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Aidan O’Brien drops heavy hint for Rip Van Winkle

by admin on 03. Sep, 2010 in Horse News, Horse Racing, Racing News

Aidan O’Brien’s change of plan suggests Rip Van Winkle has made significant progress recently.

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Claims Five: Why you should care about the Am I Blue coup | Chris Cook

by admin on 03. Sep, 2010 in Events, Horse News, Horse Racing, Races, Racing News

An obscure race at Hereford this week showed up a lot of the problems with British horse racing Somebody made a killing from a handicap hurdle at Hereford on Wednesday. As you may well be aware, the race was won in impressive fashion by Am I Blue, who had been backed from 25-1 down to 5-1 before hosing up by 19 lengths. The filly opened at 25-1 because she seemed to have lost what ability she once had.

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Twice Over camp hoping shorter track helps them beat Rip Van Winkle

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Am I Blue’s victory probed by BHA

by 1 on 01. Sep, 2010 in Horse Racing, Racing News

The British Horseracing Authority is to investigate the surprise success of heavily backed 5-1 shot Am I Blue at Hereford on Wednesday.

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Win VIP tickets to the William Hill Ayr Gold Cup

by admin on 01. Sep, 2010 in Horse News, Horse Racing, Races, Racing News

Answer a simple question and you could be on your way to a top day out at the races

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Shocking favourite for Melbourne Cup

by admin on 01. Sep, 2010 in General, Racing News

Reigning Melbourne Cup winner Shocking remains the $12 favourite to make it back-to-back wins in the 150th anniversary of the great race following the release of weights.

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Makfi being aimed at third clash with Canford Cliffs in QEII

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Bargain buy Regal Parade lines up for another big Haydock payday

by admin on 31. Aug, 2010 in Horse Racing, Racing News

Sold for 16,000 guineas in 2007, the sprinter has since amassed more than £500,000 in prize money Dandy Nicholls bet a little over £16,000 that he could get the best out of Regal Parade and the owners for whom he bought the horse in October 2007 have had their investment repaid more than 30 times over with £500,000 in prize money. At Haydock on Saturday, the six-year-old will try to add the £156,117 offered to the winner of the Betfred Sprint Cup. Twelve months ago, Regal Parade gave Nicholls and his jockey son, Adrian, their first Group One success together when taking the same Haydock race by half a length from Fleeting Spirit. Three weeks ago at Deauville, he secured another valuable payday in the Prix Maurice de Gheest.

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Marcus Tregoning boycotts ‘dusty’ York over racing surface

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Fixture-list tinkering is no way to solve racing’s funding crisis

by admin on 30. Aug, 2010 in Horse News, Horse Racing, Racing News

Senior officials in the sport are well paid but short of ideas and blind to the importance of betting It is not just the people who print racing diaries who are starting to fret about the non-appearance of next year’s fixture list. The British Horseracing Authority has promised to publish the full programme by 23 September, nearly two months later than normal, which might have seemed reasonable if they were launching a full-on assault on the 1,500-meeting programme.

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