Time flies when you’re having fun and with the Cheltenham Festival just two weeks away, here is the fourth instalment of the ante-post focus. This column focuses on the exploits of Philip Hobbs’ Defi Du Seuil, who looks to hold oustanding claims of winning the JCB Triumph Hurdle at this year’s Festival. Defi Du Seuil […]
It has become one of racing’s greatest conundrums and most talked-about stories in recent days but it looks increasingly likely that Willie Mullins’ mare Limini will be supplemented at a cost of £20,000 for the Stan James Champion Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival. Having comfortably defeated Hatton’s Grace winner Apple’s Jade at Punchestown with an authoritative two-length […]
Trainer Gordon Elliott has revealed that unexposed hurdler Tombstone will be supplemented for the Stan James Champion Hurdle at a cost of £20,000. The seven-year-old has been handled with kid gloves by Elliott with the son of Robin Des Champs finishing an excellent 12 and a half-lengths fourth in a superb renewal of the Supreme Novices’ […]
Jean Bishop, owner of the one of the most popular horses in training, Cue Card, has hinted that the 11-year-old may be retired if he wins National Hunt racing’s Blue Riband event, the Grade One Timico Cheltenham Gold Cup at the Cheltenham Festival. Winner of the 2010 Champion Bumper, Cue Card has been a regular at […]
One of Britain’s leading flat jockeys, George Baker, is in a stable condition at a hospital in Switzerland after suffering a horrific fall at St Moritz on Sunday. Baker was riding on the famous ice track aboard Jamie Osborne’s Boomerang Bob when the horse fell and was subsequently put down with Baker taking a terrible […]
She has inevitably been seen as Willie Mullins’ mercurial super-sub in recent times but Vroum Vroum Mag should have the chance to retain her OLBG Mares’ Hurdle crown at Kempton Park next month according to her owner Rich Ricci. In what has been a frustrating season for the American owner, Ricci will be without star […]
Irish jockey Barry Geraghty has been ruled out of the Cheltenham Festival after revealing that he has suffered “a collapsed lung and six broken ribs” following a fall from Nicky Henderson’s Charli Parcs in the Adonis Hurdle at Kempton on Saturday. Geraghty was lined up for an enviable book of rides at the Cheltenham Festival, […]
With the Cheltenham Festival just two weeks away, the action at Kempton on Saturday was arguably one of the last chances for punters to get further clues ahead of the greatest show on Earth at Prestbury Park. Here is a look at some of the highlights: Charli finds Adonis no walk in the Parc One […]
Sunday’s racing sees three National Hunt meetings take place at Fontwell, Southwell and Naas. Here is a banker treble for the racing. Selection 1: Kolumbus 2:20: Naas Like Christopher Columbus, he is still trying to discover more of the world and himself but Willie Mullins’ charge is coming on leaps and bounds judged on his […]
There is some decent fare in the racing world on Saturday with Kempton’s jumps card and Lingfield’s all-weather meeting taking centre-stage. Here is a banker win double for tomorrow to help you fill the Cheltenham coffers: Selection 1: Charli Parcs – 1:50: Kempton An impressive winner at Kempton on his British debut after arriving from […]
In the third part of the ante-post focus, this column focuses on Enda Bolger’s On The Fringe who looks a decent bet for the Foxhunters at the Cheltenham Festival, run on the Friday of the Festival at Prestbury Park. Yes he’s 12, yes he has run only once this year and yes Nina Carberry won’t […]
He was a magnificent winner of the 2015 Cheltenham Gold Cup and Coneygree looks more and more likely to be seen on a racecourse again this season despite missing the Festival as connections continue to be pleased with his recovery from a leg injury. The ten-year-old son of Karinga Bay has run just twice since […]