The centre piece of the second day of the Cheltenham Festival is the sportingbet.com Queen Mother Champion Chase run over 2 miles. This race looks to be between last years winner Sizing Europe (pictured), Big Zeb and Finians Rainbow. Sizing Europe has been in tremendous form this season and it is difficult to see him…
The Cheltenham Festival, the greatest show on turf, kicks off on Tuesday 13th with the William Hill Supreme Novices Hurdle. In this race last year, which does not seem a year ago!, Al Ferof stormed up the Cheltenham hill to beat Spirit Son, Sprinter Sacre and Cue Card. Al Ferof meets Sprinter Sacre and Cue Card again…
Form Horse Age/Wgt Owner Trainer 1) 13-P031 SYNCHRONISED (IRE) 9-11-10 J P McManus Jonjo O’Neill 2) 11/1121- BALLABRIGGS (IRE) 11-11-09 Trevor Hemmings Donald McCain 3) 115-F31 MIDNIGHT CHASE 10-11-08 Lady Clarke Neil Mulholland 4) 1/10P-13 WEIRD AL (IRE) 9-11-08 Brannon, Dennis, Dick, Holden Donald McCain 5) 11121/2- BURTON PORT (IRE) 8-11-07 Trevor Hemmings Nicky Henderson…
The Betfair Handicap Hurdle will be the centre piece of an excellent card at Newbury on Saturday 11th February, weather permitting. This race started off as the Schweppes Gold Trophy and was first run in 1963 at Liverpool. There were 41 runners that day on the tight Liverpool hurdle circuit. At the second flight Stan Mellor…
As always the highlight of the Christmas Holiday period for Jump enthusiasts will be the King George VI Chase sponsored by William Hill, worth £180,000.00 and run over 3 miles at Kempton Park on Boxing Day (26th). Long Run (pictured) won this last year and is the bookies favourite to do so again. There will…
The Hennessy Gold Cup Handicap Chase, worth £150,000.00, will be run over 3 miles 2 furlongs at Newbury this Saturday (26th November). I doubt if we will have the excitment and emotion as experienced last Saturday with Kauto Stars’ brilliant comeback win in the Betfair Chase at Haydock Park but there have been some great…
As it says on the Cheltenham Racecourse Website “Football has Wembley, Tennis has Wimbledon and Jump racing has Cheltenham”. Already all roads lead to Cheltenham in March 2012. The three Day Cheltenham Open Meeting kicks off this Friday (11th November) with the main race being the Paddy Power Gold Cup Handicap Chase run on Saturday. Long Run…
For me the Charlie Hall Steeple Chase run over 3 miles and 1 furlong at Wetherby signifies the start of the new National Hunt Season. The race was first run in 1969 as the Wetherby Pattern Chase and won by Arcturus trained by Neville Crump and ridded by Pat Buckley. In 1978 it became known…
The much heralded Qipco British Champions Day takes place tomorrow (15th October) at Ascot. There is a terrific card of top class racing, the star of which I am sure will be Frankel (pictured) who runs in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes over the straight mile. This race used to be run over the round…
The Prix de L’Arc de Triomphe is the greatest flat race in Europe and will be run this Sunday (2nd October) over 12 furlongs at Longchamp in France. Workforce (pictured winning from Nakayama Festa a year ago) will be attempting to win the race for a second time. The last horse to do this was…
