It could be Sweynesse’s Lucky day March 8, 2024 IT IS a day of reckoning for top-rated sprinter LUCKY SWEYNESSE, who lines-up in the feature race on the ten-race programme, the seven-furlong Group One Queen’s Silver Jubilee Cup (8.05am), at Sha Tin in Hong Kong on Sunday. For a galloper whose record reads 15 wins from 22 races, it seems strange that some pundits [...]
Bowman has Ambition for a Patch of winners March 8, 2024 LEGENDARY jockey Hugh Bowman has given his many thousands of supporters plenty to cheer about in Hong Kong in the past week. The 43-year-old has been at his indomitable best, riding a handful of winners and taking his total up to 40 for the current campaign – and that’s despite missing a large chunk of [...]
EP: 255 Sandown, Wolverhampton & Hong Kong March 8, 2024 The Imperial Cup is the feature race at Sandown on Saturday, whilst it’s the fast and furious all-weather Tapeta action in the Lincoln Trial at Wolverhampton on the same afternoon. City AM Racing editor Bill Esdaile previews the best of this weekend’s racing action, plus a final look at some Cheltenham Festival news, with Wally [...]
Snowden hoping spring’s eternal at Cheltenham again March 6, 2024 The 2022/23 season wasn’t a bad one for trainer Jamie Snowden. A second Cheltenham Festival winner with You Wear It Well as well as victory in the Coral Gold Cup at Newbury with the sadly ill-fated Datsalrightgino were just two of several big race wins for the Lambourn-based handler and it continues an upward trajectory which sees [...]
Derek Fox: Corach Rambler can win the Gold Cup March 5, 2024 LUCINDA Russell may only have a handful of entries at this year’s Cheltenham Festival, but not one of them are without a chance, and for stable jockey Derek Fox, it’s a very exciting time of the year. “I couldn’t pick the most likely winner out of the rides I have at Cheltenham,’ the 31-year-old rider [...]
Mister could be a Gift in Supreme for maestro Mullins March 5, 2024 AS WE know, predicting which race Willie Mullins will choose for some of his horses is about as easy as solving a Rubik’s Cube. And that’s very much the case with Ballyburn, whose Cheltenham Festival target is still unknown and that doesn’t make betting on the Supreme or Gallagher Novices’ Hurdles easy. For what it’s worth, [...]
A bit of Bruit force needed in Imperial Cup March 5, 2024 WE MIGHT be less than a week away from the Cheltenham Festival, but we’ve still got one last chance to boost the coffers for the biggest week in the jump racing calendar. Sandown takes centre stage on Saturday with the feature being the incredibly competitive Imperial Cup (2.25pm). Paul Nicholls and Harry Cobden won this race 12 [...]
Fownes’ Atomic and Angel could be a Force to be reckoned with March 5, 2024 THE WHEELS appear to have temporarily come off the winning-machine stable of trainer Pierre Ng, who – despite still leading the trainers’ championship table by a dozen winners – has been floundering in recent times, and is still waiting for that elusive winner to give him his half-century for the season.While Ng is having his [...]
Hayes’ Boy could be his Strongest chance of the day March 5, 2024 RACING at Happy Valley in Hong Kong today once again serves up a nine-race programme of fiendishly difficult handicaps to solve, starting at 10.40am. Furthermore, there has been an anomaly at the city-track over the past month or so, with standard race-times well above average – despite very little rain – and a track bias [...]
Dragon can bring the Speed in Classic Cup March 1, 2024 SHA TIN in Hong Kong hosts a 10-race programme on Sunday, featuring the £1.3m Hong Kong Classic Cup (8.05am), run over nine furlongs. This is the middle leg of the prestigious four-year-old Classic Series in the territory, following the Classic Mile run last month, which concludes with the ultimate prize, the BMW HK Derby in [...]