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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...
Twelve months ago Willie Mullins completed an unprecedented opening day four-timer at the Cheltenham Festival but here we are again and the chances of a repeat look very high. ..
After the weather intervened last weekend Grand National winner Many Clouds will get his opportunity to gear up for a return to Aintree next month at Kelso on Sunday where he is expected to win the listed Premier Chase on their rescheduled meeting. ..
If you are having a conversation without mentioning the Cheltenham Festival well then you are hanging around in the wrong circles and at this stage all roads are leading to the Cotswolds ahead of an epic four-days.
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