A 2025 New Year’s Message from the TPD CEO

January 14, 2025

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I do hope that you thoroughly enjoyed and managed some quality down time over the Christmas and New Year period. As the new year gets underway I would like to take this opportunity to offer my sincere thanks to those of you that support and subscribe to TPD Zone and announce what TPD Zone customers can look forward to in 2025.

Firstly to report that whilst ostensibly nothing much has changed, from a TPD Zone perspective in 2024, other than the addition of a small number of tracks, there has been a some significant work undertaken, behind the scenes, to improve the effectiveness and robustness of the GPS data.

And many thanks to Peter (Webb) and his Bet Angel Team for their continued support and collaboration in embracing the GPS data. Further evidenced by Bet Angel now incorporating the recent innovation, Data Warnings and Transponder Error messages, which are issued direct from the track and to which Bet Angel users can immediately respond to such, including via automation activating / triggering the appropriate response.

In what could be viewed as a slight shift away from the core focus of TPD Zone, i.e. delivering live GPS data from the racetrack, I must tell you about our Performance Metrics offering which is a very recent development.

A set of metrics, including Top speed, Run out speed (speed at the line), Stride Length, Stride Frequency, Time to Reach (30 mph flat or 25 mph jumps), and a number of other datasets have been assimilated for every horse running on any UK track (both ARC and RMG tracks) over the previous 2 years.

This data will ultimately be made available, via a subscription website and API, and which will be of interest to those of us who enjoy interrogating data and / or using form analysis to either support an in-running trading / betting hypothesis or to develop a stand-a-lone backing or laying system.

If you would like to see a description of each column please click here Glossary

Finally and probably the most exciting and eagerly awaited news for some considerable time; TPD have now secured the commercial rights to use live GPS data from ALL UK RMG tracks. This obviously includes the Jockey Club races at Cheltenham, Aintree, Newmarket, Epsom and the action from York and Goodwood too. It will take my Team a little while to make the appropriate infrastructure changes, however I fully expect the RMG GPS data to be accessible to all TPD Zone subscribers before the end of Q1 2025.

I wish you every success in 2025 and beyond.

Will Duff-Gordon

TPD CEO

Royal Ascot 2023 – Case Study

June 22, 2023

An example of what can be achieved by diligent use of the GPS data. The following was the winning entry re our Royal Ascot 2023 Challenge; Congratulations to James who received a magnum of champagne and a complimentary month’s subscription to TPD Zone.

James’ submission was as follows;

“I had to nip out this afternoon and missed a couple of races but as is usually the case my Bet Angel automation, configured with TPD GPS data, was running.

In my opinion the large quality fields and wide track of Royal Ascot are perfect to leverage the advantages that the use of TPD data can provide and despite not even being at my PC I picked out an excellent profit in the very competitive 3:40pm, 17 runner Group 1 King’s Stand Stakes. [Tuesday 20th June 2023]

With more than a furlong to travel the TV cameras panned away from the small group of nearside horses, leaving Vadream, Dramatised and Cannonball all completely out of shot.

It was impossible to tell from the TV pictures whether these horses remained in contention or not, but with my Bet Angel automation analysing the TPD data, several times a second, the automation was able to calculate the point at which they could, realistically, no longer win the race.

Lay bets were automatically placed on each of the three horses and a nice profit was secured with the three selections finishing 12th, 15th, and 17th. “

James
TPD Zone subscriber and Bet Angel user

From Redundancy to a Full Time In-Running Horse Racing Trader

September 13, 2022

By James, Bet Angel and TPD Zone User.

In 2018 I took voluntary redundancy, leaving the company I’d worked at for well over a decade. In a demanding industry, my role over the years allowed me to develop quick logical thinking with an eye for data crunching and analysis. With the luxury of redundancy money behind me, I took the opportunity to dip a toe into a few other waters before I would be forced to plan my return to the daily grind.

One of these waters was betting exchange software and I plumped for Bet Angel which I’d read offered one of the best mixes of manual and automated trading tools. In my dim and distant youth, I’d worked in a bookmaker’s office and so I was exposed to a lot of horse racing. Back then I’d always felt I had a knack for picking out the likely winners whilst watching the race live on a screen, but at the time of course there was no way to profit from this skill. Remembering this I thought my best chance of successful exchange trading would be to focus on in-running rather than pre-off.

Fast forward six months and I was trading in-running horse races full time, making consistent profits and all thoughts of returning to the daily grind had gone. Obviously, quick decision making and reaction time is key and I was using simple tools on the Bet Angel ‘One-click’ screen to help me place trades as fast as possible.

Over the next few years my trading became more sophisticated, and I delved deeper into the automation side of Bet Angel to customise my trading screen with more complex data flow and trading options. Then in 2021 along came a huge shift in in-running horse trading. Bet Angel and TPD announced a tie-in which meant for the first time live GPS data could be displayed almost instantaneously along with the existing data flow on my Bet Angel ‘One-click’ screen. Suddenly I had the position, speed, distances, stride frequency and more, of every horse in the race flashing on my screen and a whole new world of data was unleashed.

At first, I used this new data only to augment my manual trading, such as checking who was jumping the most efficiently, how far back were horses off camera, and who was closing the fastest in the straight. The TPD data is powerful but should NOT solely be used with the objective of beating everyone else to 1.01 price on the winner, as it crosses the line! By enhancing the smoothing of the data using Bet Angel History Lists, highlighting value in the market became more straightforward.

I quickly realised there was also opportunity to combine the power of TPD data with Bet Angel automation, to write rules that trade automatically during the race. It won’t come as a surprise that I had to invest a significant amount of time to learn the Bet Angel software inside-out to make things work how I wanted. Don’t get me wrong this was a hard slog, but the reward is I now trade all TPD races automatically, whether I am sitting at my PC or relaxing down the pub!

Videos – How to Profit with TPD Data

August 18, 2022

Videos – How to Profit with TPD Data

A very successful webinar was held on Thursday 21st July, in which the TPD metrics were described and demonstrated in live markets, with questions being encouraged and answered throughout the session.

A recording of the webinar can be found here; https://vimeo.com/738619878

The above is 1h 10m duration, if you would like to view the pertinent bits of the webinar, in byte sized segments, then please follow the following links;

Webinar – How to Profit from a 2m Jumps Race 6m 21s https://vimeo.com/738237496

Webinar – How to Profit from a Flat Race 2m 10s h t tps://vimeo.com/738238591

Webinar – Layout Editor Demonstrated 7m 22s https://vimeo.com/738249389

Webinar – Back and Lay Custom Settings Explained 2m 42s https://vimeo.com/738249734

Webinar – Detailed Explanation of VE, VF and CE Metrics 3m 34s https://vimeo.com/738237295

There is no need to join Vimeo if you do not wish to do so. You may be invited to do so but just click the ‘X’ on the invite pop-up and you will be good to go.

The above are focussed on Bet Mover, however they may be of interest to you, even if you are consuming the data via Bet Angel, as the exact same metrics are available, around which you can construct strategies and even automate such.

Any feedback, via email to support@tpd.zone would be very much appreciated and including what you would like to see in the next webinar.