The racing Levy for the next financial year is expected to yield £72.4million, with fixtures down by 30 to 1,450 for 2012. A deal was finally agreed just before the midnight deadline to prevent the 51st levy scheme being handed over to government secretary of state Jeremy Hunt to determine. The three largest bookmakers – [...]
Lucinda Russell’s high-class chaser Silver By Nature has been ruled out of the current campaign with a leg injury. The nine-year-old won the Grand National Trial at Haydock in February for the second successive year and was sent off as one of the favourites for the big race itself. He could only finish 12th on [...]
Connections of Diamond Harry are optimistic the 2010 Hennessy Gold Cup winner will make his seasonal debut this month after being forced to miss his intended engagement at Wetherby on Saturday. The eight-year-old has not run since his Newbury triumph almost 12 months ago and was forced out of the Charlie Hall Chase after being [...]
Paul Nicholls was delighted to see Kauto Star show plenty of enthusiasm as the veteran chaser enjoyed a spin with stablemates Big Buck’s and Mon Parrain after racing at Exeter. The 11-year-old Kauto Star has enjoyed a stellar career, winning the King George VI Chase at Kempton on four consecutive occasions and taking Cheltenham Gold [...]
Richard Fahey has revealed that Wootton Bassett has run his last race and will be retired to stud. Unbeaten in a juvenile campaign that concluded with victory in the Group 1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagadere at Longchamp on Arc Day, the son of Ifraaj, himself a record-breaking leading first season sire, did not scale the same [...]
The feature race today is the Shadwell Fillies’ Mile, a race which was formerly held each year at Ascot but has a new home at Newmarket this season. It brings together the two fillies who fought out the May Hill Stakes at Doncaster, FALLEN FOR YOU and her conqueror Lyric Of Light. That looked really [...]
Irish Derby winner Treasure Beach and French Derby winner Reliable Man will clash in Thursday evening’s Juddemonte Grand Prix de Paris at Longchamp. The pair are among a field of seven declared for the Group One contest over a mile and a half. While Treasure Beach’s Classic success came over that distance, the Prix du [...]
Elzaam could be aimed at Haydock’s Betfred Sprint Cup after finishing a disappointing eighth behind Dream Ahead in the July Cup. Connections believe that the nature of the Newmarket course doesn’t suit Roger Varian’s three-year-old after he failed to win for the third time on either course at Headquarters. Fourth in the Golden Jubilee at [...]
The Investec Derby takes place at Epsom on Saturday 4th June and this year’s race has a lot to live up to after Sea The Stars did the Guineas-Derby double in 2009 and Workforce won in amazing fashion last year. Unfortunately it looks as if Frankel will not be taking part, but Carlton House’s Dante win means that he looks to be the [...]
If Tony McCoy, was to be crowned BBC Sports Personality of the Year on December 19th, at the LG Arena in Birmingham, it would be a fitting reward for an incomparable jockey, who has rewritten the jump racing record books to the point that it may be another century at least before anyone comes close [...]
With the festive season fast approaching Kempton Park will once again be playing host to the prestigious William Hill King George VI chase and in particular one horse’s date with destiny. It has become a Boxing Day tradition to come to Kempton and follow the star, Kauto Star, winner of past four renewals who will [...]
The racing Levy for the next financial year is expected to yield £72.4million, with fixtures down by 30 to 1,450 for 2012. A deal was finally agreed just before the midnight deadline to prevent the 51st levy scheme being handed over to government secretary of state Jeremy Hunt to determine. The three largest bookmakers – [...]
Lucinda Russell’s high-class chaser Silver By Nature has been ruled out of the current campaign with a leg injury. The nine-year-old won the Grand National Trial at Haydock in February for the second successive year and was sent off as one of the favourites for the big race itself. He could only finish 12th on [...]
Connections of Diamond Harry are optimistic the 2010 Hennessy Gold Cup winner will make his seasonal debut this month after being forced to miss his intended engagement at Wetherby on Saturday. The eight-year-old has not run since his Newbury triumph almost 12 months ago and was forced out of the Charlie Hall Chase after being [...]
Paul Nicholls was delighted to see Kauto Star show plenty of enthusiasm as the veteran chaser enjoyed a spin with stablemates Big Buck’s and Mon Parrain after racing at Exeter. The 11-year-old Kauto Star has enjoyed a stellar career, winning the King George VI Chase at Kempton on four consecutive occasions and taking Cheltenham Gold [...]
The racing Levy for the next financial year is expected to yield £72.4million, with fixtures down by 30 to 1,450 for 2012. A deal was finally agreed just before the midnight deadline to prevent the 51st levy scheme being handed over to government secretary of state Jeremy Hunt to determine. The three largest bookmakers – [...]
Lucinda Russell’s high-class chaser Silver By Nature has been ruled out of the current campaign with a leg injury. The nine-year-old won the Grand National Trial at Haydock in February for the second successive year and was sent off as one of the favourites for the big race itself. He could only finish 12th on [...]
Connections of Diamond Harry are optimistic the 2010 Hennessy Gold Cup winner will make his seasonal debut this month after being forced to miss his intended engagement at Wetherby on Saturday. The eight-year-old has not run since his Newbury triumph almost 12 months ago and was forced out of the Charlie Hall Chase after being [...]
