Wizard Daily Report and Research Wednesday, 10 April 2024.

• Trainer Snapshot of Feek Racing (David and Coral Feek)
• Wizard Ratings Results for Tuesday, April 9

Trainer Snapshot - David and Coral Feek

Trainers David and Coral Feek, operating out of their Mornington stables as Feek Racing, enjoyed black-type success when their 3yo Gold Wolf won the Listed Galilee Series Final at Caulfield last Saturday. This success added to their Stakes win with Belsielle in Tasmania's Bow Mistress Stakes, a Country Cup, and local and interstate metropolitan wins.

Both David and Coral had extensive in-stable experience before they established Feek Racing in 2015.

David, born and bred in the UK, worked in, and travelled for stables, including that of Ed Dunlop. In Australia he was a foreman for Lee Freedman, and worked for other leading trainers, but his most important association was with Victorian trainer David Brideoake in the four years before Feek Racing emerged. 

Coral Feek is an accomplished horsewoman, whose knowledge was gained both in the UK and Australia. She was a well-regarded amateur jockey in the UK, and this has paid dividends with Coral becoming a sought-after work rider by numerous local trainers. This experience, together with the various stable-management skills she further developed here in Australia has proved to be of great benefit to Feek Racing.

Over the past five years Feek Racing has had 633 runners, and produced 70 winners (11%), with more than 80% of those races being on country and provincial tracks. The stable seldom travels interstate but when it does so it has had successes, having had 17 interstate runners for 4 wins (23.5%) since its operations commenced.

Watch and Wait

With a relatively small stable, extensive results are not available for any in-depth analysis. However, there are some takeaways from Feek Racing's results.

• Over the last 5 years the stable had 86% of their starters running as 4yo or older horses, the remainder were 3yo's and a handful or runs for 2yo's.

• Over the past two racing seasons when a Feek Racing horse is Wizard Rated (Wrat) 100 pointer: 22 starters 7 winners 31.8% win rate 1.2iv (potential positive)

• Over the past two racing seasons when a Feek Racing horse has run as the starting price favourite: 27 starters 5 winners 18.5% win rate 0.7iv (potential negative)

• 4yo+ horses (when horses started at less than $10.00 over last 5 years)

                     Runs from a spell: 2nd up: 22.5% 1.4iv (positive)

                     Days since last run: 22-28 days: 25.5% 1.5iv (positive)

                    Previous beaten margin: 5.1 10 lengths: 26.1% 1.5iv (positive)

                    Distance change: best when +/- 100m or when stepped up in distance

                   Winner last start: 12.5% 0.7iv (potential negative)

                   Also, regarding "runs from a spell", the Feek horses also do well further into a preparation with 5th and 6th runs from a spell having positive IV's of 1.7 and 1.4,   respectively.

Note: Some summaries above have been flagged as "potential". These are small-number stats and should be viewed as 'indicative" only.

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Wizard Ratings Report for the meetings on Tuesday, April 9

The following table shows the where the winner of each race run yesterday was rated by Wrat, Wmod, Whcp, and Wexpk. The Wrat analysis applies to both Wizard and Wizard Plus. The Wmod, Whcp, and Wexpk analysis applies to the ratings included in the Wizard Plus 'Plus Panel'.

Header: w m h e =  Wrat (w), Wmod (m), Whcp (h), Wexpk (e)

For a full explanation of the table click: How to read the Wizard Ratings Results

Warren - Wiz-Ed

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