All posts tagged "Cheltenham"
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News
/ 3 days agoCheltenham November Meeting 2025: PaddyPower Gold Cup analysis and preview
The 2025 Cheltenham November meeting is almost upon us and with it comes the running of one of the biggest Handicap...
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News
/ 3 days agoCheltenham November Meeting 2025: Dates, how to watch on TV, trainers and jockey to watch
Cheltenham will stage its festival appetiser in under two weeks’ time, as the 2025 November Meeting gets underway.
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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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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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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 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 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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Andy Newton
/ 2 weeks agoRACE FOR A BIG RETURN: Andy Newton weighs up the chances of Chasing a comeback at Haydock
As we head into November, despite the Breeders’ Cup in the US and a sprinkling of domestic Flat meetings left –...
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Racing Ahead
/ 2 weeks agoJAG-GED EDGE LOOKS SHARP
Paul Ferguson checks out this month’s early-season eye-catchers JAGWAR (FR) ridden by Jonjo O’Neill Jr UNBEATEN in two starts at Cheltenham...
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Racing Ahead
/ 2 weeks agoRAIN’S A JOY FOR MACHIN: Ben Morgan offers his ‘ten to follow’ across the November track action
Joyeux Machin Given the dry Summer/Autumn that we have had, you would expect there to be an absolute deluge of rain...
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News
/ 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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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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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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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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Racing Festivals
/ 4 weeks agoBen Morgan’s Friday & Saturday tips at Newmarket, York & Chepstow
Racing Ahead’s resident tipster Ben Morgan selects his best bets for Friday’s action at York & Saturday’s action at Newmarket &...
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News
/ 1 month agoRacing welcomes new four-year deal with ITV
ITV has agreed a new four-year deal to broadcast free-to-air coverage of UK horse racing from 2027 until the end of...
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Cheltenham Festival
/ 1 month agoCheltenham maintains customer focus with further changes
Cheltenham has not ruled out future tweaks to the Festival race programme, as the racecourse outlined plans to further enhance the...
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Racing Ahead
/ 2 months agoROD BEATS THE ODDS: Nick Townsend meets the west country trainer with a golden touch
In a Flat racing world dominated by the behemoths of Newmarket and Lambourn, almost production lines of black-type talent, it is...
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Irish Racing
/ 2 months agoNELSON SAILS TO FIRST WIN: Karl Hedley is ready to leap into the Irish jumps season
Summer is now fading fast, and the focus rightly begins to shine on the national hunt season proper in Ireland. I...
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Paul Ferguson
/ 2 months agoFERGIE’S TOP TEN: Paul Ferguson sets us up ready to pick up sticks for the winter code
Following last month’s ‘Maidens To Follow’ feature, October sees a more traditional Ten To Follow with the 2025-2026 season (proper) now...
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Books
/ 2 months agoBRED AND BLOODIED: Graham Buddry finds Felix Francis’ latest racing thriller sets pulse racing
Our sport is blessed in a way like no other sport. You would be hard pressed to find an exciting thriller...
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Racing Ahead
/ 2 months agoSAFETY FIRST: Richard Eagle clocks spills as well as thrills as he tours tracks and yards
Rushing down to Windsor for one of their last evening meetings I knew I might miss the first race …. I...
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Tales from the Betting Ring
/ 2 months agoBETTER THAN PROPER JOB: Simon Nott takes ‘work’ to the beach and Ireland’s Laytown Races
It’s been 12 months, this meeting last year since I was racing in Ireland which is far too long given how...
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News
/ 2 months agoBHA announces changes to upcoming National Hunt programme
The British Horseracing Authority has announced a number of changes to the programme for the upcoming National Hunt season, including a...
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Andy Newton
/ 2 months ago2025/26 Jumpers To Follow by Paul Ferguson *£3 Discount* With Promo Code ‘TPJTF2526’
Now in its 19th year of publication Jumpers To Follow is an essential tool to guide you through the entire National...
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Columnists
/ 2 months agoCan’t wait to jump in: Paul Ferguson on the new National Hunt season
Paul Ferguson is champing at the bit to share his thoughts on new National Hunt season As it is now September,...
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Racing Ahead
/ 2 months agoWinners played ‘life’s handicap’: Rolf Johnson tribute to Antony Winlaw – ‘with apologies to Kipling’
Antony Roger Sebastian de Winton Winlaw; most associates knew him as ‘Winlaw’ (time was when surnames were the norm as the...
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Racing Ahead
/ 2 months agoWhen Simon called Holt: ‘Voice of the Racecourse’ talking to Star Sports at Bath Racecourse
Simon Holt, one of Britain’s top horse racing commentators, has been a familiar voice on racecourses and national television since the...
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Racing Ahead
/ 2 months agoTravelled well and has stamina: Xander Brett on his mission to visit every British racecourse
A cemetery doesn’t make for an encouraging racecourse arrival. Redcar’s welcome, however, at the end of the driveway and back in...
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Racing Ahead
/ 2 months agoSaddle stars off the leash: Horse racing legends set to boost Lambourn whippet charity race day
Bragging rights in the horse racing industry will be on the line this month as some of the sport’s most recognisable...





