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Describe it in filters, set min_runs high, and read the interval. One query, one answer.
Documentation / Market & analysis
/v1/analysis/angles
Every filter combined freely, returning the standard block.
Send your key in the X-API-Key header, or as
?key= if your tool cannot set one. A date outside your plan's window returns
403 outside_window naming the window, never an empty array.
| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| by | query | string | no | The dimension to group the answer by. Any of the seventeen. |
| region | query | string | no | Jurisdiction. |
| course_id | query | string | no | One course. |
| run_type | query | string | no | Flat, Hurdle, Chase or NH Flat. |
| distance | query | string | no | One distance as published. |
| going | query | string | no | One going as published. |
| class | query | string | no | One race class. |
| field_size | query | string | no | A field size band. |
| sp_band | query | string | no | A price band. |
| draw | query | string | no | low, middle or high third. |
| layoff | query | string | no | A days-since-last-run band. |
| trainer_id | query | string | no | One trainer. |
| jockey_id | query | string | no | One jockey. |
| min_runs | query | integer | no | Drop rows with fewer runners than this. Defaults to 1; 100 is sensible for anything you intend to believe. |
| date_from | query | string | no | YYYY-MM-DD. |
| date_to | query | string | no | YYYY-MM-DD. |
curl https://api.apihorseracing.com/v1/analysis/angles \ -H "X-API-Key: $AHR_KEY"
$ch = curl_init('https://api.apihorseracing.com/v1/analysis/angles'); curl_setopt_array($ch, [ CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => ['X-API-Key: ' . getenv('AHR_KEY')], ]); $data = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true)['data'];
const res = await fetch( 'https://api.apihorseracing.com/v1/analysis/angles', { headers: { 'X-API-Key': process.env.AHR_KEY } } ); const { meta, data } = await res.json();
import os, requests r = requests.get( "https://api.apihorseracing.com/v1/analysis/angles", headers={"X-API-Key": os.environ["AHR_KEY"]}, ).json()
curl https://api.apihorseracing.com/v1/analysis/angles?key=$AHR_KEY
$url = 'https://api.apihorseracing.com/v1/analysis/angles' . '?key=$AHR_KEY'; $data = json_decode(file_get_contents($url), true)['data'];
const res = await fetch( 'https://api.apihorseracing.com/v1/analysis/angles?key=$AHR_KEY' ); const { meta, data } = await res.json();
import os, requests r = requests.get( "https://api.apihorseracing.com/v1/analysis/angles?key=$AHR_KEY", ).json()
{ "meta": { "request_id": "66fb147338518557", "data_as_of": "2026-09-12T05:10:27+00:00", "plan": "analyst", "window": "2017 → upcoming" }, "data": { "window": { "from": null, "to": null, "note": "The whole archive. Your plan sets no date limit." }, "filters": { "run_type": "Chase", "favourite": "1", "min_runners": "12" }, "overall": { "runs": 1263, "priced": 1263, "first": 280, "second": 190, "third": 147, "fourth": 113, "win_pct": 0.2217, "top3_pct": 0.4885, "expected_wins": 257.67, "a_e": 1.087, "a_e_range": [ 0.959, 1.214 ], "a_e_beats_market": false, "significant": false, "low_sample": false, "pl_1pt": -252.49, "roi_pct": -19.99 } } }
A real response from /v1/analysis/angles?run_type=Chase&favourite=1&min_runners=12,
captured by calling the live API rather than written by hand.
Each field is described once and rendered on every endpoint that returns it, so the wording cannot drift between pages.
| Field | Type | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| window | string | How far back and forward that plan can read. |
| run_type | string | Flat, Hurdle, Chase or NH Flat. |
| favourite | boolean | Shortest price in the race. Joint favourites are all flagged. |
| runs | integer | Rides in the slice, priced or not. |
| priced | integer | Rides carrying a starting price. A/E and the profit figures use these; runs is the wider count. |
| first | integer | Wins. |
| second | integer | Seconds. Positions are returned separately so you apply your own place terms. |
| third | integer | Thirds. |
| fourth | integer | Fourths. |
| win_pct | number | Wins over runs. The number everyone quotes and the one that tells you least. |
| top3_pct | number | First, second or third over runs. Not a place strike rate; place terms vary. |
| expected_wins | number | Wins the market implied, summed over the slice. |
| a_e | number | Actual wins over expected. Above 1.00 means winning more often than the prices said. |
| a_e_range | array | Ninety five percent interval on A/E. If it spans 1.00 the figure is not evidence of anything. |
| a_e_beats_market | boolean | True only where the whole interval sits above 1.00. |
| significant | boolean | Whether the interval excludes 1.00 in either direction. |
| low_sample | boolean | Fewer than five expected wins. Treat A/E as noise. |
| pl_1pt | number | One point on every runner, settled at starting price. |
| roi_pct | number | Level stakes return. Backing everything loses more than the book margin, because equal stakes overweight the longshots. |
The code a race was run under lives on the horse profile rather than the race, so it arrives on a later pass. A null run_type means not yet fetched, not unclassified.
| Code | Status | When |
|---|---|---|
| unauthorized | 401 | No key, or one we do not recognise. Check the header name and that the key has not been rotated from your account page. |
| upgrade_required | 403 | The endpoint returns computed statistics and your plan does not include them. The body names every plan that does reach it, so you never have to look it up. |
| invalid_param | 422 | A date that is not YYYY-MM-DD, a by= dimension we do not have, or a cursor that did not come from us. The message names the parameter. |
| rate_limited | 429 | Past your per-minute rate. Retry-After is set, and X-RateLimit-Remaining tells you where you stand on every successful response too. |
| server_error | 500 | Ours, not yours. Every response carries a request_id; quote it and we can find the exact request. |
A real request from your browser straight to
api.apihorseracing.com with
your own key. Nothing is proxied and nothing is logged by this page.
Remembered in this browser so you do not paste it on every page. Forget it
Ask your own question. Every filter in the statistics engine, combined freely, returning the standard block grouped however you like. Chase handicaps on soft ground at fourteen runners or more, grouped by draw. Whatever you can describe.
This is the endpoint the Analyst tier is really for. The rest are convenient shapes for common questions; this one is the engine underneath them with the filters exposed.
It is also the easiest way in the whole API to fool yourself, and that is worth saying plainly rather than burying. Combining seven filters until something looks significant is not analysis, it is searching for noise, and with a million and a half runner records you will always find some. Every response therefore carries the runner count and the interval, and rows under about a hundred runners are flagged low_sample.
The honest way to use it is to decide the question before you run it, and to treat anything you find by exploring as a hypothesis to test on a period you did not look at.
Describe it in filters, set min_runs high, and read the interval. One query, one answer.
Find something on date_to of a few years ago, then rerun it on the period after. Findings that survive that are worth keeping.
Most of what people build by exporting results and pivoting is one call here, with a confidence interval attached that the spreadsheet never had.
The filters are combined with AND. There is no OR, deliberately: it makes queries whose sample size is impossible to reason about.