Marine can spoil Jonbon’s Cheltenham party March 11, 2025 FOR THE racing purists, there’s nothing quite like the BetMGM Queen Mother Champion Chase (4.00pm). It’s a flat-out test over the minimum trip, and Jonbon heads the betting at a shade of odds-on. He’s been the dominant two-mile chaser this season, but it’s safe to say that he has his doubters. He has won on [...]
Final Demand to tame The Lion in the Turners March 11, 2025 ANYONE who watched The New Lion saunter home in the Challow Hurdle at Newbury over Christmas would have fancied him to follow up in today’s Turners Novices’ Hurdle (1:20pm). He breezed through the field to stamp his authority on this staying novice hurdle division and JP McManus was quick to make previous owner Darren Yates [...]
Galvin to write another chapter in Elliott’s cross country Story March 11, 2025 GROUND conditions on the Glenfarclas Cross Country Chase (3.20pm) course will be very different from 12 months ago when the race was abandoned because of a waterlogged track. The track has been drying out gradually all week with now plenty of ‘good’ patches on a unique course currently described as good-to-soft. This year’s renewal has [...]
Take it to the Max with Clegane in the Coral Cup March 11, 2025 CHELTENHAM handicaps are notoriously difficult to unravel and they don’t come much harder than this afternoon’s 26-runner Coral Cup (2.40pm). Dan Skelton, who has won the last two renewals with Langer Dan, saddles Be Aware and he has been a big ante-post springer. A fine second to Burdett Road in the Greatwood Hurdle, he looked [...]
Size and Avdulla hold all the Aces at Happy Valley March 11, 2025 BANK on jockey Brenton Avdulla to continue his rich vein of form when the in-form pilot arrives at Happy Valley in Hong Kong today for half-a-dozen rides on the nine-race programme. There never seems to be a meeting go by in the city recently where Avdulla leaves empty-handed, and that is born out by his [...]
Karate Express can chop through the field for Lui March 11, 2025 JOCKEY Jimmy Orman was given the news earlier this week that his contract of riding in Hong Kong had been extended until the end of the season, after impressing the powers that be in the city. Having ridden a couple of winners since he touched down in the territory in the middle of last month, [...]
Man City owner City Football Group close in on £1bn combined losses March 11, 2025 Manchester City owners the City Football Group’s combined total losses are nearing £1bn after they registered a £122.2million pre-tax loss in the 2023-24 season. City Football Group, which counts the Premier League champions as its star asset, was founded in 2013 and is majority owned by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan with Silver Lake [...]
The Punter Podcast Episode 16: Day 2 of the Cheltenham Festival March 11, 2025 Bill Esdaile and Tom Marriott give their pointers on day two of the Cheltenham Festival. The Punter ‘The Punter’ has been City AM’s dedicated sports betting section for over a decade with a primary focus on horseracing. Throughout the season ‘The Punter’ will preview the weekend’s action every Friday along with in-depth coverage of all [...]
150th Anniversary Test: Ashes rivals to play day-night Test March 11, 2025 England’s one-off match against Australia in 2027 to mark 150 years of Test cricket will be a day-night fixture, organisers have announced. The match in Melbourne, dubbed the 150th Anniversary Test, is scheduled to take place on 11-15 March 2027 – exactly two years from now – and be the first men’s pink-ball clash at [...]
Manchester United reveal plans for Britain’s biggest stadium March 11, 2025 Manchester United have revealed plans to build Britain’s biggest stadium, a £2bn 100,000-capacity venue to replace Old Trafford that will sit at the heart of a “miniature city of the future”. New conceptual images of the venue show an “umbrella” canopy with three spikes, a nod to the prongs of the devil’s trident on the [...]