Racecard sites that show classs / grade of races

Used as a good excuse to race poor horses for even poorer stakes in the UK

Hi Frodo,

A few reasons for the class:

- Whether backing, laying or making book on a race, I will put lines through certain races and avoid them all together unless I have a strong ew play that I will have a flutter on. My attitude with racing is, well, there is always another horse race so no need to go through the card.

- I also put lines through races to save time on research and form. I've followed UK racing since 2003 and now have the approach to spend more time doing research and finding the dividends are paying out.

- I create my own ratings, similar to speed ratings. I've done this with UK racing completely from scratch including track analysis that has been really effective. I started looking at SA form around three months ago and found that I was able to cross-reference a lot of the racing to find positions and plays to take on a race. The long term, which will take a few months, is to adapt my rating filters to SA racing.

Thus, knowing the class of the races allows me to find the right races to analyze the tracks (the better the horses running, the better the 'true test' of a tracks difficulty. For example, yesterday three of the eight races qualified for me to keep the times to gauge the track.

Overall, I am enjoying the form reading of SA racing. UK racing can be distracting in some ways (a feeling more than something I can explain).

But, like any sport, the more knowledge you have, the better chance you have as a punter.

And, Frodo, I just took a closer look at the racecard and see the ratings. This will help once I have an idea of the ranges of horses.

Though, again, the classes (i.e. for horses rated 70 to 80 Class 2) aren't on the race header should be in place to distinguish the races from the 'days out' for a horse.