Take two against odds-on Troy in the 2000 Guineas April 30, 2024 IT WAS only last weekend at Sandown that we witnessed Willie Mullins become the first Irish trainer since the great Vincent O’Brien to win the UK Jump Trainers’ Championship, but focus now turns to Newmarket’s Rowley Mile with the first two Classics of the Flat season upcoming. Vincent O’Brien won the 2000 Guineas (3.35pm) four [...]
French raider Ramatuelle to rise to the top in filles’ Classic April 30, 2024 AS IS always the case with the 1000 Guineas, there has been a lot of hype surrounding the good two-year-olds from last year and, on Sunday at 3.40pm, we’ll see whether or not they can live up to it. Unsurprisingly, Aidan O’Brien’s first string, Ylang Ylang, is right there at the top of the market [...]
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Red Certainly no 50/1 shot in the Sandown feature April 23, 2024 SANDOWN is once again the stage for the finale of the 2023/24 Jumps season and looking at the five-day declarations, it could be one of the strongest cards the Esher track has hosted for some time. That’s largely due to Willie Mullins, who has 25 potential contenders for the seven races as he seeks to [...]
Pauling’s Proud the one but Be Aware of Skelton team April 23, 2024 A BRILLIANT concluding card to the National Hunt season begins with the Novices’ Championship Final Handicap Hurdle (1.50pm). It’s as competitive as you would expect with many horses being targeted at a final big payday of the season before they head out to the paddocks for the summer. Ben Pauling’s FIERCELY PROUD was entered to [...]
Inis Oirr and Git Maker to do us Proud April 16, 2024 IT’S VERY much National season at the moment, with last week’s Grand National succeeded by Saturday’s Scottish Grand National (3.35pm) at Ayr. With Willie Mullins’ I Am Maximus winning at Aintree, the Closutton handler now leads the British Trainers’ Championship, despite only having had 19 winners this season. There isn’t much Mullins hasn’t won on [...]
Don’t be Torn from old boy Summerghand at Newmarket April 16, 2024 CLASSIC trials are upon us again with today being the middle day of Newmarket’s three-day Craven Meeting and the ITV cameras are there to cover the action from the Rowley Mile. Godolphin and Charlie Appleby hold a strong hand in both trials, with Dance Sequence a firm favourite for today’s Nell Gwyn (3.35pm) and tomorrow’s [...]
Jim Culloty: Grand National is not scary at all! April 12, 2024 THE GRAND National was one of Jim Culloty’s favourite, and apparently easiest, races as a jockey, winning the 2002 renewal aboard Bindaree. Looking back on his previous rides in the race, Culloty revealed that he wasn’t at all scared by facing some of the biggest fences that National Hunt racing has to offer. Culloty, [...]
Jim Culloty: Bindaree needed one chance and the rest was history April 12, 2024 AS A jockey Jim Culloty rode some of the best around and will forever be associated with the three-time Gold Cup winner Best Mate, while later he would train the winner of the Cheltenham showpiece himself, when successful with Lord Windermere in 2014. Culloty also won the Grand National as a rider aboard Bindaree in [...]
Waters the one to end Mullins’ National drought April 10, 2024 YOU CAN almost certainly count on one hand the amount of big races that Willie Mullins has won only once. And while Saturday’s Randox Grand National (4.00pm) isn’t exactly an easy race to win, the fact the Closutton supremo has only trained the winner of it once will be a statistic he’ll be keen to [...]
