Course Stats For Trainers – How Relevant Are They?

Course trainer stats are used by some punters as their principle method of obtaining selections. In this article I am going to try and evaluate how relevant they are. Here is how I intend to do it. The years 2004 to 2008 will be my test phase and I will be looking for trainers that fulfil the following criteria – they must have had at least 40 runs at the course; they must have had a strike rate of 14% or more; must have been in the top 10 course trainers in terms of strike rate, and must have made a profit. Whether this is a completely ‘fair’ test is open to debate, but what cannot be questioned is that any trainer that qualifies under these four ‘rules’ did perform well during that specific time span of 5 years. From here I then intend to check these trainers over the next 3 seasons 2009 to 2011 to see if their earlier success has been replicated. I have not gone through all the courses as it would take up far too much room (and time), so I have chosen 10 courses to check – these have been chosen at random. Let’s start then and I have chosen Bath as my first course:

The Rest of this article is Full Member Only and goes on to reveal some highly important information any punter who considers trainer betting records as part of their bet assessment really should know about before plcing a further penny in bettign wagers.