Horse Racing Betting Tips: In the money, money, money if backing Aba and Bob March 11, 2020 TODAY’s action concludes with the Kim Muir Amateur Riders’ Handicap Chase (5.30pm) and as has become customary in these races, it often pays to follow both Jamie Codd and Derek O’Connor. Both are superb pilots, as shown by Codd’s brilliant ride on Ravenhill in Tuesday’s National Hunt Chase and they are unsurprisingly riding the top-two [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: The Storyteller to Bague Russell a fourth Pertemps March 11, 2020 OFF A lenient mark over hurdles, Grade One-winning chaser THE STORYTELLER sticks out like a sore thumb in today’s Pertemps Network Final (2.10pm). Gordon Elliott’s former Irish novice champion chaser has reverted to the smaller obstacles having failed to land a blow over fences and looks dangerous in this company. He won on his return to hurdles [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: A Plus Tard all set for take off in Ryanair March 11, 2020 ONLY the eight runners are set to line-up in the Ryanair Chase (2.50pm), which is one of the feature races on the penultimate day of the meeting. Last year’s winner Frodon is back to de- fend his crown with Bryony Frost in the saddle and the rain that fell earlier in the week will certainly [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Bapaume to bounce back in Marsh March 11, 2020 HORSES don’t come any more popular in Ireland than Faugheen or Samcro, so if either of them manage to win today’s opening Marsh Novices’ Chase (1.30pm), the roof will be blown off the Cheltenham grandstand. Faugheen, in particular, is adored by racing fans on both sides of the Irish Sea and the reception he got [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Penhill will make sure it’s no walk in the Park for Paisley March 11, 2020 BIG BUCK’S and Inglis Drever are two legends of the staying hurdling division and I fully expect PAISLEY PARK to join them as a multiple winner of the Paddy Power Stayers’ Hurdle (3.30pm) this afternoon. They are all cut from the same cloth in that whatever their rivals try to do to beat them they [...]
Marquees, team bonding and repetition: The secrets of a county cricket pre-season March 11, 2020 A month out from the start of the County Championship, players are beginning to ramp up their preparations behind the scenes. Pre-season has changed a lot since I began my career. In those days players were often on six-month contracts, meaning the off-season was left up to the individual. Players might go abroad to keep [...]
Japanese minister says coronavirus-threatened Tokyo Olympics will go ahead March 11, 2020 Japanese olympics minister Seiko Hashimoto said the planned international sporting festival in Tokyo this summer will go ahead despite the threat of coronavirus. Earlier a member of the organising committee for the event Haruyuki Takahashi had suggested that while a cancellation was unlikely, the games could be delayed if unable to be held as planned [...]
RB Leipzig 3-0 Tottenham: Meek Spurs dumped out of the Champions League as pressure mounts on Mourinho March 10, 2020 This time there was no comeback. Lucas Moura, the hat-trick hero of that famous night in Amsterdam 10 months ago, was on the pitch for Tottenham, but the magic of that Champions League semi-final second leg was nowhere to be seen in Leipzig tonight. That was to be expected. Even before kick-off in east Germany [...]
Hong Kong Racing Tips: You better Be Ready to back Zac Purton’s valley mount March 10, 2020 LIFE has been tough for formbook students at Happy Valley over the past few weeks. Normally horses drawn low, racing up with the pace and along the rail down the home straight, have been a recipe for success, but not so much recently. The majority of results have seen horses coming from behind and finishing [...]
Hong Kong Betting Tips: Naboo can be the Star for Fownes March 10, 2020 TRAINER Caspar Fownes could be the man to follow at Happy Valley today. Charismatic Fownes is known as the ‘King of the Valley’. The three-time champion trainer has saddled around 470 winners at the inner-city track since he gained his licence back in 2003/04 and is the go-to trainer when bettors are looking for some [...]