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Saturday 10 October: Future Champions Day Analysis
Twenty races picked apart on our ratings: the Dewhurst, the Cesarewitch, a Sprint Trophy with 24lb of handicap movement in it, and the 4 horses we are backing.
9 Oct 2026Friday 9 October: Chepstow, York and Newmarket Review
Chepstow opening day, the Fillies Mile and the Challenge Stakes reviewed: a 1-2-3 in our ratings order at 4/9, 28/1 and 8/1, and a very unlucky run at York.
9 Oct 2026Create Your Own Horse Racing Competition: How It Works
Run your own league on RatingTheRaces: your rules, your players, scored off our data every day. And if the rule you want is not there, tell us and we will…
8 Oct 2026Chepstow Opening Day: Welsh Champion Hurdle Analysis
The jumps are back. Our analysis of 13 races on Friday, and a look at what last year's Welsh Champion Hurdle first three went on to do.
8 Oct 2026BHA Handicap Marks: Shimmering Sun +7 and the Challenge Cup
Shimmering Sun wins a Listed and goes up 7lb, Moonfall is raised for his Challenge Cup 2nd, and Pierre Royal's Cambridgeshire rise lands at 7lb.
6 Oct 2026Silver Trophy To Cheltenham: Our Horse To Follow
The horse we put top of our National Hunt list for the season has an entry at Chepstow this weekend, and we think the road ends at the Cheltenham Festival.
6 Oct 2026Well Handicapped National Hunt Horses for 2026/27
30 jumps horses whose form has been franked. They finished close to rivals who have since gone up 10lb, 15lb, even 30lb, and their own marks have not moved.
4 Oct 2026Last Year's Winner: The Whole Field On Your Card
Who won this race last year, who was 2nd and 3rd, and every other horse that ran in it, coloured on the card with the full run one hover away.
2 Oct 2026Sun Chariot Day Analysis: Ascot, Newmarket and Redcar
Our analysis of 9 races on Saturday, with the Sun Chariot, the Challenge Cup, the Two Year Old Trophy and the jumps back at Gowran Park.
2 Oct 2026BHA Handicap Marks: Song N Dance +10 and the Cambridgeshire
Song N Dance is up 10lb after a Listed 3rd, Mezzo Forte's first mark of 97 shuts him out of every nursery, and the Cambridgeshire winner we let go.
29 Sep 2026Last Time Out Winners: Where They Win Again
They win again nearly twice as often as everyone else, and backing them blind still loses. Every run we hold, 1.3 million of them, on the angles that work.
28 Sep 2026Pierre Royal Wins the Cambridgeshire at 33/1
We tipped Pierre Royal in the Irish Cambridgeshire 28 days ago and he ran 3rd. Today he won the English one at 33/1, off a 2lb lower mark, without us.
26 Sep 2026