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[ad_1] Irad, Tyler, Jose and company chasing winners in the sun  There is a competitive card at Gulfstream Park on Friday. The weather forecast for The Florida venue is for sunshine, so the scheduled turf contests should stay on the grass. Jorge Navarro (race 7) leads perennial leader Todd Pletcher (races 1,2 and 10) in the trainer standings. Irad Ortiz is leading rider in…

Nick Murphy | 20 February 2019 The Cheltenham Festival is one of the biggest horse racing events in the world. It is considered as one of the UK’s premier sporting events alongside the FA Cup Final, Wimbledon, the Ashes and the Grand National. Run over four days in Gloucestershire, the famous meeting attracts the cream of the jump racing crop from the UK, Europe…

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 hurdlers could perhaps have used a bit more experience,…

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 over 2m7f at 1.30pm. This horse took some time…

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: SoundCloud: source

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 Paul Kealy is with us for horse-by-horse analysis on…

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 over which prestigious Cheltenham race he will be going…

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 at Cheltenham later in the month. That performance at…

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 crowns on March 12. Last year he fended off…

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 second to Native River at Prestbury Park last season…

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 claimed the award in nine of the last 10…

[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 over hurdles at Gowran Park last month. He was…

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 when those four glorious days of racing begin on…

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 up in our Road to Cheltenham… Clan Des Obeaux…