Colin Tizzard believes stable-star Cue Card retains his old zest and will go close at next month’s Cheltenham Festival. Speaking at a press day at his Dorset stable organised by Cheltenham racecourse, Tizzard paraded some of his Festival hopes which sadly did not include Thistlecrack who was ruled out of the Festival earlier this week […]
She drifted in the betting, she had weaker form and she was returning to the track from over 300 days off but Limini saw off 2/5 favourite Apple’s Jade with an authoritative and very impressive two length success in the at Punchestown yesterday. Running in a race named after one of her trainer’s, Willie Mullins’ […]
The gut-wrenching news that Thistlecrack would miss the Cheltenham Gold Cup in March has left the door ajar for some of the outsiders in the original ante-post market to come to the fore. Here’s a look at the leading players now: Native River 3/1 favourite – an impressive winner of the Denman Chase, he looks […]
The Colin Tizzard-trained Thistlecrack, the rising star of National Hunt racing, was today ruled out of the Cheltenham Gold Cup and the rest of the season after suffering a slight tendon tear. In a cruel blow of fortunes for team Tizzard and the National Hunt fans, the Cheltenham Festival will now be robbed of arguably […]
Ante post focus is back and in this week’s edition I’m looking ahead to the Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle over three miles. Run on Gold Cup day, some seriously classy horses have won this Grade One contest in the past including Gold Cup winner Bob’s Worth and three-mile hurdling kings At Fishers Cross and Unowhatimeanharry. This […]
With three weeks to go until the Cheltenham Festival, this weekend was arguably one of the last chances for racing fans to catch a glimpse of potential Cheltenham entrants before the greatest show on Earth at Prestbury Park in March. Here’s the verdict from this weekend’s action. Card delivers right on Cue You could not help but […]
It wasn’t impressive but the Alan King-trained Yanworth kept his Champion Hurdle hopes alive with a gutsy victory in the Grade Two Kingwell Hurdle at Wincanton. Over two-miles, the seven-year-old son of Norse Dancer was always prominent in the Grade Two contest. Turning for home however, Yanworth was being stoked along by Barry Geraghty and […]
The Colin Tizzard-trained Cue Card showed he retains his old zest with a superb performance in the Grade One Ascot Chase, setting up another tilt at the Cheltenham Gold Cup in March. The 11-year-old ran well behind Thistlecrack in the King George last time and was dropping down in trip to two miles and five […]
With under a month now until the Cheltenham Festival, this weekend’s racing is arguably one of the last chances for punters to gauge important information for the Festival before it begins. Decent jumping cards at Ascot, Haydock Park and Wincanton go ahead and I fancy a short-priced but in my opinion a banker double for today’s […]
A cracking day’s racing awaits racing fan’s with ITV 4 showing seven live races from Ascot, Haydock Park and Wincanton. Here is a Lucky 15 for today’s racing. Selection 1: Sausalito Sunrise 1:50: Ascot Philip Hobbs’ charge is only 5lb higher than when scoring at Ascot in February last year and has run with credit […]
The most expensive point-to-point horse of all time was sold at a public auction for £480,000 on Thursday. Flemenshill, a comfortable four-length winner of a point-to-point on his first start, was sold to Alan & Ann Potts, the powerful owners who have a number of horses with Jessica Harrington and Colin Tizzard, including Irish Gold Cup […]
20-times Champion Jumps jockey Sir AP McCoy’s glittering career will be marked with a statue of the great man which will be unveiled on the opening day of this year’s Cheltenham Festival, Tuesday March 14. The bronze statue will be located at the Best Mate plaza and was created by Paul Ferriter who has also sculpted […]