Every runner rated. Every price checked.
Here is what you see on every race, and what each part means.
Every horse in every race gets a set of ratings in benchmark points, built from how it has actually run, section by section, and adjusted for today's race.
- Today
- The one number we price off, the horse's rating for this race under today's conditions.
- Class
- How good the horse is, on the same scale as the race classes, so a BM64 horse rates around 64 and a Group 1 horse well above 100.
- Early, Mid, Late
- How it runs each part of a race, so you can see who has the early speed and who finishes hardest.
- Pressure
- How it holds up when the leaders go hard early.
- Fast and slow tempo
- How it goes when a race is run fast or slow.
- Good, Soft, Heavy
- How it handles each kind of ground.
- Distance and Track
- How it goes at today's trip and at today's track.
- Map
- Where we expect it to settle: leader, on pace, midfield or back.
The chips under the tiles show how Today was built from Class, so you can see why a horse is rated up or down for this race.
Rates top of the field at 74.2 with the best closing sectionals, and the market is longer than our price.
Live is the best price the market is offering right now.
Rated is our price, the number we think the horse is worth backing at.
Edge is the gap between the two, shown next to every runner in the market table.
We lean on the market, because it is the best guide there is, and only move a price where our read is strong. Most races the two agree and there is nothing to do.
Bet
The market is paying more than our price on a horse with a real chance, so the price is on our side.
Prime Overlay
A bet where our disagreement with the market is at its strongest. There can be a few a day or none, and the biggest is the Overlay of the Day.
Long Overlay
The best bet on the card at each-way odds, for when you want a price.
Lay
A horse the market has too short, usually a favourite, and one to bet against on Betfair.
A race with a bet
A race with a lay
A Prime Overlay
Run, first four home, border shows what we had on
Open any race for the top four, the pressure grid, the rankings, the full market and what to watch. One race a day is open to everyone, and the rest open with a plan or a day pass, see pricing.
Questions
- What scale are the ratings on?
- Australian benchmark points, the same scale as the race classes, so a horse rated 64 belongs in a Benchmark 64 race and the best horses in the world sit around 130.
- What is the Today rating?
- The one number everything adds up to: the horse's class rating plus or minus the factors that matter today, such as going, tempo, distance, track, weight, freshness, jockey and trainer.
- What is a rated price?
- Our price for the horse, worked out from the Today ratings of the whole field, shown next to its win chance so you can compare it with the market.
- What is a bet and what is a lay?
- A bet is a horse whose market price is bigger than our rated price, a lay is a horse whose market price is shorter than our rated price and worth opposing on the exchange.
- What is a Prime Overlay?
- The bets where the gap between the market and our price is widest, the strongest calls on the day.
- Do results change the ratings?
- No, the clock does: a run is scored on time against the class benchmark, so winning slowly does not lift a rating and running fast in defeat does.