We ship improvements most days. This page keeps the receipts: service updates, tracker additions and the latest analysis.
Improvements to the members area: the ratings, dashboard, leaderboards, tools and your account.
Premium and Professional members have a new LR O/R column on the ratings: a horse's last-time-out starting price measured against the number of runners it faced, so a price is read in the context of the field it came from. A low figure means the horse was well fancied last time, and our 0.01 to 1.20 band is highlighted so the well-backed runners jump off the card.
Every race card now shows the winner's time and how it compares to standard, and the standard is one we have built ourselves from twelve years of racing: track by track, trip by trip, and adjusted for the day's going. The ready-made standards are so soft that half the field beats them, so ours is set where a genuinely good time should sit, which means a plus or minus figure actually tells you something. Free for every member to see.
Race cards now carry a Beaten column showing exactly how far each horse finished behind, in clean decimals, with the familiar short-margin calls kept where racing has a word for them: nose, short head, head and neck. Every member sees it.
The claim an apprentice or conditional jockey is taking now appears in brackets after their name on the race cards, for example 'A Lewis (5)', so you can see at a glance who is getting weight off. Every member sees it.
When you download a day's ratings as a CSV, the columns now come out in the order you arranged them on screen, so your spreadsheet matches the view you built rather than resetting to the default layout. For Premium and Professional members.
Professional members have a new Horses tab alongside ProStats: a searchable database of every horse and the mark it holds right now. One row per horse shows its current Flat, All-Weather, Hurdle and Chase ratings, its age, sex, trainer and sire, when it last ran and the mark it carried that day, with a link straight to that race. It is the view ProStats cannot give you: the impressive first-time winner rated 112 who has not run since shows up here, where a race-by-race history would never surface him. Filter by rating, distance, age and more, and every search is a link you can share.
A horse's history page now shows its latest handicap move right in the heading, so you can see at a glance how the mark has just changed. A horse raised five pounds to 98 reads 'Horse history (FLT: +5 to 98)', settling back to the plain mark once that week's revision has been run off.
Professional members can now group and band their ProStats systems by RTR Score, the same way you already can by Official Rating. It is another angle on exactly where a system's edge sits.
There is a new Suggest an Idea feature on the site: tell us what you would like RatingTheRaces to do next and it comes straight to the team. We read every one, and the strong ideas get built, sometimes remarkably fast. Two features members asked for last week were live the very same afternoon they were suggested. And when we reply, the response comes back to you in the app, with a notification and your original suggestion alongside it. If there is something that would make your day easier, we would love to hear it.
Customising your ratings view just got more flexible. As well as showing and hiding columns, Premium and Professional members can now drag them into whatever order you like from the Select Columns panel, so the numbers you rely on most sit exactly where you want them on every race card.
Your members dashboard has been reorganised into five tabs across the top: Competition, My Stats, ProStats, Today Stats and Trading. Everything that used to be stacked down one long page now lives behind a tab, so you land on what you want straight away and the page stays quick. Logged-out visitors keep the familiar overview.
Professional members have a new column on the ratings, immediately to the right of Official Rating: the mark a horse last won a handicap off. Set against its current OR, it shows at a glance whether a horse is now racing above, below or right around the mark it last proved itself on, with the detail of that winning run on hover. It stays hidden on races where no runner has a winning mark, such as two-year-old and maiden events.
ProStats has had a round of improvements for Professional members. You can now build and group your systems around Official Ratings, choose how starting prices are shown, and hover any stat heading for a plain-language explanation of what it means. The top bar has been tidied up as well.
Professional members now see the horse's Official Rating (OR), the handicapper's own mark, as a column on the ratings grid. It sits alongside our numbers on every card, so you can weigh our view against the handicapper's at a glance.
Professional members have a new Last Winning Mark card on the dashboard, built on our new Official Rating history. It surfaces today's and tomorrow's handicap runners in relation to the mark they last won off, and the mark they last won off at today's course, so you can spot a horse dropped back to a winning mark or one being asked to defy a career high. Codes never cross: Flat, All-Weather, Hurdle and Chase marks are always compared like for like.
Irish races now show a UK-equivalent class instead of sitting in 'No Class'. Ireland has no official class system, so we grade every Irish race from its pattern status, conditions, rating band or prize money, converting Irish prize money to pounds properly along the way. We have backfilled more than 33,000 past races, and you can opt each saved ProStats system in to the new classes, so nothing you have already built changes without you choosing it.
Professional members can now see, right on the dashboard, which of today's and tomorrow's runners qualify for each of your saved ProStats systems, with each system's profit and loss, ROI and longest losing run beside it. Three emails a day keep you posted too: an 8am briefing, an 11am update as the field firms up, and an end-of-day summary of what qualified and what did not.
Professional members have a new One Runner Stats section at the foot of the dashboard: every trainer with a single runner, and every jockey with a single ride, today or tomorrow, alongside their record over the last five years for the days when that was all they had. Filter by minimum runs and add course, trainer or jockey splits to find the yard or rider saving their one bullet for a reason.
The dashboard's NAP Comp Most Selected card can now be split by membership. Premium and Pro members can switch between All, Free and Premium & Pro to see what the whole field is backing, what the free players are on, or where the paid members are putting their picks, each with its own top five.
Premium and Pro members now see a Last Year's Winner block on races we have a match for: the horse that won the same race twelve months ago, with its price, connections and our RTR Rank that day, linked through to the full race in our history. Turn on the highlight option in the settings menu and any of today's runners, trainers, jockeys or sires featured in last year's winner result are shaded gold on the card. It is in beta while coverage grows.
New previews, race reviews and editorial on the blog.
The weekly Handicap Analysis is in: Loriko raised to exactly the 125 we predicted, St Faz dropped 2lb for his plot, Lion's House looking ready for the all-weather, and more angles besides. The first horse is free to read; the rest are for Premium and Pro members.
Five days at Goodwood are nearly upon us, with a Group 1 on each of the first four days and the Stewards' Cup to finish. Our look ahead revisits how every feature race was won last year, including a 150/1 Group 1 shock.
Just one winner from Aidan O'Brien's last 23 runners, with two beaten at odds-on over the weekend. We look at what a rare quiet run means, and why the timing matters with the King George only a week away.
A chastening afternoon of right prices and wrong results, with Symbol Of Honour the bright spot and three new horses for the tracker. The first race of the review is free to read.
A new opinion piece on race planning, told through Danger Bay: desperately unlucky in the John Smith's Cup at York, well handicapped on 104, and now being aimed at a Group 3 that pays less than the handicaps he could be winning instead.
Top the daily NAP Competition leaderboard as a free member and you now win full access to the next day's Premium ratings. Top it on a Thursday and the prize covers both Friday and Saturday. The prize lands automatically with the evening's final leaderboard update, and a notification in the app tells you it is yours.
The result of every race now lands on our Fast Results page moments after the horses cross the line, posted automatically throughout the afternoon. You can reach it from the menu here on the website, or from the side menu in the members area, highlighted below.
Every Tuesday we now go through the handicapper's revised marks and pull out the horses that matter from our reviews and tracker. The first post covers nine horses to note this week, each with their old and new marks and up to two suggested target races.
The NAP Competition leaderboard is back to the classic table, now with gold, silver and bronze medal rows. Positions appear once results start coming in, so the running order stays honest. On the racecards, the arrows now step you race by race and the calendar handles changing days.
You can now update your payment card straight from your profile page, alongside the email preferences card added earlier in the week. We also shipped a pass of clearer tooltips, better error messages and dozens of small usability fixes across the app.
Ten new articles covering the features members ask about most, refreshed screenshots throughout, and two new collections: Account & Privacy and Downloads & Data.
Previews for all three days, a thirteen-race Saturday preview, and full race-by-race reviews each evening with result grids. The first race of every review is free to read.
The tracker collects every eyecatcher flagged in our race reviews, each linked to its racecard.
Every eyecatcher from our reviews since 25 June is on the board, ordered by race time with a link to the race it caught our eye in. A selection is free to view and Premium unlocks the lot. New horses land after every review day.
ProStats now presents trainer, jockey and sire form as clean stat cards, and every member can see the cards. Full numbers unlock with Professional membership.
A new category for editorial pieces, opening with a hard look at jockey race riding and when a poor ride deserves calling out.
New members on the 5-day Premium welcome trial now see the trial and its end date in the header and on their profile, so you always know how long you have left.
Entering your NAPs now feels like filling in a betting slip: owner silks on every pick, a share card for X, and a layout that works properly on phones.
Premium and Professional members can now see how Free and Premium/Pro players are napping each race, on the dashboard and in the NAP counter.
The header no longer covers the course tabs on mobiles, and Next Race Off, Tomorrow and Back To Today became handy chips in the time strip.
A fully rebuilt account system: redesigned login, registration and checkout pages, plans priced clearly with your saving shown, and your subscription visible (and cancellable) from your own profile. Since 10 July you can also buy a plan in one step, with no free account detour first.
Clearer tabs, prizes above the fold, tidier NAP Competition details and stats that refresh themselves every hour.
Result grids for the Saturday action at York, Newcastle and the Curragh, Friday eyecatchers, and a Northumberland Vase preview with two to follow.
An explainer on unlocking the full Friday ratings through the NAP Competition, alongside a proper write-up of the competition rules and prizes.
Columns stay hidden until they have data to show, and Draw and DBD columns no longer clutter National Hunt races.
Free members who qualify for Friday's full ratings through their NAP entries now get an unlock pop-up, and the racecard refreshes the moment it appears.
Our analysis found a permanent home on the site, opening with the Royal Ascot 2026 eyecatchers. Everything since is written and published right here.
The Help Centre guides were rewritten against the live app with fresh screenshots throughout, including a full reference for the ratings columns and all six leaderboard views.
XLS and CSV downloads now show a preparing message and finish automatically, and the day-forward arrow only lights up once tomorrow's ratings exist.
