2023 Asian Racing Conference

By TPD CEO Will Duff Gordon The Tale of Two Continents… First up, an enormous thank you to the team who organised this semi annual conference. Hosting, steering and feeding 700 global delegates takes huge effort and I can attest to near perfect execution! By far the most interesting thing about last week resulted from […]

TPD Ride of the Week – 13/02/2023

Performance of the week for last week goes to DILIGENT HARRY, the winner of the fastest 6F performance at Newcastle since October 2022. It’s well known that Newcastle’s Tapeta surface has slowed in recent times and very few recent performances have come close Standard (Par) time. The last horse to run faster over the same […]

TPD Ride of the Week – 06/02/2023

It is not often a Flat race is run over 10 seconds slower than Standard and over 13 Seconds slower than the track record, but that is exactly what happened on Tuesday Feb 7th in the 18.30 at Wolverhampton run over 2m 120yards. When you consider that 1 Second equates to approximately 5 Lengths in […]

TPD Ride of the Week – 30/01/2023

There was no Dr Jekyll when Jack Hyde went miles clear to win at Newcastle early last week! Owner/Jockey, John Reddington sprang one of the great surprises and hopes his steed will quality for a bumper at Cheltenham. They deserve to. The speed chart tells the story in MPH. He set a quick but not […]

TPD 2023 PEGASUS WORLD CUP REVIEW

Kentucky bred Bruce Lunsford, owner of Art Collector, will look forward to adding to his collection after his horse destroyed the competition and landed the $3m Pegasus World Cup on Saturday. I was lucky enough to be at Gulfstream where our Equibase E-GPS system has been tracking every horse with Tags and beams for just […]

The Front Runner: Data will save us from interference controversies of the future

Racing Post journalist Chris Cook covers the use of TPD data in Amo Racing’s appeal against the Norfolk Stakes Result in his latest newsletter. Read the full piece below: We’re always being told about the importance of being led by the data but it was still slightly surprising to see that piety being pressed into […]

Striding For An Edge

By Riccardo Riccio, bloodstock advisor & former TPD operator ‘Just tuck in behind the leaders, get the horse settled in the early part of the race and come with a late run.’ Such instructions from trainers to jockeys are commonly mentioned in horse racing, and these tactics may contribute to a winning run. However, might […]

TPD’s King George Diamond Weekend 2022 Top Performances

Ascot racegoers were treated to another exceptional weekend of racing for the QIPCO King George VI And Queen Elizabeth meeting, as the famous venue reemphasized its position as a leading racetrack in racehorse tracking and timing technology (courtesy of RaceTech, Longines, Gmax & TPD). Spectators were filled with speed, sectional and positional information during each […]

TPD’s Royal Ascot 2022 Top Performances

By Vincent Souillat, TPD Commercial Executive My first Royal Ascot week as a newly converted horse racing fan, needless to say that it did not disappoint! From the drama of the Crispy Cat and The Riddler incident to the nail-biting finish between Kyprios and Mojo Star in the Gold Cup, watching the best horses in […]

Data, Data, Data: The “New Frontier” for Horse Racing

Last week at Royal Ascot, The Ridler (Brazen Beau) sprang a surprise in the G2 Norfolk S. when out-performing his odds of 50-1. That wasn’t the only odd spell The Ridler cast during the race. Read the full article by Dan Ross at Data, Data, Data: The “New Frontier” for Horse Racing (thoroughbreddailynews.com)