This rating is the official handicap rating and is assigned to a horse by racing bodies based on the merits of its previous racing performances, with a greater emphasis on recent form.

Mark Newnham can progress the talented Bravehearts a step closer to the local staying elite with victory in the Class 2 Hong ... Newnham took on a horse rated 19lb lower than he had been on arrival.

Eason has been a useful horse overall – he is 5-33 for more than £800,000 in prize-money – but has not won in six starts for Yiu. In fact he has not won for nearly two years, back when he was with ...

The higher their handicap rating, the more weight a horse ... on rare occasions distort the outcome, the better horse would usually win. This is the principle behind the elite Pattern class of racing, ...

TEMPLEGATE tackles Wednesday's high-class racing confident of banging in several winners. Back a horse by clicking their odds below. ABSURDE (3.05 Chester, nap) He enjoyed this track when easily ...

The 2025 Hall of Fame class will be enshrined ... In his three years of racing, the bay colt won 18 stakes and was twice named Champion Sprint Horse (1956, 1957). He set track records at Monmouth ...

TEMPLEGATE tackles a huge Saturday of racing confident of banging in several winners. Back a horse by clicking their ... He handles quick ground and looks all class. MORE THUNDER (1.45 Newmarket ...

The longtime harness-racing owner was named for induction into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame as a builder Wednesday. He joins his father, John, who went into the shrine in 1998 ...

Here's everything you need to know about 2025 Preakness contender Sandman, including the horse's trainer, jockey and what ...