I think this will be the only race of focus this weekend…
And I also do not think the stats are overly helpful, but some useful pointers maybe…
Sandown Gold Cup
19 Renewals
340 runners, 73 placed horses
CHECKLIST
TRENDS
Previous Place
- 12/19 Top 6 LTO
- Fell: 0/38, 2 places
- PU: 1/46, 2 places
- UR: 3/33, 6 places
Horse Age
- Some pointers…
- 6-8: 12/19…12/130, 36 places…63% winners…38% runners…49% places
- 9-11: 7/19…7/191, 34 places…37% winners…56% runners…47% places
- 12+ : 0/19, 3 places
Days Since Run
- 19/19 ran 1-60 days ago
- 1-15 days: 4/96, 18 places…21% winners…28% runners…25% places
- 16-60 days: 15/219,51 places…79% winners…64% runners…70% places
- 61+ days: 0/25, 4 places
Horse Weight
- 11-6+ : 1/40, 3 places
- Winner carried 11-12: 1/9, 1p
Horse Official Rating
- OR 155+ : 0/17, 2 places
Season Runs
- Nothing significant
Position In Market
- 19/19 Top 12 in market
- 13th or below: 0/102, 7 places
Odds
- 50/1 + : 0/36, 2 places
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OTHER STATS
Miscellaneous 1
Origin of Horse
- GB: 1/68, 10 places
- IRE: 12/175, 32 places
- FR: 5/85, 28 places
- USA: 1/7, 2 places
Headgear
- CP: 3/28, 7 places
- Blinkers: 2/54, 7 places
- Visor: 0/18, 4 places
Weight (excl -Claim)
- 11-8-11-10: 0/19, 1 place
- 11-1 or more: 3/84, 11 places…16% winners…25% runners…15% places
‘The ‘Running’ Characteristics’
H- RUN (Hncp NH Race Type)
- 19/19 had 15 or fewer handicap chase runs
- 16+: 0/50, 8 places
The ‘Winning’ Characteristics
H-Win (Hncp/Non)
- 18/19 had 0-3 handicap wins
- 4+ : 1/77, 12 places
H-Win (Hcap NH)
- 18/19, 0-2 handicap chase wins
- 3: 1/48, 5 places
- 4+ : 0/39, 6 places
H-Win (Season).
- 16/19 0-1 wins this season
- 2+: 3/81, 21 places…16% winners…24% runners…29% places
Miscellaneous 2
Best in Five Runs
- 19/19 had finished in the top 3 on at least one of previous 5 starts
- Had not: 0/26, 0 places
Distance Move
- Up 8f or more: 1/39, 7 places
Highest Class Run
- 16/19 had run at G2 or G1 Level at some point
- G3 or below: 3/118, 18 places..16% winners…35% runners…25% places
Horses ‘Last Race’ Characteristics
(LR)-last run – NH Race Type
- Hurdle: 3/11,4 places…+35 SP
(LR) Grp/Grd/Lst
- Non Major: 8/150,36 places
- G1: 4/26, 9 places
- G2: 0/11, 4 places
- G3: 7/139, 23 places
- Listed: 0/14, 1 place
(LR) No. of Runners
- 5 or fewer: 0/14, 1 place
(LR) Festival
- Cheltenham: 5/56,19 places
- Aintree: 5/123,18 places
- Neither of these: 9/161, 36 places
(LR) Track
- Cheltenham: 5/74,22 places
- Aintree: 5/123,18 places
- Ayr: 3/32,9 places
- FairyH: 2/12,6 places
- Chepstow: 2/6, 5 places
- Nass: 1/1
- Donc: 1/9, 1 place
- Newbury: 0/12,0 places
- Sand: 0/12,3 places
- Ascot: 0/13,3 places
Trainers (of interest)
- P Nicholls: 4/43,12 places
- Hobbs: 2/25,10 places
- 1 win. Many: N Henderson/NTD/Daly/T Walsh
