This is our general guide on how we suggest using the app to succeed in picking out winners. Nothing is 100% guaranteed in Horse Racing as you know but we like to share our process in how we would go through the racecard and what we would look out for.
Load up the race you would like to go in depth with.
All horses in that race will be displayed sorted from top to bottom by the lowest odds. We do this because the market will have done half the work for you, trust the wisdom of the crowd.
Also whilst you shouldn’t really decide the winner of the race without checking every horse you may run into a race where the favorite has absolutely everything in his favor and you can save time and skip over the rest. I like to also just have a scroll down without expanding the more in-depth details and just take note of how many horses have a 4-5 star RaceBrain score so you can gauge how competitive this race could be.
For each horse in the list I like to establish 4 key things. First, is the jockey good / good around this course. Second, is the trainer good / good around this course. Third, is there insider money on. And lastly, how the horse has performed recently and is it off a comfortable mark today.
Now I have picked a random race here at Kempton the 16:40 Nursery race with 11 runners.
So I come in and just have a quick scroll up and down and I can see there is three horses (out of 11) with 4 or more star ratings and that is Downtown Dubai & Dreaming Princess & Greavsie.
I don’t immediately count out the others but it’s just something to keep in the back of your mind. Let’s expand the favorite here Downtown Dubai.
Upon expanding his stats what immediately stands out is that
1) He has 100% insider money which is brilliant.
2) His Jockey score is 0.71 (green) meaning he’s a fantastic jockey in general. He is only average around this course (0.44) but that’s acceptable.
3) The trainer is very good around this course with a score of 0.71 also.
4) You can see his last result out was a amber traffic light meaning he wasn’t too far from the winner. 3rd out of 11 he was and that was off a mark of 56 which you can see next to it. Then your eyes should be drawn back up to the top and we can see he’s running of 56 again today so I’d make the assumption here it’s a good mark for him and it’s possible for him to win off of it.
Verdict: Very good, high chance of winning and no way he doesn’t place.
Let’s pull up the second favorite and hopefully immediately this one sets off red flags for you.
1) Jockey is horrendous in general and around this course. A score of 0.11 & 0.09 is awful, betting on a jockey like that normally means setting your money on fire.
Verdict: You can almost just write this horse off at this point most of the time especially when it has zero insider money and the trainer is bad too. How is this horse second favorite I’ll never know, I guess they don’t have the RaceBrain app?
Onto the 3rd horse coming in at a respectable 7/1.
Now this one’s a little unusual as nothing really stands out immediately but of course the trainers course score is low but this can be excused a lot of the time if everything else seems okay.
1) Jockey is kind of bang in the mid point of 0.50 so he isn’t bad and he isn’t the best in the world he’s just average. Acceptable.
2) Trainer is really good in general with a score of 0.72 but hasn’t had much luck around this course with a score of 0.12. Like I said above I think we can excuse that in this case that he’s good in general.
3) Looking at the previous history he had his first 3 runs and didn’t do too much and then was given a mark of 62 which seemed bad for him as he then came 7th out of 8. But off for 2 month break he comes back with a amber performance and a solid 3rd out of 11 at a mark of 60. The handicapper then drops him down to a mark of 59 as you can see for today’s race. One has to assume he’s well in at this point.
Verdict: Very solid, easily has place claims and could even win.
And then you would proceed to do that process for every horse in the race unless you come across one that’s absolutely sold you and you can’t find a fault…
From my analysis of just the first 3 horses there it’s a chuck up between J J Stingleton and Downtown Dubai. Normally I’d side with Downtown Dubai just because he has insider money which makes the difference most the time I can’t help but think J J Singleton has been dropped a mark and Downtown Dubai didn’t even though their last run was similar, so makes me want to side with J J and assume that extra 1lb less he’s carrying gets him across the line faster.
Let’s look at the results.
Who would of guessed? J J Stingleton secures the win by a neck and Rebel Angel the second favorite is nowhere to be seen.
I hope this guide made sense, I know it’s a little long winded but I hope it gives you the basics of how to look through a racecard and think logically to make a smart bet. You can even LAY on exchanges the obviously bad horses that have not a lot of chance.
Any questions feel free to email me support@racebrain.io but otherwise take care and I wish you a lot of winners.