Flatstats Racecards Help
Basics
The Flatstats racecards shows basic racecard info for all flat turf and all weather races.
Choose a day and either click on a meeting name to view all the races for that meeting on this page, or click on a race time to view just the one race.
The cards show the horse, trainer, jockey, as well as the owner and sire of the horse. You can view extra information such as the number of times a horse has won over course and distance, if the horse is wearing any kind of head gear (blinkers, cheekpieces, tongue strap etc.) and what their record is with or without head gear.
The cards show Betfair win and place prices. This information is updated ever half hour over night, every 10 minutes during the morning of racing, and around every minute whilst racing is taking place.
Finally, the racecards contain the unique Flatstats Horse Racing Ratings. These ratings are based on value statistics and can be used to find value bets.
Stats
You can click on any name on the racecard and view their stats. If you click on the horse name you can see the 'profile' stats for the horse, if you click on the sire you can see the stats for all of the sires offspring. Click on the trainer and you can see detailed stats for the trainer such as his or her overall record, stats from the past 28 days, stats at each course, stats for different types of race and much more.
Extra Info
At the top of the racecard you can find more information specific to the race.
The Favs record shows the stats for similar races to this one (this is much better than the 10 Year Stats / Fate of the Fav type information which is displayed in newspapers.
The Draw index shows if a particular draw range offers good or bad value. Any draw index 30 or more is coloured blue and indicates that the draw range offers value, whilst a figure of -30 or lower is red and indicates poor value. The draw ranges are split into thirds such that in a 12 runner race low = stalls 1 to 4, mid = stalls 5 to 8 and high = stalls 9 to 12. There is no draw index displayed for races of less than 10 declared runners as usually draw biases are not significant in small fields.
The racecard also shows Extra links which you can click for more information. The Stats Grid is a useful tool for seeing all the most significant stats for a sire, trainer, jockey or horse in a table. You can configure and sort this table or export it to your own database or spreadsheet.
The Race Stats link opens up a page showing stats for this type of race. You can see how well specific age groups performed in races similar to this, or the record of jockeys or trainers etc.
The Extra link has tables showing information on trainer and jockey combinations, horse earnings, jockey changes (where a different jockey is riding a horse compared to last time out) and trainer changes (where a horse has moved to a new yard since last time out).
The Ratings link shows ratings and 'raw scores' for each runner in a table.
The Trainer Form link shows a table displaying very useful information about each trainer in the race. You can instantly see hot or cold trainers, and trainers who are either warming up or cooling down! The Flatstats Trainer Form Index is a figure which is calculated from the trainers previous results and is used to indicate if a trainer is currently in form or not.
