Huntingdon Racecourse Guide
Huntingdon stages around 18 meetings a year, all National Hunt fixtures with meetings from October through to May.
Type of Racing: National Hunt Only
Huntingdon Race Highlights: Sidney Banks Memorial Novice Hurdle (February), Peterborough Chase (December).
TV Channel: Racing TV
Bookmaker Streaming Services are Available from Betfair and Ladbrokes.
* All statistics below are based on the previous five years at Huntingdon
Huntingdon Outright Favourite Statistics
- Handicap Chases: 53-150 (35%) -7.46
- Handicap Hurdles: 63-175 (36%) +7.60
- Non-Handicap Chases: 10-23 (43%) -4.29
- Non-Handicap Hurdles: 66-126 (52%) -3.66
Huntingdon Racecourse Map
Right handed around 1 mile 4 furlongs in distance, the layout of the track is oval and fairly flat. The 9 fences on the course can catch out poor jumpers.
Huntingdon Racecourse Address: Thrapston Road, Brampton, Huntingdon, PE28 4NL
Huntingdon Racecourse Telephone Number: 01480 453373
To buy tickets for a race day at Huntingdon, head over to their official ticket booking webpage
How to get the best Huntingdon tips
You can imagine that speedy types especially those flat horses converting to hurdles would be suited to Huntingdon. Newmarket is only 25 miles away so many who have their 1st run over hurdles are often from those flat stables.
Nicky Henderson likes this track for his runners and often uses the course for his speedy hurdlers ahead of the Cheltenham Festival, especially the mid-January meeting.
The big race of the whole year is the Peterborough Chase a Grade 2 event held in December, past winners include Best Mate and Edredon Bleu (4 times).
You tend to get at least one entry in most races from a Grade 1 trainer who looks to Huntingdon as a gentle introduction, the race may not be competitive which is exactly what the big trainers want when teaching novices or lightly raced types for whom they have high hopes.
As a right-handed course, look for horses who may be aimed at the big prizes at other right-handed courses (Ascot, Kempton and Sandown) later in the season.
Look to Cheltenham Festival contenders competing in January or February at Huntingdon, Terrefort started his UK career in 2018 at Huntingdon and then won at Sandown and Aintree, and ran second at the Festival.
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Huntingdon Jockey & Trainer Statistics
Who are the best national hunt jockeys and trainers to bet on at Huntingdon?
Focusing only on trainers who show a profit when backing all of their runners, top of the pile at Huntingdon for the number of winners is Fergal O'Brien who has produced a total of thirty-seven winners in return for an LSP of +16.12. With an eachway LSP of +35.03 at Huntingdon, M J Scudamore leads the trainers in profit for backing eachway which has been helped by their seven placings which include a total of three winners. The trainer with the worst record at Huntingdon based on LSP is N J Henderson who has only a 15% strike rate with thirteen winners from eighty-seven runners who have returned an LSP of -56.57.
Backing all of the Harry Skelton rides would have produced backing the most winners for a jockey here at Huntingdon with twenty-one but you would have returned a loss by doing so, Gavin Sheehan leads the way for profitable jockey with an LSP of +10.58 from their twenty-one winners. C J Todd is the jockey to follow at Huntingdon if you are backing eachway as they show the best LSP of all the jockeys in the eachway markets, that is +98.80 which is courtesy of their seventeen placings (four winners). With an LSP of -67.87 at Huntingdon, Jack Quinlan heads the list for worst jockeys at this course, which is a result of five winners from one hundred twenty-two rides which is a strike rate of 4%.
Huntingdon Picks & Hints
Here are some factors at Huntingdon for certain trainers or jockeys which have been profitable:
- 13-31 (42%) +34.15 - Backing Fergal O'Brien runners when horses are aged 7yo
- 5-9 (56%) +31.73 - Backing Tom Buckley rides when on horses aged 5yo
- 6-8 (75%) +25.43 - Backing O / Guerriero Greenall runners when in a Handicap Chase race
- 5-9 (56%) +20.43 - Backing O / Guerriero Greenall runners when horses are aged 6yo
- 5-7 (71%) +19.93 - Backing Henry Brooke rides when in a Handicap Chase race
Huntingdon Top Jockey and Trainer Combinations
Here are the best trainer and jockey combinations here at Huntingdon based on the number of winners:
- 21 Wins: Daniel Skelton & Harry Skelton
- 14 Wins: Fergal O'Brien & P J Brennan
- 13 Wins: Jonjo O'Neill & Jonjo (Jr) O'Neill
- 11 Wins: N J Henderson & Nico Boinville
- 11 Wins: G L Moore & Jamie Moore
Huntingdon Top Trainers By Most Winners and a Level Stakes Profit
Trainer | R-W-P | Win | EW |
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Fergal O'Brien | 137-37-64 | +16.12 | +3.28 |
Jonjo O'Neill | 73-16-33 | +28.63 | +13.02 |
O / Guerriero Greenall | 37-11-23 | +34.93 | +25.13 |
P F Nicholls | 27-11-14 | +5.20 | +0.98 |
J P Owen | 38-10-17 | +3.32 | +1.50 |
Mrs P Sly | 34-9-14 | +29.55 | +12.87 |
Harry Derham | 18-7-12 | +10.40 | +6.52 |
H D Daly | 38-6-15 | +21.00 | +10.13 |
C Gordon | 26-6-9 | +13.99 | +4.18 |
Tom Symonds | 28-5-8 | +16.75 | +2.33 |
Huntingdon Top Jockeys By Most Winners and a Level Stakes Profit
Jockey | R-W-P | Win | EW |
---|---|---|---|
Gavin Sheehan | 92-21-40 | +10.58 | +14.68 |
Harry Cobden | 66-17-26 | +2.14 | -6.76 |
Sean P Bowen | 73-16-29 | +14.51 | -0.14 |
Jonjo (Jr) O'Neill | 63-16-31 | +41.21 | +22.63 |
P J Brennan | 55-16-31 | +14.53 | +0.55 |
Connor Brace | 42-13-15 | +22.46 | +4.72 |
P V Obrien | 61-11-22 | +14.18 | +3.93 |
Stan Sheppard | 33-7-13 | +20.33 | +11.39 |
Tom Scudamore | 33-7-16 | +2.90 | +16.19 |
Toby Wynne | 28-7-15 | +16.50 | +13.42 |
With a huge combined experience of horse racing between them, this content has been created and is maintained by Darren Brett, James Banting and Andy Powell. All of the data for Huntingdon Racecourse which includes the favourite statistics and the trainer and jockey statistics have been created using results from HorseRaceBase.