Racehorses - published each year in early March - covers every horse that has run during the British flat racing year. There are extended essays on the leading performers, but every horse receives its own individual Timeform commentary and rating.

The best horses from overseas are covered too. Timeform pre-dated the International Classifications in providing ratings for the top horses in other major racing countries. In Racehorses of 2004, for example, you'll find ratings for the leading horses in Australasia, Dubai, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, North America and Scandinavia.

It's no wonder, then, that Timeform ratings are recognised worldwide by everyone professionally involved in racing and breeding as the most accurate, independent assessment of merit.

Racehorses of 2005 runs to 1,220 pages, includes over 400 action and portrait photographs and covers individually each of the 10,500 horses that ran on the Flat last season.