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...
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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...
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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...
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It is only two weeks since all the drama and excitement of the Aintree Grand National Meeting and although we have had the Scottish Grand National together with the Classic Trials for the Guineas since, the racing to me has been low key. However the two day Bet 365 Meeting gets underway on Saturday the 23rd...
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The grey Nacarat (pictured) is a Kempton course and distant winner and will carry top weight tomorrow in the Racing Post Chase at Kempton. Nacarat won this race two years ago and last year in this race just lost out to Razor Royale who was ridden by Paddy Brennan. Tomorrow Paddy Brennan takes the ride...
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The Irish Hennessy Gold Cup will be the feature race in an eight race card at Leopardstown in Ireland this Sunday (6th February). The race is worth 180,000 euros and will be run over 3 miles. Joncol (pictured) won this race last year and now that Pandorama is an absentee he could well win...
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The Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup Chase worth £175,000.00 will hopefully, weather permitting, be run over 3 miles 2 furlongs at Newbury this Saturday (27th). This race was first run in 1957 at Cheltenham, as were the 1958 and 1959 races. There have been some great horses win this race over the years none more...
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The race of the day on Saturday will surely be the Betfair Chase at Haydock where Imperial Commander (pictured) will make his seasonal reappearance. The race is worth £200,000.00 and will be run over 3 miles. Last year Imperial Commander just lost out to Kauto Star in a driving finish. The opposition this year...
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It was great to see the classy Jumpers back in action again and Monet’s Garden performance in beating his younger opponents in the Totetentofollow Old Roan Chase at Aintree on Saturday certainly whetted the appetite for the season to come. After watching Workforce win the Arc for Khalid Abdulla, Sir Michael Stoute and Ryan...
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The Bet 365 Gold Cup Chase, to us old timers the Whitbread, will be run tomorrow the 24th of April at Sandown over 3 miles 5 furlongs. It is a shame the race planners do not get together because I am sure the quality of the field is affected by having the Irish Grand...
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