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A brilliant season for Donald McCain could continue when Minella Drama lines up in the Jordan Electrics Ltd Future Champion Novices’ Chase at Ayr. The seven-year-old landed a Grade Two at Haydock on his penultimate start and then was well held by Pic D’orhy at Kempton in February. However, McCain knows the former top-class hurdler […]
Tuesday’s free feature is The Shortlist report, which is a simple (and usually brief) report highlighting those horses with a largely ‘green’ profile in the Instant Expert Report each day. It covers win or place stats, and can be viewed for both today’s and tomorrow’s racing. GREEN is good (33% or better win rate) – worth […]
Pyledriver could bid to defend his Coronation Cup crown, as connections mull over options following a luckless run in Saturday’s Longines Dubai Sheema Classic at Meydan. It was a case of what might have been for the five-year-old, who suffered trouble in running under Frankie Dettori, who was deputising for injured Martin Dwyer. The mile-and-a-half […]
Saturday’s free GOLD feature is the very popular Trainer/Jockey Combo Stats (TJC) report, which works by bringing together the form of trainers and jockeys into a single composite report has produced excellent results for users. Basically, many trainers turn to preferred riders when they have one ‘ready to win and this report quickly identifies those […]
Burrow Seven, who has helped raise more than £100,000 for those affected by motor neurone disease and Leeds Hospital Charities, will now also be helping to save the planet. The Jedd O’Keeffe-trained five year-old is owned by the Burrow Seven Racing Club, which was launched in November 2020 to raise money for former rugby league […]
Cheltenham Festival 2022: Day 3 Preview, Tips And so to the second half. No matter how up or down your punting yoyo has been through Tuesday and Wednesday, we are only at halfway and there are fourteen further fiendish sudokus still to unravel. After an unforeseen monsoon on Wednesday (it was a miserable day at […]
Oh dear! The Irish sent out a single scout on Saturday to assess the strength of the UK jumps defence in advance of Cheltenham this week, writes Tony Stafford. What was his report back to HQ? “They are wide open and ripe for picking. Not just in the graded races either – they still haven’t […]
Hughie Morrison hopes a different training regime will help enigmatic Champion Hurdle outsider Not So Sleepy settle better in Tuesday’s renewal. Few expected the now 10-year-old run a big race in last year’s championship event, yet he belied his 125-1 odds and finished a fine fifth. Not So Sleepy has a tendency to be keen […]
Paul Nicholls heads into the Cheltenham Festival as the front-runner to secure a 13th trainers’ championship, with Dan Skelton and Nicky Henderson in hot pursuit. Yet with most fearing another dominant display from the Irish-trained horses – British trainers won just five of the 28 races over the four days last year – Somerset-based Nicholls […]
A fear of failure will be the driving force behind Willie Mullins’ bid for further honours at what he expects to be “the best Festival ever” at Cheltenham this year. Failure is not a word anyone would associate with the master of Closutton, whose tally of 78 winners at the showpiece meeting makes him the […]
What a difference 12 months can make. This time last year Gordon Elliott was navigating the first few days of a six-month ban, imposed by the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board after an image from 2019 of him sitting on a dead horse on the gallops had been circulated online, causing outrage that stretched way beyond […]
To head to the Cheltenham Festival with genuine chances in the headline events is what Dan Skelton has worked long and hard for. The 36-year-old could hardly have prepared better, serving a nine-year apprenticeship with Paul Nicholls before branching out on his own at Lodge Hill Stables in Alcester. Like his mentor before him, a […]
Gordon Elliott has signalled his intention to use amateur Rob James for a number of his higher-weighted horses in the open handicaps at the Cheltenham, headlined by Sire Du Berlais is the Pertemps Network Final. Elliott is trusting James on the 10-year-old, who took the staying handicap hurdle in 2020 and who finished second in […]
Cap Du Nord led home a one-two for Christian Williams in the Coral Trophy Handicap Chase at Kempton Park, capping an incredible half-hour for the trainer. The Glamorgan handler had just finished celebrating the victory of Win My Wings in the Eider Chase at Newcastle moments before the field set out for the Kempton Grade […]
Brad Cox insists he has managed to focus on preparing Mandaloun for the Saudi Cup despite the distraction of his horse being awarded the Kentucky Derby earlier this week. The Bob Baffert-trained Medina Spirit has been officially disqualified after testing positive for the anti-inflammatory drug betamethasone, a prohibited substance in Kentucky on raceday. Baffert and […]
