The Cub's Guide
Free Racing Commands
Command, where, and what you get. Anything that a single SQL query or deterministic function can answer is free forever — the 3 daily investigations are reserved for genuine reasoning and comparison.
Zone 1
Free forever · doesn't touch your quota
These commands go straight to our database. No LLM, no cost, no daily cap. Use them all day.
| Command | Where | What you get |
|---|---|---|
Frankel (any horse name) |
LLaMa chat | Career record, best rating, connections, next entry if declared |
Compare Frankel and Nashwan (or Frankel vs Nashwan) |
LLaMa chat | Side-by-side card: age, career, best rating, trainer, pedigree, today's race |
Frankel's form (or Frankel history · Frankel's last 5 runs) |
LLaMa chat | Last 5 runs (up to 10) — position, course, distance, going, weight, jockey, SP, OR, beaten distance |
Top trainer at Goodwood (or Best jockey at Ascot · Newmarket specialists) |
LLaMa chat | Course leaderboards over the last 12 months — wins, runs, strike rate |
3:15 Ascot (or show me the 15:35 Newmarket) |
LLaMa chat | Full race card — runners, jockeys, prices, ratings, plus AI pick + Fox tag if any |
Aidan O'Brien's runners today (or What's Ryan Moore riding today?) |
LLaMa chat | Every trainer / jockey declaration today — time, course, horse, odds, AI + Fox tags |
Trainer Aidan O'Brien (or Jockey Ryan Moore · About X · X's profile) |
LLaMa chat | Career runs / wins / strike rate · last active · notable wins · today's runners chip |
8/1 shots today (or under 3/1 today · favourites today · outsiders today) |
LLaMa chat | Every runner in a price band across today's card, with AI + Fox tags |
Steamers today (or Drifters today · Market moves today) |
LLaMa chat | Where the money's going — biggest shorteners / drifters across today's card |
Big races today (or Race of the day · Feature races today) |
LLaMa chat | The day's top races by prize money, with AI Chamber pick per race |
King George (or The Grand National · Race Derby) |
LLaMa chat | Named-race lookup — date, time, course, class, distance, going, prize, field, AI pick |
Top rated in the 3:15 Ascot (or Best OR in Ascot 15:35) |
LLaMa chat | SR / OR leaders in a specific race, with AI + Fox tags |
Firsts today (or First-time blinkers today · First-time cheekpieces today) |
LLaMa chat | Every runner in first-time headgear on today's card — classic form angle |
Pin Frankel (or My pins · Pins running today) |
LLaMa chat | Save favourite horses · cross-reference against today's card in one click. Needs a signed-in Cub account — a pin belongs to someone. Free, and it never touches your quota. |
Ascot results yesterday (or What won at Newmarket yesterday · York today · Ascot on 2026-07-30) |
LLaMa chat | Every settled race at that course on that day — winners, SP, jockeys, places |
Today's card |
LLaMa chat | Every meeting today with times, courses and field size |
Next off |
LLaMa chat | Countdown to the next race and its meeting |
Bet of the Day |
LLaMa chat | Mr Fox's single-race pick today with reasoning |
Horses to Watch |
LLaMa chat | Sly Man's 5 form horses running today |
Yesterday's results |
LLaMa chat | How every Fox / Sly Man / LLaMa pick settled |
Latest LLaMa letter |
LLaMa chat | This week's long-form editorial |
8/1 implied |
LLaMa chat | Implied win probability + decimal odds (11.11% · 9.00) |
5/2 decimal |
LLaMa chat | Fractional → decimal odds (3.50) |
3.5 fractional |
LLaMa chat | Decimal → best-fit fractional (5/2) |
£10 EW on 8/1 |
LLaMa chat | Each-way return breakdown — wins / places / loses P&L |
Each-way terms |
LLaMa chat | Standard place fractions + number-of-places table |
£10 acca 8/1 5/2 evens |
LLaMa chat | Accumulator return — combined decimal + all-win P&L |
£1 patent 8/1 5/2 evens |
LLaMa chat | 3 sel · 7 bets · singles pay any winner |
£1 trixie 8/1 5/2 evens |
LLaMa chat | 3 sel · 4 bets · doubles + treble (no singles) |
£1 yankee 8/1 5/2 evens 3/1 |
LLaMa chat | 4 sel · 11 bets · needs 2+ winners |
£1 lucky 15 8/1 5/2 evens 3/1 |
LLaMa chat | 4 sel · 15 bets · singles pay any winner |
Cheat code: horse names always cost £0. Look up 100
of them today if you want — quota untouched. Build the picture
cheaply, then spend an investigation on the verdict.
Slash shortcuts
Type
Type / for one-keystroke LLM prompts
These are shortcut names for common investigations —
/rate 15:15 Ripon becomes a full
"top 4 picks with confidence and reasoning" prompt
server-side. Costs one of your 3 daily investigations,
same as typing the question out. In the composer, press
/ to browse the whole list with autocomplete.
| Command | Access | What you get |
|---|---|---|
/rate <15:15 Ripon> |
Cub | Rate the field — Top 4 picks with confidence and reasoning for a race |
/pace <15:15 Ripon> |
Cub | Pace map — Likely leaders, prominent runners, and hold-up horses |
/verdict <15:15 Ripon> |
Cub | Race verdict — Punter's scene-set — class, standout runner, angles |
/draw <15:15 Ripon> |
Cub | Draw analysis — Which stalls are favoured + who has drawn well or badly |
/why <Stradivarius> |
Cub | Case for a horse — Walk through the positive case — form, class, jockey, market |
/against <Stradivarius> |
Cub | Case against a horse — Walk through the doubts — form, conditions, market weakness |
/form <Frankel> |
Cub | Read a horse's form — Interpret the last 5-6 runs — shape, conditions, read |
/day-scan <focus on the northern meetings> |
Cub | Scan the day — Standout races + runners + market moves across the card |
/nap <ignore the AW meetings> |
Cub | Nap of the day — Your single best pick — one race, one horse, one bet |
/pick-winner <15:15 Ripon> |
£0 | Pick Winner (cached pick) — The cron's morning pick for this race — free, instant |
/horse <Frankel> |
£0 | /horse — Career record, best rating, connections |
/trainer <Aidan O'Brien> |
£0 | /trainer — Career runs / wins / strike rate — one card |
/jockey <Ryan Moore> |
£0 | /jockey — Career runs / wins / strike rate — one card |
/course <Goodwood> |
£0 | /course — Top trainer + top jockey over last 12 months |
/results <Ascot> |
£0 | /results — What won at that course yesterday |
/next |
£0 | /next — Countdown to the next race today |
/today |
£0 | /today — Every meeting today with times and field size |
/pins |
£0 | /pins — Every horse you've pinned to your account |
/pins-today |
£0 | /pins-today — Which of your pinned horses are on today |
/steamers |
£0 | /steamers — Horses whose price has shortened most today |
/bet-of-day |
£0 | /bet-of-day — Mr Fox's single-race pick today |
/pick-winner-llm <15:15 Ripon Sat 16 Aug> |
Cub | Pick Winner · fresh LLM read — Fresh Sonnet analysis — today or a future race day |
/review <15:15 Ripon> |
Cub | Review a finished race — Post-race read — pace, tactics, winner + notable runs |
/help commands |
£0 | Command list — LLaMa reads back every registered / shortcut, no quota spent if you already know them all |
Muscle memory: race-scoped commands
(
/rate, /pace, /verdict,
/draw, /review) all take the same
15:15 Ripon shape. Horse-scoped commands
(/why, /against, /form)
take a horse name. Day-wide (/day-scan,
/nap) take no args.
Zone 2
3 investigations a day · make them count
These questions do real reasoning across the database plus tools. They spend one of your 3 daily investigations. Save them for questions the £0 lookups can't answer.
| Command | Where | What you get |
|---|---|---|
Analyse [race] — top 3 horses |
LLaMa chat | Race breakdown, form, prices, LLaMa's verdict on the top 3 |
Compare [horse A] and [horse B] |
LLaMa chat | Head-to-head form, ratings, price commentary, which is better value |
Should I back the favourite in [race]? |
LLaMa chat | The favourite's case, the strongest challenger, a verdict |
Why did Mr Fox back [horse] yesterday? |
LLaMa chat | The reasoning behind a past pick — trust check |
Any Sly Man Trebles today? |
LLaMa chat | Today's each-way triple legs and why they were chosen |
Explain [any racing term or concept] |
LLaMa chat | Plain-English explainer — good for learning the game |
How to spend them: if you're weighing a bet,
start with £0 horse-name lookups, THEN use an investigation
for a comparison or verdict. Investigations
are for interpretation, not lookup.
Zone 3
On the site · unlimited, no quota
Everything below is browseable without touching the DEN. No sign-in required for most.
Mr Fox & Sly Man
- Fox's Desk Daily hub — Featured Tip, Bet of the Day, notebook
- Horses to Watch Sly Man's 5 form horses running today
- Featured Results Fox picks bucketed by finishing position
Editorial
- News Fox's Eye, Top Rated Today, race previews
- LLaMa Letters Weekly long-form editorial by LLaMa
- LLaMa Papers Cinematic multiverse analysis for big races
Race analysis
- The Pin Cinematic race breakdown with runner cards + Fox's verdict
- Big Race The featured Saturday race, full coverage
- Race Steamers Sharpest market moves today across all meetings
- Today's races Every meeting, every race, filterable
- Race Explorer Search the full field by course, distance, class
Ante-post
- Grand National hub Market movers, trainer standings, history wall
Track record
- Honest Record Every pick's outcome, filterable, CSV export
- Fox Ledger Per-race pick log with proof-of-pick certificates
- Verify Cryptographic proof any pick was made before the race
How it works
- Pick Winner methodology Cinematic walkthrough of the AI pick engine
- Bet of the Day methodology How Mr Fox's single race is selected
A day as a Cub
Suggested rhythm — 3 investigations goes a long way
| Time | What to do | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Morning coffee | Skim /news/ — Fox's Eye + Top Rated Today | Site |
Type Bet of the Day in the DEN |
£0 | |
Type Horses to Watch |
£0 | |
| Type a horse name that caught your eye | £0 | |
| Pre-race build-up | Open /pin/ for the featured race | Site |
Type Next off for the countdown |
£0 | |
| Big decision | Spend investigation 1 — analyse the race | 1/3 |
| Weighing options | Spend investigation 2 — compare two horses | 2/3 |
| After racing | Type Yesterday's results |
£0 |
| Check Featured Results | Site | |
| Save for a curveball | Investigation 3 — or don't use it | 3/3 |