The Cheltenham Festival rarely fails to live up to expectations and the latest edition of the National Hunt extravaganza undoubtedly produced plenty of drama. There were plenty of tears on the opening day, while the rest of the four-day meeting delivered numerous moments that will live long in the memory. This includes one of the […]
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Guineas Festival 2023: A forgotten racehorse trainer who was the first woman in the UK to be issued with a training licence in 1886 is to have a race at The QIPCO Guineas Festival renamed in her honour, The Jockey Club has announced. Ellen Chaloner has lain in an unmarked grave in Newmarket Cemetery since
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Gordon Elliotthas said it would be “a dream come true” if one of his 19 entries in Aintree’s Randox Grand National 2023 can help him equal the record of training four winners of the race. By Graham Clark The County Meath-based handler only took out a trainer’s license in 2006 and had already won his
By Nick Seddon The six-times champion Jump trainer Nicky Henderson opened the doors to his famous Seven Barrows yard in Lambourn to talk about his prospects for The Cheltenham Festival in 2023, which takes place Tuesday 14th March to Friday 17th March inclusive. With 72 Festival wins to his name, Henderson is the most successful
By Nick Seddon Trainer Dan Skelton has revealed that he’s keen to take a select team to this year’s Cheltenham Festival, which will be spearheaded by Boodles Cheltenham Gold Cup contender Protektorat. Skelton has four Cheltenham Festival winners under his belt so far, with the most recent being Ch’tibello in the 2019 County Hurdle, and he
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Cheltenham Festival 2023: Willie Mullins’ Horses and Hopes By Nick Seddon No trainer in the history of The Cheltenham Festival has trained more winners at it than Willie Mullins. Tourist Attraction in the 1995 Supreme Novices’ Hurdle was the first of what now stands at a record 88 winners for the master of Closutton. In
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Clear your diary this Good Friday and join Racing Welfare at the ARC Middleham Open Day! Book your tickets now for the popular family-friendly fundraising event, which takes place on Friday 7th April. The Arena Racing Company sponsored day, a staple event in the northern racing calendar, attracted more than 3,500 eager racing fans last
The Jockey Club has announced that formal dress codes have been (almost) scrapped at all of its 15 racecourses as part of a drive to make horseracing more “accessible and inclusive”. Instead of restricting racegoers from watching the action in certain enclosures based on what they are wearing, British racing’s largest commercial organisation and employer
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Horse racing fans have plenty to look forward to in 2023, with the horse racing calendar packed with a ton of major meetings in the United Kingdom. Regardless of whether you prefer betting on National Hunt or flat racing, you are completely spoilt for choice over the coming months. Read on as we pinpoint the
Dan Skelton is confident of seeing something ‘very positive’ on Festival Trials Day at Cheltenham (Saturday 28th January) from Protektorat, who he reports to be ‘flying around the place’ ahead of an intriguing clash with last season’s Randox Grand National hero Noble Yeats in the Grade Two Paddy Power Cotswold Chase. The Saints Des Saints
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