{"slug": "huggy-database-356371-french-horse-races-1996-2026-pmu-pmh-ml-ready", "title": "Huggy Database — 356,371 French horse races (1996–2026), PMU/PMH, ML-ready", "summary": "The Huggy Database, the largest open dataset of French horse racing, has been released on the Hugging Face Hub, containing 356,371 unique races from 1996 to 2026 with approximately 5 million runners and detailed payout information from PMU/PMH. The ML-ready dataset supports use cases such as winner prediction, market inefficiency research, and graph ML on jockey/trainer/horse 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\nWhat’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\nLinks\n\nUse 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\nFeedback 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?\n\nHappy to answer questions here", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/huggy-database-356371-french-horse-races-1996-2026-pmu-pmh-ml-ready", "canonical_source": "https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/huggy-database-356-371-french-horse-races-1996-2026-pmu-pmh-ml-ready/178139#post_1", "published_at": "2026-07-23 08:03:24+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-23 08:03:53.371579+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["machine-learning"], "entities": ["Huggy Database", "Hugging Face Hub", "PMU", "PMH"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/huggy-database-356371-french-horse-races-1996-2026-pmu-pmh-ml-ready", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/huggy-database-356371-french-horse-races-1996-2026-pmu-pmh-ml-ready.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/huggy-database-356371-french-horse-races-1996-2026-pmu-pmh-ml-ready.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/huggy-database-356371-french-horse-races-1996-2026-pmu-pmh-ml-ready.jsonld"}}