The Punter Summary Podcast – Cheltenham Festival Wednesday March 11, 2024 Here’s your chance to discover all of City AM racing editor Bill Esdaile’s selections for Day 2 at the Cheltenham Festival in a short summary episode of ‘The Punter Podcast’ alongside Chris Barnett. The full preview is also available on the City AM website. The Punter ‘The Punter’ has been City AM’s dedicated sports betting [...]
Walsh set to be best of the rest in pursuit of dominant Townend March 10, 2024 TRAINER Willie Mullins has what looks a vice-like grip on this year’s Cheltenham Festival. Bookmakers make the Closutton-handler a best-priced 1/10 to finish the week as top trainer and odds-on to end up with 10 or more winners. That seems about right when you consider he is responsible for six of the seven favourites on [...]
Doddie may just be the bet to close out Festival in great style March 10, 2024 IF YOU’VE not had much luck heading into the very last of this week’s 28 Cheltenham Festival races at 5.30pm on Friday, it could be worth heading to the car park early. That said, there may just be a lovely bet lurking in the Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys’ Handicap Hurdle in the shape of the [...]
Cheltenham on the hunt for 2025 Festival principal partner March 10, 2024 WE ARE now just 24 hours away from the greatest four days of jump racing anywhere in the world. Early tomorrow morning thousands of Londoners will pack themselves onto trains heading west from Paddington to enjoy the drama and delights of the Cheltenham Festival. With 28 races over the four days, the very best horses [...]
Ready to go to battle at Cheltenham March 10, 2024 THERE is an unread copy of the Racing Post sitting on Ben Keith’s solid oak desk. We are in Marylebone in his beautiful London flat just days before the biggest horse racing festival of the year gets under way in the Cotswolds. As the owner of Star Sports, he will stand tall on his company’s [...]
EP: 256 Cheltenham Festival – Tuesday March 10, 2024 The opening day of this year’s Cheltenham Festival kicks off with a fascinating renewal of the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle, plus we go in search of a new champion in the feature race, the Champion Hurdle, one of four Grade 1 races on Tuesday afternoon. City AM Racing editor Bill Esdaile previews the long-awaited action from [...]
The Punter Summary Podcast – Cheltenham Festival Tuesday March 10, 2024 Here’s your chance to discover all of City AM racing editor Bill Esdaile’s selections for Tuesday at the Cheltenham Festival in a short summary episode of ‘The Punter Podcast’ alongside Chris Barnett. The full preview is also available on the City AM website. The Punter ‘The Punter’ has been City AM’s dedicated sports betting section [...]
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 [...]