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The Cheltenham Festival - Supreme Novices' Hurdle 2025

6 Mar, 2025

The curtain raiser of the Cheltenham Festival will be the Michael O'Sullivan Supreme Novices' Hurdle. The race has been aptly named to honour the late Michael O'Sullivan who sadly lost his life after a bad fall at Thurles. A tragic loss for the sport and it seems only right that the race he won two years ago, aboard Marine Nationale, carries the name of the young talent.Kopek Des Bordes (5/6) is likely to go off a short priced favourite for the race, but there's an abundance of unexposed talent in opposition. Kopek Des Bordes, trained by Willie Mullins, has won...

The Cheltenham Festival - Day 3 (Thursday) - Racing Schedule

4 Mar, 2025

We are now less than a week away from the start of The Cheltenham Festival and the pinnacle of the horse racing jumps calendar. The festival is host to an electrifying 4 days of racing, and this year it kicks off on Tuesday 11/03/2025. We have run through the racecards for Day 1 and Day 2, so now let's take a look at Day 3 - St Patrick's Day.13:20 - Mares' Novices' HurdleA race just for the fillies and mares aged 4yo+, run at slightly over 2m. Current favourites for the race are Sixandahalf (10/3) and Faugheen relative Maughreen (7/2)....

The Cheltenham Festival - Day 2 (Wednesday) - Racing Schedule

26 Feb, 2025

We are now less than 2 weeks away from the start of The Cheltenham Festival and the pinnacle of the horse racing jumps calendar. The festival is host to an electrifying 4 days of racing, and this year it kicks off on Tuesday 11/03/2025. Last week we ran through the Day One racecard, so now let's dive into Day 2 - Ladies Day.13:20 - Turners Novices' HurdleThis is a Grade 1 race, and is one of the premier races of the season for novice hurdlers. It is run over 2m 5f and we often see winners of this race dropping...

Today's Racing - 22/02/2025 - Saturday's Staying Chases

22 Feb, 2025

Today's Racing is all about the staying chases we get to enjoy at both Kempton and Newcastle. These long distance handicap races taking place over the larger obstacles are seldom uneventful and both races look super competitive on paper. In a game of limited certainties, one thing we can be sure of is that the winner of either race will be required to jump fluently and dig deep into their stamina reserves. The Eider Handicap Chase at Newcastle (14:10) is run over the marathon trip of 4 miles and a furlong. The progressive O'Connell (6/1) heads the market after landing...

The Cheltenham Festival - Day 1 (Tuesday) Racing Schedule

19 Feb, 2025

We are now less than 3 weeks away from the start of The Cheltenham Festival and the pinnacle of the horse racing jumps calendar. The festival is host to an electrifying 4 days of racing, and this year it kicks off on Tuesday 11/03/2025. So let's take a quick look at what the first day has in store for us..13:20 - Supreme Novices' HurdleThis is a Grade 1 race for novice hurdlers, often featuring some of the most promising young talent around. It is for horses aged 4yo+ and run over 2m 87y. In a race dominated by the Irish,...

Tomorrow's Horse Racing - 08/02/2025 - Newbury Super Saturday

7 Feb, 2025

Newbury's Super Saturday Card has been a successful stepping stone to Cheltenham Festival glory in the past and there are a number of contenders on Saturday's card who aim to enhance their credentials for this year's showpiece. Protektorat was third in last year's renewal of the Denman Chase before going on to claim Ryanair Chase glory at the festival on his very next start.We have insights and analytics available to weave a passage through Saturday's racecard and analyse some of the standout performers on show.Before his unfortunate injury on the gallops, Sir Gino was due to compete in open-company over...

Horse Racing Tomorrow - 04/02/2025 - Standout Stats

4 Feb, 2025

It's time to delve into some of the stand out stats on tomorrow's horse racing cards. We have racing on the turf at Fairyhouse, Ludlow and Sedgefield and all weather action at Kempton.Horse formTom Creen (11/8) - 14:35 Sedgefield. Tom Creen has an impressive 5 wins from his 10 starts at the course. He is top weight in the race tomorrow, having been moved up 3lbs from his win here on Boxing Day last year. Bebside Banter (5/2) - 16:05 Sedgefield. Bebside Banter is 3 from 6 at the track, placing in 5 of his 6 starts here. However, he...

Friday Lookahead - 30/01/2025 - Standout Stats

30 Jan, 2025

As we move into the weekend let's dive into some of the standout stats amongst tomorrow's racecards. We have the AW meetings at Dundalk, Newcastle and Southwell as well as turf action at Catterick and Lingfield.Horse FormBeat The Edge - Catterick 15:05. Beat The Edge is the only horse in this race with a course win to its name. Despite only winning in 1 of his 5 starts, he has placed in all 5 at the course and is currently trading at 4/1 to take the win in tomorrow's 3 mile trip.Champ Royal - Catterick 15:35. Champ Royal is unbeaten...

Recent Results - 28/01/2025 - Cheltenham Festival Clues

28 Jan, 2025

Glancing back over the racing results from the last few days, we can see there's been a number of Cheltenham Festival clues on both sides of the Irish Sea. This all started on Saturday at Cheltenham when some major British challengers staked their claim as leading contenders for the March showpiece. Willie Mullins then unleashed some ammunition of his own in Ireland. Let's get stuck into it.East India Dock backed up his previous Course win at Cheltenham and hosed up by 10 lengths in the JCB Triumph Trial Juvenile Hurdle after being supported in from 6/5 to 1/2. The James...

Midweek Lookahead - 22/01/2025 - Standout Stats

22 Jan, 2025

The Horse's Mouth racecards offer a breadth of readily accessible form metrics. And these aren't confined to the form of the horse itself - our Trainer and Jockey metrics should feature in anyones researching repertoire. So let's take a look at some of the standout stats on tomorrow's racecards.Horse formWe have some impressive Course form on display in the 13:30 Wetherby tomorrow. No Risk Des Flos (7/2) has a 57% strike rate at the track, winning 4 of his 7 starts. Interestingly, 1 of these wins was in the same race last year, and the other was over the exact...

Tomorrow's Racing - 18/01/2025 - Ascot

17 Jan, 2025

Willie Mullins has sent Energumene (2/1) to Ascot for another bid at the Grade 1 BetMGM Clarence House Chase (15:32) as he aims to make amends for his close defeat at the hands of Shishkin in the 2022 edition of the race. This year he will face another Nicky Henderson superstar in the form of Jonbon (4/6). The pair require no introduction as they've both won multiple high profile Grade 1 races over the last few seasons. They're only split by 1lb on Official Ratings, it should be a thriller.Last month Energumene returned from 593 days off the track to...

Today's Racing - 15/01/2025 - Newbury Grosvenor Sport Raceday

15 Jan, 2025

There are six races on the card over at Newbury this afternoon, with a mixture of Class 1, 3 and 4 action.First up is the 13:25, a Class 3 Novices' Hurdle, with Jurancon (6/5), Kloth Of Utopia (2/1) and Big Ginge (5/2) heading the market. As shown on our THM Class Move Indicator, Jurancon and Big Ginge are both up in class today. Kloth Of Utopia is down in class having raced in Class 2 company last time out. The newly formed training partnership of Noel George & Amanda Zetterholm have only had 18 runners in Britain. They will be...

Today's Racing - 11/01/2025 - The Big Freeze Continues

11 Jan, 2025

Unfortunately the big freeze doesn't want to go away and consequently we have a reduced horse racing schedule today. Kempton, Warwick and Wetherby have all been abandoned with Fairyhouse, Ffos Las and of course the all weather meetings of Chelmsford, Newcastle and Wolverhampton still set to go ahead. With what's left, one of the feature races of the day is the 13:45 Fairyhouse, and it seems to be hotly contested. Hunters Yarn (4/1) for Willie Mullins currently heads the market and perhaps rightfully so. He has won 4 of his 10 starts on the ground, 2 of his 4 starts...

How to use the Visualiser on our Racecards

28 Dec, 2024

Another exclusive feature available to users of THM Racecards is our Visualiser. To access this feature, click on the "Visualiser" button above the horse name column on all racecards. So, what does it offer?When entering the visualiser, you will notice there are 3 charts to choose from: Jockey 14-Day Win%, Trainer 14-Day Win% and the Horse Handicap Movement..Jockey and Trainer 14-Day Win%.These charts allow you to view a rolling 14 day average win% for every jockey/trainer in the race. Each point plotted on the chart represents an average of the previous 14 days, so it is really useful for spotting...

Climbing The Handicap

20 Dec, 2024

Double Powerful certainly has to be considered as one of the most improved horses of the season. It's incredible to think that he began the year with an Official Rating of just 78. After recording his first victory at Fakenham back in March, he went on to notch up a six-race win streak, rising a total of 43lbs in the handicap. See his entire progress this season on the unique Horse Page.Today Double Powerful competed in the Howden Conditional Jockeys' Handicap Hurdle at Ascot with an Official Rating of 121 and was ridden by regular jockey, Dylan Johnston. In a...