Legendary Grand National Training Achievements

To win a Grand National takes a supreme effort between trainer, jockey and horse, and of course a huge slice of luck. Most racing enthusiasts would add to that equation the owner and stable lad who are each a vital link in the chain. But it is perhaps the trainer who plays the most important […]

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74 Stand Their Ground At Second National Forfeit Stage

A stellar cast looks sure to line-up for the Grand National on April 9th with no fewer than 74 horses standing their ground at the second forfeit stage for the great race. Deep Purple, Tatenen, Tricky Trickster, Dream Alliance, Snowy Morning, Gullible Gordon, Meanus Dandy and The Silotar were the eight horses to be taken […]

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First Major Only A Matter Of Time For Johnson

It seems as though it must surely only be a matter of time before Dustin Johnson picks up his first major win. The 26-year-old has come close at the US Open and the PGA Championship last year and could already have two titles under his belt. The big hitting Johnson threw away a three-shot lead […]

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Kaymer Out To Put Things Right At Augusta

World number one Martin Kaymer will head to Augusta next month, looking to vastly improve a Masters record that reads three missed cuts from three appearances. The German will surely have a better time of things this time around, after a year in which the 26-year old has shot up to the top of the […]

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Making Most of the Cheltenham Conditionals

There are 27 races at this year’s Cheltenham Festival and while there will be conditional riders (jumps apprentices) competing in many of them, they also have a race of their own at the Festival – the Martin Pipe Conditionals Handicap Hurdle. Some of the names in these races will be familiar but some won’t so […]

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Bolster Boosted By Upbeat Report

Ahead of the Cheltenham Festival 2011, a positive bulletin has been issued by trained David Bridgwater on the wellbeing of his RSA Chase candidate the Giant Bolster, currently a 25/1 chance in the race dominated by the presence of hot favourite Time For Rupert, writes Elliot Slater. The six-year-old son of smart Flat race stayer […]

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Owner Doesn’t Rate Ghizao’s Arkle Chances

In a frank, but for those with a financial interest in the horse, rather worrying interview with The Times on Tuesday, Andy Stewart, joint-owner of leading Irish Independent Arkle Chase contender Ghizao, suggested that he does not believe his horse is good enough to win the two-mile novice chasing crown, writes Elliot Slater. Stewart’s comments […]

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Karabak Team Consider Swerving World Hurdle

Smart staying hurdler Karabak, fourth to Big Buck’s in last year’sWorld Hurdle and a brave winner of the Relkeel Hurdle at Cheltenham earlier this season, may miss another date with the dual champion stayer and his main market rival Grand Crus at Prestbury Park in three weeks time, writes Elliot Slater. Alan King has conceded […]

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McCoy Partner Starluck In Huntingdon

The news that 15-times champion jockey and current BBC Sports Personality of the Year Tony McCoy is to partner Starluck on his fencing debut at Huntingdon on February 24 has already prompted a number of firms to trim the horse’s ante-post odds for winning the forthcoming Irish Independent Arkle Chase at the Cheltenham Festival on […]

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Midnight Could Be Made For Aintree

Very few staying chasers have been as progressive in the last 18 months as Midnight Chase and as things stand he looks set to make a massive impact when he heads to Aintree for this year’s Grand National. A winner on six of his last seven starts, the Neil Mulholland trained nine-year old has gone […]

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