Category: National Hunt Racing

Racing TV is delighted to announce its sponsorship of the €125,000 Grade 1 Racing TV ‘€12 per Month This Weekend Only’ Juvenile Hurdle on the opening day of the showpiece Dublin Racing Festival on February 5. The race is one of the most significant juvenile contests run in the UK and Ireland and was won last year by Quilixios, […]

Tuesday 25th January   Sky Bet Supreme Novices’ Hurdle (Grade 1) 2m 87yds   Tuesday 15th March A Different Kind (IRE) 5 11 7 Mr Dene Rowe Donald McCain Adamantly Chosen (IRE) 5 11 7 Watch This Space Syndicate Willie Mullins IRE Allegorie de Vassy (FR) 5 11 0 Mrs S. Ricci Willie Mullins IRE Aristocrate (FR) […]

Jockey Jonjo O’Neill Jr is confident he can maintain his unbeaten partnership aboard Champ, who he believes is the “one to beat” in the Welsh Marches Stallions at Chapel Stud Cleeve Hurdle at Festival Trials Day at Cheltenham (Saturday 29th January). The Nicky Henderson-trained 10 year old will make his first appearance at the track since […]

Jockey David Noonan believes Favori De Sivola ticks “plenty of boxes” as he bids to claim his third victory from as many starts this season in the Somerset National Handicap Chase (3m 2f 162y) at Wincanton tomorrow (Thursday 20th January).   Since undergoing a second wind operation in the summer, the Nick Williams-trained seven year old has returned […]

Top trainers Gordon Elliott and Henry De Bromhead shared the Grade 1 races on Day 2 of the Leopardstown Christmas Festival as Mighty Potter and Envoi Allen took Monday’s main races. Mighty Potter (5/2) was a first Grade 1 success for rider Jack Kennedy since his return from injury. The Gordon Ellliot-handled bay gelding won […]

Ruby Walsh has named his ten horses to follow ahead of the upcoming National Hunt Season in a YouTube video by Racing TV. The former jockey has given his tips on the horses he thinks will bring success in the coming months. Walsh’s picks include five horses trained by Willie Mullins, with several recent race winners […]

Jockey Harry Cobden believes multiple Grade One winner Politologue still has the “fire in his belly” ahead of his attempt to break through the £1million prize money barrier in the Shloer Chase at Cheltenham on Sunday. The Grade Two contest has been sponsored since 2011 by Shloer, which has now extended its association with the race for […]

Martin Smith is hoping Friends Don’t Ask can land a unique horseracing double this week by winning the Glenfarclas Cross Country Handicap Chase at Cheltenham having already won the Newmarket Town Plate this summer. Trainer Smith’s lifelong ambition has been to train a winner at the home of Jump racing and admits it would be “absolutely massive” […]

Martin Keighley received the perfect boost before saddling Back On The Lash and Talkischeap in the Glenfarclas Cross Country Chase at Cheltenham this Friday when Dreamsundermyfeet secured win number four of the season at Huntingdon.   The Gloucestershire based trainer continued his flying start to the campaign thanks to the progressive six year old, who added to […]

Last three winners of Unibet Morgiana Hurdle feature in latest renewal of Punchestown Winter Festival showpiece  Crowds will return to Grade 1 action at Punchestown for the first time since 2019 this weekend as the ever popular two-day Winter Festival hosts the Unibet Morgiana Hurdle on Sunday.Last year’s winner Abacadabras will try to repeat the […]