Rambler won’t leave you lost in superb Gold Cup March 13, 2024 AS SHOULD be the case with the showcase event in National Hunt racing, this year’s Cheltenham Gold Cup (Friday, 3.30pm) is undoubtably the race of the meeting and probably the season as well. Bar Shishkin, who was unfortunately ruled out due to an unsatisfactory scope yesterday, everything else looks set to line up in the [...]
Irish raider Kayf looks the Answer in Festival finale March 13, 2024 LOOKING at the remainder of the action on Friday and the form of the Nicky Henderson stable is a huge worry for backers of Sir Gino in the Triumph Hurdle (1.30pm). He was odds-on this time last week and can currently be backed at 9/4 with the chance he could be sent off even bigger. [...]
All 100 Willie Mullins winners at Cheltenham Festival March 13, 2024 Trainer Willie Mullins bagged his 100th Cheltenham Festival winner with Jasmin De Vaux claiming the Champion Bumper in the final race of Style Wednesday. The second day of the Festival started on a bum note with Nicky Henderson withdrawing a number of horses and the Cross Country Chase being abandoned due to overnight rain. Mullins [...]
The Lee and Tea could be first Home in Stayers’ March 13, 2024 MANY will find a bet that comes from the heart in today’s Stayers’ Hurdle (3.30pm). The roof will come off both grandstands if Paisley Park can a plunder the Stayers’ crown on his 12th visit to Prestbury Park, while 2022 Grand National winner Noble Yeats and good old Flooring Porter will also have their cheerleaders. [...]
Protektorat could lay down the Law in an open Ryanair March 13, 2024 JOSEPH O’Brien may have had a good start to this year’s Cheltenham Festival, with Lark In The Mornin winning the Boodles in smart fashion on Tuesday, but the testing ground has almost certainly gone the wrong way for his biggest Festival hope, Banbridge, in today’s Ryanair Chase (2.50pm). Given better ground, he’d have been my [...]
Make it a Golden finish to the day with Cloudy Glen March 13, 2024 WILLIE Mullins won the first five editions of the Mares’ Novices’ Hurdle (4.50pm) but has gone without success in this race for three years now. The master trainer relies upon Jade De Grugy here and she looks a big player, having been mightily impressive when winning last time out at Fairyhouse. She faces two other [...]
Top-weight Farouk has a Noble chance in the Pertemps March 13, 2024 AS WE know finding the winner of the Pertemps Final (2.10pm) is like finding a needle in a haystack, but that does mean it’s a race we get plenty of value in. I’ve narrowed it down to two starting with the top-weight FAROUK D’ALENE who I think is very interesting here. He might be a [...]
David Moyes has done an ‘incredible job’ with West Ham, insists Soucek March 13, 2024 Moyes faces an uncertain future after just two wins in 12 games.
Bonus points create positive rugby, Six Nations chief insists March 13, 2024 Six Nations chief executive Tom Harrison has defended the use of bonus points ahead of Super Saturday dispute a possible scenario occurring where England win more matches than Ireland but lose the title to their rivals. England have won three of their four matches and sit on 12 points while Ireland have the same winning [...]
Football regulator must be radical not ‘damp squib’, warns former FA chief Bernstein March 13, 2024 David Bernstein says the government could 'snatch defeat from the jaws of victory'.