Galvin to write another chapter in Elliott’s cross country Story March 11, 2025 GROUND conditions on the Glenfarclas Cross Country Chase (3.20pm) course will be very different from 12 months ago when the race was abandoned because of a waterlogged track. The track has been drying out gradually all week with now plenty of ‘good’ patches on a unique course currently described as good-to-soft. This year’s renewal has [...]
Take it to the Max with Clegane in the Coral Cup March 11, 2025 CHELTENHAM handicaps are notoriously difficult to unravel and they don’t come much harder than this afternoon’s 26-runner Coral Cup (2.40pm). Dan Skelton, who has won the last two renewals with Langer Dan, saddles Be Aware and he has been a big ante-post springer. A fine second to Burdett Road in the Greatwood Hurdle, he looked [...]
Work can earn you the Munny in the Supreme March 10, 2025 WE’RE finally here, the Cheltenham Festival, four days of unmissable action with the stars of Jumps racing coming out to play. The roar that greets the lifting of the tapes to begin the first race, the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle (1.20pm), is perhaps the loudest of the week, but four and a half minutes later there [...]
Take on Lossiemouth with pair of improving mares March 10, 2025 AS FAR as big betting weeks go, nothing comes close to the Cheltenham Festival. The entire Jumps season has been building to these four days at Prestbury Park, and it really is a punters’ paradise. However, looking at this year’s Champion Hurdle (4.00pm), I’m reminded that some races are there to just sit back and [...]
L’Eau du Sud a great each-way bet in the Arkle March 10, 2025 DAN Skelton is having a brilliant season, with a first trainer’s championship now a best-priced 2/7. He has some big bullets to fire this week and the first of them is L’EAU DU SUD in the My Pension Expert Arkle Novices’ Chase (2.00pm). Second in last year’s County Hurdle, the dashing grey is four from [...]
Fuss and Teriferma can hit the frame in Hot Fred Winter March 10, 2025 BOOKMAKERS may already be running for cover by the time the Fred Winter (4.40pm) is off, but so tricky a puzzle to solve is the two-mile hurdles contest for four-year-olds that they’ll be hopeful of clawing some cash back. Plenty of money is set to ride on the likes of Total Look, Stencil and Beyond [...]
Broadway Boy to put his name in lights in the Ultima March 4, 2025 WAITING is nearly over for the Olympics of Jumps racing with less than a week to go to the Cheltenham Festival. We learned the handicap weights last week and I think I’ve found another bet in these devilishly difficult-to-solve contests. The Ultima Handicap Chase is the first handicap of the meeting, and The Changing Man [...]
Let Betty lift your Spirits at Sandown March 4, 2025 CHELTENHAM is now virtually upon us but before then Sandown’s meeting on Saturday provides a last chance to fill the coffers before we head into the greatest four days of Jumps racing. There’s a £100,000 bonus in place for any horse that wins the Imperial Cup (2.25pm) and follows up in any race at Cheltenham. [...]
Tap and go with the Irish in the Cheltenham Festival finale February 25, 2025 WITH the Cheltenham Festival fast approaching and the handicap weights recently being announced, I think it’s time we take aim at an ante-post handicap market. The handicaps are a great hunting ground for punters looking to find some value, and now we know where we stand with the weights, I like the look of an [...]
Back Scarface and Rhapsody to put on a Cracking show February 25, 2025 WITH the Cheltenham Festival now less than two weeks away attention for many stables is focused firmly on the four-day spectacle, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t still some intriguing racing this weekend. Kelso hosts its biggest raceday of the year, featuring the Morebattle Hurdle (3.30pm), a race that offers an added incentive for Cheltenham [...]
