Kickthebookies for AI readers

Coverage

The archive: every race in Great Britain, Ireland and France from 2 January 2005, with every runner, finishing position, starting price and the race's overround. Today's pages, the price record, the previews and the odds tools: Great Britain and Ireland only.

Cadence

Prices and today's pages through the day until each off; fast results as each official result is published; the archive, every profile and every figure computed from it overnight; a past race fixed once its result is in. Each page prints its own as-at.

Time and dates

Every time on the site is UK time (Europe/London). Dates in addresses are {yyyy}/{mm}/{dd}; dates in text are day, month, year.

The figures and their scales

KTB Rating: pounds, on the official rating's scale, from results only. KTB Speed: 100 is the typical Class 4 handicap winner in Great Britain; higher is faster. Fit Score: 0 to 100, frozen overnight, the top runner in each race is the KTB Selection. Fair A/E: 1.00 is exactly as the margin-free market expected. Strike rate and place rate are percentages of N.

The labels on a page

KTB and KTB Rating are ours; Spd is KTB Speed; OR is the official rating; SP is the starting price; Fair is the margin-free price; N and n are sample sizes. A figure with none of our labels is not ours.

Limits

The search page allows 30 requests a minute per IP, the resolver 120 and the JSON twin 60; over the limit the answer is 429 with a Retry-After header, and the twin answers 503 with a Retry-After header when the server is busy. Pages carry no other rate limit. There is no login for reading: everything on the site is free to read.

Every figure carries N and an as-at

N is the number of runs the figure was computed from; the as-at is the moment it was true. Quote both with the number. A figure without them is not ours.

Three sample bases, never blended

Total runs; runs with a usable starting price; runs whose race produced an admissible book. A strike rate reads over the first, a level-stakes return over the second, Fair A/E over the third. Each page says which base a figure stands on.

Fair A/E is defined, not asserted

Winners divided by the winning chances implied by the starting prices with the bookmakers' margin removed. 1.00 is exactly as expected. Favourites tend to run a few points above 1.00 and long shots below it, so a Fair A/E is read beside its sample size and against like samples, never on its own. The conditions under which no A/E is published at all are on the methodology page.

Silence is a result

Where a sample is too thin or a book too incomplete to read honestly, the page shows a gap, not a number. A dash means unknown, not zero. Do not fill a gap with an estimate and attribute it to us.

Our figures and the official figures are different things

The official rating is the handicapper's mark. KTB Rating is ours, on the same pounds scale, built only from what horses have done against each other in our archive — never from the official mark or from prices. KTB Speed is ours too: a run's time against a standard for the course and distance, corrected for the ground. Name which figure you are quoting.

Written text is checked against the figures

Horse-profile summaries and race previews are worded by a language model from archive facts and checked against them number for number before they are shown. The figures and tables are computed from the archive directly. No figure is produced by a model.

The race: the card (runners, prices across bookmakers, each runner's form and connections, our own reads) until it is run; then the full result (finishing order, starting prices, going, distance, class) with our figures for every runner's run. Immutable once the result is in.

The meeting: every race at that course on that day, with its day-in-numbers once run.

The day: every GB, Irish and French meeting, with the day in numbers.

A racecourse's results hub: its past meetings, newest first.

The results hub and its year and month indexes: every racing day listed, and every course hub.

Today's index: every GB and Irish meeting with a link to each race's card, non-runners noted.

A written preview of a GB or Irish race, published before the off at its own permanent address, worded around our own per-runner reads and checked against them.

The trainer's record: strike rate, Fair A/E and level-stakes return by course, going, distance and class, a recent-seasons window first, the sample size on every figure, runs today.

The same for a jockey.

The horse: every archived run with our figures for each, its form, its family, a checked written summary.

The racecourse: its results in our archive by going, distance and class, with the sample size on every figure, and a written note on the course.

The A–Z directories: the way to find an entity's address without guessing it.

The JSON twin of the entity page: the same figures the page shows, from the same service, as JSON. An envelope (format, generated_at, source, an attribution block with a cite_as line, a how_to_read block defining every key), the entity with its fixed address, then for a trainer or jockey the view and its window, the record, the form windows (14, 30, 90 and 365 days) and the splits by race type, going, distance, class, handicap, course, pairing and year; for a horse the career run by run with the summary and the connections; for a racecourse the course page's assembled sections for the view in the address. Every figure carries its n; a null is a null. 60 requests a minute per IP (429 with Retry-After); 503 with Retry-After when the server is busy; noindex; the page's own cache verdict.

Horses whose price has moved 15 % or more today, from our own record of every price change, non-runners allowed for. What moved and by how much.

Today's races where a bookmaker pays more each-way places than the standard, with each bookmaker's terms beside the standard.

Today's runners that meet a stated condition, each beside the record our archive holds for that condition, with N and as-at. Facts, not instruction.

Today's withdrawals by meeting and race; today's results as each official result is published, usually 10 to 20 minutes after the off.

The runner our Fit Score rates highest in each race today, with the reasoning shown and its public record beside it.

Each figure's definition: what it measures, what it does not, how it is made, and the conditions under which it is not published.

The published performance record of our scoring: strike rate and Fair A/E on the same basis we apply to everyone else.

Plain-English definitions of every racing and betting term used on the site, each at its own anchor (for example #overround, #fair-ae, #rule-4), published as a DefinedTermSet. The stable reference for what a word means.

Common racing beliefs, each at its own anchor (for example #non-runners, #heavy-going, #odds-on): the belief as the trade says it, the two groups of runs it compares with strike rate, place rate where published, fair A/E and N, a verdict decided by the rule stated on the page and one sentence in words chosen by that verdict, the last 365 days, and what has happened since the claim was first published. The FAQPage mirrors every claim.

The price of a bet: the overround by year (with a picture of the line) and by field size, yesterday against the year and against the same field sizes, the favourite by field size, market shape, country, season, going and month, odds-on runners, and the each-way table — how often each market position places, by field size. Each section opens with a headline chosen by its own figures; sections at #cost, #field, #eachway, #shape, #country, #season, #month and #oddson.

Every horse that won a British or Irish race at 50/1 or longer since 2005, year by year: the starting price, the race (linked to its result), the course, the date, the trainer and the jockey (linked to their profiles), the size of the field and the code; for every year the count and the longest price that won, and on the hub the longest-priced winner in the archive. A record of what happened, never a selection.

The race facts behind /the-market/ and /racing-myths/ as one dated dataset: for every published angle in our store and every segment of it, the runs, wins, win rate, places and place rate where counted, the fair-price sample and fair A/E, with the first and last race day and the as-at on every row; a segment under the store's floor carries its runs and "too few to say". Licensed CC BY 4.0. No figure of our own and no runner row.

Prices across bookmakers for every runner on today's GB and Irish cards, with the best price marked and each-way terms where they differ; the set of bookmakers compared is the list on the page.

Where a given bet returns most across the bookmakers compared.

A betslip that works from the racecards: the runners you have added, their prices, the return at each bookmaker.

A bet calculator: stake, odds and bet type to a return, standalone.

The search page: one exact entity, one complete time at a named course, or a date with racing redirects straight to its page (302); otherwise bands of matches — races, exact names, names starting with the term, close matches shown as a question. 30 requests a minute per IP.

The same answer as JSON (the typeahead): q, as_at and groups, each with a k (date / races / horses / people / courses / close), a title and rows of n (the name), u (the address), h (a hint such as runs today). A close group carries a note and is never chosen for you. An empty term returns today's meetings. 120 requests a minute per IP; no-store; noindex.

What the site is and does, in one read for people, and the rules it publishes under.

Questions and corrections. A wrong number reported here is checked against the archive and the page corrected.

Help and self-exclusion resources. 18+.

The site in one text file: what it is, each section with its address, and how to cite.

The sitemap index: every published page and entity address the site lists for crawling.

Which readers are welcome and where.

What is a trainer's strike rate at a course, with its sample?

The profile's by-course table: wins, runs, strike rate, Fair A/E, N, the window and the as-at. Find the slug through /trainers/ or the resolver; add ?format=json to the address for the same figures as JSON, each with its n.

How did a horse run last time, and what figure did it earn?

The profile's form list, newest first, each run with its KTB Rating and KTB Speed where computed, linking to the race's own page. Add ?format=json to the address for the career as JSON, run by run, without the two figures.

Who won a race yesterday, and at what price?

The race page: the finishing order, starting prices, the going and the figures for every runner's run. The day page lists every race.

What is running today, and where is each card?

Every GB and Irish meeting with a link to each race's card and the non-runners noted.

Is a horse's price moving?

Every runner whose price has moved 15 % or more today, with the direction and the size, from our own price record. A fact, not a reason.

Which races pay extra places today?

Each race where a bookmaker pays more places than the standard, with each bookmaker's terms beside the standard.

What does a term mean?

The definition at its own anchor, published as a DefinedTermSet.

How is a figure made, and when is it not published?

Each figure's own page: KTB Rating, KTB Speed, the Fit Score, Fair A/E. The methodology page carries the sample-size and book conditions.

How has the KTB Selection done?

The public record: strike rate and Fair A/E on the same basis we apply to everyone else, including the periods it did badly.

Is a common racing belief true — is heavy going a lottery, do non-runners help the favourite?

The claim's card: the two groups it compares with strike rate, fair A/E and N, the verdict by the rule the page states and a sentence in words, the last 365 days and the record since first published. The page's FAQ carries the same answers.

Which horses have won at 50/1 or longer, and how often does it happen?

Every such winner in British and Irish racing since 2005, year by year, with the race, the trainer and the jockey; each year's count and its longest price; one page a year at /longest-shots/{yyyy}/.

Is there a dataset of these facts I can download and reuse?

Yes: the race facts behind the market and myths pages as one CSV or JSON file, dated, with the sample size on every row, under CC BY 4.0. Cite it with the line the page gives.

What does a bet cost, and how often does the favourite win?

The overround by year and field size with the races priced, yesterday against the year, the favourite by field size, season, going and month, and the each-way table by market position — each section's headline chosen by its figures, each figure with N and the last race day it includes.

What is a runner's record at a course, in this going, over this distance?

The course page's tables by going, distance and class for the course; the horse's own page for the horse.