Horse Talk with Simon Jackson: Top horse racing tips and the latest news. LOSTINTRANSLATION bids to supply Colin Tizzard with this third win in five years in the Ladbrokes King George VI Chase at Kempton Park on Boxing Day. Tizzard won Kempton’s blue riband event with Cue Card (2015) and Thistlecrack (2016) and has a…
Horse Talk with Simon Jackson: Top horse racing tips and the latest news. CHELTENHAM racecourse on Thursday posted record attendance numbers for the third consecutive day as Paisley Park won the Stayers’ Hurdle and Frodon landed the Ryanair Chase. Bryony Frost became the first woman to win the Grade 1 Ryanair Chase when scoring on…
Horse Talk with Simon Jackson: Top horse racing tips and the latest news. Punters will get their money back if selections are non-runners in five of the feature races at the Cheltenham Festival after news that three major bookmakers have taken the unusual step of going non-runner no bet from early January. Paddy Power, Betfair…
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. 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. KEMPTON PARK hosts their flagship meeting of the season – The 32Red Winter Festival – on December 26 and 27 that features the Grade 1 King George VI Chase. The King George has been won by a host of top-class chasers that includes…
Horse Talk with Simon Jackson: Top horse-racing tips and the latest news. COLIN TIZZARD is 6-4 with bookmaker Paddy Power to win the 2017 Cheltenham Gold Cup where the trainer is responsible for three of the leading entries. The in-form handler has entered in the Gold Cup 2016 World Hurdle winner and unbeaten chaser Thistlecrack…
By Simon Jackson. Cheltenham takes centre stage this week 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 world, played out on the spectacular Gloucester racecourse from…
By Simon Jackson. World Hurdle favourite Thistlecrack is set to contest the Grade 2 galliardhomes.com Cleeve Hurdle on Festival Trials Day at Cheltenham enroute to this year’s Festival. The eight-year-old heads a maximum field of nine runners for the three mile contest on Saturday which will be his last race before the World Hurdle. Colin…
