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 […]