NO Champion Hurdle winner has set the pulse racing as much as Istabraq in the past 20 years, but some would argue that Hurricane Fly has the potential to be even greater. The 10-time Grade One winning hurdler has had some niggling problems during...
Racing
Friday 3rd February 2012, 12:27am
Friday 3rd February 2012, 12:26am
IT’S been a profitable few weeks on the all-weather for us. Diamond Vine’s victory in round four of the Blue Square Sprint Series was a third winner in the last three weeks. Luke Morris nominated his mount as his ride of the weekend and Blue...
Friday 20th January 2012, 12:03am
SOMERSBY was beaten only a short head by Master Minded in last year’s Victor Chandler Chase at Ascot and looks the value alternative to Finian’s Rainbow in tomorrow’s 25th running of the race (3.45pm).
Henrietta Knight’s eight-year-old...
Thursday 13th October 2011, 11:46pm
ASCOT stages the inaugural QIPCO British Champions Day tomorrow and it’s going to be some spectacle. The Champions Series has been fantastic and it is all set to culminate in a feast of horseracing at the Berkshire track.
One of the...
Thursday 13th October 2011, 11:45pm
THE waiting is almost over and I’m really looking forward to tomorrow’s QIPCO British Champions Day. The Champions Series has been a tremendous success so far and the organisers have been rewarded with some world class fields for the big day....
Thursday 6th October 2011, 11:07pm
NEWMARKET stages its ‘Future Champions Day’ tomorrow with four Group races for two-year-olds featuring both the Dewhurst and the Middle Park Stakes.
The latter is first up at 2.35pm over six furlongs and my eye was immediately drawn to...
Thursday 29th September 2011, 11:06pm
SUNDAY’S Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe now looks set to be run on unusually quick ground with Paris having been bathed in sunshine all week. John Gosden’s Nathaniel, a mudlark who was originally many people’s idea of the possible winner, will...
Thursday 22nd September 2011, 11:02pm
NO horse has ever won tomorrow’s Group One Sun Chariot Stakes (3.10pm) three times, but that could be about to change with Rod Collet’s French mare SAHPRESA. The six-year-old has claimed the last two renewals of this contest and probably should...
Thursday 8th September 2011, 11:09pm
WHEN Sea Moon quickened eight lengths clear of the Great Voltigeur field at York last month, he immediately shot to the head of the betting for tomorrow’s Ladbrokes St Leger.
Sir Michael Stoute’s new stable star was having only his fourth...
Thursday 1st September 2011, 11:26pm
THE winners of the two six furlong sprints run so far in the QIPCO British Champions Series meet in tomorrow’s Betfred Sprint Cup at Haydock Park, with July Cup winner Dream Ahead heading up most lists at around 7/2
David Simcock’s three-...
Editor's Letter
Allister Heath
UK can’t count on others messing up
THERE are two ways a country can do well. The first is to introduce domestic policies that boost work,...
