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Following on from the recent introduction of Daily Trainer Stats, we’ve extended the same approach to another key area of racing analysis: sire statistics and the performance patterns that emerge within the history of each sire’s progeny. Both views now sit together within the Daily Trainer & Sire Insights section on the Betwise website, although…
Assigning scores to horses based on their recent form is a familiar practice in system-building. From basic shortlists to more involved rule-based models, the idea is usually the same: summarise a horse’s past performances into a single, actionable figure. One well-known example was the Fineform score, which we’ve written about before and placed significant emphasis…
A closer look at why and when jumping errors happen. As we get into the heart of The Winter Game, I’ve been analysing data around good and bad jumping performances. It’s very easy when faced with a large variety of racing types all offered up on the same card to ignore the specific attributes required…
Most bettors understand that the bookmaker Starting Price (SP) and the Betfair Starting Price (BSP) do not behave in the same way. Both are generated from the same race but from very different market mechanisms. SP reflects margin, trading between firms, liability management, and long-established conventions in odds-setting. BSP reflects the aggregated judgement of thousands…
What do punters, bookies, professors, and programmers increasingly have in common? Data R is for Racing is a longstanding book project dedicated to analysing British horse racing using R, the powerful and accessible statistical programming language. I started working on it with Professor Jay Emerson of Yale University a number of years ago, with the…