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 […]
The Belmont Stakes – Sovereignty vs Journalism
The fact that this race is being run at Saratoga and more importantly over 10-furlongs rather than 12 must give Journalism the edge. The big field and the sloppy track at Churchill Downs all played into the hands of Sovereignty, who is stamina laden according to the data and in a small field, where the […]
Sandown Park Review
Thursday evenings Brigadier Gerard meeting at Sandown is without doubt the best evening card of the season. There were plenty of clues on offer from the data provided by TPD and for this week’s review, I’ve looked through the data from the 3 Group races on the card. Star Sports Brigadier Gerard Stakes (Group 3) […]