Best Horse Racing Websites

There are hundreds of horse racing websites, but most racing fans only need a handful: one for racecards and form, one for results and replays, a couple of free tipping columns to compare, and a few tools to check what a bet will pay.

This page is our map of the best horse racing websites for UK and Irish racing, grouped by what you use them for. It isn’t a list of places to bet. If that’s what you’re after, our guide to horse racing betting sites explains the different types of site you can bet through, and our guide to the best bookies for horse racing explains the concessions that matter when you choose a bookmaker.

Racecards, form and data

These are the sites racing people use every day to read a race. All of them publish free racecards, and some keep deeper data behind a subscription.

• Racing Post: the UK’s racing daily, with racecards, form, results, news, analysis and tipping.
• Timeform: racecards, results and its own ratings, with tips and race analysis.
• Sporting Life: free racecards, results, tips and news.
• At The Races: racecards, results and replays, plus tips and features.
• Sky Sports Racing: racecards, results, news and tips alongside its TV coverage.

If you want to go further and build your own ratings, or test system rules against past results, our guide to horse racing software covers the UK form databases and value finders.

Results, news and watching races

• BBC Sport horse racing: results, schedules and news.
• Racing TV: the subscription racing channel for British and Irish racing. It was called Racing UK until it was renamed on 1 January 2019.
• British Horseracing Authority: the sport’s regulator in Britain, for fixtures, the Rules of Racing, stewards’ decisions and integrity news.

Free tips websites

Most of the sites above publish free tips every day, and comparing two or three of them is a quick way to see where opinion agrees. Racing Post, Sporting Life, Timeform and At The Races all run daily tipping. For North American racing, Racing Dudes publishes free picks.

We don’t publish daily tips ourselves. Our guides to today’s racing tips and free horse racing tips explain where to find them and how to judge whether a tipster is worth following.

Paid tips and systems

Paid tipping services and systems are a different proposition: you pay a subscription for someone else’s selections or method. Before you pay for any of them, read our guide to judging a tipster, and look for a full, proofed results record rather than a headline profit figure.

These are the paid UK and Irish racing services we currently link to. The figures in the table are each seller’s own claims.

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Paid UK and Irish racing tips services

Service	What you get	Racing	Price	The seller's own figures
Beat the FavouritePaid tipping service	Email tips that never back the favourite. Most selections are each way, with occasional win bets.	UK and Irish	£14.95 a month, or a one-off yearly plan. 30-day money-back guarantee.	460 tips with a 12% ROI and a 43% strike rate
Each Way PetePaid tipping service	Up to three each way value picks a day and no favourites, staked as each way singles and a double, or an each way patent on three-selection days.	UK	Shown at checkout on the seller's site. Sold through ClickBank, whose refund policy applies.	over £18,000 profit in the last 12 months to £10 each way stakes
ValueTipsValue betting software and email tips	A web app that compares forecast odds with the live market to flag horses it rates as value, plus emailed tips.	UK and Irish	One-off payments: £19 for 3 months or £39 for a year. 30-day money-back guarantee.	1,274 email tips with a 41% win rate and £11,600 profit
Pro Betting Club (Maximum Bets)Paid tipping service	Win-only selections from the Maximum Bets service, sent only when a horse passes the tipster's selection rules, so not every day.	UK and Irish	US$39 a month or US$89 a quarter. Sold through ClickBank, whose refund policy applies.	2,497 tips, 1,213 winners and 875 placed

HorsePlayerHaven, which we also link to, covers North American racing rather than UK racing. It’s covered in our horse racing handicapping guides, and our horse racing systems guide explains how to judge any paid system before you buy.

Betting tools and calculators

Whatever site you bet with, it pays to check the returns yourself. Our free calculators work out what a bet pays, including each way terms, Rule 4 deductions and non-runners:

• The bet calculator handles every common bet, from singles to Lucky 15s and Yankees.
• The each way calculator splits a bet into its win and place parts at 1/4 or 1/5 odds.
• The odds converter turns fractional odds into decimal and American odds, and back.
• The Rule 4 calculator shows what a late withdrawal takes off your winnings.

If you’re interested in turning bookmaker free bets into withdrawable cash, our matched betting calculator works out the lay stakes. Profit Maximiser is the matched betting membership we link to.

Betting always carries a risk of loss and no tipster, system or staking plan can guarantee a profit. Only stake what you can afford to lose, and set a budget before you start. Gambling responsibly.