Hello Friend

In order to add to my 'big race trends & preview' offering this winter season within my members' club, I’ve licensed Gavin Priestley’s Winter & Festival Trends content (worth £60-100), for publication on my blog, at no extra cost to you. 

His blog was one of the first I ever started reading way back in 2008/9 and he's partly responsible for my own fascination with trainer stats & trends, along with his good pal 'Mr Geegeez', Matt B. 

11 meetings will be covered before the end of 2021. Moving into 2022 they’ll be a focus on the four Festival ‘trial’ meetings, and then the two big UK Festivals at Cheltenham and Aintree.

Below you can find Gavin’s stats and trends research for Chepstow's meeting. There’s an in-depth focus on x3 races, and notes/other pointers for the rest.

Hopefully these may help in your own deliberations/shortlisting etc. Or you may just enjoy flicking through. I posted 'part 1' on Wednesday giving my members plenty of time to browse through and pick their own fancies. 

I've also added Gavin's own preview notes & tips. He put up Some Chaos on Thursday morning when double figures I think, and will be hoping to add to those profits today. 

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Good friend Alex Gould, who likes his racing on the continent as well as his UK pointers (and is a part time bloodstock agent), has kindly provided a preview of the runners for this weekend’s big steeplechase from the Czech Republic.

I’ve been there to watch it live, with Alex and a few others, and if you’ve never been do add it to your bucket list; with the added benefit of being able to spend time in Prague also. (and the pilsner was very cheap) Hopefully we will be heading back next year. 

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I think that's all for today and this weekend, a couple of decent posts for you to get stuck into, 

Good luck with any bets as always, 

Josh