The Road to Cheltenham January 24, 2013 EACH week I will be bringing you a selection for the Cheltenham Festival that I feel has the potential to shorten between now and mid-March. Oscar Whisky is a prime candidate but, as I’ve already said, he is far from guaranteed to stay in tomorrow’s Cleeve Hurdle. Instead, I’m going to focus on the RSA [...]
Commander can return with a bang in Argento Chase with big guns missing January 24, 2013 AFTER what has been a most unwanted hiatus from National Hunt racing we have to hope and pray that tomorrow’s fantastic card at Cheltenham gets the green light. Festival clues will come thick and fast from the first race to the last and the highlight for many will be the return of Sprinter Sacre in [...]
City can edge out Stoke at the Britannia January 24, 2013 A REPEAT of the 2011 final kicks-off tomorrow’s FA Cup fourth round action when Manchester City travel to the lively Britannia Stadium. Roberto Mancini closed the gap at the top of the Premier League to five points last weekend and he’ll be keen to build on a run of five successive victories across all competitions. [...]
Blue Square Bet Winter Cornivel January 24, 2013 UNFORTUNATELY, the snow put paid to last week’s racing at Lingfield Park Racecourse so we missed out on round three of the Blue Square Bet Sprint Series. The staff at the track have done a great job this week in ensuring that we’ve had racing and tomorrow will see the series return with a bang. [...]
Wiggins targets Giro and Tour January 24, 2013 CYCLING: Britain’s Bradley Wiggins is set to bid to become only the eighth man to win the Tour de France and the Giro d’Italia in the same year. Team Sky have confirmed that Wiggins will ride the Giro in May as well as defending his Tour title in June and July. The Olympic time trial [...]
Alonso sits out first Ferrari test January 24, 2013 FORMULA ONE: Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso is to skip the first testing session of his team’s new car in Jerez next month in order to focus on his fitness. Felipe Massa and development driver Pedro de la Rosa will instead put the 2013 model through its paces, before Alonso gets behind the wheel in Barcelona two [...]
Chelsea star Hazard says sorry for kick on ball boy January 23, 2013 SWANSEA 0 vs CHELSEA 0 Swansea win 2-0 on aggregate CHELSEA midfielder Eden Hazard was forced to apologise last night after being sent off for kicking a ball boy as his side crashed out of the Capital One Cup at Swansea. In a bizarre incident late in the semi-final second leg, Hazard’s right boot connected [...]
Murray worries Federer ahead of semi-final January 23, 2013 TENNIS world No2 Roger Federer admits Britain’s Andy Murray has blossomed into a far more dangerous opponent as they prepare to face off in tomorrow’s Australian Open semi-finals. Federer dropped his first sets of the tournament in beating seventh seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga yesterday, after Murray strolled past another Frenchman, Jeremy Chardy, in straight sets. The [...]
Future star Root shines brightly amid England’s one-day gloom January 23, 2013 ENGLAND are crying out for reinforcements in the bowling attack, as India showed yesterday when their five-wicket win in Mohali wrapped up victory in the one-day series with a match to spare. It was a good toss for the hosts to win as the ball nipped around early on, and though Kevin Pietersen (76) and [...]
Lancaster besieged by injuries as Johnson ruled out until April January 23, 2013 ENGLAND rugby head coach Stuart Lancaster is facing mounting injury worries as he prepares for his first Six Nations as favourites, after Exeter flanker Tom Johnson was ruled out of the entire championship. London Irish prop Alex Corbisiero, who looked set to start, and promising Gloucester fly-half Fredie Burns are also set to miss at [...]