Horse Racing Systems, Stats and Ratings

Flatstats is not a tipping site. We provide you with the tools you need to make your own horse racing systems. On this site you can access an unlimited amount of horse racing stats, view hundreds of horse racing systems, and access our unique horse racing ratings.

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 January 2010 the datbase contains information on:

• 990,636 Runners
• 92,033 Races
• 85,085 Horses
• 4,632 Jockeys
• 4,013 Dam Sires
• 3,317 Sires
• 1,807 Trainers

To make the information more relevant for current betting analysis only the past 10 years worth of data is available for punters to view on the site.

Whilst it is interesting to know how many winners Pat Eddery had at Ascot in the 90s that information is of no use to a punter trying to find a value bet in the 3:10 at Lingfield this afternoon!

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.

We use the most popular industry standard apps such as Apache, MySQL, and PHP to process the data and display the web pages.