Archive for April 2020
Cleeve Racing weekly News Wrap up – w/e 24th April
Hi everyone, well, we are all still in lockdown for a while longer yet and it will be interesting to see what the Government announces at the end of the latest 3 week period. Luckily the weather has been good and hopefully, many of you will have been sat in the garden. We do feel…
Read MoreTake a close look at this year’s Albert Bartlett…
Firstly credit where credit’s due… Rory Delargy first put me on to this trend, so he gets the kudos. The Albert Bartlett Novice Hurdle is one of only three novice Grade One hurdles run at the Festival and it’s the staying novices championship. Of the three races it definitely has less prestige than both the Supreme…
Read MoreCleeve’s weekly wrap – racing news roundup… w/c 13th April
As part of our jobs, we need to keep up with what’s going on in our industry, and it can be a real schlep trying to keep up with all the latest racing news with so many different racing news sites out there that, as the picture above shows it can be like trying to…
Read MoreFestival selections, our strategy and some lessons learned…
First of all, let’s get rid of the elephant in the room… WE LOST 15.85 POINTS ON THE WEEK. I’ll repeat that to be 100% clear, WE LOST 15.85 POINTS ON THE WEEK. This post is not a review of how the individual selections ran, it’s not a tale of woe about how unlucky we…
Read MoreKinsale King and Carl O’Callaghan… you couldn’t make it up!
Hats off to my sister Eli who flagged this up to me, she likes horses more than horseracing and this story is as much about the horse as the man. It is a fairy tale in many ways involving DIY bloodstock brothers, a homeless trainer and a cheap horse that drinks Guinness, has bad feet…
Read MoreThyme Hill… one Richard Johnson wants back
Of course, the blatantly obvious one is Jamie Moore aboard Goshen in the Triumph Hurdle, and no matter what happens from here it is something that will probably stay with him for the rest of his life. I’m sure a day (or even an hour) doesn’t go by at the moment without him thinking about…
Read MoreCheltenham Festival 2020 – my ride of the week
My ride of the week was the win of Honeysuckle who won the Mares ridden by Rachel Blackmore… she showed split-second tactical nous of the highest quality that any top jockey of the last 50 years would have been proud of. Obviously this is a highly subjective choice and we’d love to know what your…
Read MoreThe road to the Cheltenham Festival… 2021!
I know, I know, I know… it’s insane! It’s got to be far too early to be thinking of the Cheltenham Festival 2021 but with no racing on the horizon, and with all the action taking place a few short weeks ago and still fresh in the mind, looking forward at next year’s markets may…
Read More2020 Cheltenham Festival review – Day Four
Well, we found ourselves at the fourth and final day of the 2020 Cheltenham Festival with plenty of ground to make up, we had jumped the first OK but met the 2nd and 3rd all wrong and it cost us a lot of ground with not much time to make it up… the fact that…
Read MoreTiger Roll… the horse of a lifetime!
We hope you are all safe and well and putting this time most of us have on our hands to good use. We never normally have this much space in our lives (excuse the pun) but it can be looked on as an opportunity to reflect and re-examine our lives. I for one have been…
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