Trainer Knowledge: Top 10 Nursery Trainers

It’s that time of year again when the two-year-olds start running against each other in Nursery Company. For those of you who don’t know what Nurseries are for two-year-old horses then it’s basically a handicap for the younger horses.

Some trainers do very well in this discipline year in year out, and with the backend of the flat season ahead of us, this guide could prove very useful to have to hand when looking to make a little on the gee gees.

Sir Mark Prescott does well with his Nursery runners, and is a potent force with every one of his runners – especially at Musselburgh, with 5 winning bets from 7, he shows a strike-rate of 71.43% at the northern track, and a profit of £150.05 to level £10 stakes.

So like your very best countdown program of Top 100 Chat-up lines, or TV Shows – I’ll start by introducing number 10 on the list.

10.
Alan King
Bets: 32
Wins: 5
Strike-Rate: 15.62%
Profit to £10 Stakes: £130.00

9.
David Elsworth
Bets: 34
Wins: 6
Strike-Rate: 17.65%
Profit to £10 Stakes: £396.20

8.
J Howard Johnson
Bets: 28
Wins: 5
Strike-Rate: 17.86%
Profit to £10 Stakes: £125.00

7.
Kevin Prendergast
Bets: 84
Wins: 15
Strike-Rate: 17.86%
Profit to £10 Stakes: £158.40

6.
Jamie Osborne
Bets: 164
Wins: 32
Strike-Rate: 19.51%
Profit to £10 Stakes: £575.90

5.
Luca Cumani
Bets: 40
Wins: 8
Strike-Rate: 20%
Profit to £10 Stakes: £116.00

4.
Sir Michael Stoute
Bets: 35
Wins: 8
Strike-Rate: 22.86%
Profit to £10 Stakes: £145.00

3.
David Wachman
Bets: 43
Wins: 11
Strike-Rate: 25.58%
Profit to £10 Stakes: £690.00

2.
Roger Charlton
Bets: 39
Wins: 10
Strike-Rate: 25.64%
Profit to £10 Stakes: £8.40

1.
Sir Mark Prescott
Bets: 80
Wins: 24
Strike-Rate: 30%
Profit to £10 Stakes: £181.10

So there you have it, the very best in profit making on two-year-old handicaps (Nurseries). Now I’ll put up a few extra stats for the top 5 trainers, for which course they’re best at.

ONE
Sir Mark Prescott
Track: Musselburgh
Bets: 7
Wins: 5
Strike-Rate: 71.43%
Profit to £10 Stakes: £150.05

TWO
Roger Charlton
Track: Bath
Bets: 2
Wins: 2
Strike-Rate: 100%
Profit to £10 Stakes: £95.00

THREE
David Wachman
Track: Curragh
Bets: 4
Wins: 4
Strike-Rate: 100%
Profit to £10 Stakes: £330.00

FOUR
Sir Michael Stoute
Track: Lingfield
Bets: 3
Wins: 2
Strike-Rate: 66.67%
Profit to £10 Stakes: £115.00

FIVE
Luca Cumani
Track: Wolverhampton
Bets: 3
Wins: 2
Strike-Rate: 66.67%
Profit to £10 Stakes: £160.00

Mad Rush - Cumani’s Ebor Hope

MAD RUSH – CUMANI’S EBOR HOPE
Every year the flat enthusiasts amongst us have the puzzle of finding Luca Cumani’s horse for the Ebor, a handicap over 14F run on the Knavesmire. Luca has managed to nail the winner of this staying handicap 3 times from 1999 and went very close in 2006 when Glistening was just nailed by Mudawin.

This year he’s got another live contender after Purple Moon did the business for the Newmarket handler last year, in the shape of MAD RUSH who really should have beaten Punjabi the last day at Newmarket.

A strong-bodied long striding sort Mad Rush had to bob and weave his way through endless amounts of traffic to mount his challenge on Punjabi who’d already stolen five lengths into the dip – once he got the breaks he flew home with a serious turn of foot to be denied by the narrowest of margins.

Mad Rush clocked a pattern-class time here, capable of landing most Group 3 events, and possibly a Group 2. He’s improving all the time so you’d have to say there’s more to come.

Punjabi went out again next time and franked the form, so Mad Rush has to be followed wherever he heads next.

Whether he’ll be aimed at the Ebor is debateable but Luca does love to run one in this race, and this has to be his best chance of a winner.

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