Sandown selections Saturday 7th March The final big day of racing action prior to the Cheltenham Festival, Sandown’s Imperial Cup meeting gives us one final chance to boost coffers before the big week. I have two selections for today’s feature, plus two from another fascinating EBF final that precedes...
Newbury, Kelso & Doncaster selections Saturday 28th February The jumping action is quality across the board this weekend, despite the proximity to Cheltenham. Kelso stages its most valuable race, the Morebattle Hurdle, now establishing itself as one of the foremost 2m handicap hurdles in the calendar. There is the...
Kempton & Newcastle selections Saturday 21st February As we draw closer to Cheltenham, we still have an excellent Saturday’s action to enjoy over the jumps this afternoon. Fairyhouse stages the Bobbyjo Chase, more of a trail for Nationals to come this spring. However at Kempton we have a quality...
Ascot & Haydock selections Saturday 14th February All the jumps fixtures have survived the wet, then cold weather so we have a full programme to look forward to. There are plenty of good Cheltenham trials in graded contests, but there are also a selections of very good handicaps to...
Newbury selections Saturday 7th February Fortunately Newbury has survived the persistent rain over the past couple of weeks, but make no mistake conditions will be very testing, especially so on the hurdles track. I have selections today for horses who should be suited by conditions. Dan Skelton has huge...
Sandown & Musselburgh selections Saturday 31st January Despite the potential attraction of the Dublin Racing Festival, subject to the weather, there is plenty of good racing to enjoy in Britain on Saturday and I am going with two races on the big fixture of the year at Musselburgh, plus...
Cheltenham selections Saturday 24th January Trials Day at Cheltenham and as has become the norm for this meeting there is plenty of quality, but not so much quantity. There is still plenty of interest though and I have selections from four races on the card. Cheltenham 12.05: Califet En...
Gowran Park selections Thursday 22nd January One of the big handicap highlights of the year in Ireland is the Thyestes Chase and happily Gowran has survived persistent rain this week in order to stage their big meeting of the year. However conditions are guaranteed to be extremely testing, so...
Ascot & Haydock selections Saturday 17th January We are back to a full complement of meetings on Saturday after the recent cold weather and the main focus is on Ascot today where the Grade 1 Clarence House Chase takes the limelight. From a punting perspective though, three handicaps on...
Kempton selections Saturday 10th January Despite the loss of Warwick and Fairyhouse today, we still have a good jumps card at Kempton to look forward to with the Lanzarote Hurdle a definite highlight. Trainer Dan Skelton will be looking to add to his sizable lead in the trainers title...
