Category: National Hunt Racing

AINTREE NEWS: Early closer – entries for the Unibet Becher Handicap Chase on Saturday 4th December Lord du Mesnil (FR) 8 Mr Paul Porter & Mike & Mandy Smith Richard Hobson Mighty Thunder (GB) 8 Allson Sparkle Ltd Lucinda Russell Kimberlite Candy (IRE) 9 Mr John P. McManus Tom Lacey Top Ville Ben (IRE) 9 […]

Hot on the heels of hosting the Flat Finale, Naas Racecourse will begin their National Hunt season on 6th November with leading bookmakers BetVictor today announcing an extension to their impressive sponsorship portfolio by sponsoring four races at Naas’ Return of the Jumps fixture. BetVictor’s latest commitment to Irish racing includes the sponsorship of the […]

Paul Nicholls today (Tuesday) celebrates 30 years of training from his Manor Farm Stables, determined to secure a place in the record books as the first trainer to saddle 4,000 Jump winners in the UK. Since picking up the keys to the place he calls home on October 19th 1991, the 59 year old has […]

Racing returns to Aintree this coming Sunday (24th October), when the highlight is the Grade Two Monet’s Garden Old Roan Limited Handicap Chase over just short of two and a half miles. A total of 16 entries were received for the contest today, including the 2020 winner Nuts Well and Allmankind, successful in the Grade One Henry VIII Novices’ […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]