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Injury Forces Davy Russell Out Of Cheltenham Festival

Davy Russell will sadly miss the ride aboard Sir Des Champs in the Betfred Cheltenham Gold Cup after suffering a suspected punctured lung.

Russell fell badly from Un Beau Matin at the final flight in the Coral Cup but wastook up his first two rides on Thursday.

But after finishing unplaced on both Argocat in the Jewson Novices' Chase and Stonemaster in the Pertemps Final, Russell was ruled out for the rest of the meeting after a

Cheltenham Festival Day 1 Review

The thousands who braved the cold afternoon at cheltenham were treated to a spectacular day of racing where the bookies took a beating and Ruby Walsh rode a fantastis treble, one leg of which on Hurricane Fly became the first horse since 1975 to regain the Champion Hurdle in the day's feature race

Ruby Walsh said afterwards of Hurricane Fly:"He pinged the last and I'm glad he got it back to show everyone he's a true champion hurdler."

Cheltenham Festival Ground News

The going at Cheltenham is Good to Soft on both the Chase and Hurdles Courses, and Good to Soft, Soft in Places on the Cross Country Course, after four millimetres of rain on Thursday.

Simon Claisse, Cheltenham's Clerk of the Course, said: "We have had four millimetres of rain today and we are now expecting up to 10 millimetres before The Festival.

"There is no change from the forecast yesterday in that it will be frosty on Monda

Simonsig Favourite For The Arkle

Clear favourite Simonsig is amongst the 12 rivals gunning for Tuesday`s Racing Post Arkle Trophy at Cheltenham.

Nicky Henderson has much confidence in his grey who is unbeaten in two starts over fences although the Lambourn trainer has hedged his bets by leaving Jewson Novices' Chase favourite Captain Conan in the field just in case of any late mishaps.

Donald McCain`s Overturn, runner-up in last season`s Champion Hurdle and unb

Steve Drowne Makes Return To Racing

Steve Drowne was happy to be back in the saddle after a year out when finishing fourth on Douglas Pasha at Lingfield. The experienced Flat jockey made a low-key return for trainer Richard Hannon in the Play Golf At Lingfield Park Resort Maiden Stakes. Drowne suffered a mysterious blackout last March but succeeded in his battle to ride again. He was passed by the British Horseracing Authority's chief medical officer Dr Turner and allowed to resu

Robert Thornton Ruled Out With Injury

Robert Thornton looks set to miss the rest of the season due to injury. Thornton suffered a heavy fall from Our Phylli Vera for Alan King at Southwell on Monday, initialy his injuries were not thought to be serious and he was expected to be in action at Exeter the following day. However, he did not take up his one ride at the Devon track and has since undergone tests, which revealed a more serious problem. Thornton tweeted: "Few tests yesterday, n

Richard Hughes Applies For Jumps Licence In Time For Cheltenham Festival

Champion Flat jockey Richard Hughes will look to add victory at the Cheltenham Festival to his CV next week. Hughes, who will be at the meeting helping with his father Irish trainer Dessie's runners whatever, has applied for a jumps licence and hopes to ride at the event. He would like to ride the unbeaten Sgt Reckless for trainer Mick Channon in the Weatherbys Champion Bumper. Hughes said: "I've got a good ride, hopefully. He looks pretty good.

Sam Thomas Comes Through Crunching Fall At Exeter Without Serious Injury

Sam Thomas has escaped serious injury despite a nasty looking fall in the first race at Exeter on Tuesday. The Gold Cup-winning jockey fell from The Prime Viper at the first fence of the British Stallion Studs Supporting British Racing EBF Mares' "National Hunt" Novices' Hurdle. Thomas went to hospital for X-rays on his chest, but Sam Stronge, his agent, reports his client has not sustained any lasting damage. Stronge said: "He's sore, but he's

Richard Hughes Eyes Another Jockey Championship

Hughes won the title for the first time in his career last year in what turned out to be something of a cakewalk, and he reached this total despite having missed nearly the first month of the season after receiving a lengthy ban in India.

After twice narrowly missing out to Paul Hanagan, Hughes' association with Richard Hannon eventually paid off.

The Irishman would also love to be crowned champion again to prove it was not a on

Ground Concerns For At Fishers Cross

Trainer Rebecca Curtis has issued a warning to potential backers of At Fishers Cross ahead of his run in the Albert Bartlett Novices1` Hurdle at Cheltenham on Friday week. Winner of all four of his starts this season including the besting of The New One at Cheltenham on trials day, At fishers cross looks like a good shout for the race.. However, all his winning form has come with plenty of cut in the ground and Curtis would still prefer to see plent

Ketenko Recovery On Track

Katenko is making good progress after having to undergo an emergency colic operation on Friday evening according to Venetia Williams. Hugely impressive handicap victories at Sandown and Cheltenham had connections looking forward to an entry in the Cheltenham Gold Cup, but a fortnight before the big race, the seven-year-old has been struck down by illness. The French import will sit ou rest of the season and his trainer is hoping her stable star makes a

Jessica Harringot Admits Easing Of Pressure In Supreme Novices

Jessica Harrington has said the fact Jezki is no longer favourite for the William Hill Supreme Novices' Hurdle has taken some of the pressure off as Cheltenham gets ever closer. Unbeaten in four starts over hurdles, the five-year-old has won the previous two starts at Grade One level. Jezki heads to the Festival off the back of a three-month break and looks to have a great chance in the race. "Jezki hasn't run since Christmas and hopefully we

Ballabriggs Looks To Regain Grand National Crown

Donald McCain is hopeful as Ballabriggs return to Aintree next month following an good run in defeat at Kelso on Saturday. Entering the Premier Chase for the third year in a row, the 2011 Grand National hero travelled well throughout and stayed on despite tiring on the run-in to finish third under Jason Maguire. McCain feels there is room for improvement ahead of the 12-year-old's return to Merseyside on April 6. McCain said: "It was grand. Jaso

Kauto Star Wont Make Rio 2016

Horse Racing Legend, Kauto Star looks unlikely to compete in the dressage at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. The two-time Cheltenham Gold Cup winner was retired from racing last year and has been retraining in dressage since December "It takes four to five years to bring horses up to Olympic standard," British Eventing chief Yogi Breisner said. "The fact he's starting out at 12 means he's simply going to be too close to retirement age by the time he has

Katenko Withdrawn From Major Fixtures Due To Colic

Katenko has sadly been withdrawn from the Cheltenham Gold Cup and the Grand National after undergoing an emergency operation for colic on Friday.

The Venetia Williams-trained seven-year-old had won his last two races leading some experts to tip him as a potential Gold Cup winner.

But he has now been taken out of the biggest race of the Cheltenham Festival which takes place on 15 March.

Katenko will also miss April's G

Tony McCoy Will Pitch For My Tent Or Yours At Cheltenham

Tony McCoy has confirmed he will stick with My Tent Or Yours in the William Hill Supreme Novices`1 Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival. McCoy had the choice between My Tent Or Your or partnering fellow JP McManus hurdler Jezki, trained in Ireland by Jessica Harrington. My Tent Or Yours is favourite for the Supreme after winning the Betfair Hurdle comfortably at Newbury for Nicky Henderson. McCoy told The Telegraph: "I ride My Tent Or Yours in the

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Robert Hawker Banned For 12 Days

Amateur jockey Robert Hawker was banned 12 days following his fifth-placed finish aboard Monderon in the second race at Taunton on Thursday.

Hawker was found guilty of 'failing to take all reasonable and permissible measures to obtain the best possible placing' in the Alpha Motorability Wheelchair Passenger Transport Novices' Hurdle.

Monderon, a 40/1 shot, was beaten 23 lengths by the winner, Fox Run.

Hawker will b

Record Handicap Entries For The Cheltenham Festival

There are a a record number of entries for the 11 handicaps at this year`s Cheltenham Festival following the announcement of the weights. Irish champion trainer Willie Mullins boasts a strong team for the Festival and he accounts for the joint or sole top-weight in nearly half of the the total 11 handicaps. Following his victory in the Racing Plus Chase on Saturday, Opening Batsman would have to shoulder 12st 6lb if he was to take up his engagement

No Course Watering Required For Cheltenham Festival

Rain is Forecast towards the end of next week which should mean Cheltenham clerk of the course Simon Claisse will not have to water the ground ahead of the Festival. Claisse's recent suggestion that watering could be a possibility, despite the extraordinarily wet winter, was surprising, but he explained that it has been drying out quickly in his part of the Cotswolds. "We've had very little rain in the last couple of weeks, and last Wednesday I said

Upset At Fairyhouse As Waheeb Falls Short

There was a major upset in the first race at Fairyhouse today as 1/4 favourite Waaheb could finish only third of five behind Art Of Logistics. Second to Jezki in a Grade One at Leopardstown, Dermot Weld's inmate was a faller on his next start and came here looking for a confidence booster. However, his jumping was less than foot perfect in the Visit fairyhouse.ie For Special Offers Hurdle, whereas Bryan Cooper was always travelling nicely on the 9/

Ballynagour Given 21lb Hike

David Pipe`s charge, Ballynagour has gone up 21lb in the ratings after his easy Warwick victory last week. The seven-year-old landed a gamble at the Midlands track when a 19-length winner of what had pre race looked a challenging handicap chase on his debut for the yard. judging by his being removed from 2 races this week, it would seem that connections now believe that he's guaranteed a run at Cheltenham having been put up to a mark of 143 over fe

Martin Dwyer To Face Indian Inquiry

British jockey Martin Dwyer will face an inquiry on 17 March in India after his odds-on favourite mount came third in Mumbai. Racegoers reacted angrily after Dwyer, 36, didn't push Ice Age to victory in Sunday's final race at Mahalaxmi. The Royal Western India Turf Club stewards called an inquiry and declared Ice Age as a non-starter, before announcing all bets would be refunded. Dwyer is "confident" he will be "exonerated of any wrongdoing". The

Cheltenham Officials May Water The Track Before Festival

Simon Claisse, Cheltenham`s director of racing, has revealed that the track may need watering ahead of the festival. The National Hunt campaign has been conducted on heavy ground with some racecourses forced to abandon meetings due to flooding and bad weather throughout the season. England suffered its wettest year on record in 2012 and there has been little let up in the weather in the opening months of 2013 yet the taps being turned on at Prestbu

Warwick And Sandown Both Subject To 8AM Inspection

Friday`s meeting at Warwick will face a precautionary inspection at 8am.

Temperatures remained above freezing during Wednesday night but a frost is forecast overnight, with a potential low of minus 4C.

Sulekha Varma, Clerk of the course said: "We've very low temperatures forecast but we have covered the whole track in fleece.

"We're confident that can keep the frost out of the ground but the problem is temperatures

Ruby Walsh Desertion Not A Worry For Zarkandar

Paul Nicholls insists it should be of no concern to Zarkandar`s supporters that jockey Ruby Walsh has once again chosen to side with Hurricane Fly in the Stan James Champion Hurdle. Walsh, the stable jockey to both Nicholls and Willie Mullins, rode Zarkandar to win the International at Cheltenham earlier in the season, but deserted him in the last Champion in favour of the defending champion Hurricane Fly. In the end, he managed to finish third, wi

Tom O`Brien To Miss Cheltenham Festival

Tom O`Brien will be forced to miss the Cheltenham Festival after he was hit with a 10-day suspension at Doncaster on Wednesday.

O'Brien was found guilty of "failing to take all reasonable and permissible measures to obtain the best possible placing" aboard Benefit Cut, who finished seventh in the race won by Minella Forfitness.

The jockey is due to be sidelined between March 6-15, and with the Festival running from March 12-15 t

My Tent Or Yours To Enter The William Hill Supreme Novices Hurdle At Cheltenham

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 Makes Winning Return To Racing

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

Black Caviar Will Consider Ascot Return

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

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Barry Geraghty`s redemption at Cheltenham

Barry Geraghty`s redemption at Cheltenham

Whatever happened to Barry Geraghty? It was barely a year ago that the question was being asked, and knowing insiders in Irish racing were prepared to mutter some fairly pejorative answers. The jockey who rode five winners at the 2003 Festival had become a peripheral, questioned figure. The winter after that great breakthrough, he rode 110 winners

Thoroughbred Stallion Jet Master Dead

Thoroughbred Stallion Jet Master Dead

Acclaimed champion South African Thoroughbred racing sire Jet Master died Tuesday (Nov. 15) from complications from surgery. The 17-year-old stallion had undergone implant surgery to relieve cervical spinal cord pressure three days earlier (Nov. 12), according to chief operating surgeon, and following the procedure his prognosis had been "guarded t

BHA Announces Long Awaited Prize Money Increases

BHA Announces Long Awaited Prize Money Increases

The BHA hs announced a "notable boost to prize-money levels" by unveiling the introduction of race values enforceable under the rules of racing.

The level of the BHA race values, to be implemented from January 1 represent a 12 per cent increase compared to the 2012 race programme at Horsemen's Group tariff rates.

The new race va

Betfair on the front foot over sport gambling cheats

Betfair on the front foot over sport gambling cheats

The leader of the global Olympic movement, Jacques Rogge, has called match-fixing and corruption as big a threat to sporting integrity as doping. Unfortunately, sporting scandal and attempted crooked betting coups have all too often gone together, as recent football match-fixing events in Finland and South Korea have shown.

Those events

Michael Owen`'s horse Brown Panther fifth in German Derby

Michael Owen`'s horse Brown Panther fifth in German Derby

Waldpark won the German Derby as Brown Panther, the horse owned and bred by Michael Owen, was beaten into fifth at Hamburg. Owen was left in tears when the colt won the King George V Handicap by six lengths at Royal Ascot in June. But he was unable to repeat the triumph and was edged out for third in a photo finish.

It was a second Briti

Cleltenham Cup Ticket Allocation To Be Reduced

Cleltenham Cup Ticket Allocation To Be Reduced

Cheltenham Gold Cup to Reduce Ticket Allocation For 2013 Cheltenham Racecourse have decided to reduce the amount of tickets available for Gold Cup day 2013.

The flagship event of March`s Festival attracted 70,400 racegoers to the Prestbury Park site this year but organisers have opted to cut the allocation to around 67,000 for next years e

Tony McCoy receives OBE from Queen at Buckingham Palace

Tony McCoy receives OBE from Queen at Buckingham Palace

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

Punchestown success for young Robbie Power

Punchestown success for young Robbie Power

Rising young jockey Robert Power enjoyed his first success on only his third mount in public at Punchestown this afternoon. Partnering the Jessica Harrington-trained Younevertoldme, 20-year-old Power showed the experience that had brought him many honours in showjumping and eventing, as he managed to hold off Ruby Walsh aboard the favourite King's

Cheltenham Festival - 2:40 - Albert Bartlett Novices' Hurdle (Registered As The Spa Novices' Hurdle) (Grade 1) Preview

Cheltenham Festival - 2:40 - Albert Bartlett Novices' Hurdle (Registered As The Spa Novices' Hurdle) (Grade 1) Preview

The third race of the day at 2.40pm is the Albert Bartlett Novices' Hurdle (Registered As The Spa Novices' Hurdle) (Grade 1) over 3 miles, with 20 horses competing for a £100000 prize fund.

He's a short enough price in such a big field but it's difficult to get away from BOSTON BOB (nap), who sets a smart standard and is the only runner

Teaforthee time Too Short For Tony McCoy

Teaforthee time Too Short For Tony McCoy

Tony McCoy doesn`t agree with the bookies with their price for Teaforthree ahead of the Welsh National.

The nine-year-old, who will be partnered by the champion jockey, has been well supported during the ante-post markets, and is set to be sent off a short priced favourite on Saturday afternoon.

McCoy, while confident of his chan

Tony McCoy returns with winner a day after breaking teeth in fall

Tony McCoy returns with winner a day after breaking teeth in fall

Tony McCoy returned to action with a winner on Saturday just a day after breaking several teeth in a fall at Wetherby.

The 17-time champion jockey steered My Tent Or Yours to victory at Ascot in his second ride of the day.

McCoy, 38, had been unseated from the Jonjo O'Neill-trained Mr Watson before the novices' hurdle 24 hours ear

Andrew Heffernan Receives 15 Year Racing Ban From Race Fixing Tribunal

Andrew Heffernan Receives 15 Year Racing Ban From Race Fixing Tribunal

The Flat jockey embroiled in the latest race fixing scandel Andrew Heffernan, has been banned from racing for 15 years by the BHA. Former Premier League footballer Michael Chopran has had a 10 year ban having been found in breach of the Rules of Racing following the outcome of a BHA investigation into alleged corruption along with seven others.

Banoffee Lands The Cheshire Oaks

Banoffee Lands The Cheshire Oaks

Banoffee went off at 9-1 under Kieren Fallon and left it late to strike to win the Weatherbys Bank Cheshire Oaks at Chester on Wednesday.

Fellon guided the filly trained by Hughie Morrison to the inside route and got up late to beat Gertrude Versed , who had set off for home early, by just over a length.

The runner-up was

So You Think ready for the Prix de l`Arc de Triomphe

So You Think ready for the Prix de l`Arc de Triomphe

So You Think is likely to take part in next month's Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. The five-year-old Australian import has won four of his five starts this term for Irish trainer Aidan O'Brien. It will be a step up in class for the Irish Champion Stakes winner, who is priced at 6-1 for the Longchamp contest in Paris on Sunday, 2 October

He p

















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