We mark your card for five of the best races on the final day of this year’s festival, with the Cheltenham Gold Cup taking centre stage. Owner JP McManus scored with a 1-2 in the Champion Hurdle and he has another strong hand in the JCB Triumph Hurdle (Grade 1) with Charli Parcs and Defi […]
Stars to look out for at Cheltenham
The action returns to Prestbury Park this week for National Hunt racing’s showpiece event and we look at five fascinating contenders in some of the more interesting betting heats for the week ahead. The Sky Bet Supreme Novices’ Hurdle may have cut up somewhat after Neon Wolf and Moon Racer switched to The Neptune and […]
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 […]
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 […]