Horse Racing: Educational

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. This page is the index of everything we have built to help you read a race: how the site works, the archive behind it, the guides, and the tools.

Today’s racecards How Kickthebookies works Betting basics Compare odds The Fit record

Contents: How KTB works · The archive · Start here · Reading a race · Courses and festivals · Tools · Common questions

How KTB works

Four things, and the record behind each of them. The whole site in one read — where the numbers come from, what each figure means and the rules we keep — is on How Kickthebookies works.

The racecard

Every race in Britain and Ireland, every day: each runner’s form, the prices on offer best-first, and our own figures beside them. From any runner, open the horse, the trainer, the jockey and the course.

Today’s racecards

The KTB Fit Score

Our score for how well each runner fits today’s race, worked out every morning from its stored record and today’s conditions. The top-ranked runner in each race is logged against the result, win or lose, so the method’s record is public.

How it works · The record

KTB Rating and KTB Speed

Our own measure of each horse’s ability, and our own figure for how fast it actually ran, computed from the official record and published only once they had passed their tests — which are on their pages, losers included. One race a day shows both for the whole field, free.

KTB Rating · KTB Speed · Today’s Open Race

Honest numbers

Every statistic carries its sample (“from 212 runs”) and when it was counted. Fair A/E — actual wins against what the prices expected, with the bookmaker’s margin removed — is read against its price band, never on its own. Nothing tells you what to back.

Fair A/E explained · How the site is run

Every term, explained

The glossary defines every racing and betting term the site uses in plain English — the overround, Rule 4, a nursery, the going, our own figures — each at its own address, so any word on any page is one tap from its meaning: /glossary/#overround.

The archive

The record is the point. Everything on the site is computed from it, and it grows every day.

Results since 2005

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

Results · Fast results

Horses, trainers, jockeys

A profile for everyone in the record, with runs and wins over the last 14, 30, 90 and 365 days as well as the whole career — so “is this yard in form now?” has an answer.

Horses A–Z — ran in the last 12 months, and every horse since 2005
Trainers A–Z — runs and wins since 2005, and who has runners today
Jockeys A–Z — rides and wins since 2005, and who rides today

Racecourses

Statistics for every course in Britain, Ireland and France from the same record: favourites and the market, the leading trainers and jockeys, course specialists, the draw by trip and the angles that have paid, each with its sample and as-at.

Course statistics

Today’s angles

Lists rebuilt from the archive through the day, each checked against every previous run rather than taken from a declaration.

First-time headgear
Off a winning mark — handicappers off a winning mark, down in class or back from a break
Non-runners as they are declared
Race previews — a written preview of every race, from our own figures

Start here

Betting basics — how a price works, every bet type, and the terms you will meet on a racecard, each explained once.
Each-way betting explained — place terms, payouts and worked examples.
The glossary — every racing and betting term in plain English, with the questions punters ask answered beneath.

Reading a race

How bookmakers set prices — where a price comes from, the overround, and why it moves.
How to read and use form — the form line, the figures and letters, and what matters in them.
The handicapping guide — official ratings, weights, class and what “well handicapped” means.
Ante-post betting — betting weeks or months ahead: the terms, the risks and the season’s big targets.

Courses and festivals

The Cheltenham Festival guide — the four days, the races and how to read them.
The Aintree Grand National Festival guide — the fences, the trends and the three days around them.

Tools

Bet calculator — any bet type, any stake, each-way included; converts between odds formats.
Compare odds — every runner’s prices best-first, with the standout prices of the day.
Best payout — the same multiple priced at every listed bookmaker, on each one’s own each-way terms.
Market movers — the day’s biggest moves, as a matter of record.
Extra places — the races where a bookmaker pays more places than standard.

Common questions

Where should I start?

If you are new to racing, with Betting basics: it explains a price, every bet type and the terms on a racecard once each. If you already bet, with today’s racecards — the form, the prices best-first and our figures are all on one page.

Does Kickthebookies give tips?

No. We show the statistics, prices and records behind a race and leave the decision to you. Where a selection appears it is the output of a published method, shown with its complete record, win or lose.

Is the site free?

Everything you can read today is free: the racecards, results, the archive since 2005, the odds comparison, the tools and every guide. The KTB Rating and KTB Speed figures for a whole field are free in Today’s Open Race, one race a day.

Where do your figures come from?

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, by a method we publish, with its test on the page.

More answers on the frequently asked questions page.

Football guides are kept on their own hub: football guides.

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