Guides
Everything you need to bet with confidence.
Plain-English betting fundamentals, our own process laid bare, and - as the tips and results build up - track guides, festival previews, and the beginner basics too. Real content, added as it's actually written, not padded out.
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Betting guides
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Racecourse guides
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Festival guides
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Free betting tools
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Tips tracked in public
Betting basics
Bet types explained in plain English, each tied to a free calculator on the site so you can go straight from reading to working out your own returns.
Each-Way Betting Explained: How Each-Way Terms Actually Work
What an each-way bet is, how your stake splits between win and place, how each-way terms (1/4, 1/5) are set, and a worked example showing exactly how returns are calculated.
How Does an Accumulator Bet Work? Beginner's Guide
What an accumulator (acca) bet is, how the odds combine across legs, why one loser kills the whole bet, and a worked example showing how fast the price grows.
Trixie, Patent, Lucky 15 and Canadian Bets Explained
What Trixie, Patent, Lucky 15, and Canadian bets actually are, how many bets are inside each one, and how to pick the right one for the number of selections you've got.
What Is a Yankee Bet? How It Works, With a Worked Example
What a Yankee bet is, how the 11 bets inside it are structured, why it can pay out even if one selection loses, and a full worked example.
What Is a Rule 4 Deduction? A Simple Explanation
What Rule 4 deductions are, why bookmakers apply them, and how to work out exactly how much comes off your winnings when a horse is withdrawn.
Track record & trust
An honest look at how we actually pick tips, backed by a live, public record of every single one - wins and losses both.
How We Pick Our Tips: Our Process, Explained
An honest look at how The Racing Yard's horse racing tips are actually selected, why every tip gets tracked in public, and what we're building next to make the process even more rigorous.
See the live track record →
Every tip we've published, settled at level points, wins and losses both.
Racecourse guides
8 tracks so far, more added regularly - the shape of the course, what it rewards, and the betting angle for each.
Aintree
Merseyside
The Grand National
Ascot
Berkshire
Royal Ascot, Champions Day
Cheltenham
Gloucestershire
The Cheltenham Festival, the Gold Cup
Festival guides
7 of the calendar's big meetings covered so far - what makes each one different, the races that matter, and the betting angle.
Cheltenham Festival
March
The Olympics of jump racing
Grand National
April
The race the whole country stops for
Guineas Festival
May
The first Classics of the season
New to racing?
Racecards, going, race types, form figures - every term explained in plain English.