With Irish raiders winning seven of the nine handicaps at last years Cheltenham Festival, the BHA announced a jumps rating review, and after some statistical analysis they found quite a significant inflation across almost all handicaps up to about 145 for hurdlers and 155 for chasers. From the graphs [...]
The 2022 Stayers Hurdle, is set to run over two miles, seven furlongs, and two hundred and thirteen yards. on Thursday the 17th of March. Despite the fact he has been beaten in his three starts since, last years winner Flooring Porter currently heads the market for a repeat [...]
The 2022 Cheltenham Gold Cup, is set to run over three miles, two furlongs, and seventy yards. on Friday the 18th of March. Minello Indo beat his stablemate A Plus Tard last year, but has been below that level since, and it's last years runner up that heads the [...]
The 2022 Champion Chase, set for Wednesday March the 16th, is run over one mile, seven furlongs, and one hundred and ninety nine yards, and that yardage is a vital part of the puzzle when considering the two main contenders, Shishkin and Energumene. Put The Kettle On won last [...]
For this years edition of Interesting Stats and Potential Angles I'm going to concentrate on the handicaps. I will look at how different trainers do in them, which ones seem to get improvement out of their horses for Cheltenham, and which ones perform better or worse than market expectations. [...]
The 2021 Ryanair Chase will be run on Thursday the eighteenth of March over a trip of two miles, four furlongs and one hundred and twenty seven yards. A few horses in this also have engagements in other races at the festival, but last years winner Min should to [...]
The 2021 Cheltenham Gold Cup is scheduled for Friday the 19th of March, and will be run over a trip of three miles, two furlongs and seventy yards. Having won the race in 2019 and 2020, the Willie Mullins trained Al Boum Photo is attempting to join Golden Miller, [...]
The 2021 Champion Hurdle is due to be run at Cheltenham on Tuesday the 16th of March, over a trip of two miles and eighty seven yards. Last years winner Epatante is trying to defend her crown but after a defeat at Kempton last time she needs to bounce [...]
The 2020 Ryanair Chase is run at Cheltenham on Thursday the 12th of March, over a trip of two mile four furlongs, and a hundred and twenty seven yards. Last years winner Frodon looks set to return and try and win the race for a second year, with another [...]
The 2020 Champion Hurdle is run at Cheltenham on Tuesday the 10th of March, over a trip of two miles and eighty seven yards. With a few of the main contenders having alternative engagements, it's hard to hazard a guess at exactly which horses will line up on the [...]