Photo Finish For Irish Jockey’s Title

Long after the British apprentice jockey’s title was settled in favour of Martin Lane at the season ending finale at Doncaster in early November, their Irish counterparts continue to battle it out to the bitter end in one of the closes races for the title for many years, a race that with less than a …

Hughes Ban Leaves Sour Taste

The news that tremendously popular Irish jockey Richard Hughes has received a 19-day ban under the totting-up procedure from the BHA disciplinary panel has taken some of the gloss off the fantastic effort put in by the rider in his exciting tussle with eventual winner Paul Hanagan in the race for the British Champion Jockey …

McCoy Still Searching For First National Win

There are few prepared to argue that Tony (AP) McCoy isn’t the greatest National Hunt jockey of all time. The 15 times champion has won virtually everything the sport has to offer but the ‘Holy Grail’ of jumps racing, the John Smith’s Grand National, has continually evaded his grasp, writes Elliot Slater. McCoy will be even …

Paul Carberry ~ Grand National Winner

Paul Carberry followed in his fathers footsteps when he won the Grand National. His father Tommy had raced to victory in 1975 on L’Escargot, when Paul was a mere fourteen months old, and son followed in fathers footsteps on Bobbyjo in 1999. In doing so he became the first son of a Grand National …

Banking On Account To Show Long-Term Profit

Approaching the home turn of the Aintree Grand National last April, one horse appeared to be going better than anything else in the field – and I had backed him, writes Elliot Slater. To say there was a little excitement in the air is a ridiculous understatement. Backed at big ante-post odds, Offshore Account had been …

Can A.P. Finally Do It In 2010?

Always the bridesmaid and never the bride is how some people look at A.P. McCoy when it comes to the Aintree Grand National. If he rides again in April 2010, which no doubt he will, it will be his ninth attempt at a much coveted win and one that absolutely nobody could ever begrudge him. …