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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...

Today's Racing - 29/11/2024 - Newbury in November

29 Nov, 2024

There's a solid racecard at Newbury today and punters are trying to work out how well handicapped Galop De Chasse is in the Coral Handicap Chase (14:30). If we accept at face value his victory last year over Kandoo Kid at this Course and Distance, many believe he could easily be a stone ahead of the handicapper.Galop De Chasse and Kandoo Kid were both rated 123 when they clashed in a Handicap Chase last year, with the Venetia Williams charge just getting the better of Paul Nicholls' Kandoo Kid. It's worth noting that there was a yawning 30-length gap back...

Cheltenham November Meeting

16 Nov, 2024

Cheltenham truly is the home of jump racing and the 3-day November meeting continues in full force this weekend. The Saturday Racecard is flush with both Premier Handicap and Graded action; in this newsletter we'll begin to dissect both. It's a long road to the festival in March, but it starts here.Punters have always considered Course form at Cheltenham to be of upmost importance. Horses face a unique test here: the undulating nature of the track, big fences and a stiff uphill finish will push horses to their limits. The significance of Cheltenham Course form again came to the fore...

Exeter Haldon Gold Cup Day

8 Nov, 2024

High quality racing at Exeter will be shown live on ITV4 today, the feature race being the Haldon Gold Cup Handicap Chase (14:25). This is a tough early season handicap to unpick given the main protagonists are all returning from more than 200 days off the track. It's a small yet competitive field of five that go to post for the £60,000 prize and it's difficult to gauge who will be fully tuned up for their return. Punt responsibly.The feature race is preceded by the Future Stars Silver Bowl Novices' Chase (13:50) where we essentially have a match race between...

Ascot Champions Day Roundup

20 Oct, 2024

Qipco British Champions Day did not disappoint, living up to its name in spectacular style. All three of the big early favourites duly obliged and by 3:30pm bookmakers were on the ropes - a sight we all love to see. Kyprios, Kalpana and Charyn were all comfortable winners of their races, returning at odds of 8/11, 10/3 and 13/8 respectively. Accumulators were brewing.It was then time for the Champion Stakes, the race of the day. It had everything. Calandagan, the 6/4 favourite, missed the break and found himself trapped up the inside with nowhere to go. With favourite backers around...

Tomorrow's Racecards - Ascot Champions Day - Stayers Up First

18 Oct, 2024

As the horse racing flat season draws to an end, a final crescendo is served up at Ascot in the form of Qipco British Champions Day. There are four Group 1 races to get stuck into - we've got competitive fields embedded with both rematches and new eagerly awaited clashes. Here we'll cover the opening race on the card, with a little help from THM Racecards; providing valuable insights as always.Unsurprisingly, given the time of year, it'll be soft ground at Ascot, conditions not unfamiliar to the majority of the stayers in the Qipco British Champions Long Distance Cup (13:20)....

The 2-year olds Go To War - Juddmonte Middle Park Stakes

28 Sep, 2024

Aidan O'Brien has dominated the betting market in many of the Group 1s this season and it's a familiar story again today in the Juddmonte Middle Park Stakes (3:00). O'Brien is double-handed with Whistlejacket (8/13) and Ides Of March (4/1), with Ryan Moore siding with the former, top-rated on 115. Ides Of March and Shadow Of Light (6/1) are joint next-best having both achieved a rating of 108. At THM we remain strong advocates for making rational betting decisions, well-informed by the statistical insights readily available on our racecards. Punters will invariably prioritise certain form study insights differently – perhaps...

Ryan Moore On Top At The Ebor

22 Aug, 2024

Ryan Moore and Aidan O'Brien teamed up with three rides on Day 1 of the York Ebor Festival and came away with a hat-trick of wins. The first leg of the 14/1 "Ryan Moore treble" was his easiest winner of the day. The Lion In Winter bounced out of the gates and comfortably made all from the front to land the Acomb Stakes. Moore never had to get serious in the saddle and his mount is now favourite for next year's Derby. A lot can happen between now and then but he's done nothing wrong so far.Los Angeles was up...

Glistening Glorious Goodwood

1 Aug, 2024

Glorious Goodwood is more than living up to its name this week; the sumptuous weather coupled with high quality horse racing has been lighting up the Sussex racecourse. There's been a cauldron of action to enjoy throughout the opening few days of the festival: some top class performances, electrifying speed figures, a dramatic stewards' inquiry and other hard luck stories for which notorious Goodwood is oh so famous. There's plenty more to come before Saturday evening too. Kyprios stole the show on Tuesday in the Al Shaqab Goodwood Cup, blitzing his rivals in the scorching heat and establishing himself head...

King George Saturday Roundup

28 Jul, 2024

Aidan O'Brien has been uncharacteristically critical about the ground conditions at Ascot this weekend, questioning whether any stretch of the course was indeed good to firm. He then attributed Auguste Rodin's lacklustre performance in the King George to the softer conditions. Given the Ballydoyle pacemakers set off at a ferocious gallop, it seemed a strange tactical decision to keep Auguste Rodin so close to the pace, especially if the ground conditions were in fact softer than described? Anyway...The keyboard warriors on X have fired plenty of criticism at Kieran Shoemark in recent weeks, shaming him for some unsatisfactory rides. But...