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Seven years ago, I wrote a piece on apprentice jockeys in flat racing. In this article I am going to revisit this area and expand my research. I am going to focus on UK flat racing, both turf and all weather, where previously I restricted it to turf racing only. At the beginning of their…
In this article I am looking to see whether market forces are the same at different course and distances. I did some research into this way back in 2009 and it proved very valuable. The races I am going to focus on are 5 furlong turf handicaps and I have concentrated on races with 9…
One aspect of horse racing that has had little coverage over the years from a stats based perspective is the performance of female horses. Female horses make up around a third of all racehorses and their age determines whether they are known as fillies or mares. Fillies are female horses aged 4 or younger; mares…
My latest draw bias research (turf and all weather) The flat season starts in roughly a month’s time and this article looks at some of the draw bias research I have done over the winter. It is important to not leave your research to the last minute, as one wants to be fully primed, with…
I am looking at staying handicap chases and whether there are any patterns and trends that will give us, the punter, some sort of edge over the ‘crowd’. For a staying chase I have decided on a race distance of at least 3 miles. I have looked at just under 6 years of data from…