Horse Talk with Simon Jackson: Top horse-racing tips and the latest news. FLAT RACING passes the baton to the national hunt code this weekend as Doncaster stage the last UK Group 1 of 2016 and Cheltenham host their first jumps meeting of the season. The feature race at Doncaster is the Group 1 Racing Post…
By Simon Jackson. Silviniaco Conti is set to have his first start of the year at Ascot on Saturday where he will face a maximum of seven rivals in the £150,000 Betfair Ascot Chase. The winner of the William Hill King George VI Chase in 2013 and 2014 was pulled up when attempting to win…
By Simon Jackson. Sire De Grugy will contest the Sodexo Clarence House Chase at Ascot on January 23 enroute to the Betway Queen Mother Champion Chase at the 2016 Cheltenham Festival. The 10-year-old won the Queen Mother in 2014 and appears set for a rematch with 2013 winner Sprinter Sacre who is also amongst the…
By Simon Jackson. Thistlecrack is clear favourite for the Ladbrokes World Hurdle at Cheltenham after his resounding eight-length victory in the Grade 1 JLT Long Walk Hurdle at Ascot on Saturday. The Colin Tizzard-trained seven-year-old was available at odds of 8-1 prior to Saturday’s race but is now best-priced at 3-1 and as short at…
By Simon Jackson. Sire De Grugy added credence to his chances of winning the Queen Mother Champion Chase for a second time with a tenacious victory in the Betfair Tingle Creek Chase at Sandown. The success heralded a return to form for the Gary Moore-trained nine-year-old who won the Tingle Creek in 2013 but suffered…
By Simon Jackson. Kings Palace has been cut to 6-1 (from 7-1) by the sponsors for the £160,000 Paddy Power Gold Cup at Cheltenham on Saturday where 28 entries remain in the Grade 3 showpiece. Kings Palace looks set to make his comeback in the extended two and a half mile contest and appears to…
By Simon Jackson. Sire De Grugy will face a maximum of five rivals on his belated return in the Grade 2 Betfair Price Rush Chase at Newbury on Saturday. The winner of the Queen Mother Champion Chase at the Cheltenham Festival last year has not raced since April 2014 after his intended comeback was delayed…
By Simon Jackson. The Cleeve Hurdle at Cheltenham on January 24 has been mooted as the likely target for Reve De Sivola after his third successive victory in the JLT Long Walk Hurdle at Ascot. The nine-year-old looked destined to finish second on Saturday after jumping the last two lengths adrift of Zarkandar, who appeared…
By Simon Jackson at Kempton Park. The New One remains joint-favourite at 7-2 with Paddy Power for the Champion Hurdle after a decisive victory in the Listed feature race at Kempton Park’s first jumps meeting of the new season on Sunday. The New One’s victory completed the third leg of a 30-1 treble for trainer…
By Simon Jackson Jim Culloty won the Cheltenham Gold Cup three times as a jockey and added another as a trainer when he saddled Lord Windermere to win the feature race of the week. Culloty bagged a successive hat-trick of Gold Cups in emphatic style on Best Mate in 2002, 2003 and 2004. But there…
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