Latest Timefigure analysis including on Cheltenham Festival hopeful Windbeneathmywings [Video]

Other than standing in as a temporary replacement, as I did last week when my colleague Kristian Hilliam was on annual leave, I haven’t had much involvement with day-to-day jumps timefigures at Timeform since I built the timefigure model that is still in use today coming up for ten years or so ago.

That project was a herculean task if I say so myself, not only because it involved the compilation of standards for all racecourses that stage jumps racing in Britain and Ireland from not always reliable data, but also because it also required a reconstruction of both the upgrade formula that was in place on the Flat (so that it overcame the often problematical huge additional yardage usually in place over jumps and also bettered represented upgrades that were gained …