356,371 unique french races in a database great to feed new frontier models

Hi HF community

Just released Huggy Database - the largest open dataset of French horse racing ever published on the Hub.

** What’s inside**

356,371 unique races (1996 → 2026, 30 years of complete daily coverage) ~5M runners with jockey / trainer / owner / weight / odds / finishing position Payouts (PMU / PMH — Simple, Couplé, Trio, Quinté+, etc.)

• Clean, deduplicated, normalized (accents/case-insensitive matching on 40K+ actors)

• ML-ready CSV + relational structure ** Links**

** Use cases**

• Tabular classification (winner prediction)
• Odds efficiency / market inefficiency research
• Long-horizon sports analytics (26 years of data)
• Graph ML on jockey/trainer/horse networks

** Feedback welcome**

• What columns would you add?
• Interested in a HF-hosted Parquet mirror?
• Any specific ML baseline you’d like to see?