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: 52-154 (34%) -15.46
- Handicap Hurdles: 61-171 (36%) +10.39
- Non-Handicap Chases: 13-27 (48%) -1.72
- Non-Handicap Hurdles: 68-132 (52%) +4.33
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?
When looking at the leading trainers based on wins for those who are also showing a profit when backing all of their runners then it is Fergal O'Brien who comes out at the top here at Huntingdon With a total of thirty-three winners and an LSP of +42.17. With an eachway LSP of +41.28 at Huntingdon, M J Scudamore leads the trainers in profit for backing eachway which has been helped by their ten placings which include a total of four winners. A total of nineteen winners from one hundred thirty runners at Huntingdon has G L Moore at the wrong end of the trainers' list with their 15% strike rate and worst LSP of -54.53.
Not only is P J Brennan the most successful jockey at Huntingdon in terms of the number of winners but they have also returned a profit if back all of their rides, P J Brennan has notched up a total of twenty-three winners for an LSP of +23.11. If you are more of an eachway player then you may want to know which jockey is best to follow at Huntingdon and that would be Richard Patrick who shows the best eachway LSP which is +33.84 thanks to their fourteen placings (five winners). Jack Quinlan does not have a great record at Huntingdon, their LSP of -79.87 has them stone dead bottom of the jockeys' list, which has come from six winners from one hundred forty-one rides which is a 4% strike rate.
Huntingdon Picks & Hints
Here are some factors at Huntingdon for certain trainers or jockeys which have been profitable:
- 5-10 (50%) +30.73 - Backing Tom Buckley rides when on horses aged 5yo
- 5-9 (56%) +27.00 - Backing Toby Wynne rides when in a Handicap Hurdle race
- 5-6 (83%) +23.43 - Backing O / Guerriero Greenall runners when horses are aged 6yo
- 7-17 (41%) +22.50 - Backing P J Brennan rides when in a Handicap Hurdle race
- 8-15 (53%) +21.52 - Backing P J Brennan rides when on horses aged 7yo
Huntingdon Top Jockey and Trainer Combinations
Here are the best trainer and jockey combinations here at Huntingdon based on the number of winners:
- 22 Wins: Daniel Skelton & Harry Skelton
- 17 Wins: Fergal O'Brien & P J Brennan
- 14 Wins: N J Henderson & Nico Boinville
- 14 Wins: Jonjo O'Neill & Jonjo (Jr) O'Neill
- 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 | 122-33-59 | +42.17 | +18.84 |
Jonjo O'Neill | 91-18-38 | +26.13 | +7.67 |
A King | 92-16-39 | +2.77 | +2.80 |
Mrs Caroline Bailey | 51-11-19 | +32.00 | +13.23 |
Mrs L Wadham | 62-10-23 | +12.20 | +2.49 |
T Lacey | 38-10-16 | +10.24 | +2.81 |
Miss E C Lavelle | 39-8-14 | +2.02 | -2.40 |
P F Nicholls | 21-8-12 | +3.15 | +2.50 |
O / Guerriero Greenall | 17-8-12 | +37.93 | +23.38 |
Mrs P Sly | 34-7-13 | +30.50 | +13.92 |
Huntingdon Top Jockeys By Most Winners and a Level Stakes Profit
Jockey | R-W-P | Win | EW |
---|---|---|---|
P J Brennan | 75-23-43 | +23.11 | +2.66 |
Jonjo (Jr) O'Neill | 70-17-33 | +32.09 | +16.21 |
Sean P Bowen | 66-14-29 | +20.55 | +8.62 |
Tom J Cannon | 85-12-33 | +8.14 | +5.09 |
Connor Brace | 41-11-14 | +46.13 | +19.31 |
P V Obrien | 55-8-17 | +12.10 | +13.59 |
Stan Sheppard | 28-7-12 | +25.33 | +16.26 |
Tom Buckley | 33-6-9 | +11.73 | -0.31 |
Richard Patrick | 37-5-14 | +62.00 | +33.84 |
Toby Wynne | 15-5-9 | +21.00 | +11.90 |
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.