{"slug": "356371-unique-french-races-in-a-database-great-to-feed-new-frontier-models", "title": "356,371 unique french races in a database great to feed new frontier models", "summary": "Hugging Face released Huggy Database, the largest open dataset of French horse racing with 356,371 unique races from 1996 to 2026, covering 30 years of daily data including ~5M runners, jockey/trainer/owner details, odds, and payouts. The dataset is clean, deduplicated, and ML-ready, designed for tasks like winner prediction, odds efficiency research, and graph ML on racing networks.", "body_md": "Hi HF community\n\nJust released **Huggy Database** - the largest open dataset of French horse racing ever published on the Hub.\n\n** What’s inside**\n\n**356,371 unique races** (1996 → 2026, 30 years of complete daily coverage)\n**~5M runners** with jockey / trainer / owner / weight / odds / finishing position\n**Payouts** (PMU / PMH — Simple, Couplé, Trio, Quinté+, etc.)\n- Clean, deduplicated, normalized (accents/case-insensitive matching on 40K+ actors)\n- ML-ready CSV + relational structure\n\n** Links**\n\n** Use cases**\n\n- Tabular classification (winner prediction)\n- Odds efficiency / market inefficiency research\n- Long-horizon sports analytics (26 years of data)\n- Graph ML on jockey/trainer/horse networks\n\n** Feedback welcome**\n\n- What columns would you add?\n- Interested in a HF-hosted Parquet mirror?\n- Any specific ML baseline you’d like to see?", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/356371-unique-french-races-in-a-database-great-to-feed-new-frontier-models", "canonical_source": "https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/356-371-unique-french-races-in-a-database-great-to-feed-new-frontier-models/178256#post_1", "published_at": "2026-07-28 06:48:45+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-28 07:05:34.553632+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["machine-learning"], "entities": ["Hugging Face", "Huggy Database"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/356371-unique-french-races-in-a-database-great-to-feed-new-frontier-models", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/356371-unique-french-races-in-a-database-great-to-feed-new-frontier-models.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/356371-unique-french-races-in-a-database-great-to-feed-new-frontier-models.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/356371-unique-french-races-in-a-database-great-to-feed-new-frontier-models.jsonld"}}