A set of plain statistics measured on our own UK, Irish and Hong Kong results: how big the fields are, how often horses fall, and how short most careers are.
Why analysts keep coming back to racing as a dataset, and the honest limits that come with each of its strengths.
Which UK and Irish racecourses stage the most races? We counted every race since 2011. The answer is not the famous ones.
The tables behind racing data, how they join, and two traps: IDs that only mean something inside one market, and profile totals that quietly look into the future.
The distance between runners is the messiest column in racing results. This is how UK and Hong Kong write it, and how to turn it into a number.
Where UK sectional times exist, and where they do not. Coverage by year, by country and by course, measured on every runner since 2017.
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