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…
By Simon Jackson at Kempton Park Irving surged to the forefront of the betting for the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle after an impressive win in the Grade 2 Sky Bet Dovecote Novices’ Hurdle at Kempton Park. The six-year-old kept tabs on the leaders throughout before challenging two fences out to score by five lengths under Paul…
By Simon Jackson Trainer Geoffrey Oldroyd has high hopes of securing back to back victories in the Listed Compare Bookmakers At bookmakers.co.uk Cleves Stakes with Ladies Are Forever at Lingfield on Saturday. The six-year-old mare captured last year’s renewal by a length and then set a new five-furlong course record of 56.67s on Polytrack in…
By Simon Jackson Trainer Jim Goldie is hoping for better luck with the talented Hawkeyethenoo at Lingfield on Saturday after a series of near misses at his last three starts at the Surrey track. Goldie has continued to stick to the same tactics with the 2012 Steward’s Cup winner who has amassed earnings of £355,000…
By Simon Jackson The National Hunt Chase on the opening day of the Cheltenham Festival will this year be run in honour of three-time champion jump jockey Terry Biddlecome who died in January aged 72. Biddlecombe rode 908 winners in a 17 year career that included nine Cheltenham victories and was highlighted by the success…
By Simon Jackson Tidal Bay is 20-1 joint favourite for the Crabbie’s Grand National after he was allotted top-weight of 11st 10lb for the Aintree spectacular on April 5. The Paul Nicholls-trained 13-year-old has been assigned a weight that is seven pounds better than his official rating of 168 and shares favouritism for the big…
By Simon Jackson The weights for the 2014 Grand National will be announced on Tuesday at the Abbey Road Studios in north London that were made famous by Liverpool’s most famous band, The Beatles. The world’s greatest steeplechase is contested at Aintree racecourse on the outskirts of Liverpool and this year has attracted 115 entries…
By Simon Jackson Average attendance at the 15 tracks run by Arena Racing Company (ARC), the owners of Lingfield Park, increased by an average of 5.2 per cent in 2013. The total turnout at ARC venues was well ahead of the industry average, yet despite the good news ARC director of marketing, Mel Armstrong, believes there…
By Simon Jackson Kempton Park is set to stage the sole race meeting in the United Kingdom today, following the abandonments of Leicester, Ludlow and Newcastle due to the wet weather. Today’s twilight fixture commences at 4.50pm and is the start of a busy period for the Middlesex track who host racing on four of…
By Simon Jackson The Giant Bolster is set to return to Cheltenham for the Gold Cup after an impressive victory in the £100,000 Argento Chase, a victory that surprised his trainer David Bridgwater. The Giant Bolster, runner up to the ill-fated Synchronised in the 2012 Gold Cup, has struggled to recapture that level of form…
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