Yeah, the art form has been around forever. Picked it up many years ago , hanging around with grooms in the paddock.

Not the keys to the kingdom , but I was pretty good at the read when I attended live.

Very hard to do off the TV sadly, and they go out of their way to make it impossible at most tracks.

Kind of a cool idea to maybe take a picture of the horses feet once every few (or 6 ) months , and put that online. There can be some change over time , so you need updated info. Don't know if even HK does anything like that .