Haydock Picks

Haydock Park in Merseyside (UK) features high-class National Hunt and Flat racing throughout the year.

Type of Racing: Flat & NH

NH Highlights: The Grade 1 Betfair Chase at Haydock is the pinnacle of their National Hunt season, the race takes place in November often on testing ground conditions, and has been won by top-quality chasers like Kauto Star, Cue Card, Silviniaco Conti, and Bristol De Mai in recent years.

Flat Highlights: The Group 1 Haydock Sprint Cup in September is the most prestigious event. Worth over £150k, the race attracts the top sprinters from around Europe.

Overall Haydock Park has 10 Graded races over jumps and 8 Group races on the flat. 

Before you place your Haydock wagers read below for the Haydock top jockey and trainer stats and useful pointers for Haydock picks.

* All statistics below are based on the previous five years at Haydock

Haydock Outright Favorite Statistics

• Flat Handicaps: 135-460 (29%) -42.17
• Flat Non-Handicaps: 75-183 (41%) -24.90
• Handicap Chases: 19-68 (28%) -6.79
• Handicap Hurdles: 19-71 (27%) -5.69
• Non-Handicap Chases: 12-26 (46%) -0.21
• Non-Handicap Hurdles: 21-51 (41%) -6.80

Left handed oval track of 1 mile and 5 furlongs, mainly flat with a slight uphill finish. 

Races run on the flat up to six furlongs take place on the straight track.

National Hunt Circuit: The chase course has ten fairly stiff fences, the hurdles track is inside the chase track and has five hurdles per circuit.

Haydock Racetrack Address: Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside, WA12 0HQ.

Haydock Racetrack Telephone: 01942 725963

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The National Hunt circuit at Haydock is considered fair, suiting galloping types with plenty of stamina. The fences are relatively stiff and take some jumping, especially with the often poor weather in the North West the ground can get testing during winter. You often see a tough stayer doing well at Haydock, Yala Enki from the Venetia Williams stable is a good example

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If you want the most profitable stall at Haydock then you need to look at races over 6f and focus on stall 6 as this has produced an LSP of +55.91 over the last five years. When breaking Haydock down into trips then you can look at which stall and trip combination has produced the worst LSP, that would be stall 2 over a trip of 1m which has, over the last five years produced an LSP of -72.94.

Here we have the draw bias for Haydock taken into consideration races with ten or more runners, we will break down the figures by race distance, draws can be much more important over the shorter trips in which runners do not have time to find their position during the race meaning the draw is probably more important than the races over longer distances.

• Sprints (5f to 7½f)
• Mile (1m to 1m1½f)
• Middle Distance (1m2f to 1m5½f)

The following table shows a breakdown over a group of trips and shows how each position of the draw does, for example in a twelve-runner race would be Low (Stalls 1-4), Mid (Stalls 5-8) and High (Stalls 9-12), the positions will always be lowest stall number to highest.

Who are the best flat jockeys and trainers to bet on at Haydock?

Backing all of the W J Haggas runners would have produced backing the most winners for a trainer here at Haydock with forty-seven but you would have returned a loss by doing so, R M Beckett leads the way for profitable trainers with an LSP of +4.89 from their twenty-nine winners. With an eachway LSP of +43.69 at Haydock, Jedd O'Keeffe leads the trainers in profit for backing eachway which has been helped by their thirteen placings which include a total of six winners. A total of twenty-three winners from three hundred seven runners at Haydock has T D Easterby at the wrong end of the trainers' list with their 7% strike rate and worst LSP of -116.90.

James Doyle is the leading jockey here at Haydock with thirty-two winners but you would have recorded a loss if you backed all of their rides whilst following Jim Crowley would have returned the most winners (twenty-three) from a profitable jockey. If you are looking for a jockey to follow in the eachway market then it is Callum Shepherd who leads the way at Haydock, they have had a total of eleven placings which includes eight winners over the previous five for an eachway LSP of +58.02. Richard Kingscote does not have a great record at Haydock, their LSP of -81.21 has them stone dead bottom of the jockeys' list, which has come from twenty-nine winners from two hundred forty-seven rides which is a 12% strike rate.

Haydock Picks & Hints

Here are some factors at Haydock for certain trainers or jockeys which have been profitable:

• 5-8 (63%) +101.50 - Backing Callum Shepherd rides when over a trip of 6f
• 5-9 (56%) +26.08 - Backing C G Cox runners when in a Maiden race
• 5-12 (42%) +26.58 - Backing Archie Watson runners when horses are aged 4yo
• 6-11 (55%) +25.00 - Backing Jason Hart rides when on horses aged 6yo
• 7-12 (58%) +20.38 - Backing C F Wall runners when in a Handicap race

Haydock Top Jockey and Trainer Combinations

Here are the best trainer and jockey combinations here at Haydock based on the number of winners:

• 16 Wins: Tom Dascombe & Richard Kingscote
• 14 Wins: W J Haggas & Tom Marquand
• 13 Wins: M Johnston & Francis Norton
• 11 Wins: R M Beckett & Hector Crouch
• 10 Wins: J H M Gosden & Robert Havlin

Haydock Top Trainers By Most Winners and a Level Stakes Profit

Haydock Top Jockeys By Most Winners and a Level Stakes Profit

Who are the best national hunt jockeys and trainers to bet on at Haydock?

Miss Venetia Williams has produced a total of twelve winners at the Haydock racecourse and with an LSP of +1.91, they top the winner's list for trainers who also show a profit. If you are more of an eachway player then you may want to know which trainer is best to follow at Haydock and that would be P A Kirby who shows the best eachway LSP which is +17.63 thanks to their eleven placings (five winners). A total of eleven winners from ninety-two runners at Haydock has D McCain Jnr at the wrong end of the trainers' list with their 12% strike rate and worst LSP of -50.54.

Following Sam Twiston-Davies would have returned a profit here at Haydock with an LSP of +0.58 and their ten winners have them at the head of the profitable jockeys' list. Brian Hughes does lead the jockeys' list overall with ten winners but shows an overall loss. When looking at jockeys and looking for some eachway value at Haydock, then the jockey who shows the best eachway profit is Harry A A Bannister, that LSP is +27.41 which has been accumulated by a total of five placings which includes four winners. The jockey with the worst record at Haydock based on LSP is Brian Hughes who has only an 11% strike rate with ten winners from eighty-nine rides which have returned an LSP of -33.79.

Haydock Top Jockey and Trainer Combinations

Here are the best trainer and jockey combinations here at Haydock based on the number of winners:

• 8 Wins: Daniel Skelton & Harry Skelton
• 8 Wins: Mrs S J Smith & Danny Cook
• 6 Wins: D McCain Jnr & Brian Hughes
• 6 Wins: Miss Venetia Williams & Charlie Deutsch
• 6 Wins: Jonjo O'Neill & Jonjo (Jr) O'Neill

Haydock Top Trainers By Most Winners and a Level Stakes Profit

Haydock Top Jockeys By Most Winners and a Level Stakes Profit