# Huggy Database — 356,371 French horse races (1996–2026), PMU/PMH, ML-ready

> Source: <https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/huggy-database-356-371-french-horse-races-1996-2026-pmu-pmh-ml-ready/178139#post_1>
> Published: 2026-07-23 08:03:24+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?

Happy to answer questions here