Saturday Trends (2nd March 2019)

With the Cheltenham Festival now in touching distance, the quality of the weekend action always takes a dip at this time of year with trainers saving their star names for Prestbury Park in just over a week.

Having said that, there’s still plenty to get stuck into and with the trends and stats throwing up a lot of winners last weekend then it’s still worth taking a look.

We’ve jumping cards from Newbury, Doncaster and Kelso, while the all weather action comes from Lingfield and Chelmsford. The ITV cameras will be taking in seven races across three of the afternoon venues – Newbury, Doncaster and Kelso – with the Greatwood Gold Cup, from Newbury, one of the days feature contests – a race that the powerful Paul Nicholls yard has won a staggering six times in the last nine runnings.

As always, to help you through the cards we’ve picked some quickfire standout stats and trends that are certainly worth paying attention too.

Plus, you can get more help finding the winner for all this Saturday’s races on our Racing Tips page.

Trends Analysis:

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2.40 Newbury: Trainer Paul Nicholls has won six of the last nine runnings.

3.10 Newbury: The Chris Gordon stable won this race last year.

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1.50 Doncaster: Trainer Emma Lavelle has a 35% record with her hurdlers at the track (7-from-20).

2.25 Doncaster: The Paul Nicholls yard have won two of the last five runnings.

3.35 Doncaster: An eight-year-old has won three of the last four runnings, plus trainer Kim Bailey and jockey David Bass teamed-up to win this race in 2016.

4.40 Doncaster: Trainer Amy Murphy has a 50% (2 from 4) strike-rate with her hurdlers at the track.

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1.40 Kelso: The favourite has won the last four runnings.

2.15 Kelso: Trainer Lucinda Russell has won two of the last three runnings.

2.45 Kelso: Trainer Paul Nicholls has a 36% record with his chasers at the track.

3.15 Kelso: Trainer Paul Nicholls won this race in 2016 and is 2-from-4 with his hurdles at the track.

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1.35 Lingfield: Trainer Mark Johnston has a 23% record with his four-year-olds or older at the track.

2.10 Lingfield: Roy’s Legacy won this race last year.

2.50 Lingfield: Three of the last four winners came from stall 1.

3.20 Lingfield: Horses from stall three or five have won five of the last six runnings.

3.50 Lingfield: Trainer William Haggas has won the last two runnings.

5.00 Lingfield: Trainer Sir Mark Prescott has a 33% record with his four-year-olds or older at the track.

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7.00 Chelmsford: Trainer Jonathan Portman has a 28% record (5 from 18) with his four-year-olds or older at the track.

8.00 Chelmsford: Outlaw Torn won this race last year.

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Every LIVE Saturday race covered on ITV can be found on our ITV Racing Tips, with runner-by-runner previews for each contest.