Kickthebookies is the analytical layer of horse racing: the statistics, prices and records behind a race, shown plainly so you can make your own call. It is not a tipping site. We show you the evidence and trust you with the decision. Start at today’s racecards.

Today’s racecards list every race in Britain and Ireland with each runner’s form, the prices on offer and our own figures. From any runner you can open the horse, the trainer, the jockey and the course, each with its full record since 2005. Results and fast results follow the day; non-runners are listed as they are declared.

Everything you can read on the site today is free: the racecards, results, the archive, the odds comparison, the tools and every explainer. The KTB Rating and KTB Speed figures for every runner in one race a day are free in Today’s Open Race; a paid tier for those figures across the whole card is planned, and this page will say so when it opens.

No. Nothing on the site tells you what to back. Where a selection appears — the top-ranked runner by KTB Fit Score in each race — it is the output of a published method, shown with its complete record, win or lose, on KTB Fit Results. The number is the evidence; the decision is yours.

Yes. Every page is designed for the phone first and the desktop second. If anything on a page is hard to read on your phone, tell us through the contact page and we will fix it.

Our score for how well each runner fits today’s race, worked out every morning for every runner in Britain and Ireland from the stored record of its past runs and the conditions it meets today. Each runner gets a score and a short written reason. The top-ranked runner in each race is frozen as the day’s selection and logged against the result, so the method’s record is public. How it works: KTB Fit Score explained.

Our own measure of each horse’s ability, computed by us from the official race record and published only once it has passed its test. The test and its result are on the page, losers included: KTB Rating explained.

Our own figure for how fast a horse actually ran in each race, adjusted so that runs over different courses, distances and ground can be compared. Like the Rating, it was published only once it had passed its test, which is on the page: KTB Speed explained.

One race a day on the homepage where every runner’s KTB Rating and KTB Speed are shown free, so you can see the figures working on a full field before you decide whether they are useful to you. Find it at Today’s Open Race.

No. Every figure with a KTB name is computed by us from the official race record, by a method we publish. We do not republish any other publisher’s ratings, speed figures or comment.

Actual against expected: the wins a horse, trainer, jockey or course actually had, divided by the wins the betting market expected from the prices. 1.00 means the market had it right; above 1.00 means better than the prices said; below means worse. Our figures use fair A/E, with the bookmakers’ margin taken out of the prices first. One caution when you read it: short-priced horses tend to win slightly more often than their price implies and long shots slightly less, so an A/E is read against the price band it came from, not on its own. Full method: Fair A/E explained.

N is the sample the number came from (“from 212 runs”); “as at” is when it was counted. Every statistic on the site carries both, because a strike rate from twelve runs and one from twelve hundred are not the same evidence. Where a sample is small the page says so next to the number.

Because we do not know it, and we never print zero for unknown. A dash means the record does not hold that value; “not counted yet today” means the morning build has not reached it. A real zero is written as zero, with its sample (“0 wins from 12”).

The bookmakers listed on Compare odds; the list is kept there and nowhere else. Every price shown is that bookmaker’s own at the moment we read it, and prices move, so check the bookmaker’s site before you bet.

Standout prices shows where one bookmaker’s price on a runner stands clear of the rest today. Market movers shows the runners whose prices have shortened or drifted most since the morning, as a matter of record. Extra places lists the races where a bookmaker is paying more places than the standard each-way terms.

The betslip collects the runners you are interested in from any page. The bet calculator works out the return on any bet type and stake, including each-way, and converts between fractional and decimal odds. Best payout prices the same multiple bet at every listed bookmaker that offers all of its legs, using each one’s own each-way terms, and ranks them by total return.

Fractional odds, as used in Britain and Ireland, with decimal odds alongside them on the odds comparison. The bet calculator converts between the two.

Every race in Britain, Ireland and France from 2 January 2005 to today, with every runner, the result, the starting price and our own figures written against it. Browse by date from Results.

Yes. The Horses A–Z, Trainers A–Z, Jockeys A–Z and Racecourses directories cover everyone in the record since 2005, and each profile shows runs and wins over the last 14, 30, 90 and 365 days as well as the full career, so you can see whether a yard or a rider is in form now, not just over a lifetime. Or search the archive for any name or date from the search box.

A written preview of every race in Britain and Ireland each day, built from our own figures: the Fit scores, the reasons behind them and the morning prices. The words are drafted with AI from those figures and never add a claim the racecard does not make. Read today’s at Race previews.

Two daily lists built from the archive. First-time headgear shows today’s runners wearing blinkers, cheekpieces, a visor, a hood or a tongue-tie for the first time, checked against every previous run rather than taken from a declaration. Off a winning mark shows the handicappers running today from the same official rating they last won off, down in class, or back from a break.

Race records, form and results come from the official record through a licensed racing data provider; prices come from the bookmakers we list. Every figure with a KTB name is computed by us from that record.

Some links to bookmakers are affiliate links: if you open an account through one, we may be paid a commission, at no cost to you. It never changes a figure we publish, which bookmakers we show, or the order we show them in. Every such link is marked as sponsored in the page’s code. More in About Kickthebookies.

Yes. Every day’s selections and how they ran are on KTB Fit Results, with the strike rate and the fair A/E at starting price, the sample shown and the losers included. The tests of KTB Rating and KTB Speed are published on their own pages.

Use the contact page and tell us the page and the runner. Corrections are made as soon as they are confirmed, and the page says it was corrected.

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