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Olly Murphy will give Thomas Darby the chance to take the first step towards a potential outing in the Paddy Power Stayers’ Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival in March at Wetherby later this month. The Wilmcote handler has earmarked the Grade Two bet365 Hurdle, better known as the West Yorkshire Hurdle, on Saturday week (30th […]
We have all you need to know about how to enter the best-dresssed lady competition at the Galway races, it’s the big ladies’ day prize for 2021. Widely renowned as ‘Ladies Day’ at the Galway Races, Thursday traditionally combines the very best in horse racing and fashion. Following on from its popularity last Summer, the […]
The 2021 Galway Races will have a prize fund of over €1.8m on offer to the competitors throughout the week of Monday, July 26th to Sunday, August 1st. The fund – a total of €1,817,500 – will be spread across fifty-two events over the course of a week. Each day will have a feature race […]
Archie Watson believes the Darley July Cup at Newmarket’s Moët & Chandon July Festival on Saturday is shaping up to be “the race of the season” as Dragon Symbol and Glen Shiel bid to give him a first victory in the race. The Lambourn trainer will let his two talented sprinters battle it out against each other in […]
Haydock Park stages the only mixed card of the year in the UK tomorrow (Saturday 8th May) when the highlight is the Grade Three Pertemps Network Swinton Handicap Hurdle. First run in 1978, the £100,000 contest takes place over two miles and its roll of honour boasts the likes of Cheltenham Festival winners Gaye Chance and […]
Group One winner and Cazoo Derby contender Mac Swiney returns to action this weekend, just one of the highlights among a programme of 14 fixtures over the next three days – with every race live only on Racing TV. The Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial has proved a pre-eminent trial for the Epsom Classic over a […]
NOTTINGHAM RACEDAY PREVIEW: CHARLIE JOHNSTON, HUGO PALMER, KEVIN RYAN, CHARLIE FELLOWES, DAVID SIMCOCK AND RON HARRIS GIVE THEIR VIEWS ON RUNNERS ON AN INTRIGUING SATURDAY CARD Charlie Johnston is hopeful that the in-form Mountain Brave can build on an impressive victory at Doncaster last week by picking up some black type in the Listed British Stallion Studs […]
Jessica Harrington is doubly represented in the Group 3 Irish Stallion Farms EBF Blue Wind Stakes at Naas on Saturday as the trainer bids to win a second consecutive renewal of the race. Stable jockey Shane Foley will partner Silence Please, a three-time winner that ran well in defeat behind subsequent Classic winner Even So […]
Call Of The Wild secured the first of what jockey Tom Cannon hopes will be many doubles this season after running out an impressive winner on his debut at Huntingdon on Thursday. The Alan King-trained four year old, a half-brother to the yard’s Doncaster Spring Mile and Newbury Spring Cup winner Chatez, put in an […]
A vintage renewal of the Grade 1 William Hill Champion Chase saw Chacun Pour Soi storm to victory for Willie Mullins, Paul Townend and Susannah Ricci providing reigning champion jockey Townend with a welcome winner. The six-runner field was led along at a hair-raising gallop in the early stages and despite being headed briefly by […]
