Saturday at Ascot – A 25/1 selection in the feature handicap!

2022-07-22T09:32:50+01:00July 22nd, 2022|

Ascot – King George Day 2022!

Princess Margaret Keeneland Stakes

Can anything beat Lezoo?

Kinta, Glenlaurel, Palm Lily and Royal Charter are all unbeaten and you could argue they have the potential to be very classy but how good were their maiden/novice wins? Let’s break them down

Kinta is 2 from 2 having won at Lingfield and Kempton on the AW. You could argue that is plenty of reason to take her on as how well is she going to cope on the turf? Sioux Nation progeny have definitely started better on the AW than they have the turf. Kinta followed up her debut effort by winning at Kempton but […]

Liam’s Weekly Thoughts – Cheltenham Review & Handicap Mark changes

2022-03-24T14:06:14+00:00March 22nd, 2022|

Aintree, Sandown & Next season!

Cheltenham Festival Review

Liam looks at the Cheltenham races and highlights some eyecatchers including a couple he hopes are aimed at the Pertemps Final next season as well as which very impressive winner this season could find things tougher next year!

Handicap Mark Changes

Part 1 of the Handicap changes this week including looking at a horse who Liam hopes is aimed at the Becher Chase next season and one for the Turf Talk Podcast lads

Part 2 of the Handicap changes this week including a horse for the Ladbroke Trophy that Liam feels was harshly mocked for his […]

Can Shishkin back up his win at Cheltenham now?

2022-02-15T10:29:04+00:00January 22nd, 2022|

Can the Clarence House be topped at the Cheltenham Festival?

Shishkin was one of 7 TOP RATED ITV Winners!

On ITV on Saturday, there were 8 races and TOP RATED won 7 of them whilst the other traded 1.36 in the run before finishing 2nd!

Haydock 1:25 Jonbon made hard work of winning but was giving weight away to the runner up. He’s still learning and should again improve for the run. He was drifted slightly for the Supreme Novices Hurdle and we are very happy with Constitution Hill against him.

Ascot 1:45 Unexpected Party showed he was well handicapped when winning comfortably here. He went up 6lb […]

What makes the Best Horse Racing Ratings service?

2020-03-16T16:41:45+00:00July 22nd, 2019|

The 4 main areas to choose the Best Horse Racing Ratings service!

Seems like a strange or biased article for a Ratings service provider to publish right? But once upon a time we were ratings service customers, rather than a ratings provider. Our experiences completely shaped the way we run the RatingTheRaces service today. Below is a short list of things that frustrated us when we were customers of Ratings services and our rules, we subsequently hold ourselves to.

ONLY ONE TOP RATED HORSE PER RACE

Seems obvious right? But so many services have a Top Rated, a Top Speed Rated, a Top Course Rated, a […]

RatingTheRaces Interview with Our Form Expert Liam!

2022-10-23T12:40:04+01:00June 20th, 2019|

RatingTheRaces Interview with Our Form Expert Liam!

RatingTheRaces: Royal Ascot has been good so far (going into day 3) with some big winners found. Can you tell us what made you pick The Grand Visir and Afaak?

Liam: Royal Ascot is going well, guaranteed a profit of 31 points is great and hopefully we can add to that today.

The Grand Visir, I’ve been a fan of for a little while now, ever since he won a handicap at Haydock over 2m. He finished really well that day under James Doyle for William Haggas and demonstrated to me that he was maybe even a pattern class horse.

After a few months […]

Colossus – York Dante Festival NAP Competition Sponsor

2019-06-26T15:45:23+01:00May 11th, 2019|

Colossus – NAP Competition Sponsor

We are delighted to announce that Colossus Bets (follow them on twitter @colossusbets) are AGAIN sponsoring the FREE to enter RatingTheRaces NAP Competition for the York Dante Festival with some AMAZING prizes on offer!

Who are Colussus?

Colossus are the first ever ‘crowdbetting’ service for sports pools including Horse Racing which is fantastic news for you, our members and followers!

If you’re a fan of sports betting in general, Colossus is the place to be!

Colossus is a pool betting product offering both sports and racing jackpots. Players place bets into their pools for a chance to win (or share with other winners) the jackpot prizes.

Colossus have modernised […]

3 Out Of 4 Grand National’s predicted by a Statistical Algorithm!

2019-05-10T01:14:56+01:00May 10th, 2019|

3 Out Of 4 Grand National’s predicted by a Statistical Algorithm!

Not just any old algorithm, it was the RatingTheRaces ratings algorithm!!!

So how on earth does an algorithm, achieve this? Well, as many of you know statistics can be used to predict a lot of things, and in horse racing we can generate A LOT of statistics. Fun fact – did you know the human brain can only consider a maximum of 4 parameters. I know. Stunned. Me too. We all feel smarter than that, but apparently, we simply are not. However, whilst an algorithm does have limitations in terms of numbers of parameters, it is far, far greater […]

Saturday 17th November Ratings Review

2019-01-29T22:49:19+00:00November 21st, 2018|

Saturday 17th November 2018 Review & Winter Months Hints!

On Saturday 17th November 2018 we had 16 TOP RATED winners including Darlyn at 7.40 BFSP and Premier Rose at 7.15 BFSP both at Uttoxeter.

First Assignment was another TOP RATED winner, this one coming at Cheltenham for Ian Williams and has since been raised 13lb for this win.

We also had 2 reverse forecasts at Cheltenham including in the feature BetVictor Gold Cup with RTR 2 Baron Alco holding off Top Rated Frodon for a reverse forecast worth an impressive £122.69

Our 2 best courses on Saturday were Uttoxeter where we had 4 TOP RATED winners from 7 races and Wetherby where we […]

What will give you the edge at Royal Ascot?

2017-07-15T11:59:18+01:00June 19th, 2017|

Our Ratings! Shameful plug, we know, but read on, it will be well worth it! Our Ratings have a great record at Ascot, with a 39.09% ROI to Exchange Starting Prices! Check out the Graph! We are confident they can help you at Royal Ascot this week! Obviously Ascot has National Hunt Racing as well as flat racing, so let’s filter it by type. So now we have Top Rated at Ascot by Type! In flat racing we therefore have made over 150 points profit backing TOP RATED blind to BFSP with a very tidy 46.28% ROI! But what about the going?! The forecast […]

Dan Skelton Analysis – RatingTheRaces Race Placement Service

2017-07-15T11:59:51+01:00October 24th, 2016|

We asked Aaron the lead Horse Racing Data Analyst at RatingTheRaces what he thought of objective data for race placement:

“Horse racing is one of those sports with a lot of variables contributing the outcome of a race, so many variables that many people overlook the use of statistics and objective data analysis to help them with their decision making. We (ratingtheraces) can clearly and objectively see the trainers and owners who are making best placement decisions and unsurprising to us, those seem to align with who is taking the most prize money home with them at the end of the day. I think the example given here is […]