Whether you're enjoying a day at the races or having a few bets at home, Racecard allows you record all of your bets, keep track of the total amount you have staked and calculate your profit/loss.
Racecard is particularly useful if you wish to place more than one bet on a particular race (which is usually the case for big races like the Derby or Grand National) as it allows you enter all of your bets in one go and will calculate your returns for the event. With other betting calculators you would have to settle each bet separately and then total the sums with a calculator or pen and paper.
Similarly if you're at the races or following the day's action from home, you can record your bets for any number of races and keep track of exactly how the day is going from a betting perspective.
You can record multiple bets on a single selection, multiple selections in one event, multiple selections over multiple events, or an combination of bets you require. Racecard makes it very easy to keep track of how you are getting on.
Racecard settles Single bets (both Win Only and Each Way), which are the most commonly placed bets when you're enjoying a day's racing. If you would like to settle combination bets such as Yankees or accumulators, check out Racecard's sister app, Bet Settler.
The Thinking Behind Racecard
There are a number of betting calculators available for the iPhone (and we believe that our Bet Settler app is the best of them) that can settle all sorts of complicated bets like Yankees, Lucky 15s, Flags, etc. Powerful though many of those calculators are they do have their limitations and it is those shortcomings that Racecard aims to address. An example will hopefully illustrate the point.
It's the day of a big race meeting. You go into a betting shop with £50 in your pocket and emerge with the following betting slip.
Race 1: £15 win on Dead Cert at SP
Race 1: £2.50 e/w (each way) on Big Outsider at 25/1
Race 2: £10 win on Likely Lad at 3/1
Race 3: £4 win and £3 e/w on Definite Prospect at 11/2
Race 4: £5 e/w on Last Chance at SP.
With a traditional betting calculator, if all the bets were successful (Dead Cert and Big Outsider are in the same race, but if the former wins and the latter is placed they will both return a dividend), you would have to enter and exit the App six times to do all the calculations and then keep a track of the running total yourself – using either a calculator or pen and paper. With Racecard you can have any number of selections, and any number of bets associated with a selection, so the entire betting slip can be settled within the app.
There are six bets here because, rather than having £10 win or £5 e/w on Definite Prospect in Race 3, you have put more money on the selection to win (£7 in total) while still doing a £3 place bet. With Racecard you can link any number of bets to a selection, so settling bets like this becomes a very straightforward task.