Horse Racing Bettors Companion
Features
Diamond is the complete HRBC research package. Where access changes, the note beside each feature says what is not included compared with the package above. The prices are on the subscriptions page. The detailed chapters, with screenshots, stay on the companion home page.
RFMS
RFMS, the Recent Form and Market Expectation Score, ranks every declared runner from recent form and the market's earlier reading of the horse. The racecard is listed in that order.
RSPD is not part of the rank. The order is a way to read the field before you open one horse.
RSPD
RSPD is a separate recent weighted speed. It is shown beside the rank when the figures exist, so you can read speed on its own.
It does not contribute to RFMS. A horse can be high on speed and lower on the form-and-market rank, and you can look at each figure.
Win and place percentages
Win and place shows how the ranks included in the package have finished in races like the one on the card. You set the window and, depending on your package, can filter that history by conditions such as course, distance, class and going. Wins are winners among runners. Places are places among races that paid a place.
The figure is a past result for those conditions. It does not identify a profitable bet. Historical statistics and historical racecards use different windows.
Recent form
Recent form opens the horse's latest runs beyond the form figures printed on the racecard. Each run shows the race and finishing position, with additional analysis such as margins, pace, finishing style and comments depending on your package.
The fullest list can be the five most recent runs that match the conditions you chose, which may not be the five most recent runs overall. The list is a record of what happened.
Horse comparison
Comparison puts the horses you choose on one table, so you can read their recent runs together instead of opening each horse in turn.
Early pace and finishing style can appear on that table from Gold. The number of horses is set out beside this note.
Jockey and trainer
Jockey and trainer research opens the recent record of the people, not only the names printed on the racecard. The window is the last 4 weeks, and this race is not included.
When this research is not in the package, the jockey and trainer names on the racecard stay as they are.
Pedigree
Pedigree names the dad, the mum and the mum's dad. Diamond then opens the offspring, with filters and each horse's runs, including pace and finish on those runs.
The offspring record is history for those horses.
Comments
Comments are the in-running notes on past runs. They describe what happened in the race, and they are not the pre-race comment.
The note is what happened in that race. It is not a selection.
Early pace and finishing style
Early pace and finishing style use the words stored for that run: where the horse was early, and how the effort ended.
They show how the race was ridden, not only where the horse finished.
Beaten by and won by
Won by and beaten by show the finishing margin where a length figure exists. Opponents beaten is runners minus finishing position.
Opponents beaten is included from Silver, on the runs that package can open, on comparison, and on jockey and trainer research.
Knowledge gap
The knowledge gap is the set of guides beside the racecard: how the sport works, how prices and exchanges work, and how risk sits with any bet. The guides explain the mechanics.
They do not select a horse. A personal mentor is offered separately and is not part of these four packages.
Overview or zoom
Overview or zoom is how you move from the card into a tighter cut, then come back. You choose a shorter window, a course, a distance, or a deeper filter, depending on the package.
Historical statistics and historical racecards stay separate. A longer statistics window does not by itself open older racecards.
Daily jockey and trainer tracking
Daily jockey and trainer tracking lists the day's jockeys, trainers and partnerships, so you can see who is riding and who is training before you open one horse.
The list is the day's book of rides. It is not a selection.
Daily results
Today's results open the settled card: finishing position, and the prices held for that race. The rank from before the race stays on the card, so you can read what the order said and what the race then did.
Today's and yesterday's results are included with every package. That includes the wins, places and combination bets, and the horses and races in them. Diamond and Gold also open a race from those results, show the remaining races, and can look further back than yesterday.
Bet tracker, bookmarks and notebook
The bet tracker stores a stake and decimal odds, or SP, and an optional commission taken from a winning profit. Bookmarks keep a race or a horse with your notes. The notebook keeps longer research, including bookmarks you move across.
They record your own work. They do not place the bet.
Usability
A research platform is only useful if you can get to the information quickly. HRBC racecards and results can be sorted by the columns on the card, with navigation between runners, races and the research behind them.
Racecards are available the day before racing. Pre-race odds and non-runners normally update every five minutes. Results normally appear within 15–30 minutes of a race finishing. These are the usual intervals rather than guaranteed update times.