About Pegasus Race Ratings
The person behind Pegasus
I’m Dave, the person behind Pegasus Race Ratings. From 2009 to 2013, I ran a subscription racing service that returned a profit in each year of operation. I took pride in both the analysis and the experience offered to members, and those standards remain central to Pegasus today.
Over the years, I’ve adapted and refined my methods as the betting markets have changed. My main approach is now much more selective, with greater emphasis on patience and finding the right opportunity rather than maintaining a high volume of bets. Personally, I use several different betting strategies alongside some pre-race horse trading on the exchanges.
Value is the common thread throughout. That often means looking beyond the obvious contenders and accepting that worthwhile prices can come with considerable variance. Losing runs are part of that approach, and I appreciate that not everyone is comfortable with the same level of uncertainty. The different strategies and research tools at Pegasus give members a choice of approaches to explore according to their own interests and appetite for risk.
For the past two and a half years, I’ve shared my research, ideas and analysis under the Pegasus Race Ratings name on Patreon and YouTube. Alongside the racing content, I’ve also examined how some social-media tipsters present their claims and results, highlighting examples where greater transparency was needed. Punters deserve clear records and honest explanations, including when results disappoint. Those are standards I expect Pegasus to uphold too.
This website brings that work together: detailed horse-racing research, selective betting advice, greyhound analysis and practical tools. Some features offer specific selections with a transparent results record; others are designed to help you explore the evidence and reach your own conclusions. The sections below explain what each offers and how it fits into Pegasus.
Study the form. Know the price. Find the value.
Pegasus Race Ratings brings together horse-racing ratings, detailed race studies and independent betting analysis. The emphasis is on understanding the form and judging whether the available price represents value.
The report collections
Daily Race Ratings brings together the day’s meeting reports, ratings and Gold & Silver selections. Dosage Race Trends combines historical race trends and unique pedigree analysis with current-race assessments and runner profiles. Primarily focussed on the National Hunt discipline, DRT offers insights into an area that is largely unexplored and therefore seeks to identify value angles that are hidden from mainstream outputs by other service providers.
Greyhound Performance Profiler is the greyhound-racing collection. GPP is temporarily unavailable while a new report design is being created.
Independent horse-racing advice
I generally analyse several races each week separately from Daily Ratings and DRT. I study the form in depth, score a wide range of factors and bring them into my own ratings and pricing model.
I compare my tissue odds with available bookmaker prices to identify positive expected value according to my model. I then judge whether the price offers sufficient value on a horse I consider to have the best chance of winning or placing, with particular attention to extra-place concessions. Full profit-and-loss figures are recorded for advised bets, including both winning and losing results.
Pegasus Picks
Pegasus Picks is the greyhound advice element of Pegasus Race Ratings. It draws on selected angles identified within the Greyhound Performance Profiler, with each potential selection reviewed manually and available bookmaker prices compared with independently produced tissue odds. The focus is on selectivity and value, with advised bets recorded transparently in the dedicated results tracker.
Pegasus Picks is currently suspended while GPP is upgraded and redesigned. Updates on its return will be shared once the revised approach is ready.
A free tool for everyone
The Pegasus Bet Calculator is free to use without an account. It calculates stakes, returns and profit using the odds and settlement terms you enter.
Membership and future changes
All content currently available on this website is free of charge to members. Some reports or features may become paid options in the future, but quality free content will remain part of Pegasus.
Material changes to membership terms or access will be communicated clearly and well in advance, giving members reasonable time to understand their options and decide whether to continue. Charges will not be introduced automatically: any paid service will require a separate, explicit choice to purchase. Changes will not apply retrospectively to rights already acquired.