Top Tips from Paddy Power March 10, 2014 I DON’T know if it’s wise or not to have your best bet of the week in the very first race, but I do think that VAUTOUR is banker material. I have a feeling that the race is going to be a carbon copy of last year with Ruby Walsh in front on Vautour with [...]
Hurricane Fly set to defy age and land an historic third Champion Hurdle March 10, 2014 BILL ESDAILE PREVIEWS THE CHAMPION HURDLE AND THE MARES’ HURDLE RARELY has a horse been more eagerly awaited than this year’s renewal of the Stan James Champion Hurdle. With the obvious exception of Annie Power, the “who’s who” of the two-mile hurdling division all make the journey to Prestbury Park to take part in this [...]
Cockney Sparrow each-way value against wonder mare March 10, 2014 ANYONE who witnessed Quevega’s incredible fifth successive win in this race 12 months ago would have had serious doubts about the Willie Mullins-trained mare making it six wins on the bounce in 2014. Yet, here we are one year on and the 10-year-old is a best-priced 8/11 with BetBright to become the most successful horse [...]
Green and gold of JP McManus set to be among the winners once more March 10, 2014 NO OWNER’S colours have been carried to the Festival’s winner’s enclosure more frequently than those of JP McManus. The Irish business magnate, infamous among the betting ring for legendary gambles, has had 39 Festival heroes and is odds-on across the board to be leading owner once more this week. He has two outstanding chances in [...]
Star Sports: Lay of the day March 10, 2014 THE WAITING is finally over and at last it’s time for the best four days in the racing calendar. Now, I’ve been warned that all you punters are desperate to back the four Ruby Walsh-ridden “good things” on day one and we’re ready and waiting. In fact, if that’s you, we’ve got an unbelievably generous [...]
War breaks out in Co-op boardroom March 10, 2014 CO-OPERATIVE chief executive Euan Sutherland yesterday launched a furious attack on members of his own board after a suspected leak revealed details of his £3.66m pay deal. Sutherland took the unusual step of posting on social network Facebook to lash out at the “individual, or individuals” on the Co-op board who he said were determined [...]
A fifth of Britons expect to still be working on their 70th birthday March 10, 2014 A FIFTH of people in the UK think they will be still be working by their 70th birthday, according to shocking new research. A major international survey released by Nielsen today paints a grim picture of the retirement prospects for today’s workers, as worries about working longer and having too little saved loom large. A [...]
London basks in the hottest day of the year March 10, 2014 TEMPERATURES in the UK hit 20 degrees celsius yesterday on the hottest day of the year so far, as Londoners flocked to the capital’s parks to make the most of the sunny weather. The hottest temperature recorded was in Gravesend, Kent, where the mercury hit 20.5 degrees. Today is set to be cooler, with the [...]
Hague warns of violent conflict if Putin advances March 10, 2014 FOREIGN secretary William Hague issued a stark message to Russia yesterday, warning there is a “great danger of a shooting conflict” if Putin moves troops out of Crimea and into mainland Ukraine. Hague reiterated the threat of UK sanctions against President Putin’s nation after armed personnel carriers were seen rolling into the country on Saturday. [...]
The New York Times is totally wrong in its attack on London March 10, 2014 AN op-ed in the New York Times slamming the UK’s response to the Ukrainian crisis is making waves. Its author, Ben Judah, makes some decent if unoriginal points about how London depends on Russian cash, but his piece is so full of holes a fisking is in order. Here goes. 1 “On the [Shard’s] top [...]
