Key takeaways
- At The Races offers racecards, results, race replays, news and odds comparison as the digital partner to Sky Sports Racing, according to attheraces.com in September 2026.
- RaceWatch is a paid data membership at £24.99 a month after a 30-day free trial, built on form data rather than pictures or news.
- RaceWatch publishes 684 free data pages today, covering areas such as draw bias, pace bias and favourites, refreshed every racing day.
- Many racing fans watch races and replays on At The Races and study form on a data service, because the two cover different needs.
Is At The Races free coverage and RaceWatch a data membership?
At The Races is a racing website and free app with cards, results, replays, news and odds, tied to Sky Sports Racing. RaceWatch is a paid membership built on form data, with free data pages for everyone.
At The Races describes itself as the digital partner to Sky Sports Racing, the television channel on Sky 415 and Virgin 512. Its website carries racecards, results, race replays, news, features, tipsters, odds comparison, a market movers page, a bet calculator and a horse tracker. It covers British and Irish racing in depth and adds international racing such as French, American and Hong Kong coverage.
RaceWatch does not show pictures. It concentrates on the data behind each runner, on member racecards and on free data pages that anyone can read. The two services barely compete: one is where you watch, the other is where you study.
How do At The Races and RaceWatch compare feature by feature?
The table sets RaceWatch against At The Races on 13 features. At The Races facts come from attheraces.com, checked on 23 September 2026; Not listed means the feature was not found on the pages checked.
The At The Races app is free to download, with racecards up to five days ahead and free access to an archive of over 30,000 race clips, according to its App Store listing. RaceWatch charges £24.99 a month after a 30-day free trial, and its free data pages need no account at all.
| Feature | RaceWatch | At The Races |
|---|---|---|
| Price | £24.99 a month (Sep 2026) | Free app; ATR Player £9.99 a month |
| Racecards | Members, every runner | Yes, five days ahead in app |
| Results | Yes, archive since 1990 | Yes |
| Race replays | No | Yes, plus 30,000+ race clips |
| Television | No | Sky Sports Racing partner |
| News and tipsters | No | Yes |
| Odds comparison | 20+ bookmakers | Yes |
| Market movers | GQS market heat | Yes |
| Horse tracker | Tracker+ and Telegram | Horse Tracker |
| Sectional or speed and sectional data data | Speed+ speed and sectional data, British | Sectionals, 12 Flat courses |
| Draw heatmap | Yes, every card | Not listed |
| Connections tab | Not listed | |
| Form franking | FormLines+ | Not listed |
40 races and 392 declared runners on Friday 16 October, with 31 horses back from a break; the free data section covers 684 pages.Live from data · Sample: 684 data pages · Window: Racing from 16 October 2026
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Where does At The Races lead on video, replays and news?
At The Races leads on pictures: race replays, live streams in its app, the Sky Sports Racing link, news and tipsters. RaceWatch does not show race video or publish tipping columns.
Watching a race back is still one of the best ways to judge a run, and At The Races offers full replays and race finishes for British and Irish meetings. It also runs news, blogs and previews for the big meetings. None of that is part of RaceWatch. For a racing fan who mostly wants to watch, follow the news and read a free card, At The Races already covers the day.
Where RaceWatch adds something is the question a replay cannot answer on its own: how often runs like this one lead to a win. A replay plus that context is a stronger basis for a view than either alone.
Does At The Races show pace, draw or speed and sectional data data?
At The Races publishes sectional times for 12 Flat courses, according to its own guide. RaceWatch shows a draw heatmap on every member racecard and Speed+ speed and sectional data data for runs at British courses from 2025 onwards.
The At The Races sectionals guide lists Bath, Brighton, Chepstow, Chester, Doncaster, Ffos Las, Lingfield, Newcastle, Southwell, Windsor, Wolverhampton and Yarmouth, with the data published around 48 hours after racing on result pages. RaceWatch Speed+ covers British courses with speed and sectional data tracking and shows a Speed+ rating, efficiency grades and race shape for each horse. The free draw bias and pace bias pages on RaceWatch show stall and running style records by course, with the races behind each figure.
How do At The Races and RaceWatch cover Irish racing?
Both cover Irish racing. RaceWatch racecards, results and form cover Irish meetings, while Speed+ speed and sectional data data covers British courses only; At The Races shows replays of British and Irish races.
For Irish racing fans the split is the same as in Britain: At The Races for pictures, replays and news, RaceWatch for form data. RaceWatch free pages such as the Irish against British favourites page compare the two jurisdictions directly, and member racecards carry the same tabs for Irish runners, apart from Speed+.
How do At The Races and RaceWatch work together on race day?
Watching races and replays on one service while studying the card on another is common. The RaceWatch 30-day free trial makes that pairing easy to test.
A simple routine is to study the card in RaceWatch in the morning, checking draw, trainer patterns and FormLines+, then watch the races and replays on At The Races or Sky Sports Racing. Tracker+ can notify you when a horse you noted is next declared. RaceWatch charges nothing until day 31, so a month of this routine costs nothing if you cancel before then.
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Questions people ask
What is an alternative to At The Races for racecards and form?
At The Races remains a free source of racecards, results, replays and news.
Is At The Races free and how much is RaceWatch?
The At The Races app is free, and its ATR Player subscription to watch Sky Sports Racing was listed at £9.99 a month on 23 September 2026. RaceWatch costs £24.99 a month after a 30-day free trial, and its free data pages need no account.
Should I keep At The Races for video and use RaceWatch for data?
Many racing fans do exactly that, because RaceWatch does not show race video and At The Races is not built around form data. The RaceWatch 30-day free trial lets you test the pairing.
Does At The Races show sectional times?
At The Races publishes sectional times for 12 Flat courses, around 48 hours after racing, according to its own guide. RaceWatch members get Speed+ speed and sectional data speed data for runs at British courses from 2025 onwards.
Does RaceWatch cover Irish racing as fully as At The Races?
RaceWatch racecards, results and form cover Irish racing, while Speed+ speed and sectional data data covers British courses only. At The Races adds replays of Irish races, which RaceWatch does not show.
Keep reading
Sources checked
- At The Races home page (digital partner to Sky Sports Racing) · checked 2026-09-23
- At The Races replays · checked 2026-09-23
- Using the ATR Sectional Times (undated) · checked 2026-09-23
- At The Races FAQ (ATR Player price) · checked 2026-09-23
- At The Races app, App Store listing · checked 2026-09-23
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