Grand Sefton Handicap Chase: Who are the best jumpers?
Graeme North explains how to rate a horse's jumping ability. He reveals which of the runners in Saturday's Grand Sefton at Aintree are the most fluent. Grand National fences take more jumping than regulation fences elsewhere. The tables of hardest and easiest jumping tests below show as measured by the percentage of falls and unseats at each course since 2015. Timeform has recorded for every performance ‘in-play symbols’ – a short-hand notation that indicates noteworthy positive or negative aspects of a horses performance. A horse might have accrued a series of J”s after running up a sequence at Newton Abbot‘s easy fences, but that same horse wouldn t have done enough to be rated an equally good jumper as one who had earned the same symbols over Cheltenham“s stiffer fences.
0.5pt win Senior Citizen at 8/1 and 0. 5pt won Lifetime Ambition at 9/10.
