Huntingdon Course Guide

Jumping action takes place throughout the year at Huntington with the highlight of its calendar being the Grade 2 Peterborough Chase.

Henrietta Knight dominated the extended two mile and four furlong race around the turn of the century, winning it an astonishing eight times. Gold Cup hero Best Mate won the race in 2002, while Edredon Bleu won the contest a remarkable four times in a row, starting in 1998. Impek won the 2005 renewal while Racing Demon took the contest in both 2006 and 2007.

Formerly ran on a Saturday in November, the race was switched to midweek in December in 2008 because of clashes with other big race meetings and dwindling fields, and a decision was made in 2009 to give the contest a permanent December midweek slot.

Jumps Racing

The course is right-handed, oval with easy bends, and is a flat, fast track about one-and-a-half miles in length. There are nine fences to a circuit, some of them rather tricky, and the water jump was filled in during summer 2008, astroturf replacing the water. It favours horses with speed over stamina, sluggards seen to best advantage only under extremely testing conditions.

You see a lot of good horses running at Huntingdon, especially classy types off the Flat, and that’s partly because it’s level, also because it’s close to Newmarket and not least because they put on some super races, from inviting novice hurdles through to the Peterborough Chase. It’s a very speedy track, but beautifully maintained with nice fences. Ideally, you want a horse that’s fast over the obstacles. You need to travel well to win there - and big, National Hunt types are definitely at a disadvantage.

View from the saddle: Mick Fitzgerald

Huntingdon Top Times
Last 5 years

Chase
Hurdle
National Hunt Flat

Distance	Horse (Going)	Date	Winning time
2m 104y	Hammersly Lake (Good)	28 Apr 2017	3m 52.73s
2m 3f 189y	Mille Nautique (Good)	30 May 2016	4m 47.6s
2m 4f 110y	Herecomesthetruth (Good)	26 May 2015	4m 58.7s
2m 7f 129y	Bags Groove (Good to Soft)	09 Dec 2018	5m 6.7s
3m 6f 162y	Little Bruce (Good)	03 Mar 2019	8m 17.3s

Distance	Horse (Going)	Date	Winning time
1m 7f 171y	Excellent Result (Good)	02 Oct 2016	3m 37s
2m 110y	Improvisation (Good to Firm)	26 May 2015	3m 41s
2m 3f 137y	Akkapenko (Good)	02 Oct 2019	4m 34.1s
2m 4f 110y	Shwaiman (Good to Firm)	26 May 2015	4m 45.5s
2m 5f 110y	Masterful Act (Good)	11 Mar 2015	5m 6.98s
3m 1f 10y	Midnight Aurora (Good)	02 Oct 2019	5m 51.6s
3m 2f	Minnie Milan (Good to Firm)	26 May 2015	6m 4.5s

Distance	Horse (Going)	Date	Winning time
1m 5f 148y	Lovely Lou Lou (Good)	02 Oct 2019	3m 2.8s
1m 7f 171y	Cresswell Legend (Good)	03 Apr 2017	3m 39.9s
2m 110y	Brave Richard (Good to Soft)	06 Apr 2015	3m 42.8s

Huntingdon Top Trainers
Last 3 years (ordered by number of winners)

Chase
Hurdle
National Hunt Flat

Trainer	Runners	Wins	Places	Prize Money	Strike-Rate	P/L
N J Henderson	14	7	5	£75,356	50%	-£1.21
K C Bailey	26	5	10	£59,762	19.23%	-£8.00
J R Cornwall	29	5	8	£19,820	17.24%	£57.00
Mrs Caroline Bailey	16	5	7	£22,418	31.25%	£5.71
C E Longsdon	25	4	8	£17,936	16%	-£3.50
F O'Brien	8	4	2	£20,600	50%	£9.96
N J Gifford	9	4	1	£21,770	44.44%	£6.13
D Skelton	24	3	13	£50,185	12.5%	-£11.50
Jonjo O'Neill	21	3	9	£15,595	14.29%	-£6.50
G L Moore	21	3	8	£19,170	14.29%	-£5.63

Trainer	Runners	Wins	Places	Prize Money	Strike-Rate	P/L
D Skelton	67	15	23	£63,359	22.39%	-£8.32
N J Henderson	45	11	12	£52,671	24.44%	-£14.47
Jonjo O'Neill	58	8	15	£38,664	13.79%	-£2.50
K C Bailey	38	8	8	£45,287	21.05%	£7.48
G L Moore	50	7	20	£31,385	14%	£4.50
Ben Pauling	45	6	12	£25,343	13.33%	-£15.93
Stuart Edmunds	21	6	11	£26,318	28.57%	£2.03
Olly Murphy	21	6	4	£25,148	28.57%	-£2.77
A King	42	5	27	£38,809	11.9%	-£25.06
G P Mcpherson	30	5	15	£22,288	16.67%	£21.50

Trainer	Runners	Wins	Places	Prize Money	Strike-Rate	P/L
Olly Murphy	4	3	0	£6,943	75%	£3.42
K C Bailey	12	2	6	£4,190	16.67%	-£5.00
D Skelton	12	2	5	£3,768	16.67%	-£4.90
H Whittington	6	2	2	£4,548	33.33%	£2.73
F O'Brien	4	2	0	£13,989	50%	£41.00
M R Channon	3	2	0	£4,223	66.67%	£9.00
N J Henderson	16	1	9	£1,949	6.25%	-£16.17
A King	12	1	6	£1,819	8.33%	-£9.38
Stuart Edmunds	10	1	4	£1,819	10%	-£4.50
N B King	8	1	3	£2,924	12.5%	-£5.00

Huntingdon Top Jockeys
Last 3 years (ordered by number of winners)

Chase
Hurdle
National Hunt Flat

Jockey	Runners	Wins	Places	Prize Money	Strike-Rate	P/L
Benjamin Poste	18	7	3	£30,541	38.89%	£52.33
Sam Twiston-Davies	19	6	7	£54,550	31.58%	£14.85
N D Fehily	13	5	6	£91,581	38.46%	£0.96
J M Davies	12	5	2	£26,708	41.67%	£12.00
Harry Skelton	27	4	15	£55,383	14.81%	-£11.63
S Bowen	19	4	8	£22,744	21.05%	£0.13
David Bass	14	4	6	£21,769	28.57%	-£0.13
Aidan Coleman	13	3	8	£14,295	23.08%	£6.00
R Johnson	12	3	5	£14,621	25%	-£5.72
Nico de Boinville	8	3	5	£19,170	37.5%	-£3.77

Jockey	Runners	Wins	Places	Prize Money	Strike-Rate	P/L
R Johnson	38	12	11	£57,169	31.58%	£34.46
Harry Skelton	51	10	22	£41,590	19.61%	-£3.94
Nico de Boinville	34	8	8	£31,387	23.53%	-£7.42
P J Brennan	35	7	11	£26,903	20%	£13.38
C Gethings	30	7	9	£30,217	23.33%	-£2.48
Aidan Coleman	30	6	4	£28,787	20%	£19.13
Jack Quinlan	75	5	23	£20,145	6.67%	-£10.00
Kielan Woods	41	5	19	£22,938	12.2%	£2.50
J E Moore	41	5	14	£16,245	12.2%	£20.50
N D Fehily	20	5	8	£42,448	25%	-£2.88

Jockey	Runners	Wins	Places	Prize Money	Strike-Rate	P/L
Fergus Gregory	6	3	2	£6,943	50%	£1.42
C Gethings	11	2	4	£3,768	18.18%	£2.00
G Sheehan	8	2	4	£4,093	25%	-£4.66
T J O'Brien	6	2	2	£4,548	33.33%	£3.25
B S Hughes	6	2	2	£4,223	33.33%	£14.00
Harry Skelton	7	2	1	£3,768	28.57%	£0.10
Wayne Hutchinson	10	1	5	£1,819	10%	-£7.38
David Bass	9	1	4	£2,274	11.11%	-£4.50
M Hamill	6	1	4	£1,916	16.67%	-£1.50
P J Brennan	7	1	3	£11,390	14.29%	-£2.00