Toulouse Betting Tips

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Toulouse is situated in the south of France, and the racecourse is just outside the centre in an area called La Cépière and boasting 34 hectares is described as the green lung in the pink city It has hosted racing since 1866 and boasts Flat, jumps and trotting racing, with the third busiest schedule in France. It also has floodlights allowing for racing to take place in the evenings and at night.

Toulouse Tips

Toulouse Racecourse has two tracks, an outer turf track of 1,875m that hosts their flat and jumps campaigns, and also an all-weather (sand) track in the middle of 1,275m for trotting races. The turf track has four starting points and hosts races from 1,400 metres to 2,400 metres, in a clockwise direction.

Over the course of the season, there are around 49 meetings held at Toulouse racecourse, with 26 trotting fixtures, 6 flat fixtures and 17 mixed (flat & jumps) fixtures originally planned for 2020.

Our tipsters will provide Toulouse tips for all of their major meetings and races, with full race analysis, predictions and reasoning for each betting tip. At myracing we will also offer racecards and runner by runner comments from the Racing Post.

Toulouse Major Races

Toulouse currently only has one group race run each season, the Prix Fille de l’Air.

The Prix Fille de l’Air is held each year in November and since 1997 on the French public holiday of Armistice Day, November 11th. The 2,100m (1m2½f) Group 3 contest is named after Fille de l’Air, a successful French-trained filly in the 1860s, and is open to fillies and mares aged three or over.

Regardless of the grade, our expert tipsters will be on hand researching and analysing all of the races at every Toulouse meeting, providing you with the best Toulouse tips and betting.

Toulouse Best Trainers & Jockeys

Jumps

Over jumps, the leading trainer at Toulouse has been a two-horse race for the last decade. Unsurprisingly, the two leading course trainers of the last 10 years are two of France’s National Hunt powerhouses in Francois Nicolle and Guillaume Macaire, who have shared the title of champion trainer since 2003.

In the last 10 seasons, Nicolle and Macaire have finished top course trainer on 5 occasions each, with most seasons coming down to the wire and being split by very few winners or tied and decided by prize money.

Aside from the big two, Arnaud Chaille-Chaille is another trainer that warrants a great deal of respect around here having finished in the top three each season since 2011, including finishing runner up in 2015 & 2012.

It is difficult to draw any strong conclusions over the top jumps jockeys to follow at Toulouse racecourse, with no jockey riding more than 5 winners in a season since 2016.

In 2019 Gaetan Masure, Paul Moreau and Bertrand Lestrande led the way by numbers of wins with three each, Moreau taking the title of top course jockey having won the most prize money.

Lestrande who regularly rides for Guillaume Macaire finished third in 2019, only had five rides at the track, so operated with a 60% strike-rate on his rare foray to Toulouse.

Lestrande also led the way in 2018 with five course winners from 12 rides, a strike rate of 42% so it may pay to follow Lestrade if he ventures down to the south of France for a ride or two.

Flat

The story of training dominance continues over on the flat, with Jean-Claude Rouget retaining the title of leading trainer every season of the last decade except 2018.

With Rouget’s main base of operations also in the south of France, around 200km west of Toulouse, in Pau, it’s no surprise to see the yard have success at one of their more local tracks.

The only man to dethrone Rouget in the last decade was Didier Guillemin, who in 2018 had a remarkable season at Toulouse, saddling a total of 17 winners, 7 clear of Rouget.

Guillemin has finished in the top three in each of the last three trainers standings, with a strike rate of 23% across that period, and an impressive 29% in 2018, so any runners he sends to Toulouse racecourse warrants respect.

No flat jockey has been atop of the pile twice in recent seasons, with the exception of Julien Auge’s runaway success in 2019, it’s usually a closely fought affair.

Julien Auge has figured prominently in the final standings in most recent seasons and was the runaway leader in 2019 with his 15 course wins, 6 clear of his nearest rival Francois-Xavier Bertras who also finished runner up in 2016.

Other recent leading riders include Alexandre Gavilan (2018) Jean-Bernard Eyquem (2017) Hugo Journiac (2016) and Roberto Carlos-Montenegro (2015) but with most season’s going down to the wire, it’s difficult to draw any strong conclusions over jockeys to follow at Toulouse racecourse.

Where to watch Toulouse races?

Some of Toulouse racecourse’s more prominent fixtures are covered and shown live on Sky Sports Racing, Sky channel number 415 and number 535 on Virgin and 418 on Virgin Ireland. To view the remainder of Toulouse’s races be sure to check out the streaming services offered by all major online bookmakers, subject to meeting minimum betting requirements.