A Speed Rating is simply a way of expressing a horses race time as a number, the higher the number the faster the horse. They are standard fare in American form guides & are an invaluable tool in assessing who are the main chances in a race. At the Olympics in the pool & on the track it is the swiftest that prevail so why would the races be any different. Obviously there are a number of other variables to be be taken into account such as weight, barrier, track condition, tempo, jockey & trainer but the basic knowledge of who given the right circumstances is the fastest galloper in the race is of paramount importance.
In the past handicapping has been done using a weight rating table & a maiden was a maiden. So if there were 2 maidens over 1200m on any given day at Ballarat at both the winners carried the same weight then as far as the weight rating handicappers was concerned both runs were identical as a betting reference going forward. What if 1 of the maidens won his race in half a second (about 3 lengths) faster than the other race. winner. Wouldnt you want to know that information, especially if the 2 winners met up against each other in a C1 at their next start!!
Horsetorque Speed Ratings are the brainchild of Gavin Haynes, a professional horse racing form analyst who is well known for his work as Senior NSW Form Analyst for Best Bets, his insightful & astute summaries on racing radio 4TAB & his monthly articles in Practical Punting Monthly. Racing is his passion & has been all his life, he has spent thousands of hours honing his craft & creating the race time averages required to create his exclusive Speed Ratings, and it is the members of this site that reap the benefit of all that experience.
This site is designed for everyone from novice to professional, it has a level of membership for all, from the exclusive Horsetorque markets, Gavins special race comments & how to guides, to individual access to the Horsetorque database & Speed Guides so members can do the form for any meeting they choose.
The site covers racing all over the country. Members get up to 30 meetings per week with all the Metropolitan meetings in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane Perth & Adelaide . In addition most provincial meetings are also covered. Platinum and GOLD members can also do the form for any meeting they choose with access to the whole Horsetorque database.
So take your time & take a good look around the Registered Users site, here you will find Season Highlights, Testimonials, Archives, Overviews & information on the all the membership levels.
For those just wanting to start out, try our LITE form guide, its simply the top 4 speed horses in each race for all the meetings covered that day. Giving them an expected Speed Rating and a price, you also get the comments of 10 year full time professional horse analysts Gavin Haynes. The Diamond specials also have a fantastic record. Its only $6.60 per edition *, try the Saturday edition, you get 8 meetings, all the specials and an after scratchings edition on the Saturday morning.
Its comes as an easy to print PDF attached to an email, usually in your inbox just in time to clock off on a Friday night.
We find the winner in our top 4 about 65% of the time, and thats without any filters for weight, barrier, jockey or trip. All very important factors, but such a powerful piece of knowledge.
In all facets of life
KNOWLEDGE is POWER
especially in the racing game..
Head to the store and find out why it pays to know the fast ones
On Saturday the 11th of July we launched our brand new form engine, the culmination of 5 years hard work and the realisation of a vision for a new style of formguide. Way back in 2005 6 years after I had created the first Horsetorque Speed Rating for Australian racing I took up the role of Senior NSW Analyst for Best Bets, during this time my selections were heard in Queensland on racing radio 4TAB and I became a regular contributor for Practical Punting Monthly.
Late that year the Horsetorque reference manual was released and Aussie punters had the data required to create there own Speed Ratings. Many discovered that they are a most powerful tool but then they also realised was how much racing there is and how hard it is to keep up to date with your ratings. Horsetorque the Speed ratings website was launched in 2006 where our format was basic and we only covered 6 meetings per week, we now provide Speed Guides for as many as 40 meetings per week, all with greater depth and clarity. The launch of Phoenix took us to a whole new level of Speed Rating information. I have the pleasure of having a good friend and business partner who happens to be 1 of Australias premier prgrammers, web designers and game designers and it was he who asked how I went about analysing the form. I told him how structured I was and what processes I went through to develop my markets, he just looked at me and said " I think I can make a computer model of you" and that is were Phoenix started. Its first version was launched as ARIS (Artificial Race Intelligence Sytem) about 2 years ago and was updated last year with ARIS 2 which fixed a couple of bugs. Getting the form up was still a laborious task as creating Speed Ratings for about 4000 horses per week is an intensive task. ARIS was putting core numbers up and I then had to run my eye over it and make any adjustments required. PHOENIX has taken that technology to new extremes and from all the fantastic feedback Our current members are loving it.
Register for free and have a look around the World Of Speed ratings, even better, buy a $9.90 edition of Horsetorque LITE to see how powerful they can be.
We have a level of membership for every type of punter and every budget, give yourself the edge.