Quick Returners Over The Sticks

By David Renham

In flat racing, there have been a long been an advantage to horses returning to the track after a short break. However, is that the case in National Hunt racing? Overall horses returning to the track within 10 days win 11.2% of races and overall losses stand at -26%. So not an earth shattering start! However, some trainers are definitely perform better with quick returners than others.

To begin this article, here is a list of the most successful trainers in terms of strike rate with horses returning to the track within 10 days. The data for this table, and indeed the whole article has been taken from 2005 to end of November 2009. I have restricted qualifying trainers to those who have had at least 25 qualifiers:

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This article continues with investigation and reporting of those horse racing trainers who appear to

do very well with quick returners to the track.

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