David Pipe talks through his runners at Cheltenham on Wednesday March 10, 2020 NO RUNNERS for us at Cheltenham yesterday, but we have three today so it’s a busier day for the yard. After all the rain at the beginning of the week, the ground will be starting to dry out a little and that is often pretty hard work. We run NIGHT EDITION in the Boodles Handicap [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Tronador looks diamond of a bet in the Boodles March 10, 2020 CONDITIONS will be really tough at Cheltenham this afternoon and that could play to the strengths of the Gordon Elliott-trained TRONADOR in the Boodles Juvenile Handicap Hurdle (4.50pm). Elliott saddles five of the 22 runners in a contest he won two years ago with Veneer Of Charm and back in 2013 with Flaxen Flare. The [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Hobbs runner Definitely the one in the Champion Chase March 10, 2020 EVERY year there is always a ‘race of the Festival’ and up until yesterday morning it was undoubtedly the Betway Champion Chase (3.30pm). However, sadly reigning champion Altior was ruled out by Nicky Henderson after suffering a setback on Sunday and going lame. He just couldn’t recover in time and it’s a real shame as [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Copperhead and Minella Indo look most likely to become RSA champs March 10, 2020 AP MCCOY was a truly extraordinary sportsman and the horse named after him, Champ, will be many punters’ idea of the banker in today’s RSA Insurance Novices’ Chase (2.10pm). Nicky Henderson’s son of King’s Theatre had finished first or second on his first 11 starts, but last time in the Dipper Novices’ Chase at Cheltenham [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Longhouse upset will be pure poetry for his backers March 10, 2020 WITH global shares taking a battering on “Black Monday”, the hordes of Irish racing fans who have descended on Cheltenham this week will be hoping to make it “Black Wednesday” for the bookmakers. A string of high-profile, short-priced favourites are set to strut their stuff around Prestbury Park this afternoon and the alarm bells will [...]
Lutalo Muhammad interview: Team GB taekwondo star set on Olympic gold at Tokyo 2020 after his Rio 2016 heartbreak March 10, 2020 Few pieces of broadcast footage distil sport’s capacity for heartbreak better than the interview given by British athlete Lutalo Muhammad immediately after his desperately cruel defeat in the men’s taekwondo final at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. Grimacing, whimpering and seemingly unable to process what has just unfolded, Muhammad sobs: “I was a half-second away [...]
Liverpool’s season is at a pivotal point but return of Jordan Henderson can tip balance in their favour against Atletico Madrid March 10, 2020 I never thought I’d be writing this but Jordan Henderson has been a huge loss to Liverpool during his recent spell on the sidelines and it’s a major boost that he’s fit to face Atletico Madrid on Wednesday night. Henderson hasn’t just been missed for his play. He is the glue in this team, the [...]
RB Leipzig v Tottenham: Jose Mourinho is risking a repeat of palpable discord through his treatment of Spurs’ thin squad March 9, 2020 Statements from football clubs don’t tend to offer much more than the essential information they wish to convey, but on 17 December 2015 Chelsea’s technical director Michael Emenalo provided an exception to the rule. Chelsea, Emenalo said on the club website, were “in trouble” and “it was time to act”. Jose Mourinho, for the second [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Bailey’s Imperial has a certain Aura about him March 9, 2020 THERE are often one or two that slip into the Northern Trust Novices’ Handicap (4.50pm) off an extremely lenient mark – the challenge is singling out which of the 20 runners that could be. The handicapper must have been wincing when the Irish-trained A Plus Tard cantered into the lead rounding the home turn 12 [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Ballyandy is a Sublime bet in wide-open Champion Hurdle March 9, 2020 WITH more rain set to fall at Cheltenham this morning, ground conditions will be soft for the Unibet Champion Hurdle (3.30pm), the feature contest on the opening day. When you also factor in that this will be the largest field assembled for the two-mile hurdling crown since Punjabi won it back in 2009, the stage [...]