Useful Cheltenham stats Nobody has responded to my call for personal observations on the festival
Obviously you're all too busy picking winners?
But there are some insights alongside the pain and it may be worth recording them.
Take a look at today's racing Post a little feature on page 6 called "Recurring Theme"which could be the basis of somebody is 4th June next year!
In short the observation is that the ultima the Coral cup and Martin pipe were all won by horses who were beaten in the same race a year earlier racing on or near the same Mark having finished 3rd or 4th previous year.
David Jennings further observesthat of the 7 handicaps not confined to novices 5 were won by horses beaten in handicaps the previous year
He finishes the piece with a sporting proposal for the grand annual in 2020!
So hopefully akd will play again next year with this additional ammo.
Now forward to the small problem of aintree