Horse Talk with Simon Jackson: Top horse racing tips and the latest news. MARCO BOTTI is targeting his sixth win in the past 10 runnings of the Listed Betway Winter Derby Trial at Lingfield Park on Saturday where he saddles all-weather debutant Red Label. Botti has won Betway Winter Derby Trial five times since 2009,…
By Simon Jackson. Arena Racing Company (ARC), the owners of south east tracks Lingfield Park, Royal Windsor, Fontwell Park and Brighton, has announced a significant increase in prize money across their 14 racecourses. ARC will be increasing their contribution towards total prize money from £11.3 million to £14 million. The boost to funding means that…
By Simon Jackson. Tony Kelly, the Arena Racing Company (ARC) managing director, is leaving the firm in summer to join the Hong Kong Jockey Club as executive director of Racing Business & Operations. Kelly joined ARC in August 2004 as group finance director of Northern Racing Ltd and was subsequently made group managing director in…
By Simon Jackson. Merdon Castle booked his place in the Unibet Three-Year-Old Sprint at the All-Weather Championships Finals with a narrow win at Chelmsford City on Wednesday. The David Elsworth-trained colt overcame a slow start in the five furlong Class 2 to race close to the pace for jockey Liam Keniry, on the second of…
By Simon Jackson. Chelmsford City Racecourse officials have announced that tickets and restaurant bookings will go on sale for upcoming race meetings for the first time at midday on Friday January 16. The news follows the successful completion of a seven-race card in front of invited guests last Sunday that doubled as the first of…
By Simon Jackson. Charlie Appleby hopes to secure a start with Hawkesbury at the All-Weather Championship Finals by winning the 32RedSport.com Conditions Stakes at Kempton Park tonight. The winner of the six-furlong contest is guaranteed a start in the £150,000 Unibet Three-Year-Old Sprint at Lingfield on Good Friday and Appleby is hopeful that a return…
By Simon Jackson. Chelmsford City Racecourse look set to have their official opening on February 1 after the successful completion of a seven-race card in front of invited guests on Sunday. Sunday’s meeting was the first of possibly three ‘trial fixtures’ scheduled at the Essex racecourse which is located five miles north of Chelmsford. The…
By Simon Jackson at Lingfield Park. Favourites won five of the six races at Lingfield on Friday that included the Class 2 feature contest that went to Don’t Be who extended her winning sequence to four races. Don’t Be, trained by Sir Mark Prescott at Newmarket, was unbeaten in her last three starts after posting…
By Simon Jackson. Lingfield Park is gearing-up for the second All-Weather Championships series as they prepare to celebrate a quarter of a century of racing on a synthetic surface this month. Lingfield created history on October 30, 1989 when they staged the first all-weather meeting in the UK and are set to recognise the milestone…
By Simon Jackson at Lingfield Park. Adam Kirby was crowned champion jockey with 90 wins for the all-weather championship series that ran from October to April, at Lingfield Park’s first turf meeting of the year on Friday. The award capped a great 12 months for the 25-year-old rider who bagged a brace of Group 1s…
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