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Cheltenham Festival form came to the fore on day two of the Cheltenham Festival April Meeting as Golden Ace glided to an easy victory. The six-year-old mare landed a memorable success at last month’s Festival in the Grade 2 Ryanair Mares’ Novices’ Hurdle, and her improvement showed no sign of stopping on Thursday after her […]
No one can stop Willie Mullins at the 2024 Cheltenham Festival after he impressively took home the first two races on Wednesday. Having collected three winners on the opening day of the Festival, Ballyburn kicked off the second day with a performance that oozed class in the Grade 1 Gallagher Novices’ Hurdle. In a race […]
This year’s Cheltenham Festival got off to a good start for many yesterday as plenty of favourites obliged. The punters certainly got one over the bookies on Tuesday, so the latter will be hoping for a change in fortune today. With this in mind, here are three horses at decent prices who could outrun their […]
No one could stop Danny Mullins on day one of the Dublin Racing Festival as he swooped up the first three Grade 1 races at Leopardstown. The nephew of top Irish trainer Willie Mullins, who trained all three of his winners, began the day with the biggest-priced winner of his treble thanks to the success […]
Max McNeill believes Thunder Rock can put his Cheltenham disappointment far behind him this weekend, though Sunday’s Scottish Champion Chase could be his last outing over fences. The Olly Murphy-trained eight-year-old was sent off a well-backed 3/1 for the valuable December Gold Cup at Prestbury Park on his last start but he failed to make […]
Irish trainer John McConnell is eyeing up a return to Cheltenham Racecourse in the Grade 2 Cotswold Chase with Coral Gold Cup runner-up Mahler Mission. The seven-year-old gelding has visited Prestbury Park on three occasions during his career, notably in the Grade 2 National Hunt Chase at the Cheltenham Festival when falling at the second-last […]
Cheltenham Town manager Darrell Clarke believes Liam Sercombe’s ability to “galvanise” his teammates is key to the success of The Robins this season. Sercombe scored the only goal against Cambridge United on Saturday thanks to a beautifully-weighted chip over Jack Stevens. Clarke and Sercombe worked together at Bristol Rovers between 2017 and 2018, so the […]
Wolves Women’s manager Dan McNamara has his eyes set on Nottingham Forest after his side beat West Bromwich Albion Women 3-1 at the Trico Stadium. On their first start away from home in the league this month, goals from Sophie Bramford, Liv Fergusson, and Tammi George sealed a derby day success for the Wanderers. The […]
Fergal O’Brien is lining up the Grade 2 Skybet Novices’ Hurdle at Cheltenham on Friday for his exciting novice hurdler Kamsinas. Running in the recognisable colours of the Noel Fehily Syndicate, silks that were carried to success at the 2022 Cheltenham Festival by Love Envoi, the six-year-old impressed at Worcester earlier this month to win […]