Archive for January, 2009

McCoy up against a tough task

Tomorrow (Saturday) proves to be an interesting day where Tony McCoy will be facing a stiff task while looking for his 3,000th jumps winner at Sandown. The reason for the interest in the race lies in the fact that one of his three mounts has been declared a non-runner for the race.
AP was rather unhappy with the […]

Murphy pissed off at BHA

The British Horseracing Authority handing over a fine of 9,500 quid to Ferdy Murphy, which led to him blowing his top following a disciplinary hearing. In fact, Murphy considered the panel to be ‘headless chickens’ because of their penalizing him for running into Mansonn Leda, who ended up fifth in the Streetlam Mares ‘National Hunt’ on December […]

Joe Lively brought a heartwarming success to the Tizzard family in the Letheby & Christopher Chase at Cheltenham with a Gold Cup - Grand National double. With this victory, trainer Colin Tizzard intends to play the game once more after this victory.
Even with 2006 Welsh National winner Halcon Genelardais and last year’s Arkle victor, Tidal Bay […]

The numerous abandoned meetings that Britain has been seeing lately has led to Ayr being granted an extra feature on Sunday. This is why the Victor Chandler Homecoming Raceday will be hosting a six-race card with prize money of 51,000 pounds.
I have to say that this is the second additional feature that has been given […]

Well, no sooner are 2008’s results in the books and its back to business and a new year to boot!, and even this early in the year its been ‘entertaining’ to say the least!
We have received some fantastic information from the outset in January and with a little luck we could be 20 points plus […]

Great start to eradicate

Sky Bet gave Eradicate a winning quote for his splendid performance at the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle at Cheltenham. This win followed another great performance during his debut at the Langford Trust Novice’s Hurdle that was held at Taunton.
Under Tony McCoy expert hands, Nicky Henderson’s Eradicate never did look to be in trouble during the race. […]

On the opening day of the Cheltenham Festival, Binocular proved to be the all time favorite by taking top honors in the Smurfit Kappa Champion Hurdle. He also made it to the first entry stage of the feature event.
Five year old Binocular is more than happy with his two starts as he had managed to […]

As Exotic Dancer is in the form of his life, its racing manager Barry Simpson and owner Sir Robert Ogden are eagerly waiting his next race for the Cheltenham Gold cup. Simpson says that Dancer is in great shape and had come out of the Ireland race looking great. In fact, he says that Dancer […]

With trainer Howard Johnson issuing an upbeat bulletin on Inglis Drever, Inglis’s future will be decided on the decision made next week. This three time Ladbrokes World Hurdle winner had suffered from a hock injury at Newbury in November and since then; his career has been tilting back and forth.
However luckily, the handler has responded […]

With the splendid performance Calgary Bay had exhibited at the Dipper Novices’ Chase, he entered calculations for Henrietta Knight and Tony McCoy at the Arkle. This six year old has jumped well in the race, despite a mistake at the top of the hill.
It was after McCoy gave him office that Calgary’s assertion increased to […]

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