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The Cheltenham Festival’s four-day meeting gets underway on Tuesday, with the likes of Constitution Hill, Facile Vega and Honeysuckle all in action on a highly-anticipated opening day. Around 280,000 spectators are expected to attend the Festival over the course of the week, all of which will have their own opinions, but we spoke to racing […]
From runners to riders, horse racing is full of jargon and lingo that the average newcomer to racing might not be able to immediately translate. So with the Cheltenham Festival kicking off later today and attracting tons of first-time attendees and punters, this is your guide to deciphering all of the most used terminology in […]
Bristol City manager Nigel Pearson quickly denied that Wolverhampton Wanderers had placed a £25m bid for 19-year-old midfielder Alex Scott, but admitted he expects there to be plenty of Premier League interest in the summer transfer window. Scott scored his first Championship goal of the season in the Robins’ 2-0 win over Blackpool at Ashton […]
The time has finally arrived for the 2023 Cheltenham festival to commence. Another week of racing drama kicks off on Tuesday 14th March with the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle at 1:30pm. Some of horse racing’s biggest jockey names will be competing, including the likes of Paul Townsend and Rachael Blackmore, the two most recent winners of […]
Great Britain claimed a historic 7-5 victory over Colombia last night in Arizona, giving them their debut win in the World Baseball Classic. Harry Ford’s solo home run in the bottom of the seventh and a three-run fourth inning pushed the debutant side to victory over a strong South American outfit. View this post on […]
A 24-year-old man has been handed a three-year stadium ban for racially abusing Ivan Toney online back in October. Toney shared the screenshots of the messages he received following Brentford’s 2-0 victory over Brighton and Northumbria Police, supported by the Metropolitan Police, began a full investigation immediately. On January 25, the man pleaded guilty in […]
During the first two rounds of the Overwatch 2 Campus Clash Prize Playoffs, Oxford first bested Roehampton 3-1, then suffered a 3-0 defeat to Durham Defenders in the second leg of the bracket. The result positions the Oxford ‘Omnics’ firmly into the lower half of the bracket, one loss away from playoffs elimination. With their […]
Marine Nationale looks set to impress in the opening race of the Cheltenham Festival, the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle, on the back of four consecutive wins. One of those wins came at Punchestown last May, beating Demandrivingdouvan by over three lengths. We spoke to the owner of Demandrivingdouvan, @USASteeplechase on Twitter, who was impressed by Marine […]
With just eight games remaining of the season, Gloucester City sit level on points with Chorley, with just a dotted line keeping them out of the play-offs. Since Steven King’s arrival to the TigerTurf Stadium, the side have navigated their way through an injury plagued season up until Saturday’s 3-0 win away to fifth place […]
The Cheltenham Festival always has a massive impact on the town, creating an atmosphere only able to be witnessed in this one golden week out of the calendar year. But the impact of the race week is not limited to the buzz of the city and the immense crowds, the festival has a far more […]