Just an update as to where we are with our Cheltenham Festival Racecourse Template, Racing Trends and Betting Advice. We plan to have Day Three completed before Sunday and Day Four before next Wednesday. Then, for each day up to Tuesday 12 March 2019 we will edit, beef up and add more pertinent information for each race on one designated page. The completed page will give our members everything they need to make informed judgments and the chance to filter the pretenders from the contenders and match their conclusions with our own or those of their preferred pundits (who we tend to ignore)!

We are very excited and after spending a third day on the trot in the garden it occurred to us our type of information is going to be more useful than ever this year. This dry winter has clearly disrupted campaigns with many horses not making the requisite visits to the tracks in a preferred timeline. We also know it has not just affected the big trainers so it is even more important our nominations fit or suit the profile of previous winners.

The consensus is the Irish have been affected most by the dry weather but we are not sure about that. The Irish have dominated the festival in recent years and our best guess is that will continue because they have the better horses.

Beware those pundits who seek to complicate matters whilst boosting their own egos/standing at the same time - best to absorb, filter and make your own opinions. We will be ignoring them completely, as always we will trust the governing force of betting – mathematical laws and the statistical analysis that accompanies them.

Welcome to THE RACING HORSE and the

2019 Cheltenham Festival

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