The Paddock King turns every runner into a fair price and a clear confidence rating, then shows you where that fair price sits against the market. Here’s how to read it — in plain English, with no jargon.
For every horse we estimate a win chance and a place chance, then turn that into a fair price — the odds we think the horse is genuinely worth. We show it next to the best price on offer so you can compare the two yourself. We no longer put a number, a tier or a stake on the difference.
Until 2026-07-27 every selection carried an edge %, an EV %, a Strong / Standard / Speculative tier and a 1–5 point stake. None of it was ever measured. The only ledger that joins our selections to a starting price covers 17 of 126 graded selections (13.5%), and it warns in its own payload that the join misses losers more than winners — so the hit rate it reports is biased and nothing significant can be read from it. Rather than keep printing confident-looking numbers with no test behind them, we print the rating and the prices and stop there. Only ever stake what you can afford to lose.
Each runner has five suitability dots — distance, going, class, course and draw. Green suits, amber is a question, red is against. They are a quick visual read of whether today’s conditions play to the horse’s strengths.
We don’t ask you to take our word for it. We test the model on thousands of past races and publish the result — including when it doesn’t beat the market. Over a 2,054-race sample our top picks returned an A/E index of 1.11 (above 1.0 means we edged the market) at a 38% strike rate. This is a small, fragile signal, not a money machine. Racing markets are very efficient; edges erode as more people use them. The full calibration and Brier detail is on the model accuracy page.
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