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Trainer Nicky Henderson says My Tent Or Yours will run in the William Hill Supreme Novices' Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival next month.
There had been talk that the six-year-old could go for the Stan James Champion Hurdle following his cruising to victory in the Betfair Hurdle at Newbury.
Connections however have decided to run him in the Supreme on March 12.
"He's very good and he goes for the Supreme," said Hend
Black Caviar broke the Flemington track record as she returned from eight months off to record her 23rd win.
/ The unbeaten Australian mare had been on the brink of retirement after tearing a quadriceps muscle while running at Royal Ascot last June.
But she was a convincing winner of a race named in her honour - the Black Caviar Lightning Stakes - leading the field by two lengths.
"I am just so proud of her and my tea
Connections of Black Caviar will discuss the possibility of the unbeaten mare returning to Royal Ascot this year - although the chances are still "very slim" at this stage. The seven-year-old mare stretched her record to 23 without defeat at Flemington on Saturday, sparking debate over whether she would return to Berkshire. While connections were initially not too keen on the idea, they have now conceded it will at least be discussed - with the car
An all-hurdle and bumper card has been arranged for Taunton on Tuesday after the chase events were abandoned due to waterlogging.
Bob Young, chief executive at Taunton, said: "Even though the course has only had a further 30mm of rain since February 7, it has still not fully recovered from the deluge it received prior to that. The hurdle course remains heavy, but the steeplechase course is still waterlogged in places.
"We are gra
Utopie Des Bordes retained her unbeaten British record in the Listed Jane Seymour Mares' Novice Hurdle at Sandown. Nicky Henderson's recruit was smart in France and went off the 11-10 favourite after opening her account at Doncaster. When Twigline crashed out at the last, Barry Geraghty's most significant danger was She Ranks Me, but she held her off bravely. Henderson said: "She's not very big but she can jump and she will go for the Albert Ba
Paul Carberry will be reunited with Monbeg Dude in Saturday`s Betfred Grand National Trial after a merry-go-round of jockey bookings for Haydock's big race. The Irishman delivered one of his hold-up specials on Michael Scudamore's stayer to secure a famous victory over hot favourite and weekend rival Teaforthree in the Coral Welsh National. Scudamore was placed in a slightly difficult position as Carberry was initially unavailable, leaving him to bo
Paul Nicholls has confirmed that Tidal Bay will miss both the Ladbrokes World Hurdle and the John Smith's Grand National.
The 12-year-old has returned to his brilliant best this season, winning a exciting renewal of the Lexus Chase over Christmas, and had been allotted what looked a favourable handicap mark for the Aintree spectacular.
Nicholls tho has now confirmed in his blog that a minor injury has been discovered. "He was out
The Racecourse Newbury in partnership with The Royal Agricultural College is holding an event called Greatwood Charity Raceday on Saturday 2nd march 2013, this is a day that alongside some of the season's best Jump racing, celebrates the beauty and versatility of the horse with a host equestrian demonstrations and an interactive riding zone. This fixture also recognises the fantastic work of racehorse rehabilitation charity, Greatwood. As in previous year
Tidal Bay has been handed top weight of 11st 10lb for the John Smith`s Grand National at Aintree on 6 April.
The 12-year-old, trained by Paul Nicholls has been in great form this season, finishing second in the Hennessy at Newbury to Gold Cup favourite Bobs Worth and then winning the Lexus Chase at Leopardstown.
He has an official BHA mark of 171 but has been rated on 162 by official handicapper Phil Smith, who is allowed to use h
Undefeated sprinter Black Caviarwill make her long-awaited return to competition on Saturday at Flemington after nearly eight months since her nail-biting victory at Royal Ascot, in a race in Australia named in her honor, the Black Caviar Lightning Stakes. Thirteen horses have been entered in the 1,000-meter (about five-furlong) race to face the 6-year-old Bel Esprit mare, who will bid to win a record third straight Lightning and take her undefeated rec
Wincanton will host an all-hurdles card on Saturday after announcing that the chases have been abandoned. The Somerset course will hold the final significant Champion Hurdle trial at the weekend, the Bathwick Tyres Kingwell Hurdle, but the entries for the Grade Two event have been reopened until Tuesday. Two handicap chases and a veterans' event, all sponsored by Bathwick Tyres, have been scratched and new hurdles races will replace them on ground w
The number of registrations of thoroughbreds at the British racehorse organization BHA the past five years decreased by almost one third. In 2008, 5,920 foals registered in 2012 there were only 4,366. Major cause of the BHA awareness of overproduction. The surplus of horses is a major problem in the UK horse industry. The BHA reported that five years is busy horse owners and breeders aware of this problem. "The recession and market forces have played a ro
Stephen Curran, owner of Flemenstar says his horse did not show his true form in his defeat to Sir Des Champs at Leopardstown on Saturday. Debate has raged for weeks about the best distance for the chaser trained by Peter Casey, who has looked so smart at up to two and a half miles, and connections were keen to give him another chance at three miles after his third-placed finish in the Lexus Chase over Christmas. Flemenstar was held up by Andrew Ly
A plan to stage an all-chase and bumper card at Lingfield on Tuesday will be implemented after the hurdle races were abandoned due to waterlogging today.
The fixture will include the three chases already scheduled plus three additional chases and a National Hunt Flat race, which will be run on the all-weather track.
Clerk of the course Neil Mackenzie Ross said: "We've had steady rain all day, at 2pm we'd had just over five milli
Officials at Plumpton have called an inspection for 8am ahead of Mondays meeting at the East Sussex venue following more bad weather. The going on the hurdle course is described as soft, heavy in places with the chase course soft. Twelve millimetres of rain had been recorded at 2.30pm on top of five millimetres overnight.
Silviniaco Conti maintained his unbeaten record this season with an emphatic victory in the Betfair Denman Chase.
The seven-year-old enhanced his claims for the Cheltenham Gold Cup with an accurate display of fencing in testing going.
Mail De Bievre made the running on his first run for over 500 days but Tom George's charge ran out of steam as the winner and The Giant Bolster came to fight out the finish from the third last.
Sir Des Champs won for the first time this season as he got the better of a thrilling match with Flemenstar in the Grade 1 Hennessy Gold Cup at Leopardstown. Willie Mullins' seven-year-old, winner of the Jewson Chase at last year's Cheltenham Festival, pulled out all the stops to deny Peter Casey's stable star by a couple of lengths. The winner's stable-mate Quel Esprit jumped beautifully in front for the first circuit but he was under pressure afte
My Tent Or Yours ran out an emphatic winner of the Grade 3 Betfair Hurdle, the most valuable handicap hurdle in Europe. Tony McCoy had to abandon plans of getting a helicopter from Warwick to Newbury but his journey proved to be more than worthwhile as his mount made light work of the opposition. Always handy off a strong early gallop, he merely had to push out the Desert Prince gelding to record a convincing victory. Cotton Mill travelled every
Arkle favourite Simonsig will miss his intended Cheltenham prep race after being ruled out of the Betfair Super Saturday Chase at Newbury.
Nicky Henderson's exciting grey was set to be a heavy odds-on favourite for Saturday's race but won't now run following an unsatisfactory scope.
Henderson told racingpost.com: on Thursday evening: "Simonsig's trachea wash result today was 95 per cent but we'd only run if it was 100 per cent.
There was a sparkling Clonmel four-timer for trainer Willie Mullins and jockey Ruby Walsh with a cosy success in the Surehaul Mercedes-Benz Novice Hurdle at Clonmel. The seven-year-old was last seen running second to At Fishers Cross in a Cheltenham handicap and he went one better under a confident ride. Inish Island, the 11-10 favourite, brushed aside his only serious rival, Venture Capital, in the closing stages to score by two lengths. Mu
Charles Byrnes has revealed it is 50-50 at best stable star Solwhit will line up in Ladbrokes World Hurdle at next month's Cheltenham Festival.
Despite being sidelined for the best part of two years by injury, the six-time Grade One winner has returned seemingly as good as ever this winter.
The nine-year-old ran a fine comeback race behind the top-class Bog Warrior at Punchestown in late December and took another step forward to
Silviniaco Conti could face up to eight rivals in Saturday`s Betfair Denman Chase at Newbury.
The Grade Two three miler carries the name of his former Gold Cup and dual Hennessy-winning stablemate.
The race was reopened for 24 hours on Monday after failing to attract enough entries.
Silviniaco Conti has carried his top novice form of last season into the new campaign.
He claimed an easy win in the Charlie
Racing UK is offering a free one-month trial for any new subscriber to the TV channel (Sky 432). New subscribers will get all the vital build-up to the Cheltenham Festival, including Betfair Super Saturday at Newbury, the Kingwell Hurdle meeting at Wincanton, Haydock's Betfred Grand National Trial day and Racing Plus Chase day at Kempton. The offer is open until 8pm on Friday February 8 and only applicable to Sky subscribers. Visit www.racinguk.c
Mail De Bievre, Tom George`s exciting French recruit is on course to debut on the British circuit in the Betfair Denman Chase at Newbury on Saturday. One of the real stars of the French chasing scene in the spring of 2010, the 8 year old has run just once since then in a hurdle race at Auteuil back in September 2011. George has been impressed with what the Cadoudal gelding has produced on his gallops at down farm this term "He's had a good preparat
Rock On Ruby went on to beat Countrywide Flame after a fatal last-hurdle fall from Darlan just as he was making his challenge.
The race turned completely at the final hurdle with Darlan travelling powerfully behind Rock On Ruby, who had been in front for most of the home straight. Jockey Tony McCoy had been keen to keep Darlan tucked in behind Rock On Ruby and Countrywide Flame for as long as he could with a strong wind gusting at Doncaster a
Last season`s Champion Hurdle second continued his progression over the bigger obstacles with an easy victory in the two mile contest.
A straightforward looking task became even more so when Asaid, one of just three rivals in the race, wouldn`t move off the start but Donald McCain's nine year old was in a different class from his rivals.
Tetlami, ninth in last year's Supreme, had been expected to give him some competition having
The owners of Great Leighs racecourse have submitted an application to host races, four years after its closure.
The Essex all-weather course was the first horse racing venue to open in Britain in 81 years when it put on its first card in April 2008. Owners MC Racetracks are hoping to hold 35 to 45 races per year from 2014.
"I think we're very close to seeing racing in about a year's time," chairman of the venue Keith Brown told
Sizing Europe went off at odds of 1/8 in the Boylesports.com Tied Cottage Chase at Punchestown today and duly abliged albeit with a slight scare. Things looked easy enough for the market leader when his rivals gave him a ten lengths lead at the start but by the third last Foildubh (9/1) had moved smoothly into his slipstream. Paul Carberry had yet to ask the eventual runner-up a question at that stage but just as Sizing Europe hit 30/100 in running,
Pique Sous went off at 4/7 and ran out an easy winner on his Flat debut in the Bookings At dundalkstadium.com Maiden at Dundalk.
Last season's Weatherbys Champion Bumper third warmed up for a possible tilt at the Cheltenham Festival in unusual fashion with a spin on the polytrack in the two mile contest.
Paul Townend was quick to get the grey across to the rails from his wide draw and settled the six year old in third, tracking t
A decision as to whether the four hurdle races will be run at Sandown's meeting on Saturday has been delayed until Friday morning. Officials at the Esher venue have been given the flexibility by the British Horseracing Authority to put a final decision back until a further inspection at 8am after they looked at the track on Thursday afternoon. Should the hurdles course be declared unfit then a six-race all-chase card will take place. The hurdl
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Jockey Will Kennedy has been handed a seven-day whip ban and told to forfeit his prize money after winning at Kempton. Kennedy won the prestigious Lanzarote Hurdle on 9-2 favourite Swincombe Flame but was penalised for excessive use. "You work your backside off and lose two-and-a-half grand. You sometimes wonder why you bother," said Kennedy.
Champion jockey Tony McCoy has received his OBE from the Queen at a ceremony in the Buckingham Palace ballroom. McCoy won his 16th consecutive British jump racing champion jockey title in April, a year after winning his first Grand National on Don't Push It. McCoy was joined by his wife Chantelle and three-year-old daughter Eve.
"It's an
Her Majesty's race favourite Carlton House played his part in one of the great renewals of the Derby at Epsom, but Pour Moi spoiled the party with a spine-tingling last to first success. A dashing double burst of acceleration under teenage Derby debutant Mickael Barzalona ensured victory on the line.
As the audacious 19-year-old French rider
Former champion jockey Ryan Moore could be sidelined for the rest of the season after suffering a suspected broken arm in a fall on Saturday's final day of the Glorious Goodwood meeting. The 27-year-old was brought down when riding Verdant in the Summer Stakes.
His father Gary said he had broken his humerus (upper arm bone) and thumb. Mo
Sarafina became a warmer favourite for next month's Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp after a dramatic Group Two Qatar Prix Foy win at the Paris track. The filly, a luckless third in last year's Arc, accelerated from the last place in the four-runner field. Jockey Christophe Lemaire pushed her through the narrowest of gaps.
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It is an exaggeration to say that Sam Thomas will be unduly worried. But such are the strides that Harry Skelton is making under the wing of champion trainer Paul Nicholls, you can't help but wonder if Ruby Walsh's much-maligned deputy will soon be casting one or two anxious glances over his shoulder.
Skelton, 19-year-old son of veteran inte
If Jim Culloty ever thought he had a bogey race, one he was fated never to win, it was the Pertemps King George VI Chase - particularly on Tuesday when Best Mate was pulled out of this year's contest. Yesterday, though, there were more black cats than single magpies or bogeymen on the road to Kempton.
With Best Mate, last year's winner a
Adjustments to new whip regulations appear inevitable as the British Horseracing Authority seeks to find a solution to end the dispute with jockeys. But any major watering down of the rules risks angering the groups who helped compile them in the first place. The most likely modification will be the scrapping of the ''final furlong'' element which
Ascot will refund Saturday's spectators who were labelled with orange stickers for breaching new dress codes. The rules, which require male premier enclosure ticket holders to wear a jacket and tie, were not enforced, but the stickers were issued as a warning. "No customers should be expected to pay for such an experience," Ascot chief executive C
For everyone who had ever said that jockeys know less about picking winners than the rest of us, it was a vindication. Aidan Coleman had the choice between his stable's two runners in last year's John Smith's Grand National. Neither were exactly at the top of many other people's list but one was rated a 50-1 shot and the second at twice those odds;
Dawn Approach bounced back from his dissapointing Derby display with victory in a nail biting finish to the St James's Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot.
Jim Bolger`s 2000 Guineas winner had run keen Investec Derby at Epsom and finished back in the field, but was back as the 5/4 favourite to get back to winning ways returning to a mile just 17
Legendary racing trainer Sir Henry Cecil has died of cancer at the age of 70.
The Aberdeen born has trained 25 classic triumphs including four derby winners and been champion trainer 10 times during a glittering career spanning 3 decades.
Perhaps Cecil`s crowning glory was the training of Frankel, the highest-rated racehorse in t
Ruby Walsh has appealed against a three-day ban incurred for careless riding at Cheltenham on Saturday. He was found guilty of causing interference when partnering Pearl Swan to be first past the post in the JCB Triumph Hurdle Trial. While he beat Grumeti by a short head, the two horses got very close in the finish and the stewards opted to reverse
There was high drama at the start of the day at Wetherby as Tony McCoy parted company with Mr Watson before the Wetherby Racecourse & Conference Centre National Hunt Novices Hurdle.
The Jonjo O'Neill-trained five-year-old was a hot favourite in the exchanges for the opening contest of the two-day Charlie Hall Chase meeting, but was ke