When I first began trading and betting seriously on horse racing back in 2010, I quickly realized a frustrating problem: daily racecard information and race results were never available in a format that was easy to use with Excel or other spreadsheet programs.

Most of the time, the data was confined to various websites, forcing me to manually visit each site, open new tabs, and navigate through every race individually. I'm sure you've encountered the same frustration — it's time-consuming and inefficient.

Even today, it's nearly impossible to find a reliable source that offers downloadable daily horse-racing racecards in spreadsheet format without subscribing to a paid service. So I decided to do what I often do - solve the problem myself.

Initially, my attempts were far from perfect. With zero programming knowledge and only a basic grasp of Excel, I outsourced the project to a developer in India. While his work was excellent and affordable, the challenge of managing issues across different time zones meant that even minor problems took days or weeks to resolve.

After being left without access to my scripts for weeks at a time due to technical issues, I realized it was time to take control. I decided to make a serious effort to learn PHP and create my own scripts so I could manage everything in-house and resolve problems as they arose.

It took time and effort, but I eventually developed a set of scripts that fetched the exact racecard data I needed, allowing me to compile and process it in any format I wanted. The result? A fast, efficient way to access daily racecard information in Excel-compatible formats.

And now, I'm making this resource available to you. You can download the daily horse racing racecards for free, formatted as a .csv file that works seamlessly with Excel or any other spreadsheet software. No need to waste time browsing multiple websites — simply download and get started.