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Using the product
Using the product
What the site publishes, what is free, and how to work a race day without treating a label as a bet.
A free curated race card for supported US thoroughbred tracks. Each race has a short preview, a ranked field with a win probability next to the morning line, three roles (top pick, value play, longshot), and a strategy panel that says win bet, exacta structure, or pass. After official results the card is scored on the public Track Record, losing days included. Pro adds the race-day queue, live odds, late scratches, the Breakdown Lab, the sliders, and stake planning. The scoring recipe stays private. This page explains the words on the screen.
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Free: the morning card, recaps, Track Record, track pages, and the guides. That morning card is frozen at publication. Pro, on race day: live odds, late scratches and cancellations, a cross-track queue in post-time order, the Breakdown Lab, the weight sliders, Circuit Pad, and Stake Assist. Copying a stake never places a wager.
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About
Read the morning card before you open a slider. Conditions first, then the ranked field, then whether the price pays the chance. Pass is a finished read, not a missing feature. On Pro, open the queue and keep only the tracks you are playing. Use minutes to post to see what is next. Open the Lab on a race you might play and read the factor bars and pace chips before you move a slider. Change one thing at a time and watch Alignment. Size with Circuit Pad or Stake Assist, then place any wager yourself. After the wire, check the recap. The guides teach the betting process. This page teaches the product words.
How to read a card
Guides
Track Record
No. Every role is a labelled read, not a promise. A compelling top pick can still be a pass at the wrong price. The public Track Record keeps winning and losing periods in the same ledger. If a sentence on the site and that ledger disagree, believe the ledger.
Track Record
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Major US thoroughbred meets, listed on About and on each track page. A listed track is not necessarily racing today. Coverage follows the calendar and what was published. The dashboard is the live board. The track list is the map.
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The published card
The published card
Rating, Win Prob, the three roles, the strategy panel, and the difference between the morning line and live odds.
Rating orders the field. It is a score, not a probability. Win Prob is the published chance that runner wins. Across the live runners in a race those chances sum to about 100%. A higher rating usually sits with a higher Win Prob, but they answer different questions: who ranks where, and how much of the race that runner is asked to win. Compare Win Prob with the price. Do not treat Rating as a bet size.
How to read a card
They answer three different questions. Top pick is the strongest case in the published read. It is not automatically a bet. Value play is the runner whose price looks larger than the assessed chance. That case can disappear if the odds collapse. Longshot is an outside chance with a reason to improve, not a lottery number. None of the three is a wager by itself.
Value and overlays
About
The panel names a structure for the race: a win bet, an exacta structure, or pass. Pass appears often. That is the panel working. A stake note is a planning unit against a bankroll, not an order to bet. If the price no longer pays the chance, stand down even when the ranking still looks strong.
How to read a card
Value and overlays
The morning line is the program-maker's opening sketch. It is not the live tote and it is not a fair-odds line. Live odds, on Pro, are the board moving up to post. A ranking can stay put while the value case disappears because the price shortened. The free morning card does not rewrite itself when the tote moves.
Morning line vs live odds
After official results, the recap says who won, what the top pick did, whether the listed structure matched the finish, and how the public ledger moved. Closing odds sit beside the published roles. It is the audit of that card, not a new pick.
Track Record
Pro queue
Pro queue
The race-day board: passes, minutes to post, track chips, Circuit Pad, and Stake Assist.
The Pro queue is today's races from the tracks you are showing, in post-time order. It is the race-day board, not a second card. Each race still points at the published analysis. Passes stay in the list with the reason, so a quiet stretch is visible instead of looking like a broken feed. Post times are estimates. The queue does not place a bet.
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Pass means the latest read does not have a play in that race. The row stays so you can see why. It is not a scratch, not a data error, and not a hidden selection. Plays appear when the price and the read support one. A pass on the queue is the same idea as a pass on the card's strategy panel.
How to read a card
The clock on a queue row is minutes to the scheduled post. Under an hour it reads as minutes. Inside a minute it reads post imminent. After post it reads post closed. When a live board snapshot is fresh, the clock follows that snapshot. When it is not, the clock follows the published post time. Treat it as a planning clock, not a guarantee the gate springs on that second.
The chips under Tracks running today show or hide meets in the queue. Gold means that track is showing. Show all and Hide all are the bulk switches. Hiding a track does not unpublish its card. It only clears that meet from the board you are watching.
Circuit Pad is the bankroll control on the Pro queue. Pick a track, enter the bankroll you plan to play there, preview the suggested stakes, then confirm to apply them. The number is a planning figure, not an account balance. Stakes start from a $250 bankroll per track until you change it. Applying a plan does not place a wager.
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Stake Assist sits on the race card, beside that race, and sizes that race's stakes against the bankroll you enter there. Circuit Pad is the queue-side control for a whole track. Both are planners. Neither sends a bet. Use the card when you are inside one race. Use the queue pad when you are working the day across meets.
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No. The copy control puts a stake amount on your clipboard so you can type it into your own wagering account. Racetrackstar does not place, submit, or cancel wagers. If the queue is refreshing, copy can pause briefly so you do not copy a stale amount.
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Breakdown Lab
Breakdown Lab
Factor bars, connection pills, and condensed past performances. The Lab reads the published race. It does not replace it.
The Breakdown Lab is the Pro reading surface for one race: factor bars, jockey and trainer form, condensed past performances, and the pace chips. Open it when you want the components behind the ranking, not a new official pick. The same race can be open in the queue, the Lab, and the curated card. The sliders, when you use them, build a personal view beside that published race. They do not replace it.
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Each bar is a published component on a 0 to 100 scale, not a second win probability. Speed is recent speed figures. Form is the finish trend, beaten lengths, and layoff pattern. Class is the condition level versus today's race. Jockey is the rider's strike rate, meet and career blended. Trainer is the barn's strike rate, the same way. Workout is the recent work pattern. J/T Partner is that jockey-trainer partnership's strike rate. Course is the record at this track, on this surface and distance. A missing piece sits near the middle of the scale rather than showing up as a perfect bar. A 50 is not a verdict that the horse is average in real life.
Connection pills are the jockey and trainer strike rates the Lab could attach: track, distance, overall, recent. An empty pill row means those rates were not on that view, not that the rider has no record. Condensed past performances are the last published lines for that horse, including the trip note when we have one. They are context for the bars, not a full past-performance page.
No. Opening the Lab, and moving the sliders inside it, does not rewrite the published card, the official Win%, the queue's plays, or Stake Assist. Those stay on the official model. Your view is a side reading. If Your #1 and System #1 differ, the card did not change its mind. You did.
Sliders and your view
Sliders and your view
The words on the weight panel: pie, blend rule, confidence, tosses, nudges, lifts, drags, and alignment.
System view means you have not changed the pie, the blend rule, the confidence, the tosses, or the nudges, and system adjustments are still on. Your view means at least one of those moved. System #1 is the published top of the field. Your #1 is the top under your settings. They can differ. That disagreement is the point of the panel, not an error. The official Win% stays where it was.
The sliders are your factor pie: how much Speed, Form, Class, and the rest count in your view. They move independently, so the total can be 90 or 112. Rankings use the mix relative to that total. The tick on each slider marks the system weight for that factor, so you can see where you stand. It is not a published formula. Fit to 100 rescales the unlocked sliders so the pie totals 100. Lock a slider when you want Fit to 100, and the presets, to leave that factor alone. Form and Class describe overlapping parts of recent races, so both cannot sit at the top of their sliders at once.
These are the three blend rules. All three use the same published factor scores. None of them changes the official Win%. Weighted blends the 0 to 100 scores with your pie. That is the system's own rule. A 98 and a 92 both stay high, because the gap is real and both numbers are high. Rank turns each factor into a place in this field before weighting. Best becomes 100, worst becomes 0, and ties share. Order matters more than the size of the gap, so one huge figure stops dominating just because the number is large. Z-score standardizes each factor against this field before weighting. A horse who is clearly separated from the others on that factor is rewarded. A horse who merely ranks first by a hair is not treated like a standout. Use Weighted when you want the system's math. Use Rank when you care about order. Use Z-score when you care about separation.
Confidence is the T slider under Blend rule. It controls how sharply Your % separates the horses in your view. The slider starts at T 15. The label under the number reads system through the middle of the range, sharp when you pull T down toward 6, and flat when you push T up toward 20 and beyond, out to 30. Sharp puts more of Your % on the horses you have clearly ahead. Flat spreads Your % so the field looks closer. Your % is your display number. It is not the official Win%, and it does not resize a stake.
Your score is the number under your pie, your blend rule, the system adjustment if it is on, and any nudge. It ranks the horses in your view. It is not a probability. Your % spreads those scores across the horses you did not toss, at the confidence you set. Tossed horses show a dash and take none of Your %. The small line that reads vs the odds, with a plus or minus, is Your % minus the chance implied by the odds on the row, before takeout. It is a display comparison only. It does not create a play, and it does not change Stake Assist or the queue.
The checkbox is on by default. It carries the extra the published rating already includes beyond the plain pie: pace, post, surface, and hot-connection context. You cannot retune that layer with a slider. Leaving it on is why the System preset can match the official order. Turning it off is a what-if. Your view drops that layer. The official card does not. On a horse, Sys adj is those same points, shown so you can see who the published rating was already boosting or cutting.
Toss removes a horse from your ranking. They sort to the bottom, their Your % becomes 0, and the remaining horses share your percentages. The official rank stays on the card. A toss is not a scratch, and it does not remove the horse from the published card or the queue. Restore puts them back. Clear tosses and nudges wipes both. A toss is your call that this horse should not be in your personal order. It is not the system's call.
A nudge is a personal point adjustment on one horse in your view, from minus 10 to plus 10. Minus lowers your score for that horse. Plus raises it. One click moves one point. It is a hunch on top of the factors, not a new piece of evidence, and not a change to the factor bars. Nudges do not change the official Win%, the queue, or Stake Assist. They do not carry forward when you set a default for new races.
Lifts are the factors pushing this horse above the field average in your view. Drags are the factors holding it below that average. They are relative to this field, under your pie and your blend rule. A drag on Speed does not mean the horse is slow in absolute terms. It means, in the view you just built, Speed is not why this horse is ahead of the others. Read them after you change a slider. They are not a second official analysis, and they are not a reason by themselves to bet or to pass.
Alignment says how close your order is to the system's order. Aligned means your ranking is very close to the published order. Tilted means you have bent the order: some horses moved, and you have not thrown the race out. Contrarian means your order disagrees with the system. The ρ figure next to the word is that agreement. Closer to 1 means closer to the system order. N moved is how many live horses changed place. Top pick is a separate line: Same as system, or Differs from system. You can be Aligned overall and still differ on the top pick if you tossed the system's horse or nudged one past it. Tossed horses are out of your order, so tossing the system's top pick makes the top-pick line disagree even when the rest of the field barely moved.
Presets are starting pies, not bets. System is the official pie. With adjustments on and no tosses or nudges, your order matches the published order. Speed, Connections, Course, and Form push that idea up and refit the pie to 100. Balanced flattens toward the middle of each slider's allowed range. A locked slider wins over the preset. Set as my default makes new races start from this pie, this blend rule, and this confidence. It does not carry tosses or nudges to the next race. Share view copies a link for this view of this race, for another Pro member. Reset returns the panel to the system. Undo steps back one change.
Pace
Pace
Running-style letters and today's pace shape, including Fits, Neutral, and Misfit.
The pace line is a read of today's likely running shape, from the styles we can actually support in the field. It is for reading the race. It does not change Win%. Lone Speed: only one horse wants the lead, so an easy trip up front is the usual read. Favors Front: little early pressure, so horses near the lead have the edge. Honest Pace: a fair, even pace, and no style has a built-in edge. Duel: two horses want the lead and may wear each other out, which usually helps horses that sit back. Fast Pace: three or more want the lead, so front-runners tend to tire and closers tend to pick them up. No Speed: nobody wants the lead, so the early order is hard to call. If too few horses have a usable style, the card prints no shape rather than inventing one.
The letter on a horse is a running style, read from recent race comments when there is enough of them to support a call. E, early speed: wants the lead from the start. EP, presser: sits just behind the leaders. P, mid-pack: sits in the middle of the field and moves late. S, closer: comes from the back. Two usable pieces of evidence are required before a letter prints. Otherwise you see a dash, or no chip. A bad break in an old comment is a trip, not a preferred style, and is not treated as if the horse wants to be last.
Fits, Neutral, and Misfit say how that running style usually fares in today's pace shape. Fits: this style usually does well in today's shape. Neutral: today's shape neither helps nor hurts it. Misfit: this style tends to struggle in today's shape. A closer in a lone-speed race is a common misfit. The same closer in a duel can fit. The chip is a reading aid. It does not change Win%, it does not toss the horse, and it is not a bet against them. The same gloss is on the chip itself if you hover it.
Record and account
Record and account
Track Record, membership, and the limit on what any card can promise.
Track Record is the public score of published cards after official results, losing periods included. It is the ledger of those published structures, not a promise about the next month and not your personal betting return. Use it to audit the work. Do not use a green month to talk yourself into chasing a red one.
Track Record
Sign in from the nav. Account holds the membership. Pro billing is managed in the billing portal from Account or Pricing, and you can cancel from that portal when subscriptions are open. A signed-in free account still sees the morning card. Pro tools stay behind the subscription. The FAQ itself is public. The Lab and the queue are not.
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Horse racing is high variance. Every card, queue row, Lab bar, and slider view is information, not a guarantee and not an instruction to wager. Set a bankroll you can lose, pass when the price is wrong, and stop if wagering stops being recreational or controlled. Support resources are on the responsible-gambling page.
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