Horse Talk with Simon Jackson: Top horse-racing tips and the latest news CHELTENHAM takes centre stage from March 14-17 as the best national hunt horses in Europe go head to head to contest a glittering array of jump racing’s most coveted prizes. The Cheltenham Festival combines four days of the best national hunt racing in the…
Horse Talk with Simon Jackson: Top horse-racing tips and the latest news. ALTIOR has done “everything right” in his four races this season ahead of the Racing Post Arkle Novices’ Chase, trainer Nicky Henderson said this week. Henderson is the all-time leading trainer at the Cheltenham Festival with 55 winners and hopes to add to…
Horse Talk with Simon Jackson: Top horse-racing tips and the latest news. Paul Nicholls believes Saphir Du Rheu deserves his place in the Timico Cheltenham Gold Cup field that has been depleted by the defection of hot-favourite Thistlecrack due to a tendon injury. News of the Colin Tizzard-trained Thistlecrack’s defection broke as Nicholls was hosting a…
Horse Talk with Simon Jackson: Top horse-racing tips and the latest news. CHELTENHAM Racecourse will unveil a statue of 20-time champion jumps jockey Sir A P McCoy on the first day of The Festival on March 14. The life size bronze of the dual Cheltenham Gold Cup-winning jockey who retired in 2015 will be situated…
Horse Talk with Simon Jackson: Top horse-racing tips and the latest news. MANY CLOUDS’ death after his courageous defeat of Thistlecrack in the BetBright Trial Cotswold Chase cast a gloom over Festival Trials Day at Cheltenham. Grand National winner Many Clouds inflicted the first defeat over fences of 4/9 favourite Thistlecrack who also heads the…
Horse Talk with Simon Jackson: Top horse-racing tips and the latest news. CHELTENHAM continue to protect parts of the racecourse with frost covers ahead Saturday’s meeting where the ground is now Soft, Good to Soft in places on the Chase and Hurdle courses and Good to Soft, Good in places on the Cross Country course.…
Horse Talk with Simon Jackson: Top horse-racing tips and the latest news. IRISH TRAINER Peter Maher wants good ground at the International meeting at Cheltenham on Friday for his two runners in the Glenfarclas Cross Country Handicap Chase. The Country Kildare-based handler bids to add to his earlier success in long-distance races at Cheltenham having…
Horse Talk with Simon Jackson: Top horse-racing tips and the latest news. SPRINTER SACRE’S second victory in the Queen Mother Champion Chase was the ‘biggest day of my career’ trainer Nicky Henderson revealed after news of his stable star’s retirement. The Cheltenham Gold Cup winning handler and three-time champion trainer admitted that ‘you couldn’t fail to…
Horse Talk with Simon Jackson: Top horse-racing tips and the latest news. ANNACOTTY has been allotted 8lbs more than he carried to victory last year in the BetVictor Gold Cup where he bids to become only the third horse to secure back to back victories. Only Half Free (1984 & 1985) and Bradbury Star (1993…
Horse Talk with Simon Jackson: Top horse-racing tips and the latest news. EVAN WILLIAMS has major contenders for both good and soft ground conditions in the £160,000 BetVictor Gold Cup at The Open meeting at Cheltenham on November 12. The Vale Of Glamorgan-based handler has entered last year’s runner-up Buywise and the in-form King’s Odyssey…
