Belmont Derby Invitational 2025
Belmont Derby Invitational Stakes 2025 Oisin Murphy made the journey to Saratoga with a plan in mind. On board the Woodbine Summer Stakes winner from last year, he pushed hard to get New Century into a prominent position, eventually winning an early dual with Test Score to track the leader (Tank) into the first turn […]
Coral Eclipse Preview
Ombudsman is the obvious place to start. The suggestion from certain racing services that his victory in the Prince of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot made him one of the highest rated racehorses in the world is probably a bit of an overreaction, but this was still a clear best for his short career. A […]
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 […]