Friday 23 October

Racing, with the evidence.

Form, our own figures and the bookmakers’ prices, read against 312,717 races since 2005.

Or a date, like 3 jun 2019.

Today’s meetings

6 meetings · 45 races · next off 12:50 Sligo (at 12:50)

Sligo IRE Good to yielding 8 races first 12:50 Cheltenham GB Good, good to soft in places 7 races first 1:15 Doncaster GB Soft, good to soft in places 8 races · 1 NR first 1:35 Newbury GB Soft, good to soft in places 6 races first 1:42 Wolverhampton (AW) GB Standard 9 races · 3 NR first 4:25 Dundalk (AW) IRE Standard 7 races first 5:15

All of today's racecards

The market today

Which horses are being backed since the morning, and where one bookmaker stands clear.

Market movers

No horse has been backed by 15% or more in share of the market yet today — as at 03:52 UK time.

All of today's movers

Standout prices

Ballybunion +45% vs general

Wolverhampton (AW) 4:25 · top price 8/1 · generally 11/2 · standout since 01:05

Bet365 8/1

What's The Plan +42% vs general

Wolverhampton (AW) 7:30 · top price 17/2 · generally 6/1 · standout since 01:05

Bet365 17/2

Colossal Impact +33% vs general

Sligo 4:20 · top price 12/1 · generally 9/1 · standout since 01:05

Bet365 12/1

A top price 25% or more clear of the general price (the middle price across the bookmakers we track), 15/1 or shorter, still to run — 11 runners as at 03:52 UK time. Prices change — check on the bookmaker’s site. 18+.

All standout prices and the record

What stands out today

Today’s card read against our archive by fixed rules. Evidence, never tips.

Extra places in 13 races still to runTerms →

On today’s angle pages: First-time headgear · Off a winning mark

Built by fixed rules from today’s card and our archive, not by anyone’s opinion; a rule that is not met prints nothing.

What sits behind every number

Our own archive, counted nightly.

312,717races since 2005

3,070,993runs recorded

275,455horse profiles

GB · IRE · FRracing covered

Counts as at 22 October 2026, 04:40 UK time, from our own archive.

Kickthebookies is the analytical layer of racing: the stats, signals and records that help you understand a race, with the sample size and date on every figure. We show our working and grade ourselves in public. The call is always yours.

How KTB works · Horses A–Z · Trainers · Jockeys · Racecourses · Fair A/E explained

Three figures of our own

Each built from our archive. Evidence, never a tip.

KTB Fit

A 0–100 figure for how well a horse fits the race it is about to run, built from form and connections and frozen overnight. The top-rated runner in every race is graded in public afterwards, win or lose.

How KTB Fit works Today’s selections The full record

KTB Rating

138^B Planters Punch, top on KTB Rating in today’s Open Race

The level a horse has been running to: an average of up to its last six runs, the latest counting most.

Free on every result and horse profile, and for every runner in today’s Open Race, below.

How KTB Rating works Today’s Open Race

KTB Speed

137^A Eternal Angel, top on KTB Speed in today’s Open Race

A horse's best figure from up to its last three reliably timed runs.

Free on every result and horse profile, and for every runner in today’s Open Race, below.

How KTB Speed works Today’s Open Race

The letter beside a figure (A, B or C) grades how firmly it could be measured, not how good the run was: A is the firmest. Rating grades · Speed grades

Today’s Open Race

The figures above on a real race: every runner’s KTB Rating and KTB Speed, free, one race a day.

Free today Updated 03:51 UK time

Cheltenham 3:00 · Grade 2

Oddschecker Novices' Hurdle Race(grade 2) (registered As The Sharp Novices' Hurdle Race) (gbb Race) · 2m 87y · Good, good to soft in places · 10 runners

Runner	Trainer	Rating	Speed
Planters Punch	Nicky Henderson	138^B	95^B
Eternal Angel	Tom Lacey	133^B	137^A
Bells Grove	Edward Buckley	131^B	131^B
Spanish Darling	Alex Hales	130^B	108^A
Cooltobecareless	Dan Skelton	129^B	126^A
Matiwo	Mrs Jane Williams	125^B	104^A
Kingofthefrontier	John Dawson	122^C	43^A
Governors Rock	Warren Greatrex	120^B	102^A
Scott's Legacy	Nigel & Willy Twiston-Davies	116^B	134^A
Sixpack	James Owen	113^C	113^A

Ordered by KTB Rating · Past form, not a forecast · GB & Irish racing only · KTB Rating for 10 of 10 · KTB Speed for 10 of 10 · A–C: how firmly each figure could be measured, A firmest

All 10 runners on the racecard

Why one race is free

What you get The whole field's KTB Rating and KTB Speed for one race a day, before the off. Figures we show free stay free.

How we choose it The day's highest-class British or Irish race with at least five runners in which at least 80% of the field have a KTB Rating; if no race reaches 80%, the one with the largest share rated. Fixed before the first race. Whether figures exist decides it, never what they say.

Every figure a horse has run to Free on every result, form line and horse profile. How KTB Rating works · How KTB Speed works

Today’s results

As each official result is published.

Friday 23 October 2026 Updated as races finish

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1:42Newbury

Abandoned

Renegade Brewery Fillies' Handicap Stakes (gbbplus Race)