About The Racing App

The Racing App has only one objective, to help you find winners.

Created by horse racing technology specialists Quantum Leap Solutions Limited, it is bursting with innovations, from the algorithmic systems used to analyse past races and predict the likely outcome of upcoming races, to a modern 'dashboard' interface with charts, visualisations and interactive tools.

What's in this guide:

  • Selections and dashboard
  • Compute - interactive value-finding tool
  • Form - analyse past performances
  • Bet Finder - filters to quickly find potential bets
  • Settings - customising your racecard
  • Other tools - Eyecatchers, Trainers and Movers
  • Making money from backing winners

Selections and dashboard

Recognising that different punters approach the task of finding a selection from different perspectives we have configured the The Racing App to give a Tipster based, Market based, Value based and Form based selection in each race, identified by the following colour coded icons.

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The dashboard for each race has corresponding elements revealing how each of these selections have been arrived at.

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Tipsters chart - Indicates the number of newspaper tipsters that have selected each runner.

Market chart - Plots the change in bookmakers' odds from the first prices offered the evening before each race until the race starts for each of the main contenders. The chart is updated each time the odds of any horse are updated. The Market based selection is the horse that has shortened in price most since the initial odds were offered by the bookmakers. The selection can change over time as odds shorten and drift prior to the race.

Value chart - Indicates the discrepancy between the odds our form analyst's believe each horse should be, reflected in its rating on the card, and those offered by the bookmakers. The value odds are based on the historical win record of horses a given number of points behind the top rate in a race of the same type.

Form visualiser chart - Summarises the strengths and weaknesses of each runner. Users can interact with the chart by clicking the buttons below the summary to remove the effect of various factors on the predicted outcome of the race. Changes will be reflected in the graphic of the predicted finish to the right of the summary table.

Compute - interactive value-finding tool

The Compute tool is at the heart of our approach to betting profitably on horse racing and can be accessed from the Value Chart. No comparable tool exists on any other racing app or website that we know of.

Compute quantifies the major factors that determine the outcome of races, combines those effects into a single merit rating and calculates a win probability and value price for each runner based on the distribution of those ratings.

For convenience we populate the Compute values for each race with default settings based on our computer algorithms. You should regard these as “factory settings”. It is often beneficial to adjust them in order to account for the nuances associated with specific horses, something that would require millions more lines of code than we have had time to write.

Value prices can be viewed on the card by choosing the relevant Setting. The value price shown on the card will capture any changes made to the Compute values by the user when a card page is refreshed. The Value Chart does not update based on a user's adjusted values offering a comparison between a user's view and our analyst's view.

Form - analyse past performances

In this responsive website version of the app we have incorporated summary form and form data values seen in the Form Visualiser summary table into the card.

More detailed form can be accessed using the View full form button on the Form Visualiser chart.

The detailed form is designed to work seamlessly with Compute to allow you to look at each runner's nuances and adjust the Factor values to your liking. The comments in the Form are focused on helping you arrive at good estimations of the effect of different conditions on a horse's performance and its latent potential.

Bet Finder - filters to quickly find potential bets

The Racing App incorporates the most advanced bet finding tool available. Betfinder can be used to filter a whole day's racing into prospective bets from the Tools option in the menu. Simply click the relevant buttons on the Betfinder interface to filter the day's runners by the criteria specified.

Betfinder can also be used to quickly filter a single race by any of the criteria, simply tap the Filters button above each card and specify the criteria required.

Settings - customising your racecard

The Racing App allows you to display The Racing App ratings, a representation of the ratings as stars (1 for little chance 5 for excellent chance) or value prices on the card alongside each horse. You can choose your preferred view in Settings.

Other tools - Eyecatchers, Trainers and Movers

The Tools section of The Racing App allows you to see at-a-glance Trainers in form and their runners, horses that are being backed or drifting in the market and runners that have caught our analysts' eye when reviewing a past race.

Making money from backing winners

Ultimately making money from backing horses depends on whether you can predict the win probability of a horse better than the bookmaker or those that lay odds on the exchanges. The tools and content in The Racing App will help you in this quest.

It is a matter of personal choice whether you choose to back more than one horse in a race, back the best value horse in a race or the horse with the best chance of winning. Our advice would be to back horses that have the best chance of winning and that are a longer price than your form study suggests they should be.

Good luck.

  • Selections and dashboard
  • Compute - interactive value-finding tool
  • Form - analyse past performances
  • Bet Finder - filters to quickly find potential bets
  • Settings - customising your racecard
  • Other tools - Eyecatchers, Trainers and Movers
  • Making money from backing winners

The Racing App has only one objective, to help you find winners.

Created by horse racing technology specialists Quantum Leap Solutions Limited, it is bursting with innovations, from the algorithmic systems used to analyse past races and predict the likely outcome of upcoming races, to a modern 'dashboard' interface with charts, visualisations and interactive tools.

Selections and dashboard

Recognising that different punters approach the task of finding a selection from different perspectives we have configured the The Racing App to give a Tipster based, Market based, Value based and Form based selection in each race, identified by the following colour coded icons.

selectionImage

The dashboard for each race has corresponding elements revealing how each of these selections have been arrived at.

dashboardImage

Tipsters chart - Indicates the number of newspaper tipsters that have selected each runner.

Market chart - Plots the change in bookmakers' odds from the first prices offered the evening before each race until the race starts for each of the main contenders. The chart is updated each time the odds of any horse are updated. The Market based selection is the horse that has shortened in price most since the initial odds were offered by the bookmakers. The selection can change over time as odds shorten and drift prior to the race.

Value chart - Indicates the discrepancy between the odds our form analyst's believe each horse should be, reflected in its rating on the card, and those offered by the bookmakers. The value odds are based on the historical win record of horses a given number of points behind the top rate in a race of the same type.

Form visualiser chart - Summarises the strengths and weaknesses of each runner. Users can interact with the chart by clicking the buttons below the summary to remove the effect of various factors on the predicted outcome of the race. Changes will be reflected in the graphic of the predicted finish to the right of the summary table.

Compute - interactive value-finding tool

The Compute tool is at the heart of our approach to betting profitably on horse racing and can be accessed from the Value Chart. No comparable tool exists on any other racing app or website that we know of.

Compute quantifies the major factors that determine the outcome of races, combines those effects into a single merit rating and calculates a win probability and value price for each runner based on the distribution of those ratings.

For convenience we populate the Compute values for each race with default settings based on our computer algorithms. You should regard these as “factory settings”. It is often beneficial to adjust them in order to account for the nuances associated with specific horses, something that would require millions more lines of code than we have had time to write.

Value prices can be viewed on the card by choosing the relevant Setting. The value price shown on the card will capture any changes made to the Compute values by the user when a card page is refreshed. The Value Chart does not update based on a user's adjusted values offering a comparison between a user's view and our analyst's view.

Form - analyse past performances

In this responsive website version of the app we have incorporated summary form and form data values seen in the Form Visualiser summary table into the card.

More detailed form can be accessed using the View full form button on the Form Visualiser chart.

The detailed form is designed to work seamlessly with Compute to allow you to look at each runner's nuances and adjust the Factor values to your liking. The comments in the Form are focused on helping you arrive at good estimations of the effect of different conditions on a horse's performance and its latent potential.

Bet Finder - filters to quickly find potential bets

The Racing App incorporates the most advanced bet finding tool available. Betfinder can be used to filter a whole day's racing into prospective bets from the Tools option in the menu. Simply click the relevant buttons on the Betfinder interface to filter the day's runners by the criteria specified.

Betfinder can also be used to quickly filter a single race by any of the criteria, simply tap the Filters button above each card and specify the criteria required.

Settings - customising your racecard

The Racing App allows you to display The Racing App ratings, a representation of the ratings as stars (1 for little chance 5 for excellent chance) or value prices on the card alongside each horse. You can choose your preferred view in Settings.

Other tools - Eyecatchers, Trainers and Movers

The Tools section of The Racing App allows you to see at-a-glance Trainers in form and their runners, horses that are being backed or drifting in the market and runners that have caught our analysts' eye when reviewing a past race.

Making money from backing winners

Ultimately making money from backing horses depends on whether you can predict the win probability of a horse better than the bookmaker or those that lay odds on the exchanges. The tools and content in The Racing App will help you in this quest.

It is a matter of personal choice whether you choose to back more than one horse in a race, back the best value horse in a race or the horse with the best chance of winning. Our advice would be to back horses that have the best chance of winning and that are a longer price than your form study suggests they should be.

Good luck.