Flatstats Horse Racing
What is Flatstats? Flatstats has systems, stats and ratings for horse racing.
You can use the Flatstats site to research your own racing systems, examine stats to find profitable betting angles, or just use our horse racing ratings to find profitable backs and lays!
The Flatstats Horse Racing Website
Flatstats was created by Stephen Mainwaring in March 2000.
Stephen is the technical wizard behind the site. He has acquired 30 years of experience from working within the IT industry. He had worked as a freelance contractor for many large companies but gave all that up in order to develop the Flatstats website.
Using his knowledge of IT systems has helped to make Flatstats one of the fastest, slickest horse racing database sites around. Whilst other sites have spent hundreds of thousands of pounds implementing their websites Stephen has managed to keep the costs down and produce a site which is fast, reliable, and informative.
The Systems Guru
Stephen's interest in horse racing started in the early 1980s. He used to keep simple databases on a Commodore 64 PC home computer and then later on more traditional PCs.
His fascination with horse racing and systems arose from his constant desire "to beat the system".
In 1982 Stephen reached the final of the Computer and Video Games Magazine Arcade Championship and trounced the opposition to take the crown for the best Pacman player. He finished second in the overall best arcade player category and from that day he has always thrived to be number one.
The Horse Racing Database
The Flatstats horse racing database holds the result of every flat turf and all weather race since 1990. As at February 2012 the datbase contains information on:
- Over a million runners!
- 56163 Races
- 94586 Horses
- 4973 Jockeys
- 4215 Dam Sires
- 3528 Sires
- 1923 Trainers
To make the information more relevant for current betting analysis only the past ten years worth of data is available for viewing on the site.
The Technical Stuff
The Flatstats website is powered by Dell servers and is hosted in one of the most reliable datacentres in the UK - BlueSquare.
The most popular industry standard apps such as Apache, MySQL, and PHP are used to process the data and display the web pages.
"Joined today and have to say the info avaliable is impressive" E.D.
"Fantastic site. You have saved me so much time!" I.B.
"What a great site. I think I will join every month." R.A.
"You have got one of the best horse racing info sites around - superb for both backing and laying" A.W.
"Congratulations on your recent series of longshot winners. I can categorically say that in thirty years of racing I have never seen anything like it." T.H.
"As a new user can I just say how useful I have found the site and how helpful the support staff have been whenever I have asked for help." T.F.
