Question 1

How do I integrate the horse racing API into my application?

Accepted Answer

Integration is simple with just 3 steps: 1) Sign up to get your free API key, 2) Make a GET request to our RESTful endpoint with date, track, and race parameters, 3) Parse the JSON response to display race form data. We provide code examples in JavaScript, Python, and cURL to get you started quickly.

Question 2

What horse racing data does the API provide?

Accepted Answer

Our racing data API provides comprehensive race form information including runner details, horse statistics, jockey performance records, trainer data, race distance, surface type, purse amounts, and historical form. All data is returned in easy-to-parse JSON format.

Question 3

Is the horse racing API free to use?

Accepted Answer

Yes! FormFav offers a free forever tier perfect for developers building betting platforms, sports apps, or racing analytics tools. Simply sign up to receive your API key instantly - no credit card required.

Question 4

Which racing tracks and countries are supported?

Accepted Answer

Our horse racing data feed covers thoroughbred, harness and greyhound racing across 24+ countries, and coverage keeps growing.

Question 5

Does FormFav provide a racing data feed?

Accepted Answer

Yes. FormFav delivers a horse racing data feed as a RESTful JSON API — runner form and career statistics across 24+ countries on the free tier, results and margins plus predictions and jockey and trainer records on Pro, and live bookmaker prices with real-time results on Premium. FormFav provides independent form analysis and derived statistics; it is not an official race fields feed. Unlike traditional fixed-format data feeds with FTP drops and contracts, you request exactly the races you need with a simple 3-parameter call and a free API key.

Question 6

Does FormFav provide horse and greyhound racing results?

Accepted Answer

Yes. The results endpoint returns finishing positions for completed races, with margins where they are published — thoroughbred (gallops), harness and greyhound racing, for every meeting FormFav serves race form for. Fetch a single race with GET /v1/results, or every race at a meeting in one call with GET /v1/results/meeting. A runner with a finishing position completed the race, a scratched runner was withdrawn before it, and dead heats are represented as two runners sharing a position. Results are a Pro tier feature and Pro includes a 7-day free trial. FormFav publishes independent racing data and derived statistics; it is not an official results service.

Question 7

Are FormFav's racing results live?

Accepted Answer

That depends on your tier. On Free and Pro, no — results are ingested by a batch pipeline that runs every 2-3 hours rather than streamed in real time, so expect a lag between a race finishing and its result appearing. On Premium and Enterprise, results arrive as races settle, with interim and correct-weight stages, and scratchings, track condition and weather update live rather than waiting for the batch run. Every race carries a resultStatus field — final, interim, pending or abandoned — so you can tell a race that has not been run from one that has run but is not ingested yet; a race with no result yet returns 200 with resultStatus pending rather than a 404. Results cover a rolling window from 30 days in the past to 7 days ahead, so FormFav is not a historical results archive.

Question 8

Does FormFav provide live horse racing odds?

Accepted Answer

On Premium and Enterprise, yes. GET /v1/prices returns current win and place prices for every runner in a race, one entry per bookmaker and market type (fixed or tote), with opening, high and low win prices and recent movement history, refreshed continuously with a 5-second edge cache. The same prices appear on the results endpoint for Premium keys. Free and Pro keys receive a 403 from the prices endpoint. Separately, Pro results carry the official starting price once a race settles. FormFav provides independent form analysis and derived statistics; it is not an official race fields feed.

Question 9

Can I use this for a commercial betting platform?

Accepted Answer

Absolutely! FormFav is designed specifically for betting platforms, sportsbook integrations, fantasy racing applications, and commercial racing analytics tools. Our RESTful API scales with your needs.

Question 10

Can I use FormFav in ChatGPT or Claude?

Accepted Answer

Yes, with no code. Add FormFav as a custom connector in ChatGPT or Claude, paste https://api.formfav.com/mcp and sign in with your FormFav account; there is no API key to copy, and the free plan works. Your assistant can then answer questions about meetings, race form and career stats, plus predictions, results and statistics on Pro. Cursor, Claude Code and other developer tools connect with an API key, and the OpenAPI spec at api.formfav.com/v1/openapi.json lets any agent framework generate tools for every endpoint.