Horse Racing Bettors Companion — Explained In Comprehensive Detail

A horse's pedigree tells you where it came from. HRBC lets you investigate what that breeding has actually achieved.

Breeding can provide valuable clues about a horse's potential, particularly when investigating young horses, unfamiliar runners or horses attempting new racing conditions.

But knowing a horse's sire or dam is only the beginning.

HRBC allows you to explore the racing records of horses sharing the same breeding, examine their performances under different conditions, investigate individual offspring and discover how those runners have performed at Betfair Starting Price (BSP).

Go beyond the family tree. Investigate the racing evidence behind it.

All connected directly to your racecard.

1. Explore a horse's racing family

Click a horse's name on the racecard to open its pedigree research.

HRBC identifies four family connections:

• Dad — the horse's sire.
• Mum — the horse's dam.
• Mum's dad — the maternal grandsire.
• Same mum and dad — horses sharing both parents.

Select a family member to explore the recorded racing performances of its offspring or related runners.

For example, our screenshot shows Sonny Hayes (IRE), whose family includes:

• Sire: Blue Point (IRE).
• Dam: Jeeds Legacy (IRE).
• Maternal grandsire: Raven's Pass (USA).

Rather than simply displaying those names, HRBC makes them the starting point for detailed research.

Don't just discover a horse's breeding. Discover what that breeding has produced.

2. Investigate hundreds of offspring

Select a sire to explore the horses associated with that bloodline.

HRBC brings together the individual offspring and their recorded racing performances over a five-year research period.

For example, selecting Blue Point (IRE) reveals:

• 341 horses
• 2,936 recorded runs
• Five years of historical racing information.

That's an enormous amount of evidence available from a single click on the racecard.

Browse the offspring individually, examine their racing records and investigate whether particular horses have performed especially well under certain conditions.

Instead of relying on a sire's reputation, you can examine the results of the horses that sire has actually produced.

Hundreds of horses. Thousands of performances. One connected research tool.

3. Research the sire, dam and maternal grandsire

Different family connections can offer different perspectives.

HRBC lets you investigate the offspring associated with the horse's sire, dam and maternal grandsire, as well as horses sharing both parents.

A sire's offspring might show interesting results over particular distances.

A maternal family might have produced horses that performed well under specific racing conditions.

Full siblings might provide a particularly interesting comparison when examining an inexperienced runner.

By exploring these family connections separately, you can investigate whether the historical evidence suggests any characteristics worth examining more closely.

Four family perspectives. Different generations. A deeper understanding of the horse.

4. Filter breeding performance by racing conditions

A bloodline's overall results are useful, but they don't necessarily tell the whole story.

HRBC provides seven filters to investigate how related horses have performed under particular conditions.

Explore by:

1. Course — examine performances at a particular racecourse.
2. Distance — investigate results over specific racing distances.
3. Going — discover how offspring have performed on different ground conditions.
4. Class — examine results at different levels of competition.
5. Race code — distinguish between racing disciplines.
6. Handicap — investigate handicap and non-handicap performances.
7. Age — explore results for horses at different ages.

These filters let you move from a broad family overview to a more focused investigation.

For example, a sire might have produced hundreds of runners, but how have those horses performed over six furlongs on good ground?

Or perhaps you're investigating a two-year-old making its first appearance over a longer distance.

You can examine the historical results of related horses under comparable conditions.

The pedigree provides the connection. The filters help you investigate its relevance to today's race.

5. Compare offspring win and place percentages

HRBC doesn't simply provide a list of related horses.

Each offspring has its own performance summary, allowing you to compare individual results across the family.

The table includes:

• Horse name.
• Family relationship.
• Number of recorded runs.
• Number of wins.
• Number of placed performances.
• Win percentage.
• Place percentage.
• BSP profit or loss.

This makes it possible to investigate the differences between horses sharing the same breeding.

For example, our screenshot shows Action Point (IRE), an offspring of Blue Point, with:

• 13 runs
• 2 wins
• 6 placed performances
• 15.38% win rate
• 46.15% place rate

Other offspring show very different records.

Rather than treating every horse from the same bloodline as equally promising, HRBC allows you to examine the individual evidence.

Place percentages are calculated using races that paid places, with races offering no place payout excluded from that calculation.

Shared breeding doesn't mean identical ability. Compare what each horse has actually achieved.

6. Examine historical BSP profitability

Winning percentages tell you how frequently horses have won.

But how have those results translated into betting returns?

HRBC adds another dimension by calculating historical BSP profit and loss.

The calculation uses:

• £1 level-stake win bets.
• Betfair Starting Price.
• 2% commission on winning profits.
• A £1 loss for an unsuccessful bet.

This allows you to investigate whether the historical performances of particular offspring would have produced a profit or loss at BSP.

For example, the Blue Point offspring report shows:

• Action Point (IRE): +£11.23
• Admired Beauty (IRE): +£23.35
• Acceptance (FR): −£5.00

The overall Blue Point report in the screenshot shows −£66.21 across 2,838 qualifying BSP runs.

HRBC also identifies how many runs were included in the calculations, making the underlying sample size visible.

These are historical results, not predictions of future profitability. But they provide another useful perspective when investigating a bloodline.

Winning is one thing. Winning at the right price is another.

7. Investigate individual offspring in detail

Find an interesting horse in the offspring list?

Click its name.

HRBC opens that horse's individual racing history, allowing you to investigate the performances behind its summary statistics.

For example, selecting Acceptance (FR) opens its five recorded races.

You can examine:

• Race date and time.
• Racecourse.
• Racing discipline.
• Distance.
• Class.
• Going.
• Number of runners.
• Finishing position.
• Early pace.
• Finishing style.
• Winning or beaten margin.
• Jockey and trainer.
• Starting Price and BSP.
• Historical RSPD and RFMS values and rankings.

This turns a breeding summary into detailed racing research.

You can investigate whether a horse showed early speed, finished strongly, weakened late or repeatedly struggled under certain conditions.

A percentage tells you the outcome. The individual races reveal the performances behind it.

8. Examine historical RFMS and RSPD rankings

One particularly interesting part of HRBC's pedigree research is the inclusion of its proprietary ranking information.

When investigating an individual offspring's historical races, you can see the RFMS and RSPD values and rankings recorded for those races.

That means you aren't restricted to the horse's finishing positions or betting prices.

You can also investigate how HRBC's form and speed assessments related to its previous performances.

For example, Acceptance's historical results show different RFMS and RSPD rankings across its five recorded races.

This provides an additional research perspective when examining whether a horse's performances were consistent with its historical form and speed assessments.

Breeding, racing performance, form rankings and speed rankings — brought together in one place.

9. Investigate pace and finishing characteristics

Breeding research becomes particularly interesting when you look beyond the finishing positions.

HRBC's individual offspring records include early pace and finishing style.

This allows you to investigate questions such as:

• Did a horse regularly lead its races?
• Was it usually held up in midfield?
• Did it finish strongly?
• Did it repeatedly fade in the closing stages?
• Were its better performances associated with particular distances or conditions?

For example, Acceptance's recorded performances include occasions when it led, raced in midfield or was prominent, alongside finishing descriptions such as Flat and Late fade.

Combined with the distance, going, class and beaten margin, these details help you investigate how a horse performed rather than simply where it finished.

When studying related horses, that additional context can make the breeding research considerably more informative.

Don't just study the family results. Explore how the family races.

10. Move from the family overview to individual racing evidence

HRBC's pedigree tool is designed for exploration.

Start with the horse on your racecard.

Select its sire, dam, maternal grandsire or full-sibling connection.

Examine the available offspring and their win percentages, place percentages and historical BSP returns.

Apply the filters to investigate relevant racing conditions.

Then select an individual horse to examine its actual race-by-race history.

You can return to the offspring list and continue exploring other family members without starting your research again.

With paginated results, the tool can accommodate extensive breeding records without overwhelming the screen.

From a single horse to an entire bloodline. From an entire bloodline to one individual race.

11. Particularly useful for inexperienced horses

One of the challenges in horse racing research is assessing runners with limited racing experience.

An established horse might have dozens of previous performances to investigate.

A debutant or lightly raced horse might have very little form of its own.

That's where pedigree research can provide additional context.

HRBC allows you to investigate the historical performances of related horses, including how they have fared at particular ages, distances, racecourses and racing conditions.

It gives you another source of evidence when its own racing record is limited.

Instead of having almost nothing to investigate, you can explore what its relatives have achieved.

When a horse has little form of its own, its family can provide another avenue of research.

12. Everything connected to your racecard

Pedigree research isn't a separate exercise requiring you to leave your racecard and search through unrelated databases.

It's part of the HRBC research experience.

Start with a runner.

Explore its family.

Investigate hundreds of related horses and thousands of historical performances.

Filter the evidence by race conditions, compare offspring statistics, examine BSP profitability and investigate individual races, including their historical form and speed rankings.

Then return to the racecard with a more complete understanding of the horse you're studying.

HRBC doesn't claim that historical family profitability predicts future betting returns.

It gives you the evidence to investigate those relationships for yourself.

Because knowing a horse's family is useful. Knowing what that family has actually achieved is considerably more powerful.

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Four family connections. Five years of historical racing data. Seven research filters. Individual offspring records. Win and place percentages. BSP profitability. Detailed race histories. Historical RFMS and RSPD rankings.

Every runner. Every angle. One racecard.