📖 Help & Quick Tour

1. The race card at a glance

Every UK & Irish race today is rendered as a self-contained card. Top to bottom you'll see:

• Race header — time, course, race name, condition chips (distance · turf/AW · going · class · age band).
• AI Verdict — a one-line summary of why our top pick stands out, generated from the angle badges and form.
• Top 3 Picks strip — gold/silver/bronze callout with the three highest-scoring horses, their odds, and a one-line reason. Click any name to jump to that horse in the table.
• Pace Map — visual of who's likely to lead/track/wait, derived from each runner's recent running style.
• Track Bias — historical draw and going stats for the course.
• Smart Filters — collapsible panel to narrow the field by going/distance/class/lookback.
• Perspective tab strip — the heart of the page (see section 3).
• Field table — every horse, sortable, expandable.

2. Reading a horse row

Each row in the field table is one runner. Left-to-right:

• ▶ — click to expand the rich detail drawer (breeding, AI spotlight, key stats, recent form).
• No — racecard number.
• Horse — name + colored form dots (last six runs: 1 wins, 3 places, plus age, sex, jockey, trainer.
• Odds — current Betfair Exchange best back, with 🔥 -22% chip if it's a steamer or ❄ +18% if it's drifted.
• AI — our composite confidence score (0–100), shown as a mini bar + number.
• Then the right-hand columns swap based on the active perspective tab (Summary by default).

The top 3 horses by AI score get a left-edge gold/silver/bronze stripe and a circular medal badge so they're always easy to find.

3. Perspective tabs — the killer feature

Click any tab to swap the right-hand columns and see every horse compared on that condition. The horse list stays put — only the data changes.

★ = perspectives The Horses Mouth charges for. We don't.

4. The expand drawer

Click ▶ next to any horse to open the full detail drawer. You'll see:

• 🧬 Breeding — sire, dam, damsire, breeder, plus sire-level win rate and preferred going.
• 🤖 AI Spotlight — our narrative on the horse's chance, plus connections quotes when available.
• 📊 Key Stats — course/distance/going record, trainer 14-day form, jockey 14-day form.
• 🧠 RaceIQ — GPS performance: top speed, FSP, stride, jump index, exit, recovery, speed lost, with field rank and number of runs behind the averages.
• 📈 Recent Form — last 5 runs with date, course, going, distance, class, position (1st 🥇, 2nd/12 etc.), beaten distance, SP and jockey.

Pos column is colour-coded: green for wins, gold for places, grey for unplaced, red for non-finishers (PU, F, BD, U). The number after the slash (e.g. 2nd/12) is the field size of that race.

5. F / D — fractional or decimal odds

Top right of the header, the F / D toggle flips every odds value on the page between fractional (5/2) and decimal (3.50). Choice persists across pages and reloads.

Behind the scenes, fractional odds are mapped to a 75-entry table of standard betting fractions, so you'll never see odd rounding like "3/1" when you should see "5/2".

6. Cards vs Table view

Next to F/D, the ⊞ Table / ▤ Cards toggle swaps the layout for the entire racecards page.

• Table (default) — dense, scannable, perspective tabs, sortable. Best on desktop.
• Cards — each horse is a self-contained card with the same expand drawer. Best on mobile or for casual browsing.

Both views share the same data, top-3 highlights, F/D odds, and Smart Filters.

7. Smart Filters

Click 🔍 Smart Filters on any race card to expand the filter panel. You can narrow the field by:

• Lookback — only count form from the last N months
• Going — only horses with form on heavy / soft / good / firm / standard
• Distance — ±1f, ±2f, or exact match
• Class — same / lower / higher than today's class

Or use a preset:

• 🏆 C&D Winners — horses with course & distance form
• 📈 In-Form — last 6 months only
• 🌧️ Going Specialists — only horses with form on today's going
• ⬇️ Class Droppers — running below their highest class
• 🏃 Speed Demons — top RaceIQ speed-vs-standard runners

Filtered races show a yellow badge in the header: "🔍 5 of 12 shown · clear filters".

8. 🔥 Steamer & ❄ Drift chips

Live exchange odds come from our Steamer Sniper service, which streams Betfair Exchange tick-by-tick and refreshes every 30 seconds.

• 🔥 -22% — the price has shortened ≥15% from its morning open. Smart money has piled in.
• ❄ +18% — the price has drifted ≥10% from open. Smart money has stepped away.

The Steamer perspective tab shows the morning price, current price, drop %, velocity label and confidence score for every flagged runner. The Bookies tab shows the best traditional bookmaker price (Bet365, Paddy Power, William Hill, Sky) for the same horses.

9. The 7 AI Variants

Behind the scenes we run seven parallel AI variants on every race, each with a different scoring hypothesis:

• A · Main — baseline composite scoring (form, course, distance, going, class, trainer, RPR trajectory)
• B · Form is King — recent form weighted double
• C · Speed Edge — adds RaceIQ top-speed bonus
• D · Draw Matters — adds draw bias for sprint tracks
• E · Going Pref — going suitability weighted double
• F · Quality Filter — only runners with composite score > 75
• G · Kitchen Sink — all 17 scoring factors blended

The racecards page shows Variant A by default. The Performance page breaks out the daily P&L for all 7 variants so you can see which is hottest.

10. Tips & shortcuts

• 🥇🥈🥉 Top 3 picks are highlighted with a coloured left border. Click a name in the Top 3 strip to jump to and expand that horse's row.
• Click 📊 Yesterday's Results on the racecards page to see how yesterday's picks settled.
• The F/D and view toggles persist via localStorage — set them once and they stick.
• All odds, P&L, win rates, speed figures and breeding stats are free. We don't paywall anything.
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