Blogs: Horse Racing

Horses with multiple entries can indicate that a trainer has his horse cherry-ripe and is looking for the perfect opportunity, which may come away from a Grade 1 course at a minor meeting.

National Hunt Racing now takes place all year, but the Jumps Jockey Championship starts early July and finishes towards the end of April. The final day is held at Sandown Park.

As an OLBG member I have been lucky enough toget the chance to join fellow members at the races a couple oftimes now. Of course the atmosphere at the racecourse and theracing itself is fantastic, but my favourite aspect of

So I wrote a series of blogs last flat season that culminated in mylist of horses to follow. That list can be viewed here and considering I admitted I wasn't asconfident in the list as I had been in previous

No one punter knows everything and no one punter can successfullystudy every race. The bookmakers choose to have races going offvery close to each other, originally to keep the betting shoppunters entertained and in the shops. But this is to

This is a look at how the favourites have feared at the festival inan attempt to see if there are any particular stats or trends thatcan help us as the greatest sporting occasion approaches, for thispiece I will only be

Wouldn't it be nice to have a betting system, so fool-proof asto provide a profit every year at the Festival?The "previous Cheltenham festival form" line isbandied about every year with aplomb in looking for winners and Iam certainly not going

Most of my best ideas come from a random thought out-of-the-blue.This one was no different. I was actually looking at some in-playodds on football when this sprung to mind...How many 1.01 gubbings have there been at the Cheltenhamfestival?First of all,the

Are female racehorses at a disadvantage when racing againstmales?I did some research on this subject following a discussion onthe horse racing forum, and I was surprised to find that althoughthe gender bias is widely acknowledged by the racing fraternity, itdoesn't

Rock On Ruby Takes A New Challenge2012 Champion Hurdler Rock On Rubyrecorded a facile victory over fences yesterday at Plumpton and indoing so became the first former winner of the Champion Hurdle towin over the larger obstacles since 2005.Harry Fry