this horse’s aura is shining today” won’t dramatically raise your win rate across all races. But knowing “this popular horse’s aura is dimmed today” changes how you construct your tickets. Just as veteran racegoers can sense a winner’s aura in the paddock, WHGR visualizes that intuition with numbers.
WHGR is not a magic bullet.
But combining “intra-race ranking,” “elimination,” and “jockey-specific filters” — these three applications can improve your decision-making in horse racing.
This article is based on verification of all JRA race data from 2024–2025.
Details of the WHGR algorithm are proprietary.
This is not a recommendation to purchase betting tickets. All wagering is at your own risk.
White & Green Co., Ltd. / TigerProtocol WHGR System v2.1