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Your Journey

BetTurtle organises your experience around four goals: Tips (study form faster), Learn (understand form study), Systems (build automated systems), and Data (analyse racing data). Choose the goal that best fits what you want to achieve.

Set your goal — choose Tips, Learn, Systems or Data during registration, or update it anytime from your profile.
Experience level — set Beginner, Intermediate or Advanced to tailor the guidance you receive.
Track progress — your Getting Started page shows steps personalised to your goal. Tick them off as you go.
Change anytime — your goal and experience level can be updated from your profile whenever your interests evolve.
Automated Systems

System Builder

Create, test and manage automated racing systems using 100+ filters. Check out the Free System to see how it works, then create your own.

Daily selections for our most profitable systems are available at System Tips.

  • Start simple. Systems with 3-5 filters tend to outperform complex ones with 10+. Overfitting is the most common mistake.
  • Begin with the Free System to understand how filters work before creating your own.
  • Focus on one race type (e.g. flat handicaps) rather than trying to cover everything.
  • A good system has a strike rate above 15% and positive ROI over 90+ days. Be patient — short-term results can be misleading.

Quick Start: Your First System

Try our "Big Priced Winners" system:

  1. Go to Systems → Create System
  2. Name it "Big Priced Winners"
  3. Deselect No on BetTurtle Tip (only Yes ticked)
  4. Set Odds to 10 to 1000
  5. Set Pick Rank to 1 to 1
  6. Deselect Green on Conditions (Amber + Red only)
  7. Deselect Red on Ability (Green + Amber only)
  8. Click Save

Manage Your Systems

View all your systems at Systems → View Systems. See summary stats, edit rules, or delete systems you no longer need. Systems you don't want to see can be hidden from the list.

System limits: Basic (3), Enhanced (15), Pro (50).

Backtesting & Performance

Every system automatically backtests against 30-day, 90-day, and all-time results. View wins, losses, strike rate, ROI and profit/loss to assess how your rules perform before committing real money.

  • Focus on the 90-day period for the most reliable indication of performance. 30-day can be too volatile.
  • Beware of systems with very few selections — a 50% strike rate from 4 bets means nothing statistically.
  • A system needs at least 50-100 selections before the stats become meaningful.
  • If a system looks too good, check if it only fires on a handful of races — it may be overfitted to past results.

System League

The 30-day System League ranks all systems by recent performance. See which approaches are working right now and compare your systems against others.

Pointer Reports for Systems

Pointer reports can inspire system rules. For example, the 80:20 report uses Pick Rank 1-5, Odds Rank 1-5, Red Shoes 0-2. Translate any pointer's criteria into a system to automate it. See the full list on the Reference tab.

Read more: Your Getting Started Guide · Building Your First Profitable System · All system articles
Video Tutorials (Systems)
All Videos

We're currently refreshing our video library to reflect recent updates. The tutorials below remain valuable — the core form study approaches and strategies they cover haven't changed.

System Builder Overview

Tour the System Builder: create, test, and manage automated racing systems.

3-4 min Feature Tour
Analysing Horse Racing Form

Deep dive into form analysis techniques and how to spot key patterns.

4-5 min
Personalising BetTurtle

Customise your race card display, filters, and preferences.

3-4 min
Filtering Races and Runners

Use race and runner filters to narrow down today's action.

3-4 min