Weekly Review – Charlie Appleby
Weekly Review 14th July – Charlie Appleby I’ll take a slightly different approach with this week’s blog. When Charlie Appleby and the Godolphin team left Newmarket at the end of the Guineas meeting, they must have been delighted. Ruling Court had won the 2,000 Guineas and Shadow of Light had run a very promising race […]
Tattersalls July Sale
Tattersalls July Sale This week saw the July Sale at Tattersalls in Newmarket. Our team have kept a careful eye on the horses in training at this sale and have highlighted some of the key data from some of the more notable lots to go through the ring. Here are their 5 sales to note; […]
Chester Weekend Preview 11th-12th July
Chester Preview 11th & 12th July Chester racecourse hosts a 2-day meeting this weekend. It’s a very competitive couple of days racing, but here are some horses on Friday and Saturday who stand out from the TPD data. Friday evening’s card gets underway at 5:55 with what could arguably be described as the best Nursery […]
The 99th Jamaican St Leger
The 99th Jamaican St Leger – Caymanas Park Racing is a sport of very fine margins and for every set of ecstatic connections celebrating a winner crossing the line, there is another set of disappointed connections who are left to wonder what might have been. That’s certainly applies to the 2025 running of the Jamaican […]
IDEE 156th Deutsches Derby Review
IDEE 156th Deutsches Derby Review An initial look at the replay for this year’s running of the German Derby might lead to the conclusion that the Karl Burke trained runner-up, Convergent, has been mugged on the line. Clifford Lee hasn’t done a great deal wrong and on another day, he may well have won. Taking […]
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 […]