At the last six Cheltenham Festivals there have been 24 Non-Novice Handicap Hurdles and 592 runners...
24/24 (winners) ran in a Hurdle race LTO (Those that didn’t run in a Hurdle race LTO are 0/71, 11p)
Those that ran in a race worth 75k+ to the winner LTO are 0/64, 9p
24/24 had 5 or less Handicap Hurdle starts (Those with 6 or more Handicap Hurdle starts are 0/180, 16p)
23/24 had 0-4 previous Handicap Hurdle starts
23/24 had 0-1 previous Handicap Hurdle wins (Those with 2+ Handicap Hurdle wins are 1/162, 20p || 3+ Handicap Hurdle wins are 0/64, 8p)
23/24 were 2lbs+ higher than their last winning mark (those that were not are 1/66 | 1.5% S/R)
23/24 had 9 or less Hurdle starts (Those with 10+ Hurdle starts are 1/233, 18p)
23/24 ran at C3 level+ LTO (Those that ran a C4 level or below LTO are 1/55, 9p)
23/24 had 18 or less career starts (Those with 19+ career starts are 1/162 | 0.5% S/R)
22/24 had a top 5 finish LTO (Those that didn’t finish in top 5 LTO are 2/181 | 1% S/R)
20/24 Finished in the top 3 LTO
Claimers with a claim of 5lbs+ are 1/85 | 1% S/R – 7 places