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The Jessica Harrington-trained Sizing John, winner of Jump racing’s Blue Riband event, the Timico Cheltenham Gold Cup, will head to Punchestown as it was announced that the seven-year-old gelding will compete for the Coral Punchestown Gold Cup, April 26. An impressive winner of the Irish Gold Cup in February, the son of Midnight Legend jumped […]
Bob Baffert is confident that his superstar colt Arrogate will handle the dirt track at Meydan ahead of his Dubai World Cup bid on Saturday. Arrogate, who’s around a 1/3 shot to win the Group One race with a total prize fund of over £8 million for the one mile and two furlong contest, has […]
The Jonjo O’Neill-trained Minella Rocco, the general 9/1 favourite for the Randox Health Grand National will not run in the race. A winner at the 2016 Cheltenham Festival, the seven-year-old was a fast-finishing two and three-quarter length second to Sizing John in the Timico Cheltenham Gold Cup at Cheltenham last week, staying on well up […]
The Paul Nicholls-trained Saphir Du Rheu has had a stop-start career over fences but ran a cracker to finish fifth in the Timico Cheltenham Gold Cup at the Cheltenham Festival last Friday and now heads for the Randox Health Grand National at Aintree next month. An impressive winner of the 2015 Grade One Betfred Mildmay […]