The Alternative NH Trainers Championship 2025/26

[Astralcharmer]

Gladiateur. Mullins currently sits in 64th place with 32 points from 6 wins (2 x Class 1 Grade 1, 1 x Class 1 Listed, 2 x Class 4 & 1 x Class 5)

[Gladiateur]

Thanks 👍

[He Didnt Like Ground]

Mullins is going to find harder to pull that money back , Skeltons has some actual solid chances in the Grade 1s this year , he’ll surely win one and also gather a lot of place money , Skeltons prob is the National , Mullins is likely to collect here and Skelton has nothing with a realistic chance

Pick 3 on Saturday champion 2025/2026

[Astralcharmer]

With my scoring system just based on winners it will need more than getting the stable cat to finish 10th in the National to move up the table!

I am going to do a full review of my points based system at the end of the season to see if there is an equitable system that rewards winners and the type of winners but Skelton will likely win whichever way I approach it including the official way at the moment based on prize money.

It would be gutting for the Skelton’s to train 200 plus winners and get pipped by Mullins in the last 7 weeks of the season.

[Cork All Star]

What price Mullins for the real Championship now?

[Ex RubyLight]

CAS, I think he was sitting on roughly 950k prior to the CC. Skelton is already at 3.6 million.
I have no clue what the gap was last year….

[He Didnt Like Ground]

I bet Skelton has a photo of Mullins on his dartboard

Pick 3 on Saturday champion 2025/2026

[Ex RubyLight]

Skelton: £3,695,100
Mullins: £1,220,824

Willie needs to be within a million after Cheltenham, I’d say.

[Cork All Star]

Agree, ERL. He needs to be close enough for the Grand National to make a difference.

He has two short priced favourites tomorrow but Skelton has a few chances as well.

[Astralcharmer]

The points total for Cheltenham;

1st Mullins 71 pts (8 wins)
2nd Henderson 21 pts (3 wins)
3rd= O’Neill & O’Neill 14 pts (2 wins)
3rd= Skelton 14 pts (2 wins)
3rd= De Bromhead 14 pts (2 wins)
6th= Elliott 9 pts (1 win)
6th= O’Brien 9 pts (1 win)
6th= Snowden 9 pts (1 win)
6th= Meade 9 pts (1win)
10th= Bailey & Nicholls 8 pts (1 win)
10th= Pauling 8 pts (1 win)
12th= Roche 7 pts (1 win)
12th= Venetia Williams 7 pts (1 win)
14th= Cromwell 5 pts (1 win)
14th= Williams Mrs C 5 pts (1 win)
14th= O’Shea 5 pts (1 win)

[Astralcharmer]

Mullins moves to 27th place with 103 pts and 14 winners. Skelton on 633 pts with 162 winners.

[Astralcharmer]

The leaderboard after yesterday and 2995 races and 292 different winning trainers;

1st Skelton 644 pts (1-9-6-6-24-35-57-27)
2nd Murphy 386 pts (0-2-1-2-6-25-55-28)
3rd Nicholls 311 pts (1-5-4-1-7-20-33-7)
4th Pauling 306 pts (1-4-2-2-6-22-27-20)
5th Henderson 303 pts (6-4-1-1-8-17-28-6)
6th Snowden 253 pts (1-1-0-2-5-16-37-12)
7th Owen 223 pts (0-0-0-1-2-9-37-30)
8th O’Brien 210 pts (1-0-0-1-5-9-28-25)
9th N&W Twiston-Davies 190 pts (0-1-1-0-6-12-27-8)
10th Tizzard 182 pts (0-2-1-0-10-14-13-7)

Leading Irish trainer Mullins in 28th place with 103 pts (9-1-0-1-0-0-2-1)

Order of wins above broken down as follows;

Class 1 Grade 1
Class 1 Grade 2
Class 1 Premier Handicap
Class 1 Listed
Class 2
Class 3
Class 4
Class 5

[Astralcharmer]

3095 races 9870 points and 297 different winning trainers. The leaderboard is as follows;

1st Skelton 655 pts (168 wins)
2nd Murphy 394 pts (122 wins)
3rd Nicholls 316 pts (80 wins)
4th Pauling 309 pts (85 wins)
5th Henderson 307 pts (73 wins)
6th Snowden 261 pts (77 wins)
7th Owen 225 pts (80 wins)
8th O’Brien 213 pts (70 wins)
9th N&W Twiston-Davies 193 pts (56 wins)
10th Tizzard 192 pts (50 wins)
11th Derham 189 pts (50 wins)
12th G&J Moore 168 pts (49 wins)
13th Honeyball 158 pts (47 wins)
14th Russell & Scudamore 149 pts (48 wins)
15th Bowen 148 pts (46 wins)
16th J&AJ O’Neill 141 pts (42 wins)
17th Mulholland 140 pts (51 wins)
18th McCain 129 pts (44 wins)
19th Parkinson & Smith 128 pts (38 wins)
20th Hobbs & White 126 pts (34 wins)

[Ex RubyLight]

I really appreciate your efforts Astralcharmer, but your system works for about the first ten in the standings. The further down you look the more inaccurate it becomes. Willie is somewhere around 28th place which I have to disagree with. It only takes him five minutes to win more prestigious races and prize money than Jonjo and Hobbs & White win in five years….
It doesn’t reflect his training abilities and success at all, imo.

[Astralcharmer]

Thanks Ex RubyLight and for your comments.

I will be doing a review of my points based system at the end of the season to see whether more weight should be given to certain classes of race.

It looks as though Skelton has the trainers title sown up whichever way we approach it this season and rightly so as he has been consistently banging in the winners throughout much of the season, and surely anyone who can train 200 plus winners in a season, which I think he’ll achieve, shouldn’t be pipped again by someone only targeting the Spring Festivals and races run in April in the UK?

[Astralcharmer]

27 days of the season to go and 3183 races into the season with 298 different winning trainers. The leaderboard after today’s racing;

1st Skelton 660 pts (170 wins)
2nd Murphy 403 pts (126 wins)
3rd Nicholls 321 pts (82 wins)
4th Pauling 318 pts (88 wins)
5th Henderson 310 pts (74 wins)
6th Snowden 261 pts (77 wins)
7th Owen 225 pts (80 wins)
8th O’Brien 213 pts (70 wins)
9th N&W Twiston-Davies 205 pts (60 wins)
10th Tizzard 197 pts (52 wins)

[Astralcharmer]

The breakdown of winners (including dead heats) between each Class of race is as follows;

Class 1 – 159 (4.99%)
Class 2 – 219 (6.88%)
Class 3 – 476 (14.95%)
Class 4 – 1293 (40.61%)
Class 5 – 1037 (32.57%)

Class 1 Grade 1 represents 0.82% of winners (26)

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