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