He lit up the flat racing world last year with international and domestic success and Newmarket handler Roger Varian is looking forward to taking the wraps off Group One superstar Postponed, who is set to make his seasonal reappearance in the Dubai City of Gold on Saturday. A general 2/5 favourite for that contest, victory […]
In a season where a wide array of equine stars are set to miss the ‘Greatest Show on Turf’, Eddie Harty’s Coney Island joined that list after he was ruled out of a possible tilt at the RSA Novices’ Chase or the JLT at the Festival due to a bruised foot. In what has been […]
He rode Harbour Law to victory in the Group One Ladbrokes St Leger at Doncaster in September, his first Classic success, but star flat rider George Baker now faces a long rehabilitation process after suffering a terrible fall at St Moritz on Sunday when riding Jamie Osborne’s Boomerang Bob on the ice track. The horse […]
Willie Mullins has farmed the Weatherbys Champion Bumper at the Cheltenham Festival in recent years and looks to rely on five horses from a total entry of 36 possibles for the two-mile contest. The Closutton handler rode and trained Wither Or Witch to success in this race in 1996 with Florida Pearl (1997) and Alexander […]
He is one of National Hunt’s racing’s most likeable stars and Nigel Twiston-Davies’ The New One has now been confirmed as an intended runner in the Stan James Champion Hurdle by his trainer. Third in the 2014 renewal of the Grade One contest when he was badly hampered by the fall of Our Conor, that […]
Following the news that Barry Geraghty, retained rider for JP McManus, would miss the Cheltenham Festival after suffering a collapsed lung and six broken ribs following a fall from Charli Parcs last Saturday at Kempton Park, trainer Alan King is keen to select a jockey to ride Champion Hurdle hope Yanworth. General 3/1 favourite for the […]
Nicky Henderson is set to be triply represented in the Stan James Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham on the first day of the Cheltenham Festival and gave a positive update on his stars as well as revealing who he thinks will step in to ride leading fancy Buveur D’Air in the two-mile Championship contest, following the […]
Alan King’s horses are in fine fettle at the moment and The Unit should go close in the 4:10 at Taunton. A head winner at Doncaster in November under Tom Bellamy, the six-year-old son of Gold Well followed that up with another success at Taunton over Thursday’s course and distance. That was an impressive performance […]
There was not many better sights in racing than seeing sprint superstar Sole Power scythe through the field in flat racing’s biggest Group One sprints. Sadly, that will be an image we will no longer see on the racetrack as the multiple Grade One superstar has been retired by trainer Eddie Lynam. The 10-year-old son […]
Nicky Henderson believes Charli Parcs could still run at Cheltenham despite the four-year-old’s bad fall at Kempton Park on Saturday. Barry Geraghty, who rode Henderson’s charge in the colours of JP McManus, will miss the Cheltenham Festival after suffering a collapsed lung and six broken ribs as a result of his fall from Charli Parcs. Well […]
Gigginstown House Stud’s retained rider Bryan Cooper looks to have an enviable book of rides at this year’s Cheltenham Festival and is understandably delighted with the firepower awaiting him at Prestbury Park. Cooper has suffered a litany of injury problems ever since landing the Gigginstown role from Davy Russell but enjoyed an excellent 2016 Festival, […]
Camping Ground was an impressive 29 length winner of the Grade Two National Spirit Hurdle at Fontwell on Sunday on his first start for trainer Gary Moore. Ridden by Joshua Moore, the seven-year-old son of Goldneyev shared the lead with Paul Nicholls’ Adrien Du Pont early on in the two-miles and three furlongs but quickly […]