As far as National Hunt racing goes, the Cheltenham Festival is about as competitive as it gets, and believe me, there’s no easy way to win, no easy road to riches writes Bradley Gibbs.
However, there are perhaps some trends, stats, angles (whatever you want to call them) worth exploring to help you on your way to identifying potentially profitable bets.
Here, we’re taking a look at Irish and French bred horses. More specifically, we’re looking at horses bred in Ireland and France that won last time out at Cheltenham.
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In a previous post, we established that betting on all last-time-out Cheltenham winners to win at the festival in the last decade would’ve yielded a profit, even when bet on each-way.
More profitable still would’ve been betting on all last-time-out Cheltenham winners that were bred in either Ireland or France. Narrowing the search down further, we’re looking at horses aged between four and seven.
In the last decade, we’ve seen 48 runners slot into the above category. Of those 48, 16 have won, returning a profit of +£77.86 to £1 stakes (betfair SP). If we’d bet on those 48 horses each-way, we’d have made a profit of £59.68. Not bad at all.
There will of course be an abundance of French and Irish horses running at the upcoming festival, many of which will be aged between four and seven, though not too many of those will have won at Cheltenham last time out.
Those that have should not be taken lightly.
Stats from narrowingthefield.co.uk