Category: National Hunt Racing

US jumps trainer Keri Brion, who achieved her first National Hunt winner in Ireland with Scorpion’s Revenge at Cork Racecourse on Sunday is currently organising an owners syndicate for a horse she has sourced in Ireland called Howya Tuppence. “The main goal of this would obviously be to bring many different owners from all over […]

Punchestown Racecourse today welcomed eCOMM Merchant Solutions as the most recent high profile addition to the sponsorship portfolio ahead of the 2021 Punchestown Festival. The award winning tech company will take over the first Grade 1 of the season finale, the eCOMM Merchant Solutions Champion Novice Hurdle, on Tuesday 27th April. This two mile contest boasts […]

Punchestown Racecourse are delighted to welcome Coolmore as the new co-sponsors of the Grade 1 Mares Champion Hurdle on the final day of the 2021 Punchestown Festival, Saturday 1st May. The Grade 1 Coolmore Kew Gardens Irish EBF Mares Champion Hurdle benefits from an increased prize fund as a result of the collaboration and at €120,000 it […]

Leading bookmaker bet365 has extended its sponsorship of the Jump Finale at Sandown Park (Saturday 24th April in 2021) for a further three years. bet365, which first extended its support to the Jump Finale in 2008, will also continue to back Classic Trial Day at Sandown Park, which takes place on Friday 23rd April, 24 hours before […]

Longstanding Punchestown Festival supporters Ladbrokes have today further extended their backing at the home of Irish jump racing with a double header deal that will see the leading bookmaker add the 2021 Punchestown Gold Cup to the their continued sponsorship of the Ladbrokes Champion Stayers Hurdle. Ladbrokes have been the title sponsors of the Ladbrokes […]

Christian Williams says he will school Potters Corner over some Randox Grand National-style fences before taking him to Aintree next week. The 11 year old won the 2019 Welsh Grand National at Chepstow and was victorious in last year’s ‘Virtual Grand National’, which was run in place of the real thing in aid of NHS […]

The going at Aintree is now Good to Soft, Good in places across all three courses (Mildmay, Hurdle and Grand National) ahead of this week’s Randox Grand National Festival, which gets underway on Thursday.   Watering began at Aintree last week and yesterday saw five millimetres of irrigation applied to Mildmay and Hurdle courses and six millimetres […]

Dan Skelton plans to send a strong team to Aintree for this week’s Randox Grand National Festival, but will be keeping a handful of his stars fresh for Sandown Park’s bet365 Jump Finale at the end of April. The yard has been in fine form, sending out a total of six winners at Stratford and […]

Next Monday, 12th April, we will be releasing entries for all 12 Grade 1 races at the 2021 Punchestown Festival and indications are they are shaping up to be pretty special indeed. We appreciate that this will be a lot of content in one release but given the fixtures and other big race action this […]

Bryony Frost is confident Yala Enki can prove equally effective on a quicker surface when attempting to help her become the first female rider to win the Randox Grand National at Aintree on Saturday (10th April). Having become the first female jockey to win the Ladbrokes King George VI Chase aboard the Paul Nicholls-trained Frodon […]