RaceWatch features: every tool and what it answers

What is on a RaceWatch racecard?

Every race has 14 tabs, so the question a runner raises can be checked on the card without leaving it.

The tabs are Form, Last race, Odds, Travel, OR timeline, Weight, Verdicts, Draw, Trainer patterns, FormLines+, Breeding, Connections, Compare and Speed. Odds shows prices from more than 20 bookmakers with the best price picked out and the opening price beside it. Draw shows a stall-by-stall heatmap for the course, distance and going. Connections shows trainer and jockey records together, with actual-to-expected figures.

Each runner links to a full horse profile with its race history, career splits by going, distance, course and class, its trainer history and its speed profile where one exists.

• Form, Last race, Odds, Travel, OR timeline, Weight, Verdicts
• Draw, Trainer patterns, FormLines+, Breeding, Connections, Compare, Speed

What are RaceWatch ratings?

The RaceWatch rating is a machine-learning rating: every declared runner gets a score from 0 to 100 for its chance in the race.

Each runner's score comes with its rank in the race, the key factors that drove the score and the gap between the top two, so you can see whether the model has a clear view or a close call. Scores are set each morning as the cards are finalised.

RaceWatch ratings is a guide to the strength of each chance, not a tip. Members can see its record over time in the ratings hub.

What is FormLines+?

FormLines+ shows how the horses who finished behind a runner have done since, so you can tell a strong last run from a weak one.

For every race, FormLines+ follows the placed horses, second to fifth, to their next runs and gives the race a verdict: Strong, Franked, Weak, Developing or Pending. A chip on each runner in the racecard shows the verdict for its last race, and a tap opens the full form line.

A Hot Races table ranks the races that have produced the most winners since, and you can track any race and be told when its principals run again.

What does the Speed tab show?

The Speed tab shows tracking data for British races: how fast each horse ran, where it gained or lost ground, and how it finished.

The data comes from trackers carried in the race, recorded many times a second, for 59 British courses from 2025 onwards. Horse profiles show top speed, finishing speed, sectional shape, stride length and stride frequency, and a speed verdict with consistency and efficiency grades.

Speed data is the clearest way to spot a horse that ran better than its finishing position, for example one that finished fast after a slow early pace.

How do Tracker+ alerts work?

Follow any horse, trainer, jockey, owner or sire, and RaceWatch tells you when one is declared to run.

You can add conditions to each follow, such as only at Class 2 or better, or only on good or faster ground, so alerts arrive when they matter. Alerts come by notification, and members can also link Telegram for the RaceWatch alert channels.

What are Filter+ and Angles?

Filter+ lets you build your own filters across today's runners, and Angles are more than 80 ready-made checks run every day.

Filter+ has more than 200 filters, from class drops and trainer form to draw and market moves. A saved filter shows how it would have done to £1 level stakes at SP in the past, and keeps a record from the day you save it.

Angles cover market, form, trainer, breeding and going signals, such as a class drop, first-time headgear or a trainer in form, and list today's runners that match.

What is free on RaceWatch?

The free data pages need no account and are built from the same results database as the app.

They include draw bias for every course, big-race histories and trends since 1990, festival guides, trainer and jockey records, the live trainers' and jockeys' championships, racecards and results with SP and Betfair SP, and guides to reading racing data. Members get the tools above on top.

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