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Royal Ascot 2024

18 Jun, 2024

Royal Ascot week - does life get any better than this? The pinnacle of our sport displayed as a five day onslaught of ultra competitive races brimming with equine talent. This isn't the time to be messing around; Royal Ascot is serious business and you're going to need all of the insights available to find some winners. A brief overview of a few of the races tomorrow should be enough to whet the appetite. Here we go....The Queen Anne Stakes (14:30) looks wide open and there's a French invasion for the British contingent to deal with. The race is set...

THM Average Speed Analysis

8 Jun, 2024

At THM, our aim is to provide the best horse racing racecards and ensure that you are using all our exclusive features efficiently and maximising the information to best inform your betting decision. In this blog, we want to cover the Average Speed Analysis (ASA) tab, which we know can act as a powerful tool for horse form study and can add real value alongside the regular form study metrics, such as ground, course, and distance. You'll find it on the furthest tab to the right on our racecards. Here's a little helping hand....Why should you use our ASA tool?The...

The 2024 Epsom Oaks

31 May, 2024

If you'd told us at the start of the flat season that we'd be swaggering into this Epsom meeting with Aidan O'Brien having not won a 2024 Classic, we'd have laughed in your face. But the Irish juggernaut has been firing blanks on both sides of the Irish Sea in the Classics so far this year and will be hoping for a swift change of fortune. Yet he may well get it, as unsurprisingly he has the market leaders in both the Oaks and Derby. Today is Oaks Friday though and a day for the girls to take centre stage....

The Dante Festival 2024

15 May, 2024

The York Dante Festival is underway and after a cracking first day there's still much to look forward to over the next few days on the Knavesmire. Thursday's card is stacked with both big field handicaps and informative Group races. Perhaps the feature race of the meeting, the Dante, will provide us with the next Derby winner as it did with Golden Horn and Desert Crown in 2015 and 2022 respectively. At THM we also love a juicy handicap. So let's get stuck in!Day 2 kicks off with the Lindum York Handicap (14:15), a 5-furlong sprint, so best fasten your...

2024 Qipco 2000 Guineas

4 May, 2024

Some rain has been falling at Newmarket in the last 24 hours but that does little to dampen the excitement for the first classic of the flat season; the Qipco 2000 Guineas. All eyes will be on Newmarket at 15:35 to see which of this year's contenders confirm themselves as an equine superstar and cement their place into the racing hall of fame. Time to analyse a few of the main contenders on the racecard, buckle up!The hype around race favourite City Of Troy (8/11) is no surprise after his breathtaking campaign last season. Unbeaten in three starts, including a...

A Sizzling Sandown Showdown

27 Apr, 2024

It's the final day of the jumps season and it's signing off in style with a power-packed card at Sandown. We've got the conclusion of both the jockeys’ and trainers' championships, a mouth-watering showdown featuring El Fabiolo v Jonbon, and a whole host of the Willie Mullins battalion coming over the Irish sea hoping to put the British boys in their place! Let's dive in. .Cobden vs BowenHarry Cobden has all but claimed the jockeys’ championship with Sean Bowen falling valiantly on his sword in 2nd place, but it's still worth keeping a close eye on their rides for the...

2024 Scottish Grand National

20 Apr, 2024

It's time to head over to The Horse's Mouth and make your selection for the Scottish Grand National! A total of 26 runners are due to go to post for the Coral Scottish Grand National at Ayr today. The £200,000 main event of the weekend will be run over a distance just shy of 4 miles, on ground that's forecast to be soft - it's going to be a stamina sapper!The betting market for this year's race is dominated by the man of the moment, Willie Mullins, and this comes as no surprise after his success just a week ago...

About Us

17 Apr, 2024

The Horse’s Mouth (THM) provides an unrivalled offering for horse racing form study. With its intuitively designed racecards powered by industry-leading data, THM enables effortless horse racing analysis..RevolutionaryA new front runner is here. The Horse's Mouth is revolutionising the horse racing statistics industry with its Next-Generation Racecards.THM’s Racecards consist of both powerful statistics and aesthetic visuals, allowing for confident analysis and swift comparison between horses.THM subscribers are fully equipped to identify horses favoured by specific race conditions. Check out what THM users say below..Driven by DataThe Horse’s Mouth boasts ownership of a bespoke dataset, which is an extensive history platform...

THM Racecards - Data Dictionary

9 Apr, 2024

Stat Name Description CUR HCAP The current Official Rating/Handicap of the Horse for this specific race type (e.g Flat / Hurdle / Chase / NHF) RUNS The total number of times a Horse has raced in selected time period WIN% Horse overall win% in selected time period. If a Horse has raced 5 times, and recorded 1 win, then the Horse's win% would be 20% PLACE% Horse overall win% in selected time period. If a Horse has raced 5 times, and recorded 1 win, then the Horse's win% would be 20% RUNS (RT) The total number of races the Horse...