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In a dramatic race, Captain Guinness won the feature race on the Wednesday of the Festival to deny Willie Mullins a 100th winner at the Festival. At the fifth fence El Fabiolo, who jumps uniquely, trailed a hind leg through the fifth fence and was taken aback, and jockey Paul Townend decided to pull him […]
Langer Dan won the Coral Cup Handicap Hurdle, the third race on Wednesday to give Dan Skelton his first race at the Festival The 23-runner field was led by a trio of Beacon Edge, Mark Of Gold and Western Fold, with the favourite Built By Ballymore sat towards the front of a chasing pack Last […]
Fact to File won the Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase, the second race on Wednesday to make Willie Mullins just one win short of 100 Festival winners. Paul Townend wasn’t on the odds-on favourite, but retained rider for champion owner JP McManus Mark Walsh got his first winner of the week. In the six-runner field, Fact […]
Ballyburn won the first race at Cheltenham on Wednesday, to take trainer Willie Mullins to 98 winners at the Festival and his fourth winner of the week. Jockey Paul Townend also got his fourth winner of the week, already three ahead of his fellow jockeys. Stablemate Mercurey led the field from the font, with Ballyburn […]
Willie Mullins holds all the aces today, with three strong odds-on favourites. There’s also the Coral Cup highlight and the Grand Annual Handicaps with the ever-so tricky bumper to decipher. 13:30 – Gallagher Novices’ Hurdle (Grade One) – 2m 5F Embed from Getty Images The first of Willie Mullins’ big shots comes in the first […]
Day One of the Cheltenham Festival opened up with success for State Man and Lossiemouth, with Willie Mullins claiming a treble on the day. But, sadly, the news was marred by two deaths on the racecourse. Embed from Getty Images State Man landed the Unibet Champion Hurdle on Tuesday, as Willie Mullins took a big […]
Juninho Bacuna was the subject of racial abuse for the second time this season as his Birmingham City side suffered a tight 1-0 loss to local rivals West Bromwich Albion. The incident occurred towards the end of the match as the striker made his way to the touchline to report the issue to both the […]
Andreas Weimann netted his first goal for West Bromwich Albion late on as they beat local rivals Birmingham City in a tense West Country Derby. The Austrian was found by a Darnell Furlong cross on the edge of the six yard box and fired it into the roof of the net. Embed from Getty Images […]
Cheltenham Town Ladies have been drawn against Exeter City Women in the second round of the Women’s FA Cup. The Grecian’s play in the FA Women’s National League Division One South West, one division below the Robinesses after they were promoted last season. The two teams have only met once before with Exeter getting the […]
F1TV Presenter Laura Winter has voiced her opinion on the upcoming Las Vegas Grand Prix, the newest race on the calendar. Winter spoke of the challenges facing her and her colleagues covering the night race in Nevada; ‘I will Imagine I’ll be on track at 17:00 and practise starts at 20:00. ‘The next one is […]