This is The Thursday Take — our weekly column on RaceMetrics, where we take a racing talking point and put it to the test against the Proform database. No hunches, no hype. Just what the data says. This week, with the horses-in-training sales filling the yards: does a horse bought out of England hav...
October was the busiest month RaceMetrics has had. Two hundred and ninety-six separate releases went live, more than in any month before it.
Results now reach the site within minutes of each race. The entries appear from the five-day stage. Every race gets a written preview, and every page has a ne...
Aintree (Friday 6 to Saturday 7 November) and Naas (Sunday 8 November): this weekend's big jumps meetings. For each we went through every jumps runner at the course in the same month since 2018 and asked one question: did they win more often than their Betfair price said they would? That is A/E: act...
Two horses can finish a length apart and have run very different races. One sat up with a strong gallop and kept going; the other was held up and passed tired horses late on. Race Tempo says which kind of race it was.
For every Flat race with sectional times, it measures how fast the leaders went ov...
This is The Thursday Take — our weekly column on RaceMetrics, where we take a racing talking point and put it to the test against the Proform database. No hunches, no hype. Just what the data says. This week, with the Charlie Hall Chase on Saturday: does last year's winner, back for the same race, w...
RaceMetrics now shows the entries for every British and Irish race days before the declared racecard is published. From the five-day stage onwards, every horse carries its RaceMetrics Ratings, so you can start working on a big Saturday on the Monday.
Finding the entries
On your dashboard, the date s...
Down Royal (Friday 30 to Saturday 31 October), Wetherby (Friday 30 to Saturday 31 October), Ascot (Saturday 31 October) and Carlisle (Sunday 1 November): this weekend's big jumps meetings. For each we went through every jumps runner at the course in the same month since 2018 and asked one question: ...
The 3D Pace Preview is now on every upcoming racecard. A race replay shows you how a race was run. The Pace Preview shows you how the next one is likely to be run, before the stalls open.
How it works
Press 3D Pace Preview beside the Predicted Running Styles. On the Flat the field breaks from the ...
A member asked us this week how to see sectional times with races side by side. There are three ways to do it on RaceMetrics, depending on what you want to compare, and all of them start from the racecard.
1. One horse, every run
Open any race and click a horse's row: its form lines open underneath....
This is The Thursday Take — our weekly column on RaceMetrics, where we take a racing talking point and put it to the test against the Proform database. No hunches, no hype. Just what the data says. This week: Billy Loughnane has been crowned champion Flat jockey, and the question every punter asks a...
