Horse Racing Form and Ratings
If your serious about Horse Racing, you probably already know that
there is no better reward when it comes to the success of finding your
own winners. A horse's Form and its Rating can play a key part in horse
selection and help you obtain a clearer understanding of the capability
of both the horse and the opposition.
Free Horse Ratings
Free Horse Ratings can be found
daily on the site of
Adrian
Massey. The ratings are
generated from real statistics compiled, selected and ordered by his
very own self programmed computer software. The ratings can provide a
good guide when it comes to horse selection. It is first advised that
you read the page demonstrating how to use and understand the ratings
as with all the services.
Free Speed Ratings
Just about the ONLY thing left worth
visiting the Racing Post website for since they started
charging for access is the
Top
Speed
ratings displayed on the race cards. The Top Speed rating is the
average
calculated race speed of each horse in the race. This is useful for
highlighting horses that could do well in sprint races or just to get
an idea of the typical race speed of a horse or opposition.
Free Trainer / Jockey Ratings
Free Horse Racing Ratings that mainly concentrate on the Trainer and
Jockey stats can be found on
InFineForm.
These ratings are not specifically related to the form of the horse,
instead they include other vital statistics such as trainer and jockey
combinations, money claimed by yard, and horse conditions.
Is There Life After The Racing Post ?
For many years, The
Racing Post
has dominated the form book for punters, providing in depth coverage
and vital statistics that one could use to help study form. However in
2009, The Racing Post decided to make their website
paid membership only
for the best of the information, meaning millions of regular users to
the site either had to stump up the cash to pay their subscription or
go out and buy the newspaper. The latter been very expensive as a daily
newspaper and certainly not as "green" as reading it online. For those
who did not want to pay, and we ourselves are among that group, we had
to move on and reach out to pastures new.
The Good News.
Driving millions of people away
from the once popular Racing Post turned
out to be an amazing boom for other lesser know or used sites as
suddenly millions of surfers were hunting out the alternatives. Top
commercial rivals of the Racing Post, such as
At The Races
took full advantage
by maintaining itself as free alternative to the Racing Post and adding
extra features such as free
Time
Form, who are widely regarded as one of the best industry leading
Horse Racing Form compilers.
Long Term Rivals Sporting
Life
has been sold alongside the Racing Post in the newspaper format for
many years but has always been over shadowed somewhat. Nowadays as a
free alternative, the popularity of the Sporting Life has increased ten
fold, this is no surprise as for many years the Sporting Life has
provided excellent horse racing form, trustable ratings and reliable
selections.
An excellent example as a free
alternative to the Racing Post has to be the mighty
GG.com. With full horse
by horse history
and form for every UK horse race AND top free tips for every race its a
site that certainly warrants regular viewing.
