The bookies were wearing broad grins on Friday as the curtain came down on yet another Cheltenham Festival. With three of the four hot favourites beaten and a host of winners at double figure odds it was a tough week for punters.
Highlight of the week for me was the Gold Cup....
I outlined my selections for Days 1 and 2 of the Cheltenham Festival a day or two ago. Today we look at days 3 and 4 (Thursday 18th and Friday 19th March).
Thursday 18th March
Thursday’s card kicks off with the J...
Less than a week to go until Cheltenham and time to begin seriously thinking about our Festival bets. Over the next two articles I’ll take a look at all four days of next week’s meeting and try to pick out what I think are the best bets in each race. Today we’ll loo...
If you are sitting at home, watching the clock, waiting for every second to pass because it brings you one second nearer to the tapes going up for the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle then don’t despair. I was feeling the same way until I got my hands on the new Weatherbys Chelten...
Compiling ratings by which to provide objective assessments of the relative abilities of racehorses has generally been based on two fundamentals; collateral form and race times. The production of ratings or handicaps has relied almost exclusively on these two factors. Therefore the c...
This weekend, somewhat incredibly, sees the first of the season’s flat classics with the 1,000 and 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket. We’ll have a full preview of both races at th...
Paul Nicholls uttered the words that rival Gold Cup trainers won’t have wanted to hear during a recent pre-Cheltenham press day at his Ditcheat yard when he claimed that Kauto Star would go to the Gold Cup in the ‘form of his life’.
Nicholls has grown increa...
The highlight of last weekend for me was undoubtedly Monet's Garden’s win in the Betfair Ascot Chase. This fantastic grey, now twelve years old and a veteran in any terms, rolled back the years and looked like a horse half his age as he put in an impeccable round of spring-heel...
For those interested in racing, trying to escape the fervour surrounding the fast-approaching Cheltenham Festival is nigh on impossible. Cheltenham dominates the National Hunt season, with discussion about the following year’s event commencing during the current one, and often ...
The great debate around whether AP McCoy is the correct jockey for Gold Cup second favourite Denman was already alight and burning fiercely. Saturday’s Aon Chase at Newbury didn’t so much fan the flames as have the effect of driving a fully laden petrol tanker onto the fi...
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