Massive Boost as Monet’s Returns Home
Greystoke-based trainer Nicky Richards and his team have been through a very tough few months, recently losing the high class Money Trix who suffered fatal injuries in a fall in Ireland a few weeks ago, and fighting the ongoing battle to save stable star Monet’s Garden, who had been given up for lost after suffering …
Super Saturday For Highflying Henderson
When A Media Luz fell at the second last whilst holding a winning chance in the opening race of Kempton’s King George fixture on Saturday, trainer Nicky Henderson must have wondered if it was going to be one of those days, writes Elliot Slater. As things transpired, had the filly gone on to win the race …
Learning Other Poker Games
A large number of poker players simply log onto their favourite poker room day in and day out, playing the same game all the time, never changing or even contemplating learning how to learn a new game or variety of poker. Not only are they missing out on a whole host of fun games they …
Menorah Set For Champion Hurdle
Philip Hobbs has confirmed that his stable star Menorah will not run again before his bid to land the Champion Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival on March 15, writes Elliot Slater. The winner of last season’s Supreme Novices’ Hurdle at Cheltenham, Menorah went on to only narrowly fail to complete a Festival double when beaten a …
Old Favourite Sublimity Back To Winning Ways
Trainer Robbie Hennessy’s grand servant Sublimity returned to the winners’ enclosure for the first time in over two year’s when getting the better of a tremendous tussle with the 2006 Queen Mother Champion Chase winner Newmill in the McCarthy Insurance Group Hurdle at Cork on Monday, writes Elliot Slater. The 2007 Champion Hurdle winner has had …
Over Betting
You are sat around the kitchen table digesting your Christmas turkey when someone suggests that you have a game of cards. One of the family members has never played it before so you need to give them a quick lesson and write the hand rankings on a piece of paper for them. In the first …
Suited Connectors
Suited connectors are like beautiful loose women. They look so inviting and you really want to play with them but they can also get you into a lot of trouble – especially if you are married! Poker literature and advice will stick in your memory like dog hairs on your clothes after taking your pet to …
Imperial Set To Rule At Haydock
Cheltenham Gold Cup hero Imperial Commander is set to make his seasonal reappearance on Saturday in Haydock’s Grade 1 Betfair Chase, writes Elliot Slater. He failed to win the race by the narrowest of margins twelve months ago, being defeated by Kauto Star in a battle that proved to be a turning point for both horses, Although …
Biondetti Out Of His Depth
Unless I have got the horse completely wrong and missed something that should have been screamingly obvious, I cannot see Godolphin’s Biondetti going close to winning Saturday’s Grey Goose Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Churchill Downs, writes Elliot Slater. The Bernadini colt goes into the event unbeaten in three career starts, and last time out won the …
Ogden Eyeing Melbourne Cup Bid
Sir Robert Ogden, one of the few British owners with the firepower to take on the international big guns in the racing tips world, could be set to train his sights on an audacious bid to land one of the racing world’s most coveted prizes, the Melbourne Cup, at Flemington in November, with his improving …