Tuesday 20th October is launch day. From that morning RHR Angles cover all weather racing for the first time, right through the winter. It’s the third code our angles have taken on since April, and it’s one we’ve been preparing for since August. The date wasn’t picked by accident either. The same day, the All Weather Championships season begins at Newcastle, running from Tuesday 20th October 2026 through to Finals Day on Good Friday, 26th March 2027, and our all weather angles will be there for every step of it.
Our angles started on flat turf in April. We wanted one code done properly before we touched another. The summer gave us racing every day and plenty to measure, so that’s where we learned. Every selection was recorded and every result settled. Since September every one of those results has been on the website for anyone to see, measured against xW (Expected wins)
Then came the jumps. On 25th September our angles went over hurdles and fences, and a brand new RHR Angle 🟣The Specialist arrived with them. Bred For The Trip doesn’t belong over jumps, so the jumps needed something of their own. A stable can look ordinary overall and exceptional under the right conditions. The Specialist goes through five full years of records for every trainer, racecourse by racecourse and month by month, to find exactly where a yard performs at a higher level. Then it asks the same question of the jockey. When those circumstances come together again, the runner is flagged.
Now it’s the turn of the sand. Every all weather runner is measured against years of history, not weeks. Five full years of trainer and jockey records, racecourse by racecourse and month by month. Each sire’s record at the trip. Every horse’s whole career on Polytrack and on Tapeta, kept separate. They’re two different surfaces, and plenty of horses run well on one and badly on the other. Since August we’ve logged every all weather runner as it races, and since early September our angles have been quietly running every all weather card behind the scenes. We’ve liked what we’ve seen. Now it goes live.
Four angles go live on the sand. Standout Combos looks for the trainer and jockey partnerships that keep delivering. Bred For The Trip looks at what the breeding says about the trip. Winning Rating comes into its own here, because all weather racing is mostly handicaps, and a horse back on or near the mark it last won off is exactly what that angle looks for. The Specialist completes the four, looking for the yard that performs at a higher level under these particular conditions. The Going Suits sits this one out. The surface barely changes from one day to the next, so there’s nothing for it to read. Dundalk is covered too, alongside the British tracks. Same rules, same recording, same results page.
The timing gives us a great place to start. The Championships bring over 200 fixtures between now and Easter, and it all builds to that Finals Day at Newcastle, with over £1m on the line. Races at Kempton, Lingfield, Newcastle, Southwell and Wolverhampton all feed into it. To reach Finals Day a horse needs three all weather runs before the qualifying window closes on 20th March 27. There’s a Fast-Track route as well: two runs in Britain, Ireland or France, plus one in Dubai or Saudi Arabia. Trials Days along the way carry their own reward. A Trial winner gets a free entry into its Final, and a £15,000 bonus if it wins that too. The Finals are split into six categories: 3 Year Old, Sprint, Mile, Marathon, Fillies and Mares, and Middle Distance. Official ratings decide who gets a place in each one.
Last Good Friday belonged to Andrew Balding and Oisin Murphy. Stateira won the Fillies and Mares and Berkshire Sundance took the Easter Plate over the marathon trip. Roger Varian’s Tyrrhenian Sea won the Mile under Jack Mitchell, and William Haggas’s Wiltshire won the Sprint for Cieren Fallon. Ollie Sangster’s Al Najashi landed the 3 Year Old under Billy Loughnane, and Lucy Wadham’s The Glen Rovers won the Easter Classic. A year earlier Balding had a double that day as well, with Berkshire Whisper and Storm Star. The same Finals Day saw Tracy Waggott’s Heavenly Heather win the Fillies and Mares, one of the biggest shocks British racing has ever seen. Two years running, the same yard has stepped up on the same afternoon at the same track. That’s exactly the kind of pattern our numbers are built to notice.
So from 20th October the Angles page covers three codes side by side: flat turf, jumps and all weather. Flat turf runs through to November Handicap day at Doncaster on Saturday 7th November 26 and returns on 26th March 2027. Each code is measured on its own and every result is published.
This is the first time RHR Angles have ever run on all weather racing, and we’re doing it the way the sport does, as a winter campaign. Our all weather angles run right through to Good Friday, when the Championships end on Finals Day and the flat turf returns that very same day. Then RHR will look hard at everything the winter has taught us and decide what comes next: whether the all weather carries on into the summer, or settles in as a winter partner running alongside the jumps season each year. Behind the scenes, nothing stops. Every all weather runner will still be recorded, all year round, so whichever way we go, the decision will be made on evidence.
And there’s France. Our first angle in France went out on Saturday 3rd October. We’re still steadily monitoring all our angles on French racing, and we’ll choose when to post them, selectively. One step at a time, same as everything else we do.
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