Favourite and Least Favourite Course....

[The Saint]

I'm not sure that I've ever backed a winner on the Newmarket 'July' Course... I mean obviously I have but it doesn't seem to be a course I can get right at all - don't even know what it is about the course - I mean it should be pretty fair looking at it... As for favourite... Dunno - I think York is just about the fairest course and Goodwood for it's looks alone. Bored!!! All mine have run - and failed!!

[Trotter]

Re: Favourite and Least Favourite Course.... I look for the opposite of 'fairness'............I don't want to be backing horses at a fair track I want to be backing them at an unfair track where I can decide which ones will handle it and which ones won't, particularly if i can find a favourite who I think won't........... So I prefer the tracks which are idiosyncratic...........very tight like Chester, uphill finishes like Ponty and carlisle, very undulating like Chepstow In practise I tend always to be looking for tracks with an uphill finish and I study the runners in the context of stamina - wether they will get home on the uphill finish. That's my day to day bread and butter on the turf