The RaceWatch racecard: every tab explained

What does each of the fourteen racecard tabs show?

Each tab answers one question about a runner. Form and Last Race cover recent runs, Odds the market, Travel the journey, Weight and OR Timeline the handicap, and the rest cover draw, yard, connections, breeding, form lines, comparison and speed.

The runner row gives the headline: silk, jockey, trainer, official rating, form figures, RWS score badge and best price. The tabs then open the detail one question at a time, so you can check what matters for this race without leaving the card. The table below lists all fourteen and the question each answers.

You do not need every tab for every race. A two year old maiden leans on Breeding and Connections, a big field handicap on Weight, OR Timeline and Draw, and a small field conditions race on Form and Compare.

How does the Odds tab compare bookmaker prices?

The Odds tab lists each runner's price at 20+ bookmakers, highlights the best available, and sets the opening price beside the current one. Exchange prices are shown separately.

The best price column saves shopping around, and the opening against current comparison shows the direction the market has taken since prices first appeared. A runner shortening across many firms tells a different story from one cut by a single bookmaker.

Keeping exchange prices apart matters, because an exchange price is set by customers and carries commission, so it is not directly comparable with a fixed bookmaker price. For market moves across the day, the Gamble Quality Score and the G channel alerts go further.

How do the Travel, Weight and OR Timeline tabs work?

Travel shows how many miles the runner has come from its trainer's base. Weight shows what it carries today. OR Timeline follows its official rating over time.

Travel picks out horses sent a long way for one race, which can say something about the yard's intentions, especially for a small stable making a rare long trip. Weight shows what the horse carries today, and reading it beside the official rating shows whether a penalty, a claim or the minimum weight is involved.

OR Timeline is the handicap story in one line: where the rating peaked, where it is now, and whether it is rising or falling. A horse back on a mark it has won off before stands out immediately.

What do the Draw and Trainer Patterns tabs add?

Draw sets the runner's stall against a draw bias heatmap. Trainer Patterns turns the focus from the horse to the yard behind it.

The heatmap shows where the draw bias lies, so a runner drawn in a strong or weak position is visible at once. Draw matters most on the Flat at tight tracks and over sprint trips, and not at all over jumps, where races are started without stalls.

Trainer Patterns looks at the yard rather than the horse. A yard's habits can help separate a horse the stable expects to need the run from one it has aimed at the race, so read the tab alongside the horse's own form rather than instead of it.

How do Verdicts, Breeding and Connections help read a runner?

Verdicts shows the RWS top pick for the race. Breeding sets out the runner's pedigree.

Verdicts is a quick read of where the RaceWatch Score comes down in the race. Breeding matters most for lightly raced horses and those trying new conditions.

What do FormLines+, Compare and Speed+ show?

FormLines+ shows how the horses from a runner's recent race have performed since. Compare measures runners against each other across 30+ metrics. Speed+ adds speed and sectional data data from tracked British runs.

FormLines+ tracks form franking: how the beaten horses from a runner's last race have run since, so form that is working out is easy to spot. Compare is the tool for close calls, putting runners against each other across more than 30 metrics in one place.

Speed+ appears where a runner has tracked runs on British courses with speed and sectional data coverage from 2025 onwards. It is empty for runs at untracked courses, for runs before 2025 and for horses that have not raced at tracked courses, which is why the tab is blank for some runners.

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