Leopardstown stages part one of the Irish Champions Festival today.
The Group 1 Irish Champion Stakes is the feature as last year’s winner, Auguste Rodin, takes on one of the emerging stars of the middle-distance division, Economics, and stablemates Los Angeles and Luxembourg.
There are seven more contests on the cracking card including the other top-level renewal, the Matron Stakes, which features Donnacha O’Brien’s hat-trick seeking stable star, Porta Fortuna, and Irish 1000 Guineas winner Fallen Angel.
We’ve got the best free horse racing tips on Paddy Power News courtesy of our stable of leading pundits including Ruby Walsh, Jason Weaver and Matt Chapman, but to give you a further steer, we’ve rounded up the key Leopardstown stats from this calendar year and wrapped them up in one handy place below.
Leopardstown Top Jockeys
Colin Keane
Wins/Runs: 12/65
Strike Rate: 18 per cent
Ryan Moore
Wins/Runs: 8/25
Strike Rate: 32 per cent
Dylan Browne McMonagle
Wins/Runs: 7/44
Strike Rate: 16 per cent
Shane Foley
Runs/Wins: 7/53
Strike Rate: 13 per cent
Wayne Lordan
Runs/Wins: 6/34
Strike Rate: 18 per cent
Leopardstown Top Trainers
A P O’Brien
Runs/Wins: 18/66
Strike Rate: 27 per cent
Joseph O’Brien
Runs/Wins: 7/44
Strike Rate: 16 per cent
G M Lyons
Runs/Wins: 6/44
Strike Rate: 14 per cent
Mrs John Harrington
Runs/Wins: 6/45
Strike Rate: 13 per cent
Noel Meade
Runs/Wins: 4/22
Strike Rate: 18 per cent
Leopardstown Top Horses
Bedtime Story (A P O’Brien)
Wins/Runs: 2/2
Strike Rate: 100 per cent
Mutasarref (G M Lyons)
Wins/Runs: 2/2
Strike Rate: 100 per cent
Jancis (W McCreery)
Wins/Runs: 2/2
Strike Rate: 100 per cent
Giuseppe Cassioli (Gerard O’Leary)
Wins/Runs: 2/3
Strike Rate: 67 per cent
Kyprios (A P O’Brien)
Wins/Runs: 1/1
Strike Rate: 100 per cent
How Do Favourites Perform At Leopardstown
Non Handicap
2-Y-O
Wins/Runs: 7/15
Strike Rate: 47 per cent
£1 Stake: -1.19
3-Y-O
Wins/Runs: 5/25
Strike Rate: 20 per cent
£1 Stake: -15.55
4-Y-O+
Wins/Runs: 6/9
Strike Rate: 67 per cent
£1 Stake: 2.71
TOTAL
Wins/Runs: 18/49
Strike Rate: 37 per cent
£1 Stake: -14.03
Handicap
2-Y-O
Wins/Runs: 0/0
Strike Rate: N/A
£1 Stake: N/A
3-Y-O
Wins/Runs: 4/13
Strike Rate: 31 per cent
£1 Stake: -2.08
4-Y-O+
Wins/Runs: 7/30
Strike Rate: 23 per cent
£1 Stake: -1.67
TOTAL
Wins/Runs: 11/43
Strike Rate: 26 per cent
£1 Stake: -3.75
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