Racecards and Ratings

The whole day’s British racing as a spreadsheet you can sort and filter. Free, no account, no email address.

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Today’s workbook is rebuilt every ten minutes, so the prices in it are never more than a few minutes behind the racecards on this site.

What is in it

Thirty-two columns, one row per declared runner, in a proper Excel table — so you can sort by price, filter to one course, or drop the non-runners in one click.

The race
Course, off time, race name, class, type and surface, distance, going, number of runners, prize money.
The runner
Saddle number, draw, horse, age, sex, weight, official rating, form figures, days since last run, headgear and whether it is first time, C/D/BF flags, jockey, trainer, non-runner flag.
The market
Best price of the bookmakers we track, which book is offering it, how many books have priced the horse, and whether the price has shortened or drifted in the last hour.
Ours
The draw index for that course, distance band and third of the field — with the number of races behind it, always.

Reading the draw index

1.00 means that third of the draw wins exactly as often as its share of the runners says it should. Above 1.00 is an advantage, below it a disadvantage. It is computed from our own results bank over the last twelve months of British racing, and it is worked out on each horse’s rank within the race rather than its stall number — stalls are not renumbered when a horse is withdrawn, so a ten-runner race can legitimately have a horse drawn twelve.

Always read it with the race count beside it. Draw bias at the big tracks is well known and already in the price. These figures are honest reference material, not a claim of an edge.

Ratings — coming soon

The workbook above is deliberately a record of facts: what is running, what the market thinks, and what the draw has done at that track. The next tier is the part that forms a view.

  • A/E figures for jockeys, trainers, owners, sires and damsires — by course, distance band, class and age — each with the sample size behind it and a score for how far it sits beyond what chance would produce.
  • Level-stakes profit beside every one of them, because a figure that beats the market average can still lose money, and most of them do.
  • Every bookmaker’s price rather than the best one, and how far each has moved.
  • Irish racing as its own workbook. Irish fields run three runners bigger than British ones and forty per cent of them trade at 20/1 or longer, against twenty-five per cent here — it is a different market and it deserves to be treated as one.

We are testing whether those figures actually improve a decision before we put a price on them. If they do not, we will say so.

What we do not publish

No spotlight comments, verdicts or tips — those are third-party licensed editorial and are not ours to hand on. No third-party performance or speed ratings, for the same reason.

18+. Betting involves risk and you can lose more than you win. The National Gambling Helpline is 0808 8020 133, free, 24 hours a day. These workbooks are information, not advice, and not a tipping service.