Irish Grand National 2020 Selections

2020-03-22T13:31:45+00:00March 20th, 2020|

Irish Grand National 2020 – Selections from Liam

The Irish Grand National is scheduled to be run on Monday 13th April 2020. Hopefully I can find the winner this year again and I think I’ve already highlighted them recently!

There were plenty of British raiders entered but under the current Coronavirus rules, none of these would be able to take part. 

Fitzhenry – trained by Paul Nolan

Fitzhenry finished 6th in the Kim Muir Handicap Chase at the Cheltenham Festival under what I thought was a very patient ride by Patrick Mullins. I actually thought he gave him far too much to […]

3 Out Of 4 Grand National’s predicted by a Statistical Algorithm!

2019-05-10T01:14:56+01:00May 10th, 2019|

3 Out Of 4 Grand National’s predicted by a Statistical Algorithm!

Not just any old algorithm, it was the RatingTheRaces ratings algorithm!!!

So how on earth does an algorithm, achieve this? Well, as many of you know statistics can be used to predict a lot of things, and in horse racing we can generate A LOT of statistics. Fun fact – did you know the human brain can only consider a maximum of 4 parameters. I know. Stunned. Me too. We all feel smarter than that, but apparently, we simply are not. However, whilst an algorithm does have limitations in terms of numbers of parameters, it is far, far greater […]