Understanding a meeting
August 21, 2026
Before analyzing a race, it’s helpful to understand how horse races are organized.
In SignalTurf, races are grouped by meeting. This organization follows the one used in official French racing programs and makes it easy to find a given race during the day.
Understanding how this works makes navigation more intuitive and makes it easier to check the analyses offered by the app.
What is a meeting?
A meeting is the set of races held at the same racecourse on a given day.
Depending on the program, a day may include a single meeting or several meetings spread across different racecourses.
Each meeting is identified by a number:
- R1
- R2
- R3
- …
Within each meeting, races are also numbered in their starting order.
For example:
- C1: the meeting’s first race.
- C2: the second race.
- C3: the third race.
A notation like R1 C4 therefore refers to the fourth race of the day’s first meeting.
Why this organization?
A day of racing can include dozens of races.
Rather than listing every race in a single list, SignalTurf groups them by meeting to make navigation clearer.
This organization makes it easier to:
- quickly find a racecourse.
- view races in chronological order.
- move easily from one race to another within the same meeting.
Users familiar with racing programs will find this presentation familiar, while new users can gradually discover this organization.
What you’ll find in a meeting
Once you open a meeting, SignalTurf displays all the races it includes.
Each race has its own analysis, carried out independently by the artificial intelligence models.
Depending on your access plan, you may be able to check:
- the horses selected by the artificial intelligence models.
- the confidence level associated with the different bet types offered.
- the convergence indicator between artificial intelligence models (Premium).
Since each race is analyzed separately, two races within the same meeting can show very different confidence levels.
It’s therefore possible for a meeting to include several very open races alongside others with more consistent analyses.
The same organization every day
The number of meetings varies according to the official racing program.
Some days include only a few meetings, while others offer more.
Whatever the day, SignalTurf keeps the same organization so you can quickly find your bearings.
When you open the app, you always start by choosing a meeting before accessing the analyses for its different races.
Information that can change
A meeting’s program can change up until the races start.
For example, a horse may be declared a non-runner, or certain official information may be updated.
When these changes are taken into account by the artificial intelligence models, SignalTurf may update the relevant analyses to reflect the most recent information available.
The meeting’s organization itself, however, stays the same: only the analyses of the affected races can change.
A meeting’s number doesn’t reflect its importance
The number assigned to a meeting isn’t a ranking.
An R1 isn’t necessarily more prestigious or more important than an R2 or an R3.
This numbering is only used to distinguish between the different meetings held on the same day and to make them easier to identify in official programs as well as in SignalTurf.
Finding your bearings
If you’re just starting out, it’s often easier to browse a meeting in full.
This lets you see how the different races unfold, compare their analyses, and gradually get familiar with the information displayed by the app.
This approach also helps you better understand that every race has its own characteristics and is analyzed independently.
Go further
Now that you know how meetings are organized, you can discover what a race analysis contains in the Understanding a race chapter.
If you’d like a quick definition of a term like R1, C4, or Non-runner, the Glossary and the FAQ are also available.