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 [...]
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. [...]
I've taken a statistical look at the Cheltenham Festival for the last three years, and each of those articles will still be relevant to this years festival. They are mostly based on eight years data, so rather than refresh the same angles each year, I try to find some [...]
With the first race of the 2018 Festival only six days away I decided to crunch some numbers to see if I could come up with any interesting stats or angles which might help our punting next week. This year most of the data is related to a horses [...]
I did an article on a few interesting stats and potential angles for Cheltenham last year, and it will still be relevant for this years festival so have a read of my Cheltenham 2016 Stats piece. With plenty of talk about how Irish trained horses are unfairly, and inconsistently [...]
In my latest Countdown to Cheltenham 2017 blog, I take a look at one of the weekends big talking points, the facile victory of Acapella Bourgeois at Navan, who jumped out in front, and built up a huge lead, which the rest of the field never looked like reeling back [...]
Analyzing specific races with the help of ten year trends is a common practice, but they're not articles I'd recommend paying much heed to, as they provide little, if any predictive value. The problem being the sample size is just too small, and most of the time their authors compound [...]
Last years Supreme Novices Hurdle was a very good race, one of the best ever renewals of it. This year looks to be lacking in the same strength in depth though. [adrotate banner="18"] have a very good offer, in that they will refund your win stake up to €50, if your [...]
The 2005 Champion Hurdle will be talked about for decades to come. The fact the first five home were all Irish Trained would provide a talking point in most years, but in the aftermath of this race, that was barely mentioned. Instead everyone was talking about the ride Paul Carberry [...]
The County Hurdle is run on Friday the 14th of March this year. Normally a very competitive race there is no reason to think this year will be any different. The weights for all the Cheltenham Handicaps came out yesterday, and on first look the horse that stands out the [...]