Timeform

02/11/2024

👏 Huge congratulations to Daryl Jacob, after riding the 1,000th winner of his career on board Ottizzini at Ayr!

📊 Here's a look at the horses who have run to the highest Timeform performance rating with Jacob in the saddle... 👇

02/11/2024

- How will 𝘾𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙊𝙛 𝙏𝙧𝙤𝙮 fare in the BC Classic?

- 𝘽𝙧𝙖𝙙𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙡 to add another top-level success to his haul in the BC Turf Sprint?

- Guineas hero 𝙉𝙤𝙩𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙎𝙥𝙚𝙚𝙘𝙝 bids for BC Mile glory

📝 John Ingles on how the European challenge measure up in three key contests at the Breeders' Cup:

John Ingles looks at how the European challenge measures up in three key contests at the Breeders' Cup.

02/11/2024

🇺🇸🏆 Aidan O'Brien became the joint winning-most trainer at the Breeders' Cup, with a double on Friday evening taking him to 20 wins.

🥇 Here's a look at his record by race...

22/10/2024

💬 "A perfect 7 from 7 this season, he's won 13 of his last 15... He for me has been a real star of the season."

🏇🎙️ Lots to cover, as Dan Barber reflects on QIPCO British Champions Day at Ascot on today's episode of the Nick Luck Daily Podcast...

15/10/2024

The BHA have confirmed that Manxman has been awarded the race in the Cesarewitch Handicap, following Alphonse Le Grande's disqualification, on account of his rider's overuse of the whip.

📝 Here is Timeform's report on the race 👇

15/10/2024

💬 "𝗛𝗲'𝘀 𝟲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝟭𝟲, 𝗵𝗲'𝘀 𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗲'𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗳𝗹𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝘂𝘁𝗲."

🥇 Kieran Clark highlights a few National Hunt Trainers who have been going well in recent weeks, plus a few who have started a little slower than anticipated...

🎙️ Nick Luck Daily Podcast

15/10/2024

🌟 "The best performance in the last dozen years since the race got moved to Newmarket, which has only been bettered by Minding."

🎙️ Speaking on the 𝙉𝙞𝙘𝙠 𝙇𝙪𝙘𝙠 𝘿𝙖𝙞𝙡𝙮 𝙋𝙤𝙙𝙘𝙖𝙨𝙩, Kieran Clark provides the Timeform view on Desert Flower's Fillies' Mile and the Dewhurst, won by Shadow Of Light...

14/10/2024

Desert Flower has been awarded a Timeform rating of 𝟭𝟭𝟳𝗽 following her five-and-a-half length victory in the Fillies' Mile at Newmarket on Friday.

Only Minding has run to a higher figure in winning the race since it was moved permanently to Newmarket in 2011.

14/10/2024

🏆📝 Timeform's race report of the 𝗗𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗲𝘆 𝗗𝗲𝘄𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘀 at Newmarket, won by Shadow Of Light (remains Timeform rated 120).

🔵 On 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗱𝗼𝘄 𝗼𝗳 𝗟𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 - "He didn't have to run to the level showed in winning the Middle Park to become only the second horse since Diesis in 1982 to complete the Group 1 double..."

🥈 On the runner-up 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱, who has been awarded a Timeform rating of 112p - "Proved a remarkably able understudy just a week after his debut, no sign of inexperience in his performance, a classic prospect in his own right and sure to stay 1m and more"

12/10/2024

🥇 Middle Park Stakes
🥇 Dewhurst Stakes

The Charlie Appleby-trained 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗱𝗼𝘄 𝗢𝗳 𝗟𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 becomes only the second c**t this century to complete the Newmarket 2-year-old Group 1 double.

🌟 U S Navy Flag achieved the same feat in 2017.

08/10/2024

💬 "Praise her likeability, toughness and durability, whilst acknowledging that actually, as we feared, it was not a vintage renewal."

Timeform's Dan Barber reflects on the 2024 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe at ParisLongchamp, won by Bluestocking.

🎙️ Nick Luck Daily Podcast

08/10/2024

"This performance up there with the best from a filly at the distance this season"

"Will have serious claims of completing the hat-trick in the QEII later in the month if she turns up"

📝 Timeform race report of Tamfana's breakthrough Group 1 victory in the Sun Chariot Stakes:

06/10/2024

🇫🇷🏆 BLUESTOCKING strikes in the 2024 Qatar Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe at ParisLongchamp, for Rossa Ryan.

Ralph Beckett's special filly caps a brilliant season throughout 2024:

🥇 Middleton Stakes (Group 2)
🥇 Pretty Polly (Group 1)
🥈 King George (Group 1)
4th in the Juddmonte International (Group 1)
🥇 Prix Vermeille (Group 1)
🏆 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe (Group 1)

06/10/2024

Al Riffa heads Timeform ratings in a wide-open renewal of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe 🇫🇷

His adjusted rating of 134 is a good deal lower than the top-rated in any of the last ten editions – 8 lb lower than the average top-rated during that period, in fact 📊

01/10/2024

📊 Timeform's current top-rated 2-year-olds: Updated (01/10/24)

🔝 Middle Park winner Shadow Of Light produced the best performance by a 2-y-o c**t so far this season, when running out a four-length winner of the Newmarket Group 1 contest.

💫 An impressive winner of the Cheveley Park Stakes, Lake Victoria (119p), who remained unbeaten, is very much the one to beat in the 2025 1000 Guineas at this stage.

01/10/2024

The Karl Burke-trained Liberty Lane put up one of the handicap performances of the year on Saturday.

He is the first winner of the Cambridgeshire to break through the 120 barrier on Timeform ratings since subsequent Group race scorer Wissahickon in 2018.

01/10/2024

Lake Victoria has been awarded a Timeform rating of 𝟭𝟭𝟵𝗽 following her impressive display in the Cheveley Park Stakes at Newmarket on Saturday.

Her performance was on a par with what Tiggy Wiggy achieved in 2014, and better than any other in the race since Hooray in 2010.

She has the physique and pedigree to do even better next year, no surprise that she is now a warm favourite for the Guineas.

The pace was sound, returning a timefigure (109) better than for the Middle Park (102) ⏱️

01/10/2024

- The best effort by a two-year-old c**t this season.
- Lake Victoria establishes herself as the pick of the juvenile fillies so far.
- Best effort posted in the Cambridgeshire since Wissahickon in 2018

🏇📊 Tony McFadden provides the Timeform ratings reaction to the key performances at Newmarket's Cambridgeshire Festival.

Tony McFadden provides the Timeform ratings reaction to the key performances at Newmarket's Cambridgeshire Festival.

27/09/2024

✍️ "His second-place finish to next year’s 2000 Guineas and Derby favourite The Lion In Winter in the Acomb Stakes at York reads very well."

🏇⏱️ The Sporting Life racing experts combine to provide their best bets ahead of Saturday's action.

The Timeform Sporting Life racing experts combine to provide their best bets ahead of Saturday's action.

22/09/2024

🗣️ "Harbinger recorded one of the best in Timeform’s history, a 140 rating putting him in the top dozen performers that Timeform had rated at the time..."

🏇📊 Timeform's Flat Editor David Johnson explains why 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿 was awarded a Timeform rating of 140, and is one of Sir Michael Stoute's highest-rated horses:

Timeform Flat editor David Johnson explains why Harbinger was awarded a Timeform rating of 140 and is one of Sir Michael Stoute's highest-rated horses.

16/09/2024

📝 "The sons of Galileo that couldn't be split at the head of the market having a tremendous tussle through the last 2f..."

🏆 Timeform's Race Report following the final Classic of the season, the St Leger, won by the unbeaten JAN BRUEGHEL, who ran to a Timeform rating of 120p.

16/09/2024

📝 "A fascinating renewal of the biggest race of the year in Ireland..."

"Economics, the first since Pentire in 1995 to win this race having not previously won a Group 1"

"The Champion Stakes at Ascot, and a potential clash with Calandagan, is reportedly his next target, whilst looking further ahead he is very much the type to do even better at 4yrs."

🇮🇪🏆 Read Timeform's Race Report following 𝙀𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙤𝙢𝙞𝙘𝙨' break-through Group 1 victory in the Irish Champion Stakes, in which he improved his rating to 126p.

16/09/2024

"He was ‘the journalist’s journalist’ and will be much missed by his colleagues, as well as by the many who have enjoyed reading his work over the years"

Geoff Greetham, a former director of Timeform and the long-time publishing editor of the Timeform ‘Racehorses’ and ‘Chasers & Hurdlers’ annuals, remembers a stalwart of the racecourse press room.

Geoff Greetham, a former director of Timeform and the long-time publishing editor of the Timeform ‘Racehorses’ and ‘Chasers & Hurdlers’ annuals, remembers a stalwart of the racecourse press room.

10/09/2024

📝 "Montassib is relatively new to the sprint scene and he proved better than ever to make the breakthrough at the highest level on his first try in Group 1 company. "

🏇📊 Tony McFadden provides the key Timeform ratings reaction following the Sprint Cup card.

Tony McFadden provides the key Timeform ratings reaction following the Betfair Sprint Cup card.

08/09/2024

🇫🇷🏆 A fascinating renewal of the (Group 1) Prix Du Moulin coming up at ParisLongchamp this afternoon.

📊 A clash of this season's star milers, with nothing to split Charyn and Notable Speech on our weight-adjusted ratings (136), with Henry Longfellow just 2lb behind that pair.