JenningsBet Northumberland Plate Handicap
As you can probably imagine, a 20-runner heritage handicap over 2-miles on the All-Weather at Newcastle produces a lot of data. There’s a lot of “sifting” involved in the data for a race like this. The track bias, the big field and the nature of the way a race like this develops will always lead […]
Chester Horses to Follow – 28th June
Racing returns to the Roodee on Saturday afternoon with an 8 race card that gets underway at 2:00. This is a competitive card with a mix of maiden races and handicaps, but looking through the data from TPD, we have identified 3 horses who are all running in handicap races for the first time. /*! […]
Aidan O’Briens 2YO Winners at Royal Ascot
Aidan O’Brien and Ballydoyle may have been out of luck in the Group 1 races last week, but their Juvenile team certainly lit up Royal Ascot with 3 winners across the 6 races for the 2-year-olds. Trying to assess any 2-year-old form can be difficult. They are by their nature, still maturing and some are […]
Coronation Stakes Review
Let’s start where we should with the analysis of this race and discuss the winner. Cercene was a first winner at Royal Ascot for Joseph Murphy and she showed a superb attitude to get her head in front in the final furlong. Recording a top speed of 41.70 mph, she was the fastest horse in […]
Royal Ascot – Gold Cup Review
A winning time of 4:15.02 makes Trawlerman the fastest Gold Cup winner in the last 20 years and given that he made the running and ran the fastest individual furlong in 9 of the 20 furlongs, this performance can only be described as superb. We could, and will, discuss the fact that the horses who […]
Prince of Wales’s Stakes Review
The Prince of Wales’s Stakes was won by the slowest horse. That’s a very simplistic view of the data, but if we rank the horses based on the top speed that they recorded, the 3 slowest horses finished 1st, 2nd and 4th. That’s not meant as any kind of slight on Ombudsman, who was by […]
Royal Ascot – Day 1 review
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Jamaican 2,000 Guineas Review
There were 15-runners going to post for this year’s Jamaican 2,000 Guineas. With a field of that size, we might have been able to predict a fast early pace and a test of stamina as a result, but this went far beyond that. The early leader, Another One, broke rapidly from a wide draw, taking […]
Belmont Stakes Review
I keep taking on Sovereignty and he keeps proving me wrong so it’s time to change tactics and recognise what looks to be the best 3-year-old dirt horse of the decade so far. There was a sense from the data that his victory in the Kentucky Derby could be attributed to his stamina, as he […]
Calandagan – Coronation Cup
Does Calandagan deserve to win a Group 1 race? Yes. That’s the simple answer. Calandagan has shown an exceptionally high level of form in the last 12-months and the only thing that is missing from his CV is a Group 1 victory. As a 3-year-old gelding, his options were limited in the first half of […]