Race Stats:

13 renewals and 262 runners

Horses coming from Warwick (4-19) or from abroad (3-29) are best

5 and 6 year olds dominate taking 12 of the last 13 renewals

4 year olds are 0-16 . Horses aged 7 + are just 1-59

Horses that ran within 15 days are 0-41

Horses that ran 80 or more days ago struggle (0-20)

Horses that lost by 2 lengths or more last time out are 0-108

Horses at 16/1 and over are just 1-182

You have to have been 1st or 2nd last time out (Others 0-83) the last to do this was 1982

Horses coming from Class D (0-47) & Class E(0-53) are best avoided

Horses that came from a 2m race underperform (1-55)

Horses coming from a Handicap are 0-39

Only Gallileo (2002) won with less than 2 races that year and he had ran 3 times on flat

17 of the last 20 winners had ran at least 4 times over hurdles that season

Martin Pipe hasnt won this since 1990 and his last 31 runners in this race lost

Phillip Hobbs has had just 1 placed horse from 9 runners

National Hunt Bred horses are best and dominate over Flat bred horses