Mockup. This page is a design draft — no payment processor is connected and nothing on it takes money.
Keep The Paddock running
The Paddock is free, has no adverts, no betting links, and no paywall — and it stays that way. What it does have is a data feed and a server to pay for. If it saves you a morning of hunting for post times and streams, a few dollars covers your share.
What it costs
Roughly, per month. The data feed is the big one; the rest is small. Figures are estimates and will be kept current.
- Racing data feedThe Racing API, Standard plan (£59.99)
- $76
- HostingServer-rendered pages, edge caching
- $20
- Domain, email, monitoringAnnual costs, averaged
- $6
- Per month
- $102
The deal
- Every page stays free. No supporter-only cards, no early access. Our data licence forbids reselling the data, and a paywall would be exactly that — so this is a principle with teeth.
- No adverts, no bookmaker links. The Paddock tells you what’s running and where to watch it. It doesn’t tell you what to bet.
- Donations are donations. Not tax-deductible, not a subscription to anything, cancel a monthly gift whenever you like.
- Surplus goes back in. If gifts exceed costs, the next step is the wider data plan — full US and Australian cards — not a bigger server bill.
Other ways to help
- Tell us what’s wrong. A stream listed for the wrong region, a course we don’t have, a term the guide explains badly.
- Send it to one person who keeps asking you what channel the racing is on.