Graham Buddry with his expert analysis of riders to follow – and avoid!

As regular readers of Racing Ahead know, I have been running an eye over the jockey stats at the Cheltenham Festival for some years and they tend to be consistently accurate. Last year the vast majority of advice proved spot on although, as always there are always the odd aberrations.
The stats compiled cover between six and eight years and do not include the Cross Country, Bumper, Conditional or Amateur races and they also include a brief line on Paul Nicholls. The races themselves fall into just three cate...