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Trainer Freddy Head issued a positive bulletin on stable-star Solow as the imposing grey nears a return to the track after some injury issues. The seven-year-old took the racing world by storm over a mile in 2015, recording successes in races including the Group One Queen Anne Stakes at Royal, Goodwood’s Group One Sussex Stakes […]
County Meath handler Gordon Elliott is readying a strong party for the Punchestown Festival as he attempts to be crowned Ireland’s champion jumps trainer for the first time. The stellar meeting takes places from Tuesday April 25 to Saturday April 29 and Elliott has prepared a sizeable and powerful battalion which look set to plunder […]
Trainer Harry Fry looks set to rely on some of his stable-stars at this month’s Punchestown Festival as a strong battalion heads over the Irish Sea from the Dorset handler’s base for the meeting which takes place from Tuesday April 25 to Saturday April 29. The list is headed by smart staying chaser American who […]
The Kim Bailey-trained Charbel will not run again this season according to the trainer after his disappointing run in the G1 Maghull Novices’ Chase at Aintree on Saturday. Sent off the 6/5 favourite for the two mile event, that did not tell the whole story as the gelding was originally around a 4/6 shot in the […]
The Clive Cox-trained My Dream Boat was a gutsy winner of the G1 Prince of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot in June and ran with credit in defeat during the season. That included a superb fifth placed finish in the G1 QIPCO Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown in September and a fourth at Ascot in October […]
Monday racing can often be a little mundane, but the Andre Fabre-trained Al Wukair lit up the Prix Djebel at Maisons-Lafitte with an impressive success in the seven furlong Group Three event. Ridden by Gregory Benoist, the three-year-old went off the 9/10 favourite and despite being around 10 lengths off the leader in last place […]
The indefatigable stable star of Colin Tizzard’s Dorset stable since he burst on to the scene as a four-year-old and won a Fontwell bumper by six lengths, Cue Card has been one of the finest horses of his generation. A winner of the Weatherbys Champion Bumper at the Cheltenham Festival later that year, the son […]
Most of the major jump racing Festivals are now behind us but the Punchestown Festival provides jump racing fans with one more chance to see a wide array of stars from Tuesday April 25 to Saturday April 29. One of the biggest clashes of the week will be between Irish and Cheltenham Gold Cup winner […]
Leading Irish amateur jockey Jamie Codd was proud of the performance of 16/1 chance Cause Of Causes, who finished a gutsy four and a half-length second to 14/1 winner One For Arthur in the Randox Health Grand National at Aintree racecourse on Saturday. Just three weeks on from Gordon Elliott’s charge becoming the fifth horse […]
Seven Barrows maestro Nicky Henderson looks set to target the King George with RSA and Mildmay Chase winner Might Bite next season. The eight-year-old son of Scorpion evidently has his quirks, highlighted by his run in the three mile G1 RSA Chase at the Cheltenham Festival, in which after being well clear, he almost threw […]
One For Arthur became the first Scottish-trained winner of the Randox Health Grand National since Rubstic in 1979 and just the second overall after the 14/1 shot ran out an impressive winner of the extended four and a quarter-mile £1-million contest. Trained in Fife by Lucinda Russell, who was becoming just the fourth woman to […]
The Alan King-trained Yanworth made the decision to head for the G1 Champion Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival look folly as he produced a game display to land the G1 Ryanair Stayers Liverpool Hurdle over three miles at Aintree on Saturday. Ridden by Barry Geraghty, the eight-year-old son of Norse Dancer travelled well throughout the […]