Britain’s Turf flat season really begins to heat up with the Lincoln at Doncaster on Saturday (2.45) and 22-runners will go to post for the £100,000 contest...
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Navan hosts Grade Two action on Saturday with the Webster Cup (4.40) attracting a field of five and it looks a real good renewal between Road To Riches, Smashing and Foxrock on this occasion. ..
Mallow Racecourse stages an all flat card on Saturday and fresh from his 1-2 in the Irish Lincoln at the Curragh last Sunday, Paul Deegan may be able to pick up a more modest but still valuable pot in the Cork Handicap at 4.45. ..
When you fancy a horse in a race where a jockey has a choice to make you always like the vote of confidence and to see the jockey has sided with your selection, just like Bryan Cooper and Don Cossack last week for example...
The BoyleSports Irish Grand National meeting at Fairyhouse kicks off on Sunday with an interesting card featuring two Grade Ones and if showing no ill-effects from his fall at Cheltenham last week, Outlander would look an obvious choice to win the Ryanair Gold Cup for Willie Mullins. ..
Globetrotter Highland Reel has been racking up more air miles this week as he touched down in Dubai for Saturday’s Dubai Sheema Classic and the Group 1 contest will see him race in a sixth different country in his last six starts. ..
We’ll have only just got through the replays of Cheltenham’s four days when the runners will be going down to post for the opening race of the turf season on the flat at the Curragh tomorrow...
If Paul Nicholls thought he had a comfortable lead in the trainers championship going into Cheltenham, it became very clear as the week went on that this race is well and truly on and Willie Mullins is now 5/4 to win that crown when the British season ends at Sandown in April...
Bookies took an absolute bashing on day three of the Festival thanks again to Willie Mullins and Ruby Walsh but with a good helping hand from Thistlecrack who franked his position as the best staying hurdler around this season and the 1/1 being offered about him was probably as generous as you are going to get at the Cheltenham Festival. ..
The bookmakers certainly edged back in front on day two of the Cheltenham Festival with no winning favourites to celebrate but day three is a day that revolves around two favourites, both of whom are short but both of whom are confident selections...