Gowel Hy on the list to land another Cleeve crown January 20, 2026 CHELTENHAM Trials Day on Saturday provides a chance to see some of the stars that could be on show at the Festival in March. Not many shine brighter than Sir Gino, who returned with a bang in the Christmas Hurdle and now faces a fascinating clash with last year’s Turner’s Novices’ Hurdle winner, The New [...]
Spindleberry’s a ripe pick for historic Gold Cup double January 20, 2026 PRIOR to the Cheltenham Festival, we’ve got the small matter of the Dublin Racing Festival in little over a week’s time, which brings two days of top-quality action from Leopardstown. The headline of the weekend is undoubtedly the Irish Gold Cup, where Galopin Des Champs will be looking to make it four successive victories in [...]
Episode 66: Cheltenham Trials Day and the Great Yorkshire Chase January 20, 2026 Tom Marriott and Bill Esdaile are back to preview Saturday’s Cheltenham Trials Day and the Great Yorkshire Chase card at Doncaster. Bill has a long priced fancy for the Irish and Cheltenham Gold Cup, and Wally Pyrah returns with a preview of Sha Tin on Wednesday. The Punter ‘The Punter’ has been City AM’s dedicated [...]
Kingscote can reign Supreme with Universe on Sha Tin dirt January 20, 2026 HORSE racing enthusiasts in Hong Kong can look forward to a nine-race programme on the all-weather surface at Sha Tin today. Serious bettors are always wary about racing on dirt in the city, as there are so many imponderables to consider, most notably if the track will suit gallopers up with the pace from the [...]
Wind ready to Blaze the trail for Purton and Shum January 20, 2026 SPECIALIST big race trainer Danny Shum will be praying for some encouragement from his squad of 10 raiders at Sha Tin, before his stable star Romantic Warrior locks horns against great rival Voyage Bubble in the Group One Stewards’ Cup on Sunday. Shum has found it tough going in the city recently, with his stable [...]
Express can give Size and McMonagle a Super day at Sha Tin January 16, 2026 TRAINER John Size is the man to follow when racing in Hong Kong gets underway on Sunday morning with an 11-race programme at Sha Tin. The 13-time champion trainer made his renowned slow start to the current campaign, with just a handful of winners in the first three months of the season, but the ball [...]
Purton to Patch up competitive handicap with Cosmo January 16, 2026 Serious-minded bettors will have spied champion jockey Zac Purton rides Manfred Man’s prolific winner PATCH OF COSMO for the first time in the Tennis 1600m Handicap (9:50am) over a mile. The Purton and Man combination have been one of the go-to partnerships this season, with an impressive 26 percent win strike-rate, and were successful last [...]
Worth taking a plunge with Issam and Lake January 13, 2026 A SMALL field of five have been entered for this weekend’s feature race, Ascot’s Grade One Clarence House Chase (3.30pm), with Willie Mullins’ Il Etait Temps heading the betting. He hasn’t been to Ascot before but judging by his recent performances at Sandown, last time when thumping Jonbon in the Grade One Tingle Creek, he [...]
Wendi looks a Goer for Snowden in Brown Advisory January 13, 2026 WITH the big week growing ever closer, it’s time to take another look at the ante-post betting markets for the Cheltenham Festival. I’m going to focus on the Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase, where the market is dominated by the likes of Final Demand and Romeo Coolio for Willie Mullins and Gordon Elliott. Final Demand is [...]
Take a swing with Golf in Hong Kong’s January Cup January 13, 2026 WEDNESDAY’s Group Three January Cup Handicap (1.40pm) over nine furlongs is the centrepiece of a highly competitive nine-race programme at Happy Valley in Hong Kong. The feature race on the card is the only Group contest of the season at the iconic city track – first run in 2004 – and has in the past [...]