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Sean Trivass has been involved in racing for close to 40 years, starting at the local paper and moving on via Timeform, Alan Brazil Racing, Betdaq, Shadowfax Racing (Sir Ivor), The Independent (Hyperion) and many others as a freelance.
Currently the racing editor of the Daily Sport, he is also the UK correspondent for Thoroughbred News Australia, works on the racing desk at the Press Association, contributes regular international articles for Racing Ahead magazine, runs his own website (Writesports.net), contributes to the Post Racing Podcast with Ron Robinson on a regular basis, and is the current chair of the Horseracing Bettors Forum, the only recognised body representing the day to day punter.
Living near East Grinstead, his local tracks include Lingfield, Goodwood, Plumpton, Brighton and Fontwell (where he held his wedding reception), while his father owned Northmore Stud who bred St Leger runner-up Kite Wood who raced in the Godolphin colours.
Away from his daily work he loves football, plays pool (badly) and has had numerous statistically based books on making money from racing published and still available via Amazon!
Following on again for from the excellent research carried out by our resident stats expert, David Renham, we thought we’d look at some of the pointers highlighted in his article with a view to investigating some would be profitable angles. As always if they win it is all credit to Dave if they lose…well you…
In this article I am going to examine the performance of horses that are having their first run in a National Hunt handicap race. The data for this article has been taken from 1st January 2018 to 31st August 2025 for UK National Hunt racing. As with all my articles, profits and losses have been…
I am revisiting an article I wrote a couple of years ago regarding trainers that excel with their stayers on the flat and on the all-weather (AW). The reason for that is two-fold. Firstly, the trainers I highlighted did well and made me a few quid, and, secondly I have had another 2 years to…
What I like about these articles is their narrow focus on niche areas of horse racing. Last month we looked at the Summer Jumps, where most punters are eyeing the Turf Flat Season. In this article, we look at Ireland and Northern Ireland racing. Our focus narrows further towards odds-on favourites. There are some very…
While browsing through the Smartform data dictionary looking for a feature to research for this month’s article, I came across an intriguing but underexplored data item: the winner of the corresponding race from last year. Despite having this information for every daily race, we’ve never fully researched its significance. What Is a Corresponding Race? A…
At the time of writing the big National Hunt yards are gearing up for the new Winter season which in our opinion gets underway from October onwards. Yes, we have jumps racing all year round these days, but it’s when there is proper underfoot conditions that the action hots up, and of course the Road…