I've either read on here or another forum, or heard it said on one of the racing channels, that Gary Moore rewards his staff at Christmas by lining up a few nice winners for them.
His two winners at Lingfield yesterday prompted me to have a look at the figures. So with the help of the Adrian Massey site I came up with the figures below. I will leave any interpretation to you.
Since 2004 all Gary's runners have returned a winning percentage of 12% and a return of 89.3%, those in December of those years winners 13.4% return 92.5%.
Not that significant perhaps but when you look at his 'fancied' runners.
Favourites, all year 28.3% return 89.1%...............December 41.2% return 121.9%
first 3 in betting, all year 20.7%return 88.2%........December 29.3% return 126.0%
runners starting @ 15/2 or less, all year 20.4% return 91.8%...December 27.6% return 118.8%