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Follow a horse, and be told when it runs again

A form guide and racing site for Tasmanian thoroughbreds, harness and greyhounds. It is built for people who read form, so the screens are dense on purpose, and it keeps a Blackbook of the runners you are watching.

The brief

A punter reading form wants a lot of numbers at once: last race, career record, rating, best odds, track condition, speed map. Hiding that behind clean pages makes the site useless to the people who use it most. The harder part is what happens between meetings, when the horse you are following is not racing today.


What we built

  1. 01

    A Blackbook where you follow a runner and it tells you when that runner is next entered

  2. 02

    The Blackbook split into Upcoming and Recently Run, with a tab per day and a count on each

  3. 03

    Form, sectional profile, speed map, ratings and tips as tabs on one race, so the meeting is one page

  4. 04

    A dark interface, because the tables are the content and a white ground makes a wall of figures harder to read

  5. 05

    A six step guided tour over the real screens, since nothing here is self-evident on a first visit

  6. 06

    Notifications written as a person would say them, so following a horse feels like a result rather than a database row


Screens

The Blackbook panel: tabs for Thoroughbred, Horses and Greyhound, a row of days each with a count, and tables of Upcoming and Recently Run horses showing last race, career, rating and best odds.
The Blackbook. Follow a runner, and the day tabs fill in with how many of your horses are entered.
The homepage: upcoming meets with entry criteria, distance and runner counts, then a Launceston meeting with track condition, weather and a form guide.
Meets, then a meeting, then the form. The whole path is on one page.
A guided tour overlay reading 'Check on the upcoming meets', marked Step 1 of 6, pointing at the upcoming meets table.
Six steps over the real interface. A form guide is not self-explanatory, and pretending otherwise loses the first-time visitor.

Outcomes

  • A punter can keep a list of runners and be told when they are entered, instead of checking every meeting

  • One race is one page, rather than a form guide, a speed map and a tips page in three places

  • New users get a tour instead of a manual