Horse Racing Betting

Gordon Elliott has begun the process of selecting targets for his leading novice hurdlers ahead of the Cheltenham Festival in a little over two weeks. Leading trainer at the meeting last year, Elliott will once more have a strong team travelling from Ireland for the Cotswolds showpiece. While he admits that some of his novice […]

Worcestershire trainer Henry Oliver has fired in five winners from fifteen runners in the past 28 days and he sends out five interesting runners on Friday, including two horses at Exeter well worth keeping an eye on… The first is a sound stayer called CHASE END CHARLIE, who runs in the GG.CO.UK sponsored handicap hurdle […]

Last year’s Festival leading trainer Gordon Elliott has amassed a monstrous squad of horses for his assault on Cheltenham in 2019. Tony O’Hehir spoke to him at a media day exactly three weeks until the Festival gets underway, to get the latest on his plans. — Subscribe on YouTube: Website: Twitter: & Facebook: Apple Podcasts: […]

Maddy Playle, Paul Kealy & James Hill are joined by Paddy Power’s Darren Hughes for ante-post tips on the Albert Bartlett and Champion Bumper in the 2019 Cheltenham Festival. On the show: – The Albert Bartlett and Champion Bumper at the Cheltenham Festival often throw up winners at big prices – Racing Post star tipster […]

Trainer Henry de Bromhead says he is yet to decide whether Monalee (5/1 – Ryanair Chase Outright) will compete for the Cheltenham Gold Cup or Ryanair Chase at Prestbury Park next month. Monalee’s first outing of 2019 ended in victory at Gowran Park on Saturday in the Red Mills Chase and connections are now mulling […]

Trainer Joseph O’Brien has confirmed a final decision on which race Fakir D’Oudairies (8/1 to win Triumph Hurdle) runs in at next month’s Cheltenham Festival will be made at the “last minute”. The four-year-old followed up his successful Irish debut in Cork in early January by comprehensively beating his rivals in the Triumph Hurdle trial […]

Nicky Henderson admits that the prospect of taking on Apple’s Jade and Laurina in next month’s Champion Hurdle will ensure Buveur D’Air must be better than last year if he is to defend his crown The JP McManus-owned Buveur D’Air will bid to become just the sixth horse in history to win three Champion Hurdle […]

Trainer Nicky Henderson is quietly confident Might Bite can still challenge for the 2019 Cheltenham Gold Cup next month (Might Bite 12/1 to win Gold Cup). The 10-year-old has looked a shadow of the horse that competed in the blue riband last year during his first two outings of the current campaign. Might Bite finished […]

Nick Murphy | 20 February 2019 The Cheltenham Festival Top Jockey award goes to the jockey who wins the most races across the four-day Prestbury Park Festival each year. It has a long and storied history, although one man has dominated the Cheltenham Top Jockey accolade in the last decade or so. Ruby Walsh has […]

[ad_1] Connections of Presenting Percy will not be overly concerned should the Cheltenham Gold Cup favourite go straight into the March 15 race without a prep over fences. The Pat Kelly-trained Presenting Percy has run only once since he stormed to victory in the RSA Chase at Cheltenham last March, landing a Grade Two race […]

We’re only three weeks away from the 2019 Cheltenham Festival and I don’t think I’m prepared. It’s been a funny few months in that regard, the jumps haven’t really got going and yet here we are now facing into the festival. Hopefully all our collective frustration about the stop/start nature of the season will subside […]

Super Saturday produced another big shift in the 2019 Cheltenham Festival markets, as Monalee and Clan Des Obeaux both strengthened their Gold Cup credentials. Al Dancer and Tiger Roll also nailed down their Festival claims over the weekend, although Kalashnikov and Amy Murphy have something to find in the Arkle Chase. We’ve rounded it all […]

Nick Murphy | 19 February 2019 The Pertemps Network Final is one of the toughest races to win at the Cheltenham Festival and as such it carries a reputation as a favourite’s graveyard. Only one favourite has won the race since Inching Closer triumphed for Jonjo O’Neill in 2003, with recent winners at 11/1, 14/1 […]

[ad_1] After impressive wins for both Tiger Roll & Clan des Obeaux over the weekend, we look at the big market movers in the Cheltenham Festival betting – with just 3 weeks to go! Firstly, we must begin with Clan des Obeaux  (above) who bolted up in the Denman Chase at Ascot. The King George […]

Welcome to the BetBright STATZONE, where we give you the stats and you make the decisions! We’ve another busy afternoon in store with seven LIVE ITV races spread across three tracks – Kempton, Lingfield and Newcastle. The 888Sport Handicap Chase tops the bill at Kempton, with four LIVE races at the Sunbury-On-Thames track, while the stayers […]