This table shows the fate of the Festival favourites since 2009. In 2024 the amount of whingeing about the uncompetitiveness of the Cheltenham Festival has reached record levels. Sir AP McCoy, Chris Cook RP and Kevin Blake amongst other fine racing luminaries seem to daily want to vent their...

Tom Segal - Racing Post 2020 - The Secrets Of Pricewise '...a factor I have been banging the drum on for about 30 years now - and still I'm amazed to hear punters say they don't consider it an important factor - is jockeys. It's as if many punters think horseracing is like motor racing in that...

In 2022, 217 of the total 404 runners came from Emerald Isle trainers or 54%. I believe this to be the first time over half of the total fields had travelled. This didn't stop last year but I have yet to count it. In 2023, 438 competed at the Festival. People say we have no horses? The much...

Willie Mullins has trained 94 Festival winners. 23rd February 2022 on Sporting Life.com - “I dread it because of the expectation from everyone that we’re going to have half-a-dozen winners and really going over there we’re looking for just one winner to get us off the mark. One year we didn’t...

HANDICAP CHASES - NOVICES - Last year Angels Dawn, the only novice to win one of the four h'cap chases, In 2022 Corach Rambler (Ultima) alone. 2021 novices won three. Mount Ida, The Shunter and Sky Pirate. 2020 it was all five for novices when we still had the novice handicap chase.  IRISH...

WHERE DO THE WINNERS COME FROM? DUBLIN RACING FESTIVAL - Cheltenham winners from those that ran at the DRF that season. 2018 - 63 runners - 8 winners. Footpad, Samcro and Relegate doubling up. The other to win in March were Bleu Berry, Farclas, Delta Work, The Storyteller and Rathvinden....

RACING POST 2023 FESTIVAL TIPPING REVIEW. Tom Segal and Paul Kealy remain amongst the most influential tipsters in the UK and Ireland because their views change prices. Even at Cheltenham. Their influence has been maintained imo the introduction of the RP Youtube tipping programme 'In The Know....

AGE IN CHAMPIONSHIP RACES. RUNS THAT SEASON BEFORE Grade 1 attempt. R,F,U,P or B last time out? WHICH SIRES? 1st or 2nd last time out? AGE IN CHAMPIONSHIP RACES - Real class will usually bury stats. Constitution Hill/Bula? This century 194 horses have contested the four championship races this...