Always set for Grand National chance?
Always Waining is no stranger to Aintree, he has been to the Merseyside track on eight different occasions throughout his career and could back there again in April for the Grand National. The 11-year-old’s latest success at the course was back in April in the Topham Handicap Chase over 2m5f. Tom O’Brien rode the horse to …
Junior May Head To Haydock
David Pipe’s tremendously talented dual-purpose performer Junior could be set to return to the racecourse at Haydock in mid-February to contest the Betfred Grand National Trial, less than a week after the publication of the weights for the four-and-a-half mile marathon contest, writes Elliot Slater. Junior has been given an easy time of things so far …
Grandouet Tackles Champion Hurdle Challenge
Any doubts trainer Nicky Henderson might have had about his Grandouet coping with the undulations and the stiff finish of Cheltenham racecourse were well and truly allayed after the five-year-old win the Grade 2 Stan James International Hurdle at the track in December, and all systems are now ‘go’ for a bid for the same …
One More Run For Prince Before Cheltenham
Ryanair Chase favourite Noble Prince is set to have just one more outing this term before attempting to win the big race at the Cheltenham Festival in March, and will head to Fairyhouse on January 22 to contest the Normans Grove Chase, writes Elliot Slater. The Paul Nolan-trained gelding is expected to take the beating at …
Al Ferof 8/1 For Champion Chase
The 2012 Cheltenham Festival is just around the corner and the bookmakers are furiously slashing odds on favourites as they ferociously prepare for their upcoming races. Exciting novice chaser Al Ferof now become Ladbrokes joint 8-1 fourth-favourite for the sportingbet.com Queen Mother Champion Chase. Owner John Hales revealed that last year’s Supreme Novices’ Hurdle winner, who …
Tetlami Enhances Supreme Novice Hurdle Claims
Nicky Henderson’s Tetlami did little to dissuade those considering supporting him for the Supreme Novices Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival in March that they should look elsewhere when putting up a professional performance in accounting for the highly promising newcomer Vulcanite in what looked a good renewal of the two-mile novices hurdle on the ‘King …
Molotof Advertises Cheltenham Credentials
Nicky Henderson’s Molotof completed a hattrick of wins this season when recovering from a terrible mistake at the final flight of the Grade 2 Mitie Kennel Gate Novices Hurdle at Ascot to run out a brave length-and-a-quarter winner from Peckhamecho, in the process enhancing his claims for consideration for the Supreme Novices Hurdle at the …
Paul Nicholls At Cheltenham
With 30 plus runners at most Cheltenham Festivals there are very few trainers who can rival Paul Nicholls in terms of strength in depth in their team going to the Festival but his record since 1997 has shown plenty of peaks and troughs. He drew blanks at the first 97 and 98 meetings going 0/5 …
2012 Grand National Guide
The Grand National is one of the most famous horse races in the world, and ranks alongside the FA Cup Final, Wimbledon, and the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race as one of the great traditions of the British sporting calendar. It is one of those rare events that has the power to capture the attention of even …
King Planning Cheltenham Festival Raid
There were few people more impressed with the winning performance of Alan King’s Invictus at Plumpton earlier this week than the trainer himself who was clearly delighted with the way his up-and-coming young novice chaser disposed of decent Irish chaser Gift Of Dgab by an effortless 10-lengths, writes Elliot Slater. Punters sent Tony Martin’s charge a …