Archive for April 2015

We move on to Day 3 of the Punchestown Festival with another profitable day behind us thanks to another top class performance from Don Cossack (surely the chaser of the season) and a cracking run from Babymix who jumped like a stag and looked the likely winner doe a long way until getting tired between…

We head into Day 2 of the Punchestown Festival with a decent winner under our belts yesterday as Felix Yonger game;y got the better of a back to form Baily Green in a pulsating finish to the Boylesports Champion Chase. And with a much more competitive days racing on offer today there is plenty still…

The Punchestown Festival starts today and there is some fabulous racing in prospect this week…  but it is only fair to say that what historically has been a Willie Mullins benefit, is dominated by him more than ever this year, so the meeting is somewhat less of a spectacle than it might be given there…

Hi everyone, A hugely emotional day for the sport as the champ AP McCoy bows out with his final ride at Sandown to draw down the curtain on a glittering career. His record makes him the most dominant champion of any sport in the world, and it will be very strange not to see his…

We’ve got the best of both worlds this weekend with good-quality action up at Ayr over the jumps and an early-season big handicap event down at Newbury on the flat. In the North we’ve got selections for the Grade 2 Scottish Champion Hurdle and the Scottish Grand National. At Newbury we’ll be taking aim at…

Don Cossack banked us a decent profit in the Melling Chase but unfortunately we couldn’t build on that with a return in the Topham, a race that degenerated into carnage! We move on to the final day still intact and still with a fighting chance of coming out of this meeting ahead. The Grand National is obviously the focus…

Silviniaco Conti banked a few points for us in the Betfred Bowl, bouncing back from his Gold Cup disappointment at Cheltenham as we anticipated. Arctic Fire certainly was right there with the race at his feet when he came down at the last. Whether or not he would have beaten Jezki is open to discussion.…

The sun always seems to be shining when Aintree’s Grand National meeting comes round and it hasn’t let us down again this year,  so we are looking at genuine good ground for Day 1 of the meeting. We’ve got bets in 3 of Thursday’s big races – the Betfred Bowl Chase, the Aintree Hurdle and…