Horse Talk with Simon Jackson: Top horse-racing tips and the latest news. HARRY Skelton will be crowned champion national hunt jockey and Paul Nicholls champion trainer at the Bet365 Jump Finale at Sandown Park on Saturday. Skelton secured his first championship this week following a close-fought battle with last year’s winner, Brian Hughes, while Nicholls…
Horse Talk with Simon Jackson: Top horse-racing tips and the latest news. ALTIOR has won all of his five starts at Sandown Park and bids to add to that tally when he contests the £120,000 Grade 1 Betfair Tingle Creek Chase on Saturday. Altior, the winner of 15 of his 16 chase starts, is targeting…
Horse Talk with Simon Jackson: Top horse-racing tips and the latest news. FOUR races on each of Newbury Racecourse’s two-day behind closed door fixtures on Saturday and Sunday will be televised live on terrestrial TV in a tremendous week for armchair race viewers. Saturday’s races are due to be broadcast on ITV1 and Sunday on ITV4,…
Horse Talk with Simon Jackson: Top horse racing tips and the latest news. CLIVE Cox has given an upbeat report on Positive ahead of his rematch with the unbeaten Pinatubo in the Group 1 Darley Dewhurst Stakes at Newmarket on Saturday. The thrice-raced Positive won on his debut at Salisbury before running on well to…
Horse Talk with Simon Jackson: Top horse racing tips and the latest news. RICHARD Hannon’s QIPCO 2000 Guineas runner-up King Of Change may be set for a rematch with winner Magna Grecia after defying a lengthy absence to win at Sandown. King Of Change had not raced since posting a career best at Newmarket 137…
Horse Talk with Simon Jackson: Top horse racing tips and the latest news. CONNECTIONS have confirmed a big step up in class for the impeccably bred debut winner Too Darn Hot who contests the Group 3 188bet Solario Stakes at Sandown on Saturday. The two-year-old son of Dubawi and triple Group 1 winner Dar Re…
By Simon Jackson. Jack Hobbs is set to test his credentials as a leading hope for the Investec Derby when he contests the Group 2 Betfred Dante Stakes at York on Thursday. The John Gosden-trained colt is unbeaten in two starts and looked mighty impressive when scoring by 12 lengths in a 10 furlong Class…
By Simon Jackson. Huntingdon Racecourse has announced that they are offering free entry for online bookers to their Community Family Fun Day race meeting on Sunday March 1. The Cambridgeshire racecourse is offering a maximum of four tickets per booking to the fixture on St David’s Day at the track located on the outskirts of the…
By Simon Jackson. Three of London’s closest racecourses are offering free or heavily discounted tickets to selected race meetings over the next three months. Jockey Club-owned racecourses Epsom Downs, Sandown Park and Kempton Park have announced advanced booking prices of £5 or less for each of three featured race days in February, March and April. One…
By Simon Jackson. Sire De Grugy’s jockey Jamie Moore has been announced as the ambassador for London Racecourses for the 2014/15 National Hunt season. The news follows a spectacular year for Moore who bagged six Grade race wins that included five on BetVictor Queen Mother Champion Chase winner Sire De Grugy. The bulk of the…
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