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I have watched, followed, and punted on National Hunt racing since by teens (I won’t reveal my age, but I remember Mr Frisk winning the National!). I am a regular at my local course Aintree (I can see the top of the Queen Mother stand from my bedroom window in Maghull) & have been involved in owning horses personally and via syndicates for close to a decade now – I’ve been involved in horses with likes of Laura Morgan, Nigel & Willy Twiston-Davies, Fergal O’Brien, the lads in Cheshire G&G, and Donald McCain to name but a few. I also advise private client clients on pedigrees for purchases. I also now race plan for a prominent northern NH trainer.

The National Hunt service is a monthly member's service which includes personal selections. These selections always come with full reasoning & full write ups based on form, replays, stats & breeding. The write ups also include articles, trends, stats, and weekly reviews of National Hunt horses (a weekly tracker service which is called “the week that was”). The weekly tracker is a notebook of those horses who I feel are eye catchers, well handicaped &/or those horses (novices) who now have a handicap mark that they can exploit, &/or expected to win next time out or in next few runs.

I specialise & focus on handicaps & novice chasers (mainly chases but also handicap hurdles) and have posted for the last few years on x/twitter selections (@chrisgartner2) of such handicap horses. Those horses that are highlighted in the email notebook tracker will have further detailed explanation as to why I feel that & also where I think they’ll be targeted next & hopefully win for us next. You also receive an email when those highlighted horses run.  

You will also have a “weekend looker” ahead newsletter email (emailed every Saturday morning – think the “Morning Line” for those of us old enough to remember) which will contain certain trends on certain key races (handicap chases/hurdles & graded chases), stats, reviews of runners (with my comments/thoughts/musings etc) on the big (mainly graded, big handicaps, novice chases) races for weekend.

You will also get a weekly “week that was” report (every Wednesday morning) of a review of the previous week/weekend (primarily focussing on those horses who have new/adjusted handicap marks or indeed opening handicap marks etc). This information can then go directly into your personal trackers/notes/notebook or whatever system you choose to use to track horses.

What People Say

Just purchased and looks great thank you. More than enough for some bedtime reading!

— Reader

Wow 81 Pages of novice chasers to follow you said it was a Labour of Love it certainly is. The work you have put in to put together this list is mammoth, well done thats some List of Promising Chasers for us to look out For.

— Patrick

Write-ups and thought that goes into it is some of the best work I’ve seen. Thanks.

— Tom Wilson

I very fondly remember your Aintree nap Dancing On My Own a few years back. What a day! 

— Tom B

Just wanted to say that I’ve been a subscriber to your NH service for about a year now and have really enjoyed your write ups, they’ve really helped me gain a better understanding of what to look for when going through the form and watching the racing itself - so thanks very much for that! 

— Conor H

Think the work you do is very admirable and your knowledge on horse racing is second to none. Keep up the good work.

— Jack Higginson

Thank you for sending this across. It's a brilliant publication. Great work. Really well thought out and some cracking horses that you have covered.

— Reader

This Service is one of the best out there, if not the best. Doesn't claim to give you winners every day of the week, but gives it a good go. The write ups on each horse and their chances, are so informatively explained in detail, which is a great help to all the members in this brilliant service. May it continue with great success this season, as before. Great job Chris, and much appreciated.

— Patrick Grouse (Member)

I have been following the NH Service for a good while now and, while I don't back every single one of the selections, I have learnt so much more about racing and how to read a race on review by being a member. Goes far beyond just a tipping service, and well worth the nominal fee compared to others out there. Would highly recommend even if you don't bet all that often.

— Dan

Chris an extremely good and knowledgeable tipping service for national hunt fans. Great value for money and great selections and reasoning behind them.

— Mark S

I've really enjoyed the national hunt service provided by Chris. His selections are always well reasoned and have proved profitable over the past few years. On top of that I've met him racing and he's a top man!

— Stewart M