The 2024 Grand National is fast approaching and for many that means it is time to start the process of finding the winner.
Author: The Telegraph
Posted: March 18, 2024, 11:37 am
With the Cheltenham Festival in the rear-view mirror attention can now turn in earnest to Aintree and the 176th running of the Randox Grand National on April 13.
Author: The Telegraph
Posted: March 18, 2024, 11:27 am
The Cheltenham Festival always delivers. There were too many short-priced favourites, the price of Guinness was painful, the car parks resembled the Battle of the Somme, the training facilities for the visiting Irish horses weren’t up to scratch, and the price of hotel accommodation was brutal. But the horses delivered in spades.
Author: The Telegraph
Posted: March 18, 2024, 10:00 am
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Author: The Telegraph
Posted: March 18, 2024, 7:46 am
A year after her trailblazing success in the Grand National, Blackmore became the first woman to ride a Gold Cup winner.
Author: PA Media: Sport
Posted: March 18, 2024, 6:00 am
Galopin Des Champs became only the eighth horse in the 100 years of the Boodles Gold Cup to win jump racing’s blue riband more than once when he came home three and half lengths clear of Gerri Colombe in stamina-sapping conditions at Cheltenham yesterday.
Author: The Telegraph
Posted: March 15, 2024, 8:13 pm
Galopin Des Champs defends the Cheltenham Gold Cup to crown a historic week for trainer Willie Mullins.
Author: BBC
Posted: March 15, 2024, 4:07 pm
The four-day Cheltenham Festival has concluded and much of the money wagered on the final day will have been on the Gold Cup at 3.30pm which was won by Galopin Des Champs, the defending champion and strong favourite.
Author: The Telegraph
Posted: March 15, 2024, 3:48 pm
The four-day Cheltenham Festival pitches the best of British jump-racing against rivals from across the Irish Sea.
Author: The Telegraph
Posted: March 15, 2024, 7:01 am
Mar. 14—The second annual Sandy Ridge at Red Mile is scheduled for Sunday through Tuesday, and again March 24-26 in Lexington. Post time each day is 1:30 p.m., with plans for eight races each day at Red Mile. More than 300 horses will be stabled on the grounds this year — 100 more than last year. In addition to the return of nearly all of last year's quarter horse owners and trainers, this ...
Author: The Daily Independent, Ashland, Ky.
Posted: March 15, 2024, 3:59 am
Sir Alex Ferguson, a lifelong racing fan, jumped briefly for joy at Cheltenham but tempered his celebrations, having broken a rib after celebrating other notable wins in recent months.
Author: The Telegraph
Posted: March 14, 2024, 9:54 pm
BALTIMORE — With less than a month left in the Maryland General Assembly’s 2024 session, legislators will consider a horse racing bill that aims to install a new day-to-day operator, rebuild Pimlico Race Course and construct a training facility using $400 million in state bonds. The plan — a much-amended version of a 2020 blueprint — is similar to what the Maryland Thoroughbred Racetrack ...
Author: Baltimore Sun
Posted: March 14, 2024, 9:19 pm
Sir Alex Ferguson secured back-to-back wins at Cheltenham – then immediately told Telegraph Sport he was targeting a 1999-style treble. Ferguson, 82, was in jubilant mood in the paddock after ending his 20-year wait as part-owner for a winner at the festival.
Author: The Telegraph
Posted: March 14, 2024, 5:59 pm
Cheltenham Festival, day three as it happened.
Author: The Telegraph
Posted: March 14, 2024, 5:52 pm
King George VI Chase winner Hewick is out of Friday's race because of ground concerns while Galopin Des Champs will seek to defend his title.
Author: BBC
Posted: March 14, 2024, 1:16 pm
The four-day Cheltenham Festival continues at pace this afternoon with plenty to keep the punters interested.
Author: The Telegraph
Posted: March 14, 2024, 7:55 am
The only man who has made more money than Willie Mullins at the 2024 Cheltenham Festival is the tractor driver on the evening shift pulling vehicles out of the car park, but the trainer’s bandwagon, which morphed at some stage into a steamroller, does not need pushing or pulling and it has no brakes.
Author: The Telegraph
Posted: March 13, 2024, 8:21 pm
Willie Mullins becomes the first person to train 100 Cheltenham Festival winners as his son Patrick rides Jasmin De Vaux to victory in the Champion Bumper.
Author: BBC
Posted: March 13, 2024, 7:04 pm
A fifth-fence capitulation by odds-on favourite El Fabiolo allowed Captain Guinness to steal victory in the Betway Champion Chase and give Henry de Bromhead a fourth win in the race and Rachael Blackmore a first triumph in steeplechasing’s sprint division championship.
Author: The Telegraph
Posted: March 13, 2024, 6:48 pm
Captain Guinness wins the Queen Mother Champion Chase at the Cheltenham Festival after hot favourite El Fabiolo is pulled up.
Author: BBC
Posted: March 13, 2024, 6:07 pm
If you want to know what it looks like to have a horse win at Cheltenham, it was all there in the reaction of David Manasseh. After his six-year-old gelding Ballyburn had won the Gallagher Novices’ Hurdle, the owner of the CAA Stellar Agency, the man with more than 800 leading footballers on his books, was behaving as if he had just slotted the penalty that had won the World Cup.
Author: The Telegraph
Posted: March 13, 2024, 5:53 pm
Willie Mullins completed a century of Cheltenham Festival winners, with the 100th fittingly coming with his son Patrick in the saddle on board Jasmin De Vaux.
Author: The Telegraph
Posted: March 13, 2024, 5:52 pm
The 99th victory was chalked up in the Novices' Chase by Fact to File, after Ballyburn had triumphed in the Gallagher Novices' Hurdle. Another Mullins horse, 2-9 favourite El Fabiolo, had earlier caused a major shock after being pulled up in the Queen Mother Champion Chase, with Rachael Blackmore riding surprise winner Captain Guinness for Henry De Bromhead. Mullins had his first winner at Cheltenham in 1995 and he has trained the winner of the Champion Bumper 13 times including victory as a jockey in 1996 with Whither or Which.
Author: Reuters
Posted: March 13, 2024, 4:59 pm
Nicky Henderson, the top British trainer at Cheltenham, is enduring his most miserable festival as apparent illness spreads through his yard with disastrous timing.
Author: The Telegraph
Posted: March 13, 2024, 2:12 pm
Trainer Nicky Henderson withdraws several runners from the Cheltenham Festival including Gold Cup hope Shishkin amid concerns over the stable's form.
Author: BBC
Posted: March 13, 2024, 11:29 am
Wednesday's Cross Country Chase at the Cheltenham Festival is called off and will not be rescheduled after parts of the track were waterlogged.
Author: BBC
Posted: March 13, 2024, 11:02 am
Willie Mullins is chasing a century of Cheltenham Festival winners and bookmakers will fear him reaching that milestone today.
Author: The Telegraph
Posted: March 13, 2024, 7:01 am
State Man, the 2-5 favourite, gave trainer Willie Mullins his fifth Champion Hurdle victory at the Cheltenham Festival and jockey Paul Townend his maiden win in the race when coming home by a length and a quarter.
Author: The Telegraph
Posted: March 12, 2024, 7:55 pm
Highland Hunter, the horse who led the cortege at the funeral of stable lad Keagan Kirkby this month, died on Tuesday after running in the Ultima Handicap Chase at the Cheltenham Festival.
Author: The Telegraph
Posted: March 12, 2024, 7:10 pm
State Man wins the Champion Hurdle as trainer Willie Mullins moves closer to the landmark of 100 Cheltenham Festival victories.
Author: BBC
Posted: March 12, 2024, 6:17 pm
The Mayfair office of David Manasseh, part-owner of the odds-on Gallagher Novices’ Hurdle favourite Ballyburn, does not disappoint. It is everything you ever hoped a football super agent’s office would look like, apart from the fact the walls are not dripping with photographs of his players.
Author: The Telegraph
Posted: March 12, 2024, 6:11 pm
Cheltenham Festival day one LIVE!
Author: The Telegraph
Posted: March 12, 2024, 5:40 pm
Shishkin burnished his credentials as a legitimate Cheltenham Gold Cup contender with a smooth victory in the Grade 2 Denman Chase at Newbury.
Author: The Telegraph
Posted: March 12, 2024, 1:47 pm
Racing's showpiece Cheltenham Festival starts in damp conditions on Tuesday with Irish trainer Willie Mullins set to dominate at the four-day meeting.
Author: BBC
Posted: March 12, 2024, 8:34 am
Describing the 150-plus horses taking a little light exercise in Monday’s early morning mist as an Irish armada is probably wrong.
Author: The Telegraph
Posted: March 11, 2024, 8:19 pm
At the end of a long, wet winter, meeting Stan Hayhurst – the oldest living person to have ridden a Cheltenham Gold Cup winner – at Hexham, where he rode his first winner in 1950, is like a ray of golden sunshine.
Author: The Telegraph
Posted: March 11, 2024, 5:48 pm
As the thoroughbred horse racing industry struggles with waning interest and grave economic challenges, its Maryland stakeholders are seeking to chart a path forward amid strong headwinds. But to complete that mission, advocates and legislators will soon need to introduce and pass a bill — and quickly, before the General Assembly session ends next month. Equipped with $400 million in state ...
Author: Baltimore Sun
Posted: March 11, 2024, 9:00 am
The Cheltenham Festival is "critical" for the image and health of British racing though in "many ways the racing fan is being priced out" of this week's showpiece, William Woodhams, CEO of Fitzdares bookmakers, told AFP. The four day extravaganza which pitches the best of British jumps thoroughbreds against their Irish rivals gets underway on Tuesday."The Cheltenham Festival is a very important week," he told AFP. "It's a very special week for anyone lucky enough to have a winner there, as it is
Author: AFP
Posted: March 11, 2024, 4:57 am
Mar. 10—(StatePoint) There are few words more synonymous with Kentucky than horses. In fact, just saying the words together evokes images of thoroughbreds and jockeys adorned in vibrant colors, as they thunder into the homestretch at Churchill Downs — all competing for the dream of winning the Kentucky Derby. Horse racing and the Kentucky Derby are so ingrained in Kentucky culture that the ...
Author: Albuquerque Journal, N.M.
Posted: March 11, 2024, 3:59 am
Jenny Pitman, the first female trainer to win the Cheltenham Gold Cup, will be among 100 surviving winners at a lunch to mark the race’s 100th anniversary in the new Centenary Restaurant at the racecourse on Monday.
Author: The Telegraph
Posted: March 10, 2024, 8:45 am
Mar. 9—Say the words "Triple Crown" to folks and you're likely to get a variety of answers. Some people think it's about the three big horse races for thoroughbreds: The Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes. Others equate it with baseball and winning the batting, home run and runs batted in titles in the same season. Those responses aren't wrong, per se, but around here ...
Author: Aiken Standard, S.C.
Posted: March 10, 2024, 12:53 am
Olly Murphy-trained Go Dante snatches victory from Faivoir at the last in the Imperial Cup at Sandown.
Author: BBC
Posted: March 9, 2024, 3:54 pm
James Bowen is hoping his run of bad luck at the Cheltenham Festival ends in 2024 and he finally rides a winner.
Author: BBC
Posted: March 8, 2024, 4:56 pm
Doyle is not just a leading female rider, but a leading rider regardless of gender and is one of only handful of jockeys to enjoy a retained role.
Author: PA Media: Sport
Posted: March 8, 2024, 12:01 am
Larry Lederman took over as the voice of Freehold Raceway in 1998, holding that post for more than 10 years.
Author: App.com | Asbury Park Press
Posted: March 6, 2024, 6:04 pm
The 2023 Champion Hurdle winner Constitution Hill will not run at Cheltenham and Arkle Chase favourite Marine Nationale is also ruled out.
Author: BBC
Posted: March 4, 2024, 6:42 pm
Former steelworker Dai Burchell, who produced more than 400 winners from his stable in Ebbw Vale, dies at the age of 87.
Author: BBC
Posted: March 3, 2024, 6:56 pm
I knew three years at agricultural college 40 years ago would eventually come in handy but never reckoned it would be assisting Harry Cobden, “jockey first, farmer second”, with sorting out a batch of cattle recently arrived from Salisbury market.
Author: The Telegraph
Posted: March 3, 2024, 8:00 am
Todd Pletcher trainee Emmanuel powers down the stretch to finish on top for the second consecutive year at the Canadian Turf Stakes.
Author: NBC Sports
Posted: March 2, 2024, 10:25 pm
The purse for the Preakness Stakes will increase to $2 million, up from $1.5 million in 2023, and it will become part of a new three-leg series with a potential bonus payout of $5 million, 1/ST Racing said Friday in a move designed to increase the appeal of Maryland’s signature race. Despite its status as the second jewel in the Triple Crown, the Preakness has struggled to draw top contenders ...
Author: Baltimore Sun
Posted: March 1, 2024, 9:50 pm

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