The ratings are normally posted between 6.30pm to 7.00pm the night before racing. On occasions they may be posted earlier and once in a while, most often for Sunday racing they will be posted in the morning. If you have had your pc on for a while you may need to refresh the page to see the newly added race cards and ratings.

Once the ratings have been added I then input the pop up boxes which takes about ten minutes, so if you have logged on and the pop up boxes are not showing, then please wait a short while and then again you may need to refresh the page.

If you are new to using the speed ratings then I suggest that you just watch a few days of racing to see how the ratings are performing and to get an idea of how it all works.

All major columns, Master, Lto, Avg and M+A have a consistent 55% plus strike rate for the top 3 rated. In my experience the Master and the M+A column give the better prices as the Lto and Avg are normally more concerned with recent form which is more known to other punters.

Accessing the cards and information.

To access all the cards and members information, you will have to input your passwords for each option, however once you have done this, making sure that you tick the box to remember your passwords, then you will only have to do this once.

Viewing the cards.

The ideal screen resolution to view the cards is 1280 x 800. You can change this in your pc's Control Panel, clicking Display, then Settings.

If you don't want to or can't, you may find that it seems as though you can only see the first card and part of the second card of the meeting. You will be able to see all the cards by scrolling down the page by clicking on any part of the actual race card, then scrolling down using the roller or ball on your mouse.

There is actually a vertical scroll bar to the right of the page but your screen resolution may not allow you to see it. This would normally allow you to scroll up and down as normal to see all the cards. To use this, there is a horizontal scroll bar at the bottom of the page which if you scroll to the far right, will show you the vertical bar as well as a 'quick link' list of the days meetings.

You can use the back button on your browser to flick back and forth through different cards or form guides and this will keep any sorting on particular columns that you have done. Otherwise, use the links and re-sort the columns.

Printing the cards.

To print all the cards from one meeting, 'right click' on the card itself and a menu should appear. Click 'Print' from this menu and you will be able to print all of the cards together on 2 or 3 sheets of A4 paper, depending on the number of races and runners.

Using the cards.

All the columns can be sorted by clicking the arrows at the top of each column. The larger one will bring all higher rated horses together at the top. Personally, I always sort each card by the Master column.

To get an explanation of the cards please click the 'Key to the Race Cards' link at the top each page where a small new window will appear.

Rating details.

No ratings for any horse that ran the day before will be shown as I do not always have time to calculate the ratings this quickly.

All ratings that score nothing in the event of either not finishing, (Fell, Pulled Up etc.) or because the time was so slow will be shown as '1', the lowest rating for a horse that finishes will be '5'.

For the flat racing cards, all form for both all weather and turf form is mixed. The recent introduction of the Polytrack surface at Lingfield, Kempton, Wolverhampton (and Great Leighs) is seen by experts as to be very close to good ground on the turf and for the ratings it makes little or no difference to how they perform. Only Southwell's all weather fibresand surface is different and is considered deeper and more like good to soft ground.

For the jump races, a chase race card will only show chase racing form and a hurdle or national hunt flat race will show both hurdle and national hunt flat racing form. All past form for these races in other codes can be seen by clicking the 'form guide' link under each card with chase form shown in blue, hurdle and national hunt flat form shown in red.

No Hunter Chase races are shown for all the jump racing as much of the form is from Point to Point races and are often contested by very old horses who's best days are behind them. They are also usually run at no pace at all.

The Form Guide

This can be accessed by clicking the 'form guide' link under each card. All winning form is shown with a grey background to each line. The columns are self explanatory apart from maybe 'OR' which is the official rating for the horse given by the official handicapper and 'Days' which is the number of days between each race.

Advanced Search Feature

This is also accessed via the link below each card and is useful for checking on detailed form.

Races that are more reliable

In my view, all age races, (3yo+, 4yo+), have proven to be more reliable as there is more previous form to go on. Maiden races for 2 year olds are more reliable than maiden races for older horses and 3 year old handicaps are the races I would avoid. These 3 year old handicaps have many horses that have had just three runs and are are running in their first handicap often being raised in distance and can be called unexposed.

Full members can check out all of the systems for some ideas on what to look out for in certain races.

How to use the ratings

Personally I always sort the race cards by the Master column as this tends to bring the better horses to the top of each card. A key to the cards can be found on a link at the top of each race card and the average rating for all ages and class of race for flat rating is given on each race card too.

Check out the Systems page to find ideas on how to use the ratings fully.

Footnote

Do check back on results each day for a decent trial period if you are just starting out. It is possible that your first day or two will not be what you may be expecting but the ratings are very consistent over a period of time, especially from the top 3 rated horses.

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