Jockey Dan Skelton has won back to back Grade Ones at Sandown Park as fans returned to the track following the ease of coronavirus restrictions. Skelton rode Allmankind, trained by his brother Harry, to victory in the Henry VIII Novices’ Chase and Politilogue, trained by Paul Nicholls, to the Tingle Creek just 30 minutes later. […]
Horse Racing
Skelton Shines As Fans Return To Horse Racing
Jockey Dan Skelton has won back to back Grade Ones at Sandown Park as fans returned to the track following the ease of coronavirus restrictions. Skelton rode Allmankind, trained by his brother Harry, to victory in the Henry VIII Novices’ Chase and Politilogue, trained by Paul Nicholls, to the Tingle Creek just 30 minutes later. […]
Covid-19: Horse Racing Offered Financial Support From Government
The government has announced they are to support horse racing under a proposal to help sports venues in England. As part of a £300m ‘winter survival package’ pledged to sport by the chancellor last week, horse racing is set to receive £40m in loans to help racecourses bridge the gap while the ongoing ban on […]
Cheltenham Festival: Kim Bailey Holds The Cards In The 2021 Ryanair Chase
The National Hunt season has really started to heat up over the last couple of weeks – throwing up plenty of early Festival pointers. Cheltenham’s three-day November meeting and Betfair Chase Day at Haydock have been the highlights in Britain – while Punchestown and Navan have hosted early graded racing across the Irish Sea. There […]
Five Live Sports you may have missed this weekend
Whilst it was almost impossible not to see that top tier European football returned this weekend, as a bumper weekend of Bundesliga fixtures returned on our screens. For all the action and reaction you have have missed this weekend, keep up to date on all the latest sporting stories on Park Life Sports Live Blog. […]
Horse Racing targeting resumption next week as sport waits on green light by government
Racing in Britain is working towards a resumption on May 15 after positive meetings with government officials within the last seven days, in what would be one of the first return to action for sports following the Covid-19 outbreak. British horse racing chief executive Nick Rust has told the BBC it would be ready to […]
Calls for inquiry on Cheltenham Festival go-ahead
The Cheltenham Festival was given the green light to go ahead by the government despite the coronavirus spreading across the UK. There are calls for an investigation into whether the 4-day event should have been cancelled due to concerns that it rapidly increased the spread of the virus. One of those publicly calling for the […]
Cheltenham Festival Organisers face criticism
The Cheltenham Festival was given the green light to go ahead by the government despite increasing calls from the public for the festival to be cancelled. Many people have been left questioning why the Festival still took place and organisers have faced widespread criticism. It was one of the last events to go ahead before […]
Coronavirus: Horse racing to held behind closed doors until April
Horse racing will now be held behind closed doors from Tuesday until the end of at least the end of March because of the coronavirus pandemic. Racing in England had continued despite the outbreak, with the Cheltenham Festival recording an attendance of 251,684 across four days last week. Despite a lot of backlash from peolpe […]
British Horse Racing set to go ahead behind closed doors this week due to Coronavirus
Race meetings are preparing to go ahead without spectators over the following week. Sport all across the country has been postponed over the weekend due to the coronavirus outbreak with horse racing also taking their own measures. The news comes just two days following the Cheltenham Festival in which over 200,000 spectators attended across the […]