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/ 4 days agoCheltenham November Meeting 2025: Dates, how to watch on TV, trainers and jockeys to watch
Cheltenham will stage its festival appetiser in under two weeks’ time, as the 2025 November Meeting gets underway.
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/ 4 days agoMarkel Magnolia Cup raises record-breaking £834,170 for King’s Trust International’s Project Lehar
Goodwood Racecourse have announced that the 2025 Markel Magnolia Cup has raised £834,170 for King’s Trust International’s Project Lehar, a record-breaking...
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/ 2 weeks agoBreeders’ Cup 2025: Breeders’ Cup Classic analysis and preview
The 2025 Breeders’ Cup gets underway this weekend and with it comes the running of America’s most valuable race – the...
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/ 2 weeks agoBreeders’ Cup 2025: Dates, how to watch on TV, trainers and jockeys to watch
The eyes of the racing world will turn stateside this weekend, as the 2025 Breeders’ Cup gets underway.
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Featured
/ 2 weeks agoPAUL’S JOY IS A DARK STAR: Paul Nicholls names ten to follow from his top Ditcheat jumping prospects
Paul Nicholls eagerly anticipates big seasons ahead for his stable stars. The top trainer highlights the progress of established aces, including...
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Form Guide
/ 2 weeks agoCALANDAGAIN MORE OF SAME
John Anthony cheers gelded Champion Stakes winner and middle-distance superstar’s promised return next year A MID all the triple-figure shocks on...
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Racing Ahead
/ 2 weeks agoJOSH MADE HIS POINT!
Mike Drowne finds top pointer Josh Newman battling for more success Picture: Charlie Giles Josh Newman has been in command of...
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Racing Ahead
/ 2 weeks agoMOR MERRIER FOR MULLINS: Karl Hedley jumps in with eyecatchers as Ireland’s new season gets going
The nights are drawing in now and the Flat season across Ireland is in its concluding stages. Attention is now switching...
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Racing Ahead
/ 2 weeks agoSERIOUSLY ALL FOR THE CRAIC: Xander Brett gets taste of Listowel’s fierce passion for fun – and winners
I had no lead-up at Listowel. Stepping off the bus, which had slowly filled with racegoers as it trundled south, I...
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Racing Ahead
/ 2 weeks agoLIFE OUT OF THE SADDLE
Richard Eagle asks where have yesterday’s saddle heroes gone Philip Hide, the clerk of the course, in the Stewards Box at...
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Racing Ahead
/ 2 weeks agoREADERS’ LETTERS
Please keep your letters coming -write to: Readers’ Letters, Racing Ahead, Tuition House, St George’s Road, Wimbledon, SW19 4EU, or email...
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Out in the Sticks
/ 2 weeks agoKELI’S EYE ON LONGER TRIP
Jeremy Grayson gets out and about checking talent on the country tracks FAKENHAM, October 17 (Good) 2m3yds (+136yds) Novices’ Hurdle (class...
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Columnists
/ 2 weeks agoBOB WAS A BIG BOOST: Robert Cooper finds a Way to follow up this season on last year’s jumps money-spinners
We have arrived at the time of year when I go delving for some horses to follow through the approaching winter...
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Racing Ahead
/ 2 weeks agoIF SHERLOCK HAD BEEN A TIPSTER: Rolf Johnson blasts ‘after thinkers’ – but sees the logic in Daryz Arc glory
Sherlock Holmes didn’t do ‘after timing’: the world’s most famous detective was always ahead of the game; the police plodded on....
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Racing Ahead
/ 2 weeks agoGREAT SPOT BUT HALDON TO HATS: Simon Nott brings us the bookmaking gossip from a damp day at Exeter
It must have been a day like today and not when there’s freezing horizonal rain that some forward thinking soul back...
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Racing Ahead
/ 2 weeks agoFLY IN THE OINTMENT: Graham Buddry recalls how brilliant Solwhit beat the odds to shine bright
In the presence of legendary supremacy other brilliance can be easily overlooked until a change of course allows the lesser of...
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Talking Two-Year-Olds
/ 2 weeks agoAID AIM IS TRUE AND SO PRECISE: Ian Heitman sees O’Brien zoom in on Group 1 win record… and Del Mar
Aidan O’Brien is on the way to breaking his own record of 28 Group 1 wins in a year with 22...
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Big Interview
/ 2 weeks agoJOHN SHINES ON FOR LONG AFTER MIDNIGHT: Nick Townsend talks to irrepressible saddle legend John Francome
By any estimation, John Francombe boasts an extraordinary body of work: a seven-times champion national hunt jockey; for 27 years a...
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Big Interview
/ 2 weeks agoODDS AND ENDS: Alan Hurndall reveals more about the edgy young life that got him started
In a second instalment of his memoirs, journalist Alan Hurndall tells more about the tough life in 1960s South London and...
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Racing Ahead
/ 2 weeks agoFIVE STAR CARE WORK: Francis Fitzgerald spells out the responsibilities of a greyhound trainer
If you have watched a greyhound race at a dog track and wondered what goes on behind the scenes you might...
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Racing Ahead
/ 2 weeks agoHOUNDS ARE THE STARS FOR GOLD MEDALLIST HARLEY: Deanne Deakin introduces Dunstall Park’s newest kennel hand
Deane Deakin, wife of Dunstall Park trainer Simon, shares the inspirational story behind her husband’s newest kennel hand – her remarkable...
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Racing Ahead
/ 2 weeks agoDOGS LIFE’S LOOKING UP: Jonathan Hobbs sees bright future in changing world of greyhound racing
IF a week is a long time in politics, a month in greyhound racing is a lifetime. Pictures: Gary Garner But...
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Paul Jacobs
/ 2 weeks agoBEAUTY LOOKS IN GREAT NICH: Paul Jacobs picks out four shooting stars to follow over the jumps ahead
BEAUTY IN THE PARK – Paul Nicholls Paul Nicholls will be champing at the bit to have another go at the...
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/ 2 weeks agoSTEEPLECHASE TALE IS A CHRISTMAS CRACKER: Alex Gifford on a book that should be on any racing fan’s ‘wanted’ list
It’s not a snappy title – in fact it is a bit of a mouthful. But National Hunt and Point-to-Point Racing...
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