The pinnacle of the jumps racing season takes centre stage on Friday afternoon, with the latest renewal of the Cheltenham Gold Cup. This is the sport’s most prestigious and cherished prize, the one race every jockey, trainer and owner longs to win. It is the race every bumper horse that ever runs has the dream […]
Cheltenham Festival – Ones To Watch
The waiting is almost over for jumps racing fans. The Olympics of racing, the greatest show on turf…call it what you will, the Cheltenham Festival is just one week away now! The ‘Beast From The East’ is going to have to make way for an outbreak of ‘Cheltenham Fever’. Here are some horses to watch […]
Put it on the Slate
Cheltenham Trials Day is centre stage on Saturday as the great amphitheatre in the Cotswolds stages it final day of racing before the Cheltenham Festival in March. This day often provides plenty of pointers towards March and, with some luck, we’ll see a Festival winner or two in what appears a good card. Colin Tizzard’s […]
ComeOn! – Our Road To The Cheltenham Festival!
With less than 8 weeks to go until The Cheltenham Festival begins, start your spring right with ComeOn! Place three individual bets of £10 or on selected races in the build-up to the highlight of the jumps season and receive a £10 FREE BET in time for the first race on March 13th! The selected […]
Cheltenham countdown starts now!
The New Year is in and that only means one thing for jumps racing fans…we can officially start counting down to the biggest week in the year, the Cheltenham Festival in March, now only 10 weeks out. As always the Festive racing offered as many new questions as it did answers and here we’ll assess […]
Blaklion hard to hold in Becher test
Fourth in the Grand National at Aintree in the spring, Blaklion looks to hold outstanding claims of getting a win over famous fences in Saturday’s Becher Handicap Chase. Nigel Twiston-Davies’ charge kept some very useful company last term, preceding his Aintree effort with pleasing performances in defeat behind the likes of Native River, Definitly Red […]
Nicholls can still star at Haydock
This was once the weekend when Paul Nicholls would get his season going at full tilt, but the Ditcheat handler does not have a Kauto Star to fire at Haydock’s Betfair Chase this weekend. Nicholls is short of the firepower of days past and has been relieved of the champion trainer crown by Nicky Henderson. […]
