Timeform

11/02/2025

🗣️ "A recent follow-up success back over hurdles at the Dublin Racing Festival underlined that he’s a much-improved model all of a sudden. 𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝗶𝗻 𝗮𝗹𝗹, 𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀 𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝘁 𝗮𝘁 𝟮𝟱/𝟭."

🏇 Timeform's Phil Turner reacts to the release of the Grand National weights following Tuesday's announcement, and likes the chances of one at a double figure price for Gavin Cromwell...

Timeform rate champion owner JP McManus as holding excellent claims of winning another Grand National after the weights for the big race were announced on Tuesday afternoon.

11/02/2025

📊 Following today's weights release, here are Timeform's weight-adjusted ratings for the 2025 Grand National at Aintree...

*Need 20 or more horses to come out to get a run.

Who do you think will come out on top?

05/02/2025

Five key ratings risers from the quality action at Leopardstown and Sandown at the weekend 📈

Who impressed you most? 🤔

04/02/2025

💬 "He's going to set a really really high bar in that race, and we think there's probably a lot more to come from him too."

🇮🇪 Billy Nash provides the latest Timeform perspective, as he rounds up the major action at the Dublin Racing Festival...

🎙️ Nick Luck Daily Podcast

03/02/2025

The Willie Mullins-trained 𝗞𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗸 𝗗𝗲𝘀 𝗕𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝘀 has been given a Timeform rating of 𝟭𝟱𝟰𝗣 following his very impressive 13-length victory at the DRF.

That rating makes him our current top-rated novice hurdler; he's a best price of 6/4 for the SkyBet Supreme Novices Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival.

📝 Timeform Race report following Kopek Des Bordes' victory at Leopardstown on 02/02/2025:

KOPEK DES BORDES cut the same figure so many Mullins-trained Supreme winners have down the years in dominating the race almost always used as the pre-Festival stepping stone, turning what had looked an open division into something potentially much less so with a striking display at odds with his cumbersome winning start over hurdles, towering above most in terms of physique and all in terms of performance; never far away, he jumped much better and was still moving very powerfully as he led soon after 3 out before opening right up in the straight, looking cut from an entirely different cloth to the usual novice.

Yet more evidence of the Mullins domination at this meeting and in general as, just 24 hours after Final Demand had posted a novice hurdle performance that ought to have been insurmountable, Kopek des Bordes created an even bigger impression as he obliterated a good-quality bunch in even more dominant fashion, with a group of 2-milers broken apart by the straight and returning all the more strung out.

01/02/2025

📊 Timeform's current top-rated chasers in training ahead of the DRF 👇

🇮🇪🏆 Sitting top, the outstanding 𝗚𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝗲𝘀 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗺𝗽𝘀 bids for a third successive victory in the Irish Gold Cup this afternoon for Willie Mullins, as he looks to confirm his superiority over stablemate Fact To File.

28/01/2025

📊 𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗦 𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘: 𝗖𝗛𝗘𝗟𝗧𝗘𝗡𝗛𝗔𝗠 𝗙𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗔𝗟 𝗧𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗟𝗦 𝗗𝗔𝗬

Tony McFadden provides the Timeform ratings reaction following Cheltenham's Trials Day card which featured an impressive display from East India Dock.

✍️ "East India Dock sets a high standard on form and is already rated higher than typical winner of the Triumph Hurdle as the average Timeform performance rating of a winner in the last ten years is around 145."

✍️ "There was also an improved effort from Jagwar (143p from 138p) who won the Timeform Novices' Handicap Chase and, given his progressive profile, is likely to be high on the shortlist for the similar event which is back on the Festival programme this year, or for the Festival Plate."

Tony McFadden provides the Timeform ratings reaction following Cheltenham's Trials Day card which featured an impressive display from East India Dock.

27/01/2025

East India Dock took his Timeform rating to 147p (from 144p) with a ten-length win in the Triumph Hurdle Trial at Cheltenham on Saturday and he is now 11 lb clear of the next highest-rated juvenile in Britain or Ireland, Hello Neighbour (136p) 🔝

Ante-post Triumph Hurdle favourite Lulamba is rated 129P following his comfortable victory at Ascot on his first start for Nicky Henderson, with the Large P indicating he's capable of much better form. However, East India Dock sets a high standard on form and is already rated higher than a typical winner of the Triumph Hurdle 📈

The average Timeform performance rating of a Triumph Hurdle winner in the last ten years is around 145 🥇

𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺’𝘀 𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝗷𝘂𝘃𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻 📊
147p East India Dock
136p Hello Neighbour
133 Stencil
132p Naturally Nimble
132 Sauvignon

18/01/2025

🔍 Here's a look at the career trajectory of both Jonbon and Energumene, displaying their Timeform performance ratings in Chases.

They have both run 13 times each over fences; Energumene made his chase debut in November 2020, whilst Jonbon made his in November 2022.

🟢🟡 The consistent Jonbon has run to his peak Timeform rating of 172 twice, including most recently when landing the Betfair Tingle Creek for the second year in succession.

His performance at Sandown the best in the race since Altior beat Un de Sceaux in 2018.

🔵 Across 13 starts, Energumene has bettered Jonbon's peak Timeform performance rating over fences (172) on five occasions.

Energumene's best performance ratings wise (180) actually came at Ascot in 2022, when runner-up to Shishkin in a Clarence House thriller.

14/01/2025

💬 "𝗛𝗲'𝘀 𝗴𝗼𝘁, 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲, 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗮 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻."

Speaking on the Nick Luck daily podcast, our Jumps Editor Dan Barber provides the Timeform perspective on 𝗦𝗮𝗹𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗠𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗶, the current antepost favourite for the SkyBet Supreme Novices' Hurdle at Cheltenham.

14/01/2025

❌ "Such a performance didn't justify the shortening of a price for the Supreme."

📝 Read Timeform's race report following Salvator Mundi's (137p) victory in Sunday's Moscow Flyer Novice Hurdle.

📉 He's now as short as 10/3 for the Supreme Novices' Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival.

07/01/2025

📊 Here's how the leading 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗛𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘀 currently figure on Timeform ratings, with the Gordon Elliott-trained Romeo Coolio sitting top on 150p.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗬𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘆 (147p from 140p) extended his unbeaten record over hurdles to four when landing the (Grade 1) Lawlor's of Naas Novice Hurdle on Sunday. His rating only bettered by stablemate Romeo Coolio so far this season.

The Yellow Clay is reportedly most likely to contest the Turners Novices' Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival - (also favourite for the Albert Bartlett).

The mean and median Timeform performance rating reached by a Turners winner in the last ten years is around 152.5.

30/12/2024

Brighterdaysahead produced one of the best performances by a mare over jumps in Timeform's experience when winning the Neville Hotels Hurdle by 30 lengths at Leopardstown on Sunday.

Her rating of 𝟭𝟲𝟳 has only been bettered by a mare over hurdles this century by Annie Power.

Timeform handicapper Kris Hilliam said: "This was something of a tactical masterclass from the Gordon Elliott team and odds-on favourite State Man clearly turned in a rare below-par effort, but the overall time and timefigure provide plenty of substance to go alongside the impressive style of success and this has been rated as one of the best displays ever produced by a mare."

29/12/2024

Sir Gino ran to an extremely rare level for a chasing debutant when beating Ballyburn by seven-and-a-half lengths at Kempton on Friday.

His Timeform rating of 𝟭𝟱𝟵𝗣 is higher than his trainers' other star two-mile chasers Sprinter Sacre (150p), Altior (152P) and Jonbon (152P) achieved on their debuts over fences.

28/12/2024

The brilliant Galopin Des Champs returns to winning ways in scintillating style, at his beloved Leopardstown!

🌟 His career record to date:
21 races
13 wins
10 x Grade 1 wins
2 x Savills Chase
2 x Cheltenham Gold Cup
2 x Irish Gold Cup
1 x John Durkan Memorial

28/12/2024

📊Here's how the field measure up on our weight-adjusted ratings for Saturday's Savills Chase.

2023 winner Galopin des Champs tops our ratings, bidding for a 10th Grade 1 win.

Fact To File lowered the colours of the dual Gold Cup winner last month, and is open to further improvement.

27/12/2024

🏆 Sir Gino gives Nicky Henderson an 11th victory in the Wayward Lad, as he bolts up on his chase debut to lower the colours of Ballyburn!

🌟 He's won the Kempton Grade 2 contest with some special talents down the years!

27/12/2024

📝 "Produced a polished performance that suggests he retains plenty of his considerable ability."

🏇🏆 Read Timeform's race report following Constitution Hill's third successive victory in the Christmas Hurdle at Kempton.