Hayes’ China can Win to gain place in HK Derby March 10, 2026 HONG Kong racing fans can look forward to an exciting and highly competitive nine-race programme at Happy Valley tomorrow which features the Craigengower Cricket Club Challenge Cup (12.40pm) over six furlongs. With half-a-dozen favourites obliging at Sha Tin on Sunday, bettors are guaranteed to be on good terms with themselves and hoping for continued good [...]
Atzeni to keep winning streak going aboard Spirit March 10, 2026 IT IS fair to say 34-year-old Sardinian born jockey Andrea Atzeni is having the time of his life in Hong Kong at present. Notching 10 wins in the past month, including a four-timer at Sha Tin last Sunday, has catapulted Atzeni into third place in the jockeys’ championship table with 35 wins, behind only Zac [...]
£9bn World Cup too big to be derailed by Middle East conflict, says Fifa chief March 10, 2026 Fifa has ruled out the prospect of the escalating conflict in the Middle East posing a threat to this summer’s World Cup and is still hopeful that Iran will take up their place. The US and Israel’s attacks and Iran’s retaliatory strikes have caused huge upheaval in the region just three months out from the [...]
Cheltenham Day 2 Tips – Cheltenham Day 2 2026 Predictions March 10, 2026 Each day of Cheltenham gets that much more exciting, and that is proven by the lineup of Cheltenham Day 2! Cheltenham Day 2 features another 7 races run by the cream of the crop in the racing world. Keep reading to discover our tips and predictions for each race on Day 2. City AM’s journalism [...]
Tottenham Hotspur Women MD: ‘We want to be challenging for the WSL’ March 10, 2026 You could be forgiven for thinking that it’s all doom and gloom at Tottenham Hotspur, but there is a good news story unfolding in N17. While the men’s team toil to stay in the Premier League as their mortal enemies from down the road close in on the title, Spurs Women are on a gloriously [...]
Football investors Mercury13 take majority stake in top flight Spanish club March 10, 2026 Women’s football multi-club group Mercury13 has expanded its ownership roster with the majority acquisition of Spanish Liga F side FC Badalona Women. The move brings the top-flight club into a portfolio which includes WSL 2 team Bristol City Women and Italian outfit FC Como Women. Lauren Holiday, chairwoman of Mercury13 and incoming board member of [...]
Talk The Talk to walk the walk in the Supreme March 9, 2026 THERE is definitely no better sound in racing, and possibly no better sound in sport, than the Cheltenham roar. As the tapes are about to go up in the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle (1.20pm), all the Cheltenham hype and build-up has reached its zenith, and punters are ready to enjoy the four best days in the [...]
Back Mullins’ mare to make no Lossie in the Champion March 9, 2026 DAY ONE at Cheltenham is headlined by the Champion Hurdle (4.00pm) and by the time the opening four contests on the card have been run, the 50,000 plus punters at Prestbury Park will be at fever pitch. The crowd were silenced last year when favourite Constitution Hill fell at the fourth last, and unfortunately with [...]
I’m absolutely Mad for Skelton’s hotpot in the Plate March 9, 2026 DAN SKELTON is well clear at the top of the trainers’ championship with a lead of almost £2 million, so it’s going to be difficult for Willie Mullins to crash his party again this year. The Warwickshire-based handler has plenty of bullets to fire this week, including a number of favourites in the handicaps. [...]
Tornado and Iceberg on radar in National Hunt Chase March 9, 2026 PLENTY of changes have been made in recent years to races at the Cheltenham Festival and none more so than with the conditions of the National Hunt Chase (5.20pm). Once a race restricted to amateur riders over four miles with no handicap band, it is now open to all jockeys, restricted to those horses rated [...]