Liam’s Weekly Thoughts – Cheltenham Review & Handicap Mark changes

2022-03-24T14:06:14+00:00March 22nd, 2022|

Aintree, Sandown & Next season!

Cheltenham Festival Review

Liam looks at the Cheltenham races and highlights some eyecatchers including a couple he hopes are aimed at the Pertemps Final next season as well as which very impressive winner this season could find things tougher next year!

Handicap Mark Changes

Part 1 of the Handicap changes this week including looking at a horse who Liam hopes is aimed at the Becher Chase next season and one for the Turf Talk Podcast lads

Part 2 of the Handicap changes this week including a horse for the Ladbroke Trophy that Liam feels was harshly mocked for his […]

Cheltenham Festival 2023 – Yes selections already!

2022-03-22T13:38:11+00:00March 16th, 2022|

Cheltenham Festival 2023 – Liam’s Selections

I think the 2021 Festival has thrown up many winner who will win again and as boring as they are, I think come the festival barring not making it they will be shorter and most likely winners.

Supreme Novices Hurdle 

Arkle Chase

Constitution Hill @ 5/1

Constitution Hill was very impressive in the Supreme Novices Hurdle as was Altior & Shishkin for different reasons when they won the Supreme. Both went over fences the following season winning the Arkle. I think Constitution Hill does the same. Blue Bresil progeny have an 11.72% strike rate over hurdles […]

Cheltenham Festival Week – 2022

2022-03-17T12:58:45+00:00March 14th, 2022|

It’s Cheltenham Festival week!

Liam’s Cheltenham Thoughts

Liam looks at Day 1 of Cheltenham and how his Ante-Post bets are looking. He adds just 1 for Tuesday.

Liam looks at Day 2 and again adds 1 more horse to his selections for the week!

3 selections added here by Liam and he also highlights the BEST HANDICAPPED horse at the whole Cheltenham Festival. He also explains how to get the PREMIUM RATINGS for tomorrow for FREE!

The final day of the Cheltenham Festival. Liam looks at his bets and whether he wants to add anymore. He also highlights an early Scottish National selection! […]

Liam’s Weekly Thoughts – 28th February – 6th March 2022

2022-03-04T14:02:25+00:00February 28th, 2022|

Who runs this weekend?

6 Horses that have caught Liam’s eye!

Liam looks ahead to the racing this weekend and highlights 6 that he is interested in and 2 that he feels are worth backing now! This includes a horse available at 16/1 for the Morebattle Hurdle!

2 for the Bet365 Gold Cup & a Scottish National horse!

As well as briefly mentioning the very obvious Langer Dan, Liam highlights 7 others that had interesting handicap marks assigned this week. A Novice hurdler that may bypass Cheltenham for a handicap, 2 that are interesting in the Bet365 Gold Cup at Sandown and a horse who looks very […]

NAP Comp Prize – Hacked Up Horse Racing Gifts

2022-02-24T11:46:57+00:00February 24th, 2022|

Hacked Up Horse Racing Gifts – NAP Competition Sponsor

We are delighted to announce that @HackedUp_HRG have agreed to sponsor the FREE to enter RatingTheRaces NAP Competition.

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Cheltenham Festival 2021 – Where Are They Now?

2022-02-11T13:09:52+00:00February 9th, 2022|

Cheltenham Festival 2021 Top 5

Last year this blog highlighted Fakir D’Oudaries who finished 2nd in the Ryanair at a whopping 50/1 as well as some other great runs.

Horses that run well at one Cheltenham Festival generally run well at subsequent Cheltenham Festivals either due to the way the races are run or because connections target a return and here we look at those who finished in the Top 5 of each race of the Cheltenham Festival 2021, the in-running low and where they are now and what the targets could be this season. This year we will be adding a video per race!

Supreme Novices Hurdle  […]

Pied Piper or Fil Dor for the Triumph?

2022-02-15T10:25:03+00:00January 29th, 2022|

Final ‘prep’ runs time for the Cheltenham Festival!

Saturday Review – Festival Plate Targets

Liam looks back at an eventful day of racing at Cheltenham & Doncaster and highlights 3 or 4 that he will be checking their handicap marks with the Festival Handicap Plate in mind as well as explaining who and why he thinks is the number 1 for the Triumph for Gordon Elliott

The Handicap Movers & Shakers

2 videos this week as Liam discusses a fair few horses. These include a few that he thinks will or should be aimed at the Grand National, one he likes for the Imperial Cup, one for […]

Grand National Thoughts – who was the unlucky loser last year?

2022-02-15T10:26:23+00:00January 26th, 2022|

Grand National – Aintree – Saturday 9th April 2022

Who was the unlucky loser?

Any Second Now @ 16/1

Any Second Now made quite a bad mistake at the 10th and it was a good sit and that was the only mistake Any Second Now made but that’s not why he was unlucky. Any Second Now takes off at the 12th 1/2 length behind the eventual winner Minella Times in 9th & 10th place. Upon landing he is hampered by the fall of Double Shuffle and ends up back in 18th and about 10 lengths behind Minella Times. He then had to make his effort to close on the winner […]

Five reasons why Energumene can’t turn the tables on Shishkin

2022-01-24T14:46:39+00:00January 24th, 2022|

Five reasons why Energumene can’t turn the tables on Shishkin

1.Cheltenham Festival Form

Course form at Cheltenham is very important as we see time and time again and horses with Cheltenham Festival form is even more important. The buzz and noise at Cheltenham can get horses worked up and we are confident this wont happen to Shishkin who has been there and done it. Shishkin has done this twice now having won the 2020 Supreme Novices & the 2021 Arkle. Energumene has never been to the Cheltenham Festival.

2. Shorter Distance is countered by the uphill finish

The suggestion that the shorter distance is a fact however this is […]

Can Shishkin back up his win at Cheltenham now?

2022-02-15T10:29:04+00:00January 22nd, 2022|

Can the Clarence House be topped at the Cheltenham Festival?

Shishkin was one of 7 TOP RATED ITV Winners!

On ITV on Saturday, there were 8 races and TOP RATED won 7 of them whilst the other traded 1.36 in the run before finishing 2nd!

Haydock 1:25 Jonbon made hard work of winning but was giving weight away to the runner up. He’s still learning and should again improve for the run. He was drifted slightly for the Supreme Novices Hurdle and we are very happy with Constitution Hill against him.

Ascot 1:45 Unexpected Party showed he was well handicapped when winning comfortably here. He went up 6lb […]