By: Frank Dalleres

Sports Editor Frank Dalleres is Sports Editor of City AM. He has almost two decades' experience covering the business of sport and has reported from Olympic Games and major international football, rugby union, tennis and golf competitions, both at home and abroad. Get in touch with stories and tip-offs and follow him on X at @frankdalleres

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Cheltenham Festival 2016 betting: Gutsy Blaklion can upset More Of That and No More Heroes in RSA Chase

March 15, 2016

Every preview night I’ve attended over the last two weeks has billed Wednesday afternoon’s RSA Chase (2.10pm) as a two-horse race between More Of That and No More Heroes. The bookmakers seem to share that same opinion, with the pair both currently vying for favouritism around the 9/4 mark. The duo stand out from the [...]
Cheltenham Festival 2016 betting: Our Thomas and Missy Tata can run well in Fred Winter

March 15, 2016

In the run-up to Cheltenham, Paul Nicholls has been very keen on the chances of Diego Du Charmil in the Fred Winter (4.50pm, Wednesday). He has had three runs in France and looks to be on an attractive mark. The champion trainer also won this race last year so there is plenty to like. His [...]
Cheltenham Festival 2016: Rich Ricci’s £20,000 gamble pays off as Annie Power banishes bad memories with Champion Hurdle win

March 15, 2016

Jockey Ruby Walsh toasted Rich Ricci’s five-figure gamble after Annie Power put last year’s heartache behind her with a dominant win in the Champion Hurdle on the first day of the Cheltenham Festival. The mare was only entered into the race last week at a cost of £20,000 to former Barclays investment banking chief Ricci [...]
Arsenal without Arsene Wenger is hard to imagine and I don’t like saying it but the Gunners have gone stale. Now Frenchman has four games to save the Gunners’ season – and his job

March 15, 2016

Their team had just followed an odds-defying qualification for the last 16 of the Champions League by going top of the Premier League, so Arsenal fans had more cause than most to celebrate over the Christmas period. They must have started to believe that this was indeed their year. And there is no question that [...]
Cheltenham Festival 2016 betting: Douvan looks too good in the Arkle but Sizing John can get the better of Vaniteux

March 14, 2016

Bookmakers dodged one almighty bullet 12 months ago when Annie Power fell at the last in the Mares’ Hurdle. But one year on they face another potential monster pay-out if the four Willie Mullins-Susannah Ricci horses find their way to the winners’ enclosure on Tuesday. Without doubt, of the opening day’s four hot-pots, Douvan is the [...]
Cheltenham Festival 2016: Annie Power can make it third time lucky at Cheltenham and win Champion Hurdle

March 14, 2016

With both Faugheen and Arctic Fire, last year’s one-two, ruled out through injury, Tuesday’s Champion Hurdle (3.30pm) has lost a little of its star quality. The New One is the only survivor of the 2015 renewal and Nigel Twiston-Davies seems very keen on his chances. Having been available at 20/1 a few weeks ago, he [...]
Cheltenham Festival 2016 betting: Vroum Vroum Mag to speed away from Mares’ Hurdle rivals

March 14, 2016

Since Whiteoak landed the inaugural running of the OLBG Mares’ Hurdle (4.10pm) back in 2008, Willie Mullins has saddled the winner every year since. Quevega famously won the race for six consecutive seasons, while Glens Melody picked up the pieces after Annie Power’s final flight spill 12 months ago. Sadly, as hard as I’ve tried to [...]
Cheltenham Festival 2016 betting: Southfield and Master look the best bets in the Ultima Handicap Chase

March 14, 2016

Trainer Jonjo O’Neill has won three of the last seven runnings of the Ultima Handicap Chase (2.50pm) and has every chance of adding to his impressive record with the well-handicapped Holywell. The nine-year-old has a great Festival record, securing wins in the 2013 Pertemps Final and this very race a year later. He then finished [...]
Cheltenham Festival 2016 betting: Ruby Walsh and Willie Mullins to enjoy more Supreme success with Min

March 14, 2016

We are just a few hours away from that famous Cheltenham roar when the tapes go up for the start of the Sky Bet Supreme Novices’ Hurdle (1.30pm). It is the defining sound of the Festival. However, in recent years an even more deafening noise has erupted around four minutes later. Willie Mullins and Ruby [...]
Jordan Spieth shows human side with reaction to Twitter critic but pre-Masters form is a concern

March 14, 2016

As hard as it is to get to No1 in the world rankings, it’s even more difficult to stay there, and that’s something that Jordan Spieth appears to be learning first-hand at the moment. The prolific 22-year-old’s difficult spell continued at the weekend when he only just made the cut at the Valspar Championship and [...]

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