Posted inAnnouncements
Pick Pony Past Performance Sheets BETA program open
The Pick Pony Past Performance Reports application is online and in Beta.
Posted inMisc
About Pick Pony’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) horse race handicapping engines
At Pick Pony, we are developing a state-of-the-art artificial intelligence engine to assist with horse race handicapping. Here's everything you need to know (and that we can reveal) about our AI engines.
Posted inMisc
How to read Pick Pony’s singe-page summary card
Pick Pony Past Performances sheets include a unique single-page summary of each race that includes all the vital statistics on a single card with each horse ranked according to our proprietary artificial intelligence recommendation.
Posted inEducation
All about horses and horse racing – a comprehensive guide to horse breeds, characteristics, and fascinating fun facts about Thoroughbreds.
Horses love to run, making them a perfect fit for racing competition. Here's everything you need to know about horses to assist. you in your handicapping process.
Posted inResources
Horse Racing Tracks diagrams (Fair Meadows, Finger Lakes, Golden Gate Fields, Lonestark, Oaklawn, Parx, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise)
We have created a collection of US horse race track diagrams for most of the major tracks in the United States. These diagrams/illustrations are copyright-protected assets of Pick Pony. However, you may use them with full attribution.
Posted inHistory
A brief history of horse racing in the United States
It’s impossible to know precisely when organized horse racing first began. We know that horse racing was part of the Olympic Games in Greece as early as 700 BC.
Posted inPPS
Pick Pony Past Performance Sheets (PPSs)
Here's how to purchase Pick Pony Past Performance (PPs) Sheets.
Posted inHorses
What happens to racehorses when they can no longer race? The fate of retired racehorses is often grim.
A horse should generally be able to work well into its teens. A racehorse career however, typically ends around the age of 6 or 7. For thoroughbreds and standardbreds, there are pretty much only three options for retired horses.
Posted inTracks
North American (US and Canada) horse racetrack codes, names, and locations
Thoroughbred horse racetracks use abbreviated codes to identify the track the horse ran in. Here is a complete list of North American (US and Canada) horse race track codes, names, and track locations.
Posted inEducation
What is the difference between Beyer, BRIS, and TimeformUS speed numbers? Which one is best?
Those magical numbers handicappers use (whether they admit it or not) to rank horses in a summary fashion. There are a variety to choose from but the big ones are Beyer, Bris, and TimeformUS.
