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- January 25, 2026 at 18:40 #1751889
No movement in the leaderboard this week after 2334 races and 270 different winning trainers;
1st Skelton 507 pts (128 wins)
2nd Murphy 316 pts (97 wins)
3rd Nicholls 234 pts (59 wins)
4th Pauling 228 pts (63 wins)
5th Owen 211 pts (75 wins)
6th Snowden 209 pts (63 wins)
7th Henderson 198 pts (47 wins)
8th O’Brien 178 pts (58 wins)
9th N & W Twiston-Davies 152 pts (45 wins)
10th Bowen 148 pts (46 wins)Leading Irish trainer is Elliott in 32nd place with 63 pts (17 wins)
January 29, 2026 at 18:10 #1752398Astral, I’ve enjoyed this thread from the start, well done with it
January 29, 2026 at 20:33 #1752428Thank you Ten2Fan. If only I had shown this level of effort & interest in a subject when I was at school all those years ago!
January 30, 2026 at 07:36 #1752446What a great thread Astral. Dedication in spades and a
very worthy winner of Thread Of The Year
January 30, 2026 at 10:28 #1752458Thanks for the kind words BigG
January 31, 2026 at 17:42 #1752725Top points scorers for January;
1st Skelton 133 pts (32 wins)
2nd Murphy 48 pts (16 wins)
3rd Pauling 44 pts (11 wins)
4th Henderson 43 pts (9 wins)
5th Nicholls 38 pts (10 wins)
6th Honeyball 37 pts (10 wins)
7th Lavelle 35 pts (8 wins)
8th O’Brien 32 pts (8 wins)
9th Tizzard 28 pts (6 wins)
10th O’Neill & O’Neill 22 pts (7 wins)Despite a number of cancelled meetings in January Skelton beat his November highest of 132 pts.
There were 1091 points shared in January amongst all the winning trainers and Skelton won 12% of those.
Skelton won 10% of all those races run in January.
February 1, 2026 at 18:11 #1753125Another week passes and 2415 races into the season with 272 different winning trainers. Bowen drops out of the top 10 after only scoring 8 points in the last 3 months.
The leaderboard is as follows;
1st Skelton 531 pts (135 wins)
2nd Murphy 330 pts (101 wins)
3rd Nicholls 261 pts (65 wins)
4th Pauling 239 pts (66 wins)
5th Snowden 216 pts (65 wins)
6th Owen 211 pts (75 wins)
7th Henderson 204 pts (49 wins)
8th O’Brien 189 pts (60 wins)
9th N & W Twiston-Davies 152 pts (45 wins)
10th Tizzard 149 pts (39 wins)3 trainers in the top 50 who didn’t register any wins/points in January were Longsdon, Fry & Neville
February 8, 2026 at 18:52 #17539882491 races and 274 winning trainers. The leaderboard as follows;
1st Skelton 543 pts (1-8-3-5-23-29-48-22)
2nd Murphy 336 pts (0-2-0-2-6-22-48-23)
3rd Nicholls 278 pts (1-5-3-1-7-17-29-6)
4th Pauling 239 pts (1-2-2-2-4-19-20-16)
5th Henderson 228 pts (4-4-0-1-5-14-21-5)
6th Snowden 224 pts (0-1-0-2-5-14-33-12)
7th Owen 211 pts (0-0-0-1-2-8-35-29)
8th O’Brien 189 pts (0-1-0-0-1-5-9-25-19)
9th N&W Twiston-Davies 165 pts (0-0-1-0-5-11-25-7)
10th Tizzard 153 pts (0-1-1-0-8-14-10-6)Order is
Class 1 Grade 1
Class 1 Grade 2
Class 1 Premier Handicap
Class 1 Listed
Class 2
Class 3
Class 4
Class 5February 15, 2026 at 18:55 #17549102580 races in and 275 different winning trainers. Leaderboard as follows;
1st Skelton 565 pts (144 wins)
2nd Murphy 343 pts (105 wins)
3rd Nicholls 286 pts (72 wins)
4th Pauling 257 pts (69 wins)
5th Henderson 242 pts (56 wins)
6th Snowden 224 pts (67 wins)
7th Owen 211 pts (75 wins)
8th O’Brien 191 pts (61 wins)
9th Tizzard 167 pts (43 wins)
10th N&W Twiston-Davies 165 pts (49 wins)Trainers in the top 50 who so far haven’t registered a win in February are Owen (7th) Bowen (12th) Gordon (16th) Lavelle (25th) Christian Williams (41st) Keighley (44th) Hanmer (46th) & Hammond (48th)
February 22, 2026 at 18:34 #17559352682 races and 8510 points. 279 winning trainers.
The leaderboard;
1st Skelton 573 pts (8 pts this week)
2nd Murphy 359 pts (16 pts)
3rd Nicholls 289 pts (3 pts)
4th Pauling 273 pts (16 pts)
5th Henderson 257 pts (15 pts)
6th Snowden 234 pts (10 pts)
7th Owen 214 pts (3 pts)
8th O’Brien 193 pts (2 pts)
9th N&W Twiston-Davies 176 pts (11 pts)
10th Tizzard 175 pts (8 pts)Leading Irish trainer Elliott in 34th place with 72 pts.
February 28, 2026 at 19:32 #1756755Top points scorers in February;
1st Skelton 71 pts (19 wins)
2nd Henderson 60 pts (13 wins)
3rd Nicholls 41 pts (11 wins)
4th Pauling 39 pts (10 wins)
5th Murphy 37 pts (13 wins)
6th Tizzard 33 pts (8 wins)
7th Derham 31 pts (7 wins)
8th= N&W Twiston-Davies 28 pts (7 wins)
8th= Hobbs & White 28 pts (7 wins)
10th Snowden 27 pts (8 wins)
11th Russell & Scudamore 25 pts (8 wins)
12th Wadham 24 pts (6 wins)
13th Pipe 22 pts (6 wins)
14th= Mulholland 21 pts (6 wins)
14th= Symonds 21 pts (5 wins)
16th Neil King 20 pts (5 wins)
17th Lacey 19 pts (3 wins)
18th= O’Neill & O’Neill 18 pts (7 wins)
18th= Scott 18 pts (5 wins)
20th= Honeyball 17 pts (4 wins)
20th= Greatrex 17 pts (5 wins)March 1, 2026 at 07:09 #1756792It’s been a great season for Pauling , hopefully he can kick on from it , Jonjo has had winners but Jesus he’s fallen away , not quite Pipe like but still disappointing
Pick 3 on Saturday champion 2025/2026
March 1, 2026 at 09:25 #1756805.
March 1, 2026 at 17:30 #17568622789 races and 283 different winning trainers. The leaderboard after today’s racing;
1st Skelton 602 pts (154 wins)
2nd Murphy 367 pts (114 wins)
3rd Nicholls 293 pts (74 wins)
4th Pauling 281 pts (77 wins)
5th Henderson 267 pts (63 wins)
6th Snowden 240 pts (72 wins)
7th Owen 214 pts (76 wins)
8th O’Brien 193 pts (62 wins)
9th Tizzard 182 pts (47 wins)
10th N&W Twiston-Davies 180 pts (52 wins)March 2, 2026 at 21:03 #1756958Next week there will be 215 points up for grabs over the 4 days of the Festival. The lowest available points will be on Gold Cup day thanks to the two Class 2 events ending the card that day.
March 8, 2026 at 18:22 #1757657So as we head into Cheltenham week the leaderboard is as follows after 2877 races with 286 different winning trainers;
1st Skelton 613 pts (158 wins)
2nd Murphy 377 pts (116 wins)
3rd Nicholls 297 pts (75 wins)
4th Pauling 290 pts (80 wins)
5th Henderson 276 pts (66 wins)
6th Snowden 244 pts (73 wins)
7th Owen 214 pts (76 wins)
8th O’Brien 196 pts (63 wins)
9th N&W Twiston-Davies 183 pts (53 wins)
10th Tizzard 182 pts (47 wins)26 trainers have so far managed to exceed 100 points this season.
March 8, 2026 at 18:44 #1757660@Astralcharmer – where is Willie Mullins at this stage? It’ll be interesting to see how many places he climbs next week.
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