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2021 Cheltenham Festival – Gold Cup Day – Day 4 Preview
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2021 Cheltenham Festival – Gold Cup Day – Day 4 Preview

Thursday gave us plenty to think about at Cheltenham as we saw Rachael Blackmore take over once more with two more brilliant winners on Allaho and Tellmesomethinggirl, Flooring Porter took the Stayers Hurdle in fine style from the front whilst the shock of the week came in the opener. Envoi Allen fell to lose his […]

2021 Cheltenham Festival – Day 3 Preview
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2021 Cheltenham Festival – Day 3 Preview

We asked and it delivered. Day two at the Cheltenham festival was an afternoon packed full of drama and heart-warming stories. Bob Olinger took the opener in tremendous style, Monkfish did enough to prevail comfortably despite a few hiccups along the way, Put The Kettle On backed up her Arkle win with a brilliant victory in […]

2021 Cheltenham Festival – Day 2 Preview
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2021 Cheltenham Festival – Day 2 Preview

After a pulsating opening day at the 2021 Cheltenham Festival that saw Honeysuckle crowned Champion Hurdler and Appreciate It and Skishkin blitz their rivals, we move on to the second day of the festival in search of something similar. Wednesday’s action gives us four more Grade 1 races including a host of well-fancied favourites looking […]

2021 Cheltenham Festival – Day 1 Preview
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2021 Cheltenham Festival – Day 1 Preview

After much anticipation, arguably the best week of the National Hunt racing calendar is upon us as we finally welcome the 2021 Cheltenham Festival. It needs no more explaining that this year is going to be vastly different to the usual with the absence of crowds, but that won’t distract us from the action in […]

Glorious Goodwood – Day 4 Preview
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Glorious Goodwood – Day 4 Preview

As we pass through the bulk of the week, we have seen Fancy Blue win emphatically for Donnacha O’Brien in the Nassua whilst a whole host of shocks greeted the winners’ enclosure on Thursday at Goodwood. Now day four approaches us and we have plenty to look forward to. The King George Qatar Group 2 […]

Glorious Goodwood – Day 3 Preview
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Glorious Goodwood – Day 3 Preview

We move onto day three of the festival with more quality action, moving back to eight races for the day after yesterday’s seven. Aside from the handicaps and a maiden fillies stakes, we have a Group 3, Group 2 and Group 1 all to enjoy on Thursday in Sussex. The Group 1, the Qatar Nassau […]

Glorious Goodwood – Day 2 Preview
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Glorious Goodwood – Day 2 Preview

After an enthralling start to the Goodwood festival, we head into day two with plenty more action. The race of the day has even been labelled with the potential of being the race of the year.  The 3:15 Qatar Sussex Stakes over the Goodwood mile promises to be a fascinating spectacle, with Irish star Siskin […]

Glorious Goodwood – Day 1 Preview
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Glorious Goodwood – Day 1 Preview

We kick off another brilliant week of racing with day one of the Glorious Goodwood festival with eight races, including two Group 2’s and a Group 1 to feast your eyes on. The Group 1, the Al Shaqab Goodwood Cup over two miles, sees fan-favourite Stradivarius go for a fourth win in the race with […]

Royal Ascot 2020 – Day 5 Preview
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Royal Ascot 2020 – Day 5 Preview

A tremendous week of racing comes to a close today as the final day of Royal Ascot 2020 is upon us, and what a day we have in store. Three Group 1’s and two Group 2’s lie in wait as we are treated to eight races rather than the seven we have been used to […]

Royal Ascot 2020 – Day 4 Preview
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Royal Ascot 2020 – Day 4 Preview

We’re well into the thick of it now and despite no crowds, Royal Ascot 2020 has been brilliant entertainment to watch from home. Stradivarius in the Gold Cup yesterday seemed to encapsulate everything we love about the sport; a superstar silencing the doubters and making yet more history with a pulsating victory. Molatham and Khaloosy […]

Royal Ascot 2020 – Day 3 Preview
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Royal Ascot 2020 – Day 3 Preview

A fascinating afternoon of action yesterday at Royal Ascot 2020 saw Lord North win the Prince of Wales’ Stakes in emphatic style and Fujaira Prince win the Copper Horse handicap in good fashion for Roger Varian and Andrea Atzeni. We also saw her majesty The Queen claim a 2020 royal winner with ‘gamble of the […]

Royal Ascot 2020 – Day 2 Preview
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Royal Ascot 2020 – Day 2 Preview

Royal Ascot 2020 kicked off in style yesterday as we saw Battaash finally land the spoils in the King’s Stand Stakes at the third time of asking. We also saw Circus Maximums claims his second Royal Ascot win in an enthralling finish with Terebellum, whilst John Gosden filly Frankly Darling put her name firmly in […]

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