Blogs: Horse Racing

Explore the breeding and pedigree behind Cheltenham's novice hurdlers, uncovering the genetic secrets that drive success in these prestigious races, and analyzing the impact of sire lines on performance.

As regular visitors to OLBG race days would expect, there are always many exciting conversations between members at the course. One that sticks in the mind was which novice hurdle race provides the most Champion Hurdle winners.

To say that France Gallop have gained a bit ofattention with their recent announcement would be a bit of anunderstatement, but for those that have not heard about this yet,the news was that women riders in France will get a

We are all guilty of being human. We are all guilty of our emotionsgetting the better of us. This was portrayed to me this week onGordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares where even chef top dog Ramsayattacks a customer for saying that

The purpose of this blog is to introduce the concept of a methodology for determining the odds at which a runner becomes a potential value bet in any horse race, which I have christened the VALUE CALCULATOR. Before I document how

This blog has started by looking at the top fivesires of jumpers for the 2015-16 season. All horses have a sire anda dam and get 50% of their DNA from each, the reason for the focuson sires is that a

I have been contemplating the question of whether it is possible todevelop a successful betting strategy based on following theselections of one or more the four main Racing Post tippingservices, namely Spotlight, Racing Post Ratings, Topspeed, orPostdata for some time

I have read a number of articles over the past few years in whichthe authors have questioned the usefulness of Racing Post Ratingsto punters, some of which have suggested that they a barely worththe paper that they are written on.However,

The St Leger, Doncaster - a GREAT race with 200+ years of rich,interesting history - Updated trainer, jockey & Winner & Place SPstatisticsFor me personally there is nothing in the horse racing calendarthat matches being at Doncaster to enjoy St

Racehorse Ownership - Views & Experiences of a SyndicateMemberEver since my very first days of being on a racecourse aged around10 year olds whilst attending the St Leger at Doncaster with myfamily, I've always been greatly interested in & fascinated