Fillies and mares take centre stage at Cheltenham on Thursday with a dedicated seven-race card.
Fillies and mares take centre stage at Cheltenham on Thursday with a dedicated seven-race card. We look at ten key statistics to use on the day:
- Pink Legend and Hawthorn Cottage in the 16:25 (Class 3 Mares' Handicap Chase) are the only two horses on the card with placed course form. Pink Legend has never finished out of the frame in three attempts at the track.
- Jockey Harry Cobden is operating at a 17% strike rate at Cheltenham this season. He rides three on Thursday – Grivetana, Ahorsewithnoname and Good Luck Charm.
- Gordon Elliott has a 21% win rate when sending horses from his base in Ireland to Cheltenham. He has current favourite Deeply Superficial in the 14:40 (Listed Mares' Novices' Hurdle).
- Fergal O'Brien is +27.29 to a level £1 stake at Cheltenham over the last five years and he saddles Dontyawantme and Leave Her To Me in the 17:00 (Class Two Mares' Open National Hunt Flat Race).
- Trainer Gary Moore is in excellent form with a 40% strike rate from the last fourteen days (18-45).
- Jockey Jamie Moore is chasing his father's current strike rate and is demonstrating good form himself with 33% (6-18).
- Although La Domaniale (14:05 – G2 British EBF Mares' Novices' Limited Handicap Chase Final) was a beaten favourite on her last start, she boasts two wins and one second from four attempts over the race distance (2m4f).
- There are 82 horses declared to run over the seven-race card with the maximum field of 20 in the 17:00 (Class Two Mares' Open National Hunt Flat Race).
- Philip Kirby 's Lone Star has the best form figures on offer on Thursday with five wins and a second from her past six outings. She runs in the 13:30.
- There are only five horses on the card that have unseated or fallen in their last six runs - Ilovethenightlife (14:40), Komedy Kicks (15:50), La Breille (15:50), Bobbys Beauty (17:00) and Micks Jet (17:00).
