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

> Source: <https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/356-371-unique-french-races-in-a-database-great-to-feed-new-frontier-models/178256#post_1>
> Published: 2026-07-28 06:48:45+00:00

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?