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Racing
Selection Box picked for Navan
Crossgar trainer Colin McBratney looks like becoming highly fashionable
judging by the number of wins he has had this season on the National Hunt
scene.
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Inside Racing
O’Grady will wait and Sea
Friday, 20 November 2009
Edward O'Grady is still weighing up the options for his Paddy Power Gold Cup
hero Tranquil Sea.
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Notre Pere to battle Kauto Star
Thursday, 19 November 2009
With rain and strong winds expected to hit Haydock over the coming days,
punters believe that Jim Dreaper's Notre Pere can overturn Kauto Star in the
Grade 1 Betfair Chase on Saturday.
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Sea the Star of year
Wednesday, 18 November 2009
Sea The Stars crowned a glorious year with Horse of the Year honours at the
2009 Cartier Racing Awards.
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Chancer who hit the top
Wednesday, 18 November 2009
If its grim final months proved misfortune to be equally indiscriminate, the
life of Bobby Frankel at least nourished the conviction — so precious to his
compatriots — that opportunity is universal.
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Frankel was a world beater
Tuesday, 17 November 2009
Legendary American trainer Bobby Frankel has died at his home in California
aged 68 after a long battle with leukemia.
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Greatrex raising bar
Tuesday, 17 November 2009
Cheltenham and Plumpton may both be left-handed but that is where the
similarity ends.
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Just let it pour at Cheltenham
Friday, 13 November 2009
So there might be a drop of rain about? Big deal. It cannot possibly be as
vile as the third day of the meeting, two years ago, when they abandoned the
bumper after hours of relentless, horizontal sleet.
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Cheltenham jumps to it
Thursday, 12 November 2009
Horseracing seldom demands more of its stage hands than the change of scene
completed tomorrow, just six days after the Breeders' Cup.
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Hurricane ready to Fly at Punchestown
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
Champion Hurdle favourite Hurricane Fly and Solwhit feature among a high-class
list of nine horses left in the Dobbins And Madigans at Punchestown Hurdle
on Sunday.
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It’s odds on Nicholls' turn
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
It would be by no means the first time that a bookmaker knew something that
punters didn't and most certainly not the first time that one took a
calculated risk in luring the mug fish into the net.
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It pays to be a good Listener at Down Royal
Monday, 9 November 2009
The Listener’s surprise victory in the Down Royal Festival’s feature race, the
JNwine.com Champion Chase, was last night only beginning to sink in for
winning trainer Nick Mitchell.
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Big Zeb can be the Master
Monday, 9 November 2009
Big Zeb laid down an early challenge to Master Minded's dominance in the
two-mile chase division with a cheeky victory in the Ladbrokes.com Fortria
Chase at Navan yesterday.
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Get set, Go at Down Royal
Friday, 6 November 2009
Noel Meade has long been a heavy hitter at Down Royal and he should be on the
mark in the big race today — the start of the two-day Festival — when Go
Native runs in the grade 3 WKD Core Hurdle which the Meath trainer has
monopolised in the past.
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Time is right for Cecil raid
Thursday, 5 November 2009
Henry Cecil expressed contentment with his three Breeders' Cup contenders as
they settle into their surroundings before the big meeting on Saturday.
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It’s no longer lucky Baffert
Thursday, 5 November 2009
The Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert puts his success down to good fortune.
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Rip Van Winkle injury revealed
Wednesday, 4 November 2009
Aidan O'Brien last night revealed the brilliant-but-fragile Rip Van Winkle has
not had a smooth build-up to the Breeders' Cup Classic.
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1,000 not out for Geraghty
Tuesday, 3 November 2009
What a difference three days makes. On Saturday at Wetherby, Barry Geraghty
plummeted to the lowest point of the rollercoaster that is the sportsman's
life when he took the wrong course when leading on well-fancied My Petra,
and had to pull up.
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Jan is latest O’Brien hero
Monday, 2 November 2009
Another day, another Ballydoyle colt gallops into a Classic market. Yesterday
was the turn of Jan Vermeer, who gave Aidan O'Brien his third juvenile Group
1 prize in as many weekends with a comprehensive four-length success in the
Criterium International at Saint-Cloud.
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Kauto Star to miss big race
Saturday, 31 October 2009
Trainer Paul Nicholls says he will decide tomorrow whether or not to run Kauto
Star in the James Nicholson Champion Chase at the Down Royal Festival next
week but the prospects are not looking good.
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Sizing Europe still on course
Friday, 30 October 2009
Sizing Europe remains on target for next month's Open meeting at Cheltenham
following his hugely impressive success at Punchestown two weeks ago.
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