EP: 256 Cheltenham Festival – Tuesday March 10, 2024 The opening day of this year’s Cheltenham Festival kicks off with a fascinating renewal of the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle, plus we go in search of a new champion in the feature race, the Champion Hurdle, one of four Grade 1 races on Tuesday afternoon. City AM Racing editor Bill Esdaile previews the long-awaited action from [...]
Brendon McCullum demands ‘smarter’ media comments after humbling defeat March 10, 2024 The head coach said that the squad’s “belief” had “taken a bit of a hit over the last couple of weeks”.
The Punter Summary Podcast – Cheltenham Festival Tuesday March 10, 2024 Here’s your chance to discover all of City AM racing editor Bill Esdaile’s selections for Tuesday at the Cheltenham Festival in a short summary episode of ‘The Punter Podcast’ alongside Chris Barnett. The full preview is also available on the City AM website. The Punter ‘The Punter’ has been City AM’s dedicated sports betting section [...]
Formula 1 runs risk of going stale unless the racing matches the off-track drama March 9, 2024 Formula 1 has off-track storylines galore but the racing itself is far less compelling. Is F1 going stale? With the position Formula 1 as a sport finds itself in at the moment, drowning in allegations, the only potentially distracting part of the travelling circus – the racing itself – is struggling to shine through. The [...]
It could be Sweynesse’s Lucky day March 8, 2024 IT IS a day of reckoning for top-rated sprinter LUCKY SWEYNESSE, who lines-up in the feature race on the ten-race programme, the seven-furlong Group One Queen’s Silver Jubilee Cup (8.05am), at Sha Tin in Hong Kong on Sunday. For a galloper whose record reads 15 wins from 22 races, it seems strange that some pundits [...]
Bowman has Ambition for a Patch of winners March 8, 2024 LEGENDARY jockey Hugh Bowman has given his many thousands of supporters plenty to cheer about in Hong Kong in the past week. The 43-year-old has been at his indomitable best, riding a handful of winners and taking his total up to 40 for the current campaign – and that’s despite missing a large chunk of [...]
‘F1 fans are 40 per cent women, we need more female drivers and employees’ March 8, 2024 Chair & CEO of Kyriba and supervisory board member of at Porsche AG, Melissa Di Donato, dissects what it’s like to be a petrol head in an F1 world full of men, and how STEM and International Women’s Day are key to shifting the balance of power. The non-executive director at the Department for Science, [...]
EP: 255 Sandown, Wolverhampton & Hong Kong March 8, 2024 The Imperial Cup is the feature race at Sandown on Saturday, whilst it’s the fast and furious all-weather Tapeta action in the Lincoln Trial at Wolverhampton on the same afternoon. City AM Racing editor Bill Esdaile previews the best of this weekend’s racing action, plus a final look at some Cheltenham Festival news, with Wally [...]
Where to watch Six Nations in London, plus exclusive breakfast event and our rugby drink of the week March 8, 2024 Here we go, the final push in this year’s Six Nations. It looks as if Ireland will go on to take the title after rounds four and five but that’s no excuse for dropping out of plans to watch games across London. Here are our pub and bar recommendations for the next two weeks, as [...]
England need to replicate South Africa performance (but better) to beat Ireland in Six Nations March 8, 2024 This weekend against England at Twickenham, Ireland can move within one game of the Six Nations Grand Slam. If they achieve an unbeaten campaign in 2024 they’ll become the first team in the Six Nations era to win the Grand Slam in consecutive years. In their way is an England side who still claim to [...]