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County Hurdle & Grand Annual Tips

Nick Hardman has hit a couple of big ones this week and today he shares his selections for the County Hurdle and the Grand Annual.
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I have been covering the Cheltenham Festival for the members of the Betting School and so far our trends analysis of the handicap races has picked out 25/1 winner Qualando (Fred Winter) and 14/1 winner The Package (Kim Muir) as well as placed horses Generous Ransom @9/1 & Horizontal Speed @14/1 (Novice Handicap Chase), Volnay De Thaix @20/1 (Coral Cup), The Tourard Man @25/1 (Pertemps), Rawnaq @25/1 (Festival Plate) and Bless The Wings @28/1 (Kim Muir).

Today I can share with you the trends analysis of the Vincent O’Brien County Hurdle and the Grand Annual.

For the County Hurdle we are looking for a horse that is a 5yo, finished in the top 5 LTO, has had 3 – 5 runs in the current season, is rated between 132 and 139, last raced 31 – 60 days previously, is Irish trained or trained by Paul Nicholls, priced 10/1 higher and is in the top 10 in the betting.Read More »County Hurdle & Grand Annual Tips

Nick Hardman Tips

It's Friday and we have our weekly dose of winner finding medicine from Dr Nick Hardman. For more Nick Hardman insights join the Betting School Insiders Club where he is a regular contributor – http://bettinginsiders.com

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Sound Investment (adv. 11/2) gave us another big race winner last week and today we turn our attention to a couple of trainers with an excellent recent record at Ayr as well as a trends based analysis of the Imperial Cup at Sandown on Saturday.

The first of our trainers to note at Ayr is Nicky Richards.  Since the beginning of 2014 he has sent out 13 winners from 34 runners at a strike rate of 38% and a level stakes profit of £12.25.  Even more impressive is the fact he has had 5 winners from 11 runners in 2015 for a level stakes profit of £10.72.  12 of those winners have been ridden by Brian Harding and this trainer/ jockey combination have a few entries today.Read More »Nick Hardman Tips

Speed ratings continued…

In my last article I wrote about how I was creating speed ratings.
https://dailypunt.com/create-speed-ratings/

At the moment the ones I have created are based purely on each race and an estimate on the time it took to run the race.

Apart from the winning horse (which we have the time for) we use the distance behind the winner to estimate the times of the other runners.

Of course the idea behind any ratings is so that you can use them to judge one runner against another in a race.Read More »Speed ratings continued…

Nick Hardman Racing Tips

We got back on track last Friday with a couple of winners at Fakenham (albeit at skinny odds) and Harry The Viking looked to have landed the spoils in the Grand National trial at an advised price of 20/1 only to lose it in the dying strides.

Today we have a quick look at the NH meetings from Exeter and Warwick and we have the trends analysis for the Betbright Chase and the Eider Chase on Saturday.

Paul Nicholls has won with 10 of his last 33 runners at Exeter (30% strike rate) for a level stakes profit of £10.00. He sends just two runners to the course today:

Exeter 2.20pm – Qualando @5/6
Exeter 4.50pm – Minellahalfcentury @4/1Read More »Nick Hardman Racing Tips