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My major hope for this website is that it can help end the frustration I’ve gone through over  the past few years regarding horses that I’ve spotted using my speed figures.

  On far too many occasions neither I nor my colleague Bernard have been able to persuade any one to buy one of the bargain horses my speed figures has identified.    As a result I’ve had to sit and suffer as they have proceeded to go and win big races just as I predicted they would.

Read the following sample reports and you’ll understand my frustration.  You’ll also understand just why I am so keen to put this information on my website. None of the reports produced a sale, though all of them pinpointed fantastic opportunities.

  If you are interested in the idea of buying a horse from one country to race in another I’d urge you to give our bloodstock service a chance.  I will provide you with an in-depth report on a horse that I think best suits your requirements.  Then my colleague Bernard will carry out all the steps required to buy the horse, carry out veterinary exams and finally ship it.  For this we expect no more than the normal commission of 5% but provide a far more informed service – one that I’m convinced will make money for our clients.

  At any given time, there will be anything from two or three to half a dozen horses on my hot list.  These will be runners that I rate as standouts on my speed figures and which I know to be available at a very reasonable price.

Each horse on my hot list will be a runner that I think could do better racing in another country.  I firmly believe that each major racing country has different strengths and weaknesses in its racehorse population.  These differences can be exploited if you have accurate speed figures.  You can take a horse from a strong population, export it and and run it against a weak population.

  For example, a filly or mare in Europe is forced to race against males except in a few select contests.  In America there are so many races restricted to females that few fillies or mares ever take on males in their entire career.  As a result, a European filly might look pretty slow if you simply considered how often she’d won.  Take her to America however and she’d probably ‘improve’ massively because she’d be able to race against softer opposition.

  Equally, horses in Germany are bred to stay really well, while horses in the United States and elsewhere are bred for shorter trips.  I estimate that the average US sprinter is about 0.7 of a second faster than its German counterpart but that the German horses at a mile and a quarter are 1.2 seconds faster.  What this means is that if you can find a German Grade 3 horse that’s suited to US conditions it may well become a Grade 1 horse in America simply by showing the same level of form.

I call this situation ‘equine arbitrage’; arbitrage being the practice of buying something that is undervalued in one place and selling it in another place where it is prized.  I am convinced that global speed ratings are the way to pinpoint ‘equine arbitrage’ possibilities.  Read these sample reports and I think you’ll agree.

1. snake mountain (usa)

2. hail the chief (Britain)

3. war blade (Germany)

4. Swedish shave (France)