First Time Blinkers

First Time Blinkers

With the flat season gathering pace, I have decided to look at horses that are blinkered for the first time. There are numerous ideas why horses are given blinkers to wear.
These include:
–         To try and get the horse to concentrate as some horses get distracted by the other runners in a race;
–         To […]

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Royal Ascot 2011 – trends and stats by David Renham

Royal Ascot 2011 – trends and stats by David Renham
This piece on Royal Ascot is split into two sections. The first section looks at some general stats for the meeting while the second part focuses on some of the main races from a trends perspective. The data used comes from 2000 to 2010 although I […]

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Speed Ratings In Horse Racing

Looking At Races Differently Can Make A Profit
When reading articles about analyzing horse racing you will always find the writers saying that you ‘mustn’t follow the crowd’ or to ‘do things differently’ or something similar. They then go on to outline a method that is not particularly different to anything else that you have ever […]

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Trends/stats for Lockinge (Group 1) at Newbury

3.05 Newbury – Lockinge – (Group 1)
 
15 years of stats/trends
 
POSITIVE TRENDS

Favourites 6 wins from 15 for a profit of £3.37 (ROI +22.5%).

Market: 13 of the last 15 winners came from the top three of the betting.

Price: 14 of the last 15 winners were priced in single figures.

Runs this season: Horses making their seasonal debut […]

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