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Racecaller08
08 Oct 11 17:20
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The Munster National takes place at Limerick on Sunday 9th October. Below are trends for the past 10 years (http://tinyurl.com/6bt6yt5):

Age (Win-Place-Runners)
6yo: 1-3-8
7yo: 2-9-33
8yo: 5-5-30
9yo: 0-6-32
10yo: 2-0-11
11yo+: 0-0-8
Horses aged 6 to 8 have a combined record of 8-17-71 compared to horses aged 9+: 2-6-51.

Weight (Win-Place-Runners)
Horses carrying 10-4 or higher: 3-10-53
Horses carrying 10-3 or lower: 7-12-69
7 of the last 10 winners carried 10-3 or less and in the past 2 runnings all 8 placed finishers carried 10-6 or less.
Top Weight: 1355F70250 (1-1-10)

Official Ratings
Horses rated 130 or higher: 4-7-51
Horses rated 119 to 129: 5-14-54
Horses rated 118 or lower: 1-1-17
5 of last 6 winners were officially rated 119 to 129 and they also filled 7 of the 8 places in past 2 renewals.

Recent/Past Form
7 of 10 winners finished in the first 2 on one of their last two chase starts
8 of 10 winners had not run in the past 60 days
5 of 10 winners had previously won at the track (4 exceptions having first course start & other was placed on only start here in a h’cap chase)
8 of 10 winners had run in a graded chase (1 exception had run in listed chase and other exception had run in a grade 2 hurdle)
10 of 10 winners had won a chase over 2M 4F+
10 of 10 winners had won 2 to 5 times over fences
6 of 10 winners (6 of last 7) had run in 7 or fewer handicap chases
9 of 10 winners had won no more than 3 handicap chases
8 of 10 winners (last 7) were 2nd or 3rd season chasers
4 of 10 winners had their last chase start at the Punchestown Festival

Other Races
Previous season's winner (Golden Kite): 22 (0-2-2)
3 of 10 winners ran in the Irish Grand National, finishing 689
3 of 10 winners ran in the previous season's Troytown, finishing 406
2 of 10 winners ran in the Kerry National, finishing F2
2 of 10 winners ran in the Galway Plate, finishing 0B
2 of 10 winners ran in previous season's Cork National, finishing 62

Trainers
Mouse Morris (2-1-5) has won the race twice in the last 10 years (2001 & 2003) and also saddled the 3rd last year.
Noel Meade (1-4-12) trained the winner in 2005 and had the short head 2nd in the race last year, with the winner being trained by Adrian Maguire (1-0-1).
Eric McNamara (0-2-5) trained the winner back in 1999 and 2 of his 5 runners in the past 10 years made the frame.
Charles Byrnes (0-1-1) trained Super Franky to win it in 2000 and finish 2nd in 2001 whole Paul Nolan (0-1-1) has also seen his sole representative in past 10 years make the places.
Willie Mullins (0-0-3), Dessie Hughes (0-0-3) and Charlie Swan (0-0-6) have seen their combined 12 runners all finish unplaced.

Price
No strong trend on prices with 6 winners going off 8/1 or shorter and the other 4 being priced between 12/1 and 20/1.
Favourites (2-1-11) have won the race twice in the past 10 years but show a level stakes loss of 5.25.

Summary:
Based on the trends from the past 10 years you are looking for a horse:
•    Aged 6 to 8
•    Carrying 10-3 or less
•    Officially rated 119 to 129
•    Finished in the first 2 on one of last 2 chase starts
•    Course winner (or having first start here)
•    Won 2 to 5 times over fences
•    Won a chase over 2M 4F+
•    Second or third season chaser
•    Previously run in a graded chase
•    Run in 7 or fewer handicap chases
•    Trained by Mouse Morris, Noel Meade or Eric McNamara
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Report jameschildshieldwinner October 8, 2011 8:44 PM BST
Thanks for the stats. Always very interesting.
Report comingupthehill October 9, 2011 10:57 AM BST
think one of the reserves will win this,see which ones come out,muirhead got more in him,our bill looks solid,arklow ger looks capable
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