Historical Racecards

[collie7]

Hello everyone,

Firstly apologies if this has been covered before. I tried to search the forum but couldn't find my desired outcome.

I would like to know where I can access a comprehensive historical database for UK horse racing - say last 10 years.

I've BF SPs and scrape data from their site, however I am looking to cover information typically found on the race cards, such as OR, Weight, Form, RPR/Timeform Rating, Speed Rating/Top Speed, Jockey, Jockey win %, Trainer win% Trainer RTF%,

I've been unable to find somewhere I can access / download this data so I can build and run some ML models, any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

[Realrocknrolla]

https://www.horseracebase.com

[robsmith]

Hello everyone,

Firstly apologies if this has been covered before. I tried to search the forum but couldn't find my desired outcome.

I would like to know where I can access a comprehensive historical database for UK horse racing - say last 10 years.

I've BF SPs and scrape data from their site, however I am looking to cover information typically found on the race cards, such as OR, Weight, Form, RPR/Timeform Rating, Speed Rating/Top Speed, Jockey, Jockey win %, Trainer win% Trainer RTF%,

I've been unable to find somewhere I can access / download this data so I can build and run some ML models, any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

You can get much of this from racing posts results pages. They have a scrape-friendly url structure.

RP does not, as far as I’m aware, have accessible historic race cards but sporting life does. Their cards don’t contain as much info but again they have a scrape-friendly url structure.

There used to be a package on GitHub called rpscrape which may be of use.