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Background Read through all of my posts from the beginning. The genesis of Horsey Project. Targets 2024-2028: Aim to become the best researcher in the business. 2028: Start trading as bloodstock agent. Possible ownership, syndication and breeding in due course. TBC. 2034: Saddle first runner as...

Hello, I do not know if anybody has noticed, but I have spent the past couple of days suffocating the antis while deprogramming those who might have been swayed by those cults. THE ANTIS ARE COMPLETELY UNPREPARED AND IT IS EFFORTLESSLY EASY TO DISMANTLE THEM. YOU SHOULD HAVE A GO YOURSELF...

Here is a stream of consciousness. Please don't talk to me about the grammatical, structural, spelling errors etc. It is a stream of consciousness after all. There are truths... facts about traits that will always lead to success in horse racing, and success is measured by whether ones...

They are back, and so too is this thread. Been covering for the boss at work this week as well as having a delightful time travelling to the North East due to the train strikes. As such, I am going to start with a couple of stats tables related to trainers and sires, and preview the...

Ten or fifteen years ago, I was quite up on my jockeys. I had a fair understanding of which jockeys had particular strengths. McCoy could ride the bollocks off the laziest mule. Carberry had balls of steel and could kid a dodgepot to lead right at the line. Johnson was able to kick a ponderous...

Hello all... Haven't had time to do a proper opening post with stats, explanations and so forth. Will be nice to do one before long but for now, I am just going to jump in with the first preview essay of the season. Enjoy :) Hexham - 4th June - Preview At the beginning of this century, the...

Juvenile hurdlers, and myself, are set to return to Hexham in ten days time. If the young horses are a fraction as excited as I am then we should be in for a treat. Though ten days before the first race of the season makes the posting of this thread somewhat early, there have already been enough...

https://www.racingpost.com/news/latest/lord-glitters-owner-and-racing-fanatic-geoff-turnbull-dies-aged-74/443437 The passing of this man marks a sad day for racing. I don't believe I met the man myself but I was fortunate enough to spend a bit of time last year at his Elwick Stud. Even if one...

The juvenile hurdlers are back on Tuesday and after an absence of a couple of years (several if you discount the ones aborted early on), so too is this thread. A spell on the injury list along with a disinclination to work during lockdown meant that I had plenty of time to compile a fairly...

I figured that since a few of us will have the odd book horse racing book or two, between us we may have enough to build a reasonable reference library. An online resource if you will whereby one might possess an answer to a question pondered by another. Or maybe an image from which one might...

Is it just me or are his commentaries excruciating? I can understand getting a little overexcited if it is a 'once in a generation' battle or performance. Classic examples brought to mind would be Red Rum 1977, Special Cargo 1984, Dawn Run 1986, Edredon Bleu 2000 and so forth. But what made...

When considering this weekend's races at Ascot along with the Hatton's Grace and Punchestown Chase on the horizon, I asked myself the question in the title. I think top class races at the intermediate distance can make for fascinating contests as they can bring together the best speedsters and...

Good evening. Since tomorrow's Musselburgh card is predominantly a novices' trials day, I've decided to delve into the pedigrees to partially fill in the gaps left in the puzzle by the horses' inexperience. If anybody finds this useful or interesting then fantastic. If not then at least I have...

I'm very much opposed to the overproduction of racehorses and would welcome anything that makes the practice more efficient. While the mares' programme raised some eyebrows during its inception, mine included, the benefits are emerging with the likes of Altior, Ballyoptic, Brain Power, Empire of...

I need a few things clarifying about this case. The area where I’m happy is that Mr Gilligan knowingly and willfully ran Dubawi Phantom under a different name at a flapping/unrecognized meeting. For this reason alone, the ban is sound. What I’m not totally clear on is the issue on running...

About that time again. Harly Forest - Trainer Brian Ellison has won this race twice with three runners. However, both winners (Come On Sunshine and Dilizan) went off as favourites and the beaten representative went off at 18/1 and ran accordingly. Harly Forest has been beaten a whopping 212...

I’ve made this post for two reasons;- 1) It’s been a while since the relationship has been discussed on these boards. 2) While the potential participation of Victoria Pendleton at this year’s Cheltenham Festival has been widely promoted as a means of attracting a fresh band of followers to the...

Too tired to introduce... Much depends on who heads the weights... Will cross that bridge should I come to it... May do other races day before... Roi du Mee A veteran in both age and experience, he will be having his fiftieth career start should he show up. With seven Graded wins - including...

I'm trying to compile a list of horses who turned racing into a literal art form. Not necessarily the fastest or most accomplished of horses, rather the ones whose jumping transcended the perfunctory and entered the realms of pure grace. Three examples Jair du Cochet (granted he missed one or...

Well, not really. Quite the opposite in fact. The 3:10 at Thurles, long odds on favourite in the maiden hurdle steadily backed throughout the day until around seven or eight minutes before the off so not a typical case the market correcting itself. In the space of those eight minutes, went from...