What's In The Daily Racecard CSV File
We cover each meeting from United Kingdom and Ireland to create a Daily Racecard CSV File. The aim is to make the CSV Racecards available the afternoon before racing takes place. For instance 99.9% of the time Saturdays download will be available on Friday and similarly so for all days.
Format
If you look at our racing results data files, you will see we have two formats in which they are available for download. The Duo, which is in fact two files, then the Single File Format style. It was decided by consensus that we would adopt just the one file format to hold all the information.
Daily Racecard CSV File Data
The data that is contained in each Daily Racecard CSV file covers all the most pertinent information around each race and is detailed below. Many of our customers find the CSV files an invaluable source as this was something they found time consuming in trying to create themselves. This leaves them free to concentrate in putting the information to their specific requirements.
Daily Racecard CSV File Explained
Here is the details of the raceard CSV Files. We concentrate on this first image. The columns of data for each horse are the race conditions.
- Id Each runner is given an ID number
- RaceID For every race this is the unique ID on each day
- Course The racecourse of the race
- Time A time the race is scheduled to start
- Dist The distance in Miles, Furlongs and Yards
- RaceDesc The name of race known by its description
- Class Class of the race, 1 being highest and 7 the lowest
- Age The age range that a race maybe restricted to
- Value The prize money for winner in the local currency
- Going The ground conditions as announced
- Run Number of horses to run in the race
Now the second half of the file, which covers complete details for the runners.
- No Each horse card number
- Draw The starting stall number for each horse when used
- Form The latest form figures, right hand side being most recent
- Horse Horses name
- Days Days since last ran Flat or Jumps
- CDB Course & Distance, or Distance, or Course Winner letters. Plus a Beaten Favourite is noted here.
- Age How old each horse is
- Weight The weight that the horse is set to carry. Stones (hyphen) Pounds
- Aid Any aids, such as blinkers and if first time noted here
- Trainer The horses trainer
- Jockey Who will be riding the horse
- Allow Any allowance the rider can claim, is shown in pounds
- OR The official handicap rating where one is provided
- RTF% The percentage of horses running to form (RPR) or better for the Trainer
- TS The popular RPost Top Speed rating for each horse
- RPR The popular RPost form rating figure
- Odds The betting forecast estimated starting price
- WtLbs The Stones & Pounds combined as the total weight in pounds (Lbs)
Obtaining The Files and Summary
Please download a copy of the sample day we use as an example by clicking the button below. With Excel please be aware that Excel is not very good at importing CSV as it attempts to correct some columns to Date format.
A CSV needs importing into a spreadsheet. See this guide https://www.racingformbook.co.uk/sample/Importing_CSV_to_Excel.pdf
These Daily Racecard CSV Files are available for and on each days racing.
We provide the files to our Subscribers as one of the services that they receive. To become a Subscriber or register as a member for Free then Click Membership Options.
There are not many places where you can obtain the days horse racing cards in a CSV format, so we hope that in providing them we can assist those looking for this information.
As always please send any comments or question to us via the Contact Us page or email support@racingformbook.com
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