--- title: "Horse Racing With Andrew Mount #15 Wincanton Chase Front Runners" description: Simon Nott talks to form book guru Andrew Mount about Wincanton Racecourse's winner finding characteristics. image: https://www.simonnott.co.uk/hubfs/It%20Worked%20In%20The%20%E2%80%9880s%20(17).png --- 11/6/25 5:41 AM # Horse Racing With Andrew Mount #15 Wincanton Chase Front Runners [ Simon Nott ](https://www.simonnott.co.uk/blog-racing/author/simon-nott) Share: [facebook-f icon ](http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=https://www.simonnott.co.uk/blog-racing/horse-racing-with-andrew-mount-15-wincanton) [linkedin-in icon ](http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://www.simonnott.co.uk/blog-racing/horse-racing-with-andrew-mount-15-wincanton) [Twitter icon ](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=https://www.simonnott.co.uk/blog-racing/horse-racing-with-andrew-mount-15-wincanton) [pinterest-p icon ](http://pinterest.com/pin/create/link/?url=https://www.simonnott.co.uk/blog-racing/horse-racing-with-andrew-mount-15-wincanton) [envelope icon ](mailto:?body=https://www.simonnott.co.uk/blog-racing/horse-racing-with-andrew-mount-15-wincanton) **Wincanton Chase Course**     Here's the link to Andrew's GG column [https://gg.co.uk/authors/andrew-mount/](https://gg.co.uk/authors/andrew-mount/) It’s the season opener at Wincanton on Saturday (November 8th) and I want to use this article to discuss the chase course at the Somerset venue. **Wincanton chases since racing resumed after COVID in then summer of 2020, by running style (L = led, P = prominent, H = held up)…** **![](https://www.simonnott.co.uk/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Nov-05-2025-12-25-32-1834-PM.png?width=1122&height=122&name=image-png-Nov-05-2025-12-25-32-1834-PM.png)** …Front-runners (L) had a 23.68% strike-rate and returned a big profit at SP (+£121.04), as did prominent (P) racers (17.21%, +£89.83 to a £1 level stake at SP). Hold-up (H) horses usually struggled, winning at a rate of just 8.17% and returning a loss of £269.67. Predicting which horse is going to make the running isn’t always as simple as glancing at a pace map, though simply backing last time out front-runners in chases at Wincanton would have found 38 winners from 228 bets (16.7%) for a profit of £55.64… ![](https://www.simonnott.co.uk/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Nov-05-2025-12-25-51-1570-PM.png?width=994&height=56&name=image-png-Nov-05-2025-12-25-51-1570-PM.png) This week’s feature event is the Badger Beers Handicap Chase, and this has been a front-runners’/prominent racers’ benefit in the past ten years… ![](https://www.simonnott.co.uk/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Nov-05-2025-12-26-34-2108-PM.png?width=1124&height=103&name=image-png-Nov-05-2025-12-26-34-2108-PM.png) …all ten winners led or raced prominently whereas hold-up horses were 0-70. Those ranked first, second, third or fourth in Proform’s pace rankings were nine from 46 for a profit of £79.25… ![](https://www.simonnott.co.uk/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Nov-05-2025-12-27-23-8721-PM.png?width=999&height=53&name=image-png-Nov-05-2025-12-27-23-8721-PM.png) This is Proform’s pace map from last year… ![](https://www.simonnott.co.uk/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Nov-05-2025-12-27-57-8734-PM.png?width=897&height=444&name=image-png-Nov-05-2025-12-27-57-8734-PM.png) Three horses were stand outs on early pace and they filled the first three places with AL DANCER (aftertime alert: tipped in my free column on GG.co.uk) scoring at 25-1 from Lord Accord (11-4f) and Gustavian (9-1) with the Tote Trifecta paying £1,2020.20 (tricast only £638.34). 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