Golden Sixty bids for Massive fourth Champions Mile April 26, 2024 THE RACING world will have their eyes firmly fixed on Hong Kong this Sunday when Sha Tin hosts one of its marquee meetings of the season; FWD Champions Day, featuring three Group One races worth £7.2 million in prize money. There is no doubting the city will come to a standstill at 9.00am when the [...]
Ng’s stable due another Power surge towards title with Drombeg April 26, 2024 TRAINERS’ championship leader Pierre Ng must have breathed a sigh of relief at Happy Valley in midweek when a winning double broke a long losing sequence of 40 runners for the stable this month. Winners breed confidence and Ng will surely be more than hopeful that front-running DROMBEG BANNER can strike an overdue win in [...]
EP: 268 Sandown & Hong Kong Champions Day April 26, 2024 The final day of the jumps season still has one big question to answer as three trainers can still finish at the top of the tree. Willie Mullins, Dan Skelton and reigning champion Paul Nicholls all go into Saturday at Sandown with chances of becoming champion trainer where we hope to see Jonbon taking on [...]
Haggas hoping to get Hong Kong monkey off his back with Dubai Honour April 26, 2024 WILLIAM Haggas has had great success overseas, but he is yet to have a winner in Hong Kong. “That really irks me,” said the 63-year-old Newmarket-based trainer. “We’ve had a bit of luck abroad in other places but not in Hong Kong, so I’d like to get that monkey off my back so to speak.” [...]
Women’s rugby must get radical to avoid making mistakes men’s game did April 26, 2024 For the women’s game to be truly successful I believe it needs a radical overhaul; a revolution that will change the face of rugby forever. Because the reality is that it is hard to get excited for this weekend’s final round of the Women’s Six Nations. England are expected to win, even against closest competitors [...]
LIV Golf Adelaide a point of difference for Saudi Arabia league April 25, 2024 When the LIV Golf roster tee off for the first event in the league since the Masters at Augusta earlier this month it is likely to feel like another marquee match event on the 2024 calendar. Because Adelaide, South Australia, is the closest the Saudi Arabia-backed breakaway league has to its own major. The inaugural [...]
Ed Warner: How do we value sport and the draw of much needed money April 25, 2024 After World Athletics announced it would be paying its Olympic gold medallists, a fresh debate has opened up around money for our athletes and the draw of cash in sport for bodies. Ed Warner writes. The British Olympic Association seats its gold medallists in the front of the plane carrying its team home from a [...]
HP become Ferrari chief partner as F1 team change name April 24, 2024 The iconic Prancing Horse of Ferrari’s F1 team will now be known as Scuderia Ferrari HP after announcing a new title partnership deal with Hewlett Packard. The tech firm will feature on Ferrari branding from the next Grand Prix, in Miami next week, and is understood to be worth well over 50 per cent of [...]
Has Rafael Nadal competed in his last French Open before retirement? April 24, 2024 Rafael Nadal could miss the French Open this year in what could be his final season on the tennis circuit, the Spaniard has revealed. Nadal has said previously that 2024 would be his last year on the ATP Tour and at the majors, with many expecting the 22-time Grand Slam champion to bow out after [...]
Liverpool open talks with Feyenoord over Slot replacing Klopp April 24, 2024 Liverpool have opened talks with Feyenoord about the possibility of hiring their manager Arne Slot as the Merseyside club look to replace the departing Jurgen Klopp. German Klopp announced in January that he’d be standing down as manager at the end of the season but the club has been in no hurry to appoint a [...]