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My take on trainer stats is that if it is a commonly known stat, it is pretty useless from a betting standpoint. The trainer stats in the drf are an example of what I call "common trainer stats". If a horse looks like crap from a pace standpoint, I am not going to bet it because trainer is 35% winners first off a layoff. In fact the way I look at it, he still loses 65% of the time. So what if the trainer has a positive roi turf-to-dirt if the horse in this race looks like a nag. 1 big longshot can of course give a trainer a positive roi.
However, if you play a particular circuit and track trainer moves not common to national publications, you can find angles that may be worthwhile at the windows. Those would be separate type automatic bets that have no impact one way or another from your Spec/Val3 readouts. In fact I would recommend a separate bankroll for such action.
Jim
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