Racecards and Ratings
The whole day’s British and Irish racing as a spreadsheet you can sort and filter. Free, no account, no email address.
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No card is published at the moment. Racecards appear here the evening before racing.
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out on each horse’s rank within the race rather than its stall number — stalls are not renumbered when a horse is withdrawn, so a ten-runner race can legitimately have a horse drawn twelve.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 — what happened when we tested them
We said on this page that we were testing whether a ratings tier actually improved a decision before we put a price on it, and that if it did not we would say so. It did not, so here it is.
A/E figures do not beat the price
A/E compares how often a jockey, trainer, owner or sire wins against how often their runners’ starting prices said they should. We built it across 27 combinations, then replayed six months of British racing — 1 February to 3 August 2026, about 1.15 million runner-and-figure pairs — using only the figure that was known before each race, and settling every bet at Betfair starting price after commission.
The better the figure, the worse the result:
| A/E against par | Bets | Return |
|---|---|---|
| Below par | 71,065 | −0.8% |
| 1.00 to 1.15 | 33,028 | −1.4% |
| 1.15 to 1.30 | 20,479 | −9.9% |
| 1.30 and above | 21,108 | −11.8% |
The held-out second half appeared to rescue the top band at +7.3%. It was 44 horses out of 27,729 — winners returned at 50.0 or bigger, one of them at 1000.0, which is the Betfair maximum and a price nobody could have been matched on for real money. Take those 44 out and the band returns −16.4%, in line with the first half.
The likeliest explanation is the oldest one in betting: a strong record is already known and already in the price, so backing it is backing an over-bet horse.
Speed ratings, and whether going sharpens them
The same test on speed ratings found nothing measurable. The top-rated horse in a race won 16.2% of the time against the 16.3% its price implied — no better than the market, and no worse. Splitting by going hinted that firm ground suits the figure and the all-weather does not, which is plausible, since all-weather going is reported as “Standard” for about four races in five while the surface underneath it genuinely varies.
But the sample cannot carry it. Speed ratings only began appearing in our data in June 2026, so the whole test rests on nine weeks — 6,802 rated runners across 790 races. Every result was within one standard deviation of chance. That is not a finding, it is an absence of one, and we would need a year before the question could be answered honestly either way.
So what is next
Not a ratings subscription. What survives testing is the plain stuff, and that is where the work goes: every bookmaker’s price rather than the best one, draw figures broken down by exact distance rather than band, and 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, so it is a different market and deserves treating as one.
We will keep re-running these tests as the record deepens, and publish what comes back whichever way it falls.
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.
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