2000 Guineas 2010 Preview
Three ‘Live’ Outsiders For The Stan James 2000 Guineas… The flat season is now well and truly underway with both Newmarket’s Craven meeting and Newbury’s Greenham Stakes having taken place this past week. The Craven resulted in an emphatic victory for the John Dunlop trained Elusive...
[Continue reading: 2000 Guineas 2010 Preview]Punchestown Festival 2010 – Day 5 Trends
4.25 AIRSHOW 100 CHAMPION FOUR YEAR OLD HURDLE(Grade 1) €55,800 7 of the last 8 winners were single figure prices. Favourites have lost 6 of the last 8 renewals. The last 2 winners were Irish bred. 5 of the last 8 winners were British trained. The last 3 winners were officially rated 136+. 7 of the last 8 winners...
[Continue reading: Punchestown Festival 2010 – Day 5 Trends]4-y-o Hurdle(Grade 1) Preview
The 4-y-o champion hurdle is the final grade one race of the Punchestown Festival on Saturday. On paper this looks a very difficult race to fathom and most of the field have some sort of chance. Barizan will undoubtedly set the pace once again and make it a true test of speed and stamina. Orsippus who beat the...
[Continue reading: 4-y-o Hurdle(Grade 1) Preview]EBF Mares Hurdle(Grade 3)Preview
The Mares get their turn in the spotlight on Saturday with the EBF Grade 3 Hurdle one of the feature races on the final day of the Punchestown Festival. As ever in these contests it is a case of a big field that can quickly be dissected to leave only a handful with realistic chances. In this case those that make...
[Continue reading: EBF Mares Hurdle(Grade 3)Preview]Punchestown Festival 2010 – Day 4 Trends
5.30 The Rabobank Champion Hurdle (Grade 1) €170,000 2 Miles 7 of the last 8 winners were single figure prices’. 1 winning favourite in the last 8 renewals. The last 8 favourites have finished in the first 3. 6 of the last 8 winners were Irish bred. 6 of the last 8 winners were Irish trained. The last 4 winners...
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5.30 The Ladbrokes.com World Series Hurdle €170,000 (Grade 1) 3 Miles (formerly the Tipperkevin) Of the last 15 win and place positions, 12 horses were aged between 6 and 8. 6 of the last 8 favourites finished 1st or 2nd. Irish bred horses have taken 6 of the last 8 renewals. 6 of the last 8 winning stallions...
[Continue reading: Punchestown Festival 2010 – Day 3 Trends]Punchestown Festival 2010 – Day 2 Trends
5.30 The Punchestown Guinness Gold Cup €225,000 (Grade 1) 3 Miles 1 Furlong 3 of the last 5 winners’ were 7yo’s. Favourites’ have taken 7 of the last 8 renewals’. The last 8 winners’ were single figure prices. 7 of the last 8 winners’ had an official rating of 158+. The last 8 winners’ had a pre...
[Continue reading: Punchestown Festival 2010 – Day 2 Trends]Punchestown Festival 2010 – Day 1 Trends
4.20 The Evening Herald Champion Novice Hurdle €85,000 (Grade 1) 2 Miles. A novice hurdle race for five year olds and upwards. Weights 11 st 12lb; Mares allowed 5lb. The last 8 winners were aged 5 or 6. 6 of the last 8 winners were winning favourites’. The last 8 winners’ were single figure prices’. 7...
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Punchestown Festival 2010: Punters’ Pointers
Punchestown Festival 2010: Favourite and Big Race Trends The last of the three Spring National Hunt Festivals takes place at Punchestown this week, from Tuesday 20th April to Saturday 24th April. And, after the strength and depth of Cheltenham – and the fascination of Aintree - Irish racing takes its patiently...
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Ballysax Stakes (Group 3) Preview
The Ballysax Stakes is the feature event at Leopardstown on Sunday. Aidan O’Brien has monopolised the event in recent years and his Derby contender is often his representative in recent years. Fame And Glory, High Chapparal and Galileo have all triumphed here in the past decade. It therefore makes sense...
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Weekend Review from Limerick and Curragh
It’s always a difficult time of year to be a punter, as the last hurrah’s of the jumping season dovetail with the first flushes of the incumbent flat campaign. And so it proved for punters this weekend at the respective jump and flat cards at Limerick and the Curragh. Limerick’s feature was the...
[Continue reading: Weekend Review from Limerick and Curragh]3.45 Curragh – www.thetote.com Gladness Stakes
6 of the last 8 winners’ were single figure prices’. From the last 15 win and place positions 10 have been filled by 4yo’s. 6 of the last 8 favourites’ finished in the first 3. Just 1 winner in the last 8 years won last time out. 6 of the last 8 winners’ had previously won a Group...
[Continue reading: 3.45 Curragh – www.thetote.com Gladness Stakes]2.45 Curragh – New Tote Bar Lounge Loughbrown Stakes (Listed) Sun 11th April
9 of the last 10 winners had finished in the first 2 last time out. The last 10 winners’ were single figure prices. The last 4 had won lto. 8 of the last 10 winners’ had won as a 2-y-o. No G.B. bred winner in the last 10 runnings’. 7 of the last 10 winners were having their first run of the season. Irish...
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Hugh McMahon Memorial Novice Chase (Grade 2) Preview
Only six runners face the flag for the Hugh McMahon Memorial Novice Chase at Limerick on Sunday. Two of the runners, Jagoes Mills and Across The Bay, have reputations to redeem having blotted their copybook last time out. The former fell in the Grade 1 Powers Gold Cup in Fairyhouse while the latter unseated in...
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Gladness Stakes (Group 3) Preview
The Group 3 Gladness Stakes is the feature race at the Curragh on Sunday. A small field of seven runners face the starter here. With heavy ground the order of the day the trip will take some getting. Libano sets the standard on the form of his backend victory over Rayeni at Leopardstown last season. Dermot Welds...
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Aintree Grand National 2010 Preview
Tomorrow sees the greatest race of them all, the Aintree Grand National 2010, in Liverpool. Forty riders will attempt to steer their horses over thirty fearsome obstacles, and around loose horses galore, in the annual battle for the John Smith’s Grand National. There can be only one winner, so it makes more...
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Dutching Diamond – Final Review
Dutching Diamond from Sportsworld publishing is, as the name suggests, a system where a number of horses are dutched in the one race. That is, we will be backing more than one horse per race with a set profit target in each race. The aim of the system is to make at least a 10% profit on each race in which we play. There...
[Continue reading: Dutching Diamond – Final Review]3.35 Fairyhouse – TATTERSALLS IRELAND DAN MOORE MEMORIAL HANDICAP CHASE – 6th April
Race upgraded to Grade A in 2003. A wide range of differing weights and ages for the winners of the last 7 renewals. Of the last 15 win and place positions the ages were as follows: 7yo (2 positions), 8 (6), 9 (3), 10 (2), 11 (1), 13 (1). Weights ranged from 10-0 to 11-6. 6 of the last 7 winners were single figure...
[Continue reading: 3.35 Fairyhouse – TATTERSALLS IRELAND DAN MOORE MEMORIAL HANDICAP CHASE – 6th April]3.0 Fairyhouse – Festival Novices’ Hurdle – 6th April
This race was upgraded to a Grade 2 in 2004. 12 of the 18 win and place positions’ have been filled by 6-Y-O’s. 5 of the last 6 winners’ were 6-Y-O’s. Horses carrying 11-5 have taken 4 of the last 6 renewals’. 5 of the last 6 winners’ were single figure price horses. Favourites’...
[Continue reading: 3.0 Fairyhouse – Festival Novices’ Hurdle – 6th April]4.05 – Fairyhouse – Irish Grand National – 5th April
7 of the last 10 winners were aged 7 or 8. Horses’ carrying between 10-0 and 10-12 have taken 8 of the last 9 nationals. 9 of the last 10 winners’ were double figure prices’. Favourites’ have been unplaced 8 times in the last 10 Irish Nationals. 8 of the last 10 winners’ were Irish...
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