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Onefortheroadtom, pictured above after being sold last year at Tattersalls to Kieran McManus, is an attractive 8/1 chance today in the opener at Cheltenham.</div>
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Sold for £100,000 last April after winning his only start at Oldcastle in a Point to Point, Onefortheroadtom was sent to Harry Fry at Manor Farm where he beat recent Aintree Grade 1 winning hurdler Lalor first time out at Exeter last October. Perhaps finding the 2m trip at Worcester on the sharp side, Onefortheroadtom was beaten in a blanket finish at 2/5f on his next outing and New Year's Day, in a listed hurdle over 20f by the 141-rated Tikkanbar but he lost a shoe that day and a line can be put through that run.</div>
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The 5yo will be fresh today from winning a Jumpers Bumper at Kempton in January under Noel Fehily and his form is strong in the book. 8/1 looks a tad overpriced and it he well worth a cut at the odds. </div>
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Diese Des Bieffes rates the danger and will go off around the 2/1 mark but he had a hard enough race at the Festival in the Martin Pipe and made several jumping errors so I would be keen to take him on.</div>
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The race today features no less than four last time out winners but under Barry Geraghty, Onefortheroadtom represents value and will put in his running. Expect him to go very close.</div>
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The July cup is one of the top sprint races of the European flat season. Held on the July Course at Newmarket, the track almost always rides quick. In the Group 1 Darley Cup of 2011, it was no different. As the race developed, one jockey was in trouble. 28 year old Hayley Turner, riding the David Simcock-trained Dream Ahead, was two furlongs from the winning post and boxed in. She had never sat on the horse before as Will Buick, the regular rider had to ride at York that day.</div>
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With time running out, Turner had to switch left a furlong out, a difficult manoeuvre at best, not least in a furiously-ran sprint race. In an instant Hayley changed hands and steered the three year old colt out of trouble and into a clear path. Under a strong drive, she forged clear and won the race by a neck. In doing so Hayley Turner who became only the second female rider to win a Group 1 in Britain (the other was Alex Greaves, dead-heated on Ya Malak in 1997 Nunthorpe).</div>
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Dream Ahead of course was no slouch, he was is one of two Group 1 winners by Diktat, winner of the Prix Maurice de Gheest and Haydock Sprint Cup, alongside Rajeem, who landed the Falmouth Stakes on the Newmarket July course. But that day in Newmarket, Hayley Turner was outstanding. Dream Ahead ran three more times, winning two Group 1 races but Turner did not keep the ride. In a way, this was indicative of Hayley Turner's career. Opportunity would come knocking, she would answer, notch up a series of winners and earn the valid reputation as a gifted rider. But it was all transient and the wake of this type of treatment that this week leading flat lady rider of our generation is retiring at just 32.</div>
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It is common knowledge that women (but only aged over 30) were granted the vote in 1918, but it was another 48 years before the Jockey Club issued its first trainer's licence to a woman, and six more before the they were allowed to ride. In what was very much a male-dominated sport, even the progressive attitude in American was curtailed. Diane Crump, one of the USA's first female jockey, had to fight her way through an angry crowd to get to her first race at the age of 18. During the 1960's in her memoirs she recounts being heckled with tirades of <i>"Go back to the kitchen and cook dinner"</i>. Of course if it were not for pioneers like Crump, later riders such as Nina Carberry, Katie Walsh in Ireland and Hayley Turner and Kirsty Milczarek in the UK to take up the mantle as lady riders.<br />
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Life was not all straight forward to Hayley Turner. She suffered a series of injuries throughout her career and showed toughness and resilience when returning after each one. At the St. Leger meeting a few years ago she was thrown from a horse (below) and fractured three vertebrae in her back as well as her pelvis. She was sidelined for months.<br />
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But she did what all good jockeys do, regardless of their gender - they kept going. Awarded joint Champion Apprentice with Saleem Golam with 44 winners in 2005, her early career flourished. In recent seasons she has many rides but the winners dipped. Turner said lately "<i>“I get plenty of rides, I’m paying my mortgage. But being a jockey isn’t just a job, it’s your lifestyle and it’s difficult to have a work/life balance. I just feel that I’ve done so much, what a way to finish it and then let’s go and take on something else.”"</i><br />
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So the next challenge beckons. A pundit on the Sky-owned channel AtTheRaces where she will cast an expert eye on proceedings from the studio. Turner has become an inspiration for young female riders and she is solely responsible for the huge surge in women jockeys over the past few years. In Ireland, many racecourses did not even have separate changing rooms for men and women but thankfully this is now a thing of the past.<br />
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Lady riders received a welcome boost of late too when former Olympian Victoria Pendleton joined their ranks. It is an upward curve and a welcome addition to an area which is as resistant to change as gravity.<br />
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My blog has been shortlisted in Best Innovation Blog Category.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Farewell Kauto Star</b><br />
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Like so many others, the news of
Kauto Star suffering an injury and having to be put to sleep hit me hard. It
was most unexpected and unwelcome news. My immediate question was “how did this
happen ?” All too aware that the great Kauto was now embarking on a late dressage
career, I thought immediately that he might have incurred some sort of freak
injury as he was still a relatively young horse and in rude health. And so it came to pass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Though not competing, a freak fall in a
paddock, (no one knows quite how it happened) resulted in a devastating
series of injuries. The second <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>thoracic
vertebrae and sixth cervical vertebrae were irreparably damaged. Paralysis was the outcome and as he could not stand, the decision was made to euthanise the
double Gold Cup winner. And though that was the most heart-breaking of decisions,
it was the right call.</div>
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I felt a profound sense of loss
when Kauto Star died. Not the same as losing a family member, that goes without
saying, but rather like learning that your favourite childhood pet had passed
away. He was my favourite racehorse, there is no doubt about that, and he
deserved a long and happy retirement, not this. But as we are all well aware,
we don’t always get what we deserve. There have been dozens of glowing obsequies
about Kauto Star, all of them show the affection and high regard in which he was held.
I believe that Alastair Down wrote a beautiful article but I must confess that
I have not read any of them. I wanted my own few words not to be influenced (even
by the great Mr. Down) because in a way it is cathartic.</div>
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Rather than list his achievements,
of which there are many, or list the controversies around the relationship between
his owner and trainer, I will remember Kauto Star fondly. I was at Cheltenham
when he won his first Gold Cup. I was devastated when Denman beat him and
remember walking around in a funk for hours afterwards. But it was when Kauto
Star regained his Gold Cup, becoming the first horse to ever do so, that I was
beyond the point of reason in happiness. It is probably a form of madness to
get so attached to a horse that you have no connection with, but it is a happy
form of madness and I have the best memories of this horse. I really believe that I will never feel the same way about another.</div>
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Farewell Kauto Star, you
handsome, talented, aristocratic beauty. You held us all in captivation for so many years
and you will be missed. Rest now that your race is run.</div>
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Kauto Star was the last winner of the Betfair Ascot Chase
back in 2008 for Paul Nicholls. It is a race that has not been kind to the
Ditcheat trainer. Pride of Dulcote fell when in contention in 2011, the
useful<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cerium broke a blood vessel in
2007 and there have been a string of unplaced but useful types in the interim
renewals. Nicholls saddles Ptit Zig, the favourite for this year’s Betfair
Chase.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ptit Zig</b> (15/8f)
P Nicholls / S Twiston-Davies</div>
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Since finishing third in the Fred Winter at Cheltenham on
only his second ever start, Ptit Zig has progressed nicely through the ranks.
He won the 4yo Renaud Du Vivier Grade 1 hurdle in France shortly after his
Cheltenham third and subsequently ran credibly in other Graded hurdle races
including a respectable sixth in the Champion Hurdle. </div>
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Since taking to fences, Ptit Zig is now unbeaten in four
starts and is a worthy favourite for the Ascot Chase. He has a tendency however
to make the odd mistake (hit the fourth last on his chase debut and was all
wrong at the eight fence on his second start over fences) and this race will be
his biggest ever test over fences. He easily accounted for Josses Hill in the
Grade 2 Noel Novices' Chase at Ascot in December and followed up that win on
New Year’s Day in the The Dipper Novices' Chase at Cheltenham. Ptit Zig was
raised two pounds for that performance and currently runs off a mark of 159. In
his December column, Nicholls was of the opinion that Ptit Zig was marginally
better on right handed tracks. Given that, Ascot suits, and his course record
there reads 2 1 </div>
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He is a 6yo and still in his novice season, horses of that profile
(the age) do not tend to win the Betfair Chase. I expect tomorrow to be no
different as Ptit Zig, useful as he may be, (and he has an outstanding chance
in the JLT) he may not have enough in the locker to beat a very competitive
field. At the prices, on all known form and with a bounce anticipated, for me
he is a lay, with Balder Success preferred.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Balder Success </b>(5/2)
A King / W Hutchinson</div>
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A tough, second-season chaser, Balder Success comes into his
own around this time of year. He is ultra-consistent and was installed at the
initial favourite for the Betfair Chase but all the money has come for Ptit Zig
(15/8 from 11/4). Alan King is on record as saying "Fences have made a man
of him" and praises the way the hose travels and well as his attitude. A dependable
sort, Balder Success was fourth in a high-class renewal of the Tingle Creek
last December before finishing second to Special Tiara (who received five
pounds) in the Grade 2 Desert Orchid Chase.</div>
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Last month Balder Success easily accounted for Hunt Ball and
Fox Appeal (both rated in the 150+ bracket) in a listed Chase at Kempton. The
trip in the Betfair Chase will suit, as will a strong pace. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Without conceding weight to the novice Ptit
Zig, Balder Success has an outstanding chance of providing Alan King with
another win in this race. He was successful in the 2009 renewal with the
multiple Grade 1 winner Voy Por Ustedes and Balder Success will take all the
beating tomorrow.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ballycasey</b> (4/1)
W Mullins / R Walsh</div>
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It was around this time last year that Ballycasey won the
Grade 1 Dr. P.J. Moriarty Novice Chase at Leopardstown. It was only his second
start over fences and he had the world at his feet. Things went rather south
for the grey following this career best. Ballycasey finished fourth in the RSA
Chase (where he failed to stay) before falling two out in the Powers Gold Cup
when looking a likely winner. He again was out-stayed by Carlingford Lough in
the Champion Novice Chase at Punchestown but won at Gowran on his seasonal
reappearance last November. </div>
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Willie Mullins is again granting Ballycasey a light campaign
this year but the trip of his last run (2m 1f) was a little sharp and he
finished well down the field. The fact remains though that Ballycasey has won just
one of the five Graded races that he has ran in, despite being favourite on
almost all of those occasions. It is not that he is a disappointing horse, he
just might not be fulfilling his potential. He is prone to making a mistake or
two which has cost him races in the past. The trip at Ascot is ideal however
and Willie Mullins has never sent a runner over to England to target this race –
something to take on board in itself. He is a dangerous proposition but not
without his question marks. If he is at the top of his game he has every chance
but that is a big “if”.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ma Filleule </b>(9/2)
N Henderson / B Geraghty</div>
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An impressive winner of the Topham at Aintree last year, Ma
Fileule disappointed at Down Royal recently but scoped dirty afterwards. Third
to Sam Winner at Aintree in a closely-run race on the Mildmay course at
Aintree, the mare receives a seven pound allowance from the field tomorrow. There
is more improvement to come from Ma Fileule but she has won just two handicap
chases in her career. Interestingly, Timeform pronounce Ptit Zig to improve but
admit that he will need to progress to the tune of around 10lb should either Ma
Filleule or Balder Succes run their race.</div>
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She looks value but the bridge to her first Grade 1 success
may be a bridge too far.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Other Runners:</b></div>
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The two outsiders Rajdhani Express and Theatre Guide (16/1
and 33/1) have a patchy record at best and are the odds belie their chances.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Conclusion</b>:</div>
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Balder Success and Ballycasey to fight it out with the
former to prevail.</div>
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Ptit Zig to win the JLT at Cheltenham</div>
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Ladbrokes,
who operate 213 betting shops in the Republic and 79 in Northern Ireland have
announced a loss of almost 11% in net revenue for 2014 to date. Despite the
boon provided by the World Cup, Ladbroke’s Irish operation also reported a 7.5%
drop in betting stakes. Ladbroke’s performance in Ireland is indicative of
problems within the wider group which has reported a drop of 33% in operating
profit for the first half of the year. Despite closing 46 shops in 2014,
Ladbrokes are suffering in the online space to rivals William Hill and Paddy
Power. Hills in particular are vastly out performing them. Ladbrokes’s online
business made £3m in operating profits this year whereas Hill’s made £92m
during the same period. All of this has resulted in Ladbrokes share prices
dropping by a full 27% from the start of the year. Ladbrokes CEO Richard Glynn
remains optimistic about the growth of the online brand but has admitted it has
taken longer than expected : <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"Mobile
is the battleground now – there is no doubt about it. We only launched [our
mobile product] six months ago. It is now bigger than desktop in digital. It is
growing at a very good rate.”</i> Despite the drop in earnings, Ladbrokes
remain on course to meet their full-year profit target but if the remainder of
the year turns out like the first half, Glynn may not be in the hot seat for
2015 as shareholders continue to be greatly concerned with its overall
performance.</div>
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Betfair
have sold 50% of their Australian business to Australian gaming and entertainment
group, Crown Resorts Limited, for A$10m. In doing so Betfair have raised
speculation about a return of capital to their shareholders. The deal with
Crown Resorts Limited will see Betfair continue to provide software and
technology to the Australian business and will receive a share of revenues
generated in the region. David Jennings, analyst at Davy said Betfair has
"<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">been very frustrated</i>" by
the tax treatment of betting exchanges in Australia "<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">for many years</i>". The sale was widely welcomed and CEO Breon
Corcoran has continued to perform strongly since joining the Betting Exchange
from Paddy Power in 2012. Corcoran received €179,000 in relocation costs when
moving from Dublin to the UK to take the helm at Betfair but to his credit,
shares at the company have risen by almost 50% since he joined in 2012.</div>
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There
was a mini bidding war between Gerry Griffin, Jim Culloty, Matt O'Connor and
Aiden Murphy at the Tattersalls Ireland August National Hunt Sale for a
three-year-old Milan gelding. Wexford’s Parkville Stud were delighted as their
gelding was sold for €80,000 to Ryan Mahon on behalf of Paul Nicholls. Related
to Woolcombe Folly, he will be trained at Ditcheat for a 2015 campaign. Overall
trade was brisk at the three-day National Hunt Sale. Other notable mentions
include John O'Byrne paid €60,000 for son of Presenting who is a half-brother
to the 2013 Arkle hero Simonsig. Gerry Griffin, on behalf of Nicky Richard,
parted with €58,000 for a son of Stowaway out of a winning half-sister to
Champion Hurdle hero Rock On Ruby. Tattersalls announced that the 2014 sale
vastly out-performed the 2013 one and were very pleased with the amounts
realised.</div>
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Under his remit as chairman of the European Pattern
Committee, Brian Kavanagh has announced a number of changes to European sprint
races for 2015. Among these changes include upgrades to races in Britain,
France, Germany and Ireland. There will also be a new Group 1 6f race at Royal
Ascot which will be worth £375,000. Kavanagh admitted that he felt that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“there is a definite lack of top class
European three-year-old sprinters”</i> and the aim is to increase the quality
and opportunities for trainers. Naas racecourse will benefit from the new
sprint programme as their listed Lacken Stakes which is held in June is
elevated from a Listed race to a Group 3. The Curragh too will have a new Group
2 race for older horses as the Greenlands 6f sprint is upgraded and both the
Sapphire and Flying Five will also garner Group 2 status next year.</div>
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If
ever you visit a website and have the misfortune to click onto a missing link
to a broken page, you will see a standard error message called a “404 error”.
This indicates that the page cannot be found. Usually these 404 pages are drab
affairs but some websites are a little more creative than others. Credit to RTE
Sport who display a photograph of the great Shergar on their 404 error pages.
The 1981 European horse of the year who was stolen by masked gunmen from Ballymany
Stud in 1983 and remains on the missing list ever since. Gone, but not
forgotten Shergar lives on in cyberspace in no small way due to the RTE technicians
at Donnybrook as he reminds you that your website page, like the horse himself,
unfortunately cannot be found.</div>
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<span style="color: black;">As
part of the much vaunted redesign of Leopardstown racecourse, their marketing
team have launched a new brand identity which aims to capitalise on the recent
success of attracting younger race goers. Incorporating the tagline ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dublin's heart is racing’</i>, the design
features a regal, purple background and heavily advertises the hospitality side
of the operation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the back of the
launch, Pat Keogh CEO of Leopardstown said: “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The new brand identity portrays a modern, vibrant and contemporary
design". </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Opened in 1888
Leopardstown's design was based on Sandown Park but it now very much carries
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The
search for the new CEO of Paddy Power is still in an early phase and although
the company has until April 2015 to find a successor, their shot selection will
be extremely astute. Although the new CEO is bound to meet challenges, particularly
in a maturing online market, the CEO role is an extremely lucrative one.
Patrick Kennedy is among the highest earners of any Irish company for some time
now. Over the past decade, Kennedy has received shares worth €24.6m. He also
has options of €4.7m and has received salaries totalling €15m. Far from Paddy
Power to admit it is a cash cow but these figures tell a different story.
Current front runners for the new CEO include Cormac Barry who joined Paddy
Power in 2000 and currently runs Sportsbet, Paddy Powers Australian arm. Sportsbet
is Australia's biggest corporate bookmaker and was acquired by Powers in 2009.
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Three recent racecourse meetings in the UK raised eyebrows
for all the wrong reasons. The official crowd figures for three turf meetings
were paltry at best. 755 were in attendance at Brighton,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>803 at Carlisle 803 and at Nottingham 830
souls braved the elements. There may not be much financial future for tracks
based on those numbers and it serves as a warning for all Irish racecourses to
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Denis
Egan, head of the Turf Club has issued a shot across the bow when declaring
that there are two separate cases pending about the banned practise of jockeys
involvement in laying horses on betting exchanges. This comes in the wake of a
four year ban and €10,000 fine handed down to 25-year old Eddie O’ Connell who
pulled up the James Lambe-trained Yachvili at Downpatrick in 2011. Betfair
subsequently notified the Turf Club about irregular betting patterns including
a £10,000 bet which had been laid on Yachvili to not finish in the first three.
O’ Connell is currently weighing up his options and his solicitor Andrew Coonan
has stated that an appeal against the suspension is under consideration <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>HRI funding to the Turf Club has had its
integrity budget reduced by almost a quarter since 2008 and now stands at
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Hard
to imagine that 30 years have passed since the Ballydoyle second string
Sadler's Wells beat Procida & Secreto to win the Irish 2000 Guineas. Before
his death in 2011, Sadler’s Well was a fourteen-time champion Irish sire and
had produced over 100 Group 1 winners worldwide and 23 classics in Great
Britain, Ireland and France. His progeny have earned over €120,000,000. His
bloodlines are still very dominant through Galileo and New Approach. Not bad
going. </div>
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It
has not been an easy time for Enniscorthy jockey Daryl Jacob of late. The 30
year old is currently recovering from a broken knee, leg and elbow after his
mount Port Melon crashed into a rail on the way down to the start for the Albert
Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle at Cheltenham. Jacob has now received further bad news
as he has lost the position of stable jockey to Paul Nicholls despite riding 57
winners for the trainer last season.</div>
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The
newly crowned UK Champion Trainer announced on his Betfair column that Sam
Twiston-Davies will assume the leading role at Ditcheat for the upcoming
season. Jacob was offered the Number 2 position at Nicholl’s yard but turned it
down, instead preferring to work as a freelance agent. Nick Scholfield will be
second-in-command instead. </div>
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Speaking to the Press Association, Jacob said: “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Paul offered me the job as number two, but
at this point in my career I feel I want to go freelance, I will be available
for more rides and hopefully some good rides. I’m very positive about what I am
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Paul Nicholls was quick to add that there had been “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">no falling out</i>” with Jacob, and that he
would continue to ride for the stable. “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Daryl
will continue to ride out and school a couple of times a week here next season,
and will ride for us when the opportunities arise, which I am sure they will.” </i>Nicholls
also confirmed that Sam Twiston-Davies will continue to ride The New One and
Noel Fehily will continue to ride Silviniaco Conti.</div>
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Paddy Power reacted to the news positively and are are
expecting Sam Twiston-Davies to ride plenty of winners for Nicholls, he is
currently second in the market for leading jockey for their handicap market
with + 45 winners.</div>
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Horse
Racing Ireland held a ‘Go Racing Kids’ Club’ Day at The Curragh Racecourse at
which 250 fifth and sixth class local primary school pupils attended. The
initiative aims to foster ties between the local community and the racecourse
and to instil an interest in horse racing which will hopefully blossom down the
line.</div>
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There
were demonstrations from R.A.C.E. (Racing Academy & Centre of Education) and
local farrier, Donal Bennett as well as a talk from Bryan Cooper and Mark
Bolger. The pupils also met Racecourse Manager, Paul Hensey who explained to
them how the team at The Curragh Racecourse prepares for a race day.</div>
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Evan
Arkwright, Commercial Manager at The Curragh Racecourse, commented: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“The Go Racing Kids Club Day is a great
opportunity for the Curragh to promote horse racing to the younger generation
in particular to the many kids who have never been to the races”</i>.</div>
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Once
again The Punchestown Festival delivered. It is now without question Ireland’s
largest annual corporate hospitality event and the five day racing spectacle
contributed over €70 million to the local economy. The numbers look impressive
too, 100,000 people attended and 726 national, international and local
companies were involved in the Festival. </div>
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There
was a significant rise in interest from the UK market with the Punchestown
ticket office reporting a 20% rise in UK-based Ticket and Hospitality bookings.
20,000 were drawn from across the water, a very substantial figure. This was
very much in line with overall pre-sales of tickets up a third on last year.</div>
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With
the prize money increased by 14% to €2.5million, The Punchestown Festival is
living up to its billing as “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Irish
Cheltenham</i>”. For those in the hinterlands of Newbridge and Naas,
expectations appear to be surpassed on a yearly basis.</div>
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Ladbrokes
revenues for its 300 Irish betting offices fell by 13% in the first quarter of
2014, a result which was attributed to football results. Monetary values of
bets also declined by 3%<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and management conceded
that this had been a “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">difficult year</i>”
for the Irish arm of the betting giant. This is now a continued trend for the
company and pressure must be mounting on Chief Executive Richard Glynn. </div>
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Ladbrokes
have been extremely slow to gain a market share of the online space, an area in
which Paddy Power have invested heavily and reaped suitable rewards. Although Ladbrokes
have teamed up with software developer Playtech to help serve the growing
number of gamblers who bet on sports events through their computer, tablet or
smartphone, they still have a mountain to climb.</div>
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Despite the results, Ladbrokes said it was committed to a
dividend pay-out this year of at least 8.9p per share, in line with 2013. profit
downgrades over the past two years have piled pressure on Bookmaker William
Hill has also announced that it would close 109 loss-making shops this year</div>
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Meath
jockey Colin Keane weighed in at 1.7 lbs overweight after a Navan maiden aboard
Princess Tamay last weekend and received a one day ban in unusual
circumstances. Evidence was heard from the rider who stated that he had a drink
of water which caused the fluctuation. Keane also facilitated the trainer of
his mount, T.G. McCourt, by changing the girths after weighing out as they were
too loose in the filly. The trainer admitted to the stewards that the original
girth was too loose without informing the Clerk of the Scales. T.G. McCourt was
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Back
when Arkle was running, the Irish Turf Club implemented two handicap systems
for the Irish Grand National. One was used when Arkle was in the race and the
other when he was not. It is now fifty years since <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Himself</i> won the 1964 Irish Grand National when he carried two and a
half stone more than his rivals. Arkle won the race that day by a length at
Fairyhouse for trainer Tom Dreaper and now, half a century late the Dreaper
yard saddle two horses with a strong chance in this year’s renewal of the Irish
Grand National. Both Goonyella and Los Amigos have been supported in the
betting and punters can avail of 7/1 with Boylesports for Jim Dreaper to train
the winner of the race. It would be more than fitting if this was to happen
given the family connections.</div>
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Having
only started training with six horses in 2005, David Marnane is holding an open
day at his stables in Bansha Co. Tipperary on Sunday April 27<sup>th</sup>. The
day will include meeting David and his team, viewing the horses on the gallops
and seeing the training facilities on show. Complimentary refreshments will be
served and the morning will provide a great opportunity to meet David and learn
more about how his operation works. If you wish to attend on the morning, email
Aidan McGarry at amcgarry@itm.ie or telephone 045 443000, confirming your name,
email address and mobile number.</div>
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After
an accomplished career as an amateur jockey, Marnane moved to Dubai in 1997 where
he joined Champion Trainer in Dubai, Kieran McLaughlin, and in later years,
Doug Watson. Over the past few seasons he has trained many progressive domestic
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No
less than twelve riders received suspensions of between two and four days at
Tramore on April 13<sup>th</sup> following an incident in the Martinstown
Opportunity Handicap Steeplechase. The incident came to light following a
report by Turf Club Starter P.L. Malone to the Stewards that all twelve jockeys
had disobeyed his instructions by coming forward without being instructed to in
this race. M.P. Butler, J.S. McGarvey, K.C. Sexton, C.M. Walsh, B. Hayes, F.J.
Hayes, S.E. Butler, I.J. McCarthy,S.J. Crimin, D.E. Splaine, A. Ring and B.R.
Dalton were deemed to be at fault and will serve their suspensions presently. </div>
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Viewership
of Channel 4’s racing coverage continues to tumble as figures released recently
make poor showing. The Morning Line is down 18.5 per cent on 2013 while Aintree
figures are down 19 percent. Since the departure of John McCririck, Alistair
Down and John Francome, the refreshed format and presenting team of Clare
Balding and Nick Luck have not struck a chord with the racing public as a
whole. The lack of dynamism and the increase in novelty segments has clearly
not worked. A recent episode of the Morning Line had a link with a milk man
travelling around on his daily milk run dressing up as a jockey and then going
into Aintree. Ted Walsh was also less than impressed when Channel 4 had a
“psychic pig” pick out the winner of the Champion Hurdle. Unfortunately the
selection was Our Conor. Walsh summed the whole episode up as " pretty
pathetic really". A description which could easily be extended to the
current viewing figures of Channel 4 racing.</div>
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In
Chengdu, China, there was a race meeting held last week. Of course since betting
on horse racing was outlawed by Chairman Mao in 1949, there was no gambling at
the event. Still this may be taken as a positive step forward and in May, Hong
Kong hosts the Asian Racing Federation Conference and which will include
sessions on racing in China, its current state and its prospects. In
gambling-mad Hong Kong, will the allure of the bookmakers be allowed a
foothold. It remains to be seen. </div>
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A
newcomer to the betting exchanges asked a well-seasoned member the following
question:</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I would
like to lay the favourite in every horse race. What's the easiest method of
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reply came:</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Just
send a cheque to Betfair each month. Perhaps a standing order would be best.”</i></div>
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Joseph
O' Brien ran into some criticism at Leopardstown this week when beaten on four
very short priced favourites, two of the at odd-on. However this is unlikely to
trouble O’ Brien who was champion jockey in Ireland in 2012 with 87 winners. He
then retained his title in 2013 with 126 winners and in doing so, set a new
record which surpassed that held previously by Mick Kinane which was 20 years
old. It is a long season and there will be better days ahead.</div>
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Tony
McCoy has stated that this could be his last or second last Cheltenham festival
and the question on everyone’s mind is who would be JP McManus’s new retained
jockey ? It would be the most high profile position in jumps racing and a
massive challenge to emulate the predecessor. Barry Geraghty is unlikely to
leave Nicky Henderson and both Ruby Walsh and Davy Russell are approaching the
end of their careers. The appointment of the last two stable jockeys points
towards youth, Bryan Cooper <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for Michael
O’ Leary and Danny Mullins for Barry O’ Connell are both 21 years of age. If JP
could prise Paul Townend (23) away from Closutton, it could well be a worthy and
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In
the space of half an hour in Dubai everything changed for Michael Halford.
Eastern Rule at 33/1 finished ninth in the Godolphin Mile but in the next race,
the Dubai Gold Cup, Certerach, also at 33/1, ran a blinder. Already a winner at
Meydan this season, Certerach dourly beat the 7/4 favourite, Cavalryman and
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Halford
aside, Dubai World Cup night was a forgetful one for Irish trainers. The
highlight of Aidan O’ Brien’s team was a fourth place finish in the UAE Derby. To
add hubris, the winner of this race was ridden by former Ballydoyle stable
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Another
fancied Irish runner, Eddie Lynam’s Sole Power finished down the field in the
Al Quoz 5f Sprint but the big Irish disappointment on the night was another
Ballydoyle horse, Ruler Of The World. Last year’s Epsom Derby winner, the 4yo raced
for the first time in the colours of Al Shaqab Racing, who bought a 50% share
in the horse the week of the Dubai World Cup. This may well be a sign of things
to come for Ballydoyle and Coolmore and it opens up possibilities for a new and
powerful challenge to Sheikh Mohammed and the Darley and Godolphin outfits.
From now on Ruler Of The World will abandon the dark blue silks of John Magnier
and race in the new racing colours of Grey, gold braid, maroon velvet cap, with
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Qatari
investment powerhouse QIPCO Holdings and Horse Racing Ireland have announced a
new three-year sponsorship agreement for the Irish Champion Stakes which will
take place at Leopardstown in the middle of September. This race will be the
feature on Day One of the new Irish Champions Weekend and features a prize-fund
for of €1,000,000, a significant increase on the 2013 figure of €750,000. The
two day meeting will also feature the Estate Irish St. Leger.</div>
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Brian
Kavanagh, Chief Executive of Horse Racing Ireland, said : “We are honoured to
welcome QIPCO as sponsors of the Irish Champion Stakes and on behalf of Horse
Racing Ireland, I would like to thank Sheikh Hamad, Sheikh Fahad and their
family for their support. The Irish Champion Stakes is one of the most
important races in the international flat racing<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>calendar and with the involvement of QIPCO it
can become the first leg of a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘Triple
Crown’ of European Championship races, followed by the Qatar Prix de l’Arc de
Triomphe at Longchamp and the QIPCO British Champions Stakes at Ascot in October.”</div>
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The
Irish Champions Stakes was first run in 1976 and winners include Sadler’s
Wells, Daylami, High Chaparral and New Approach. The winner of the race receives
an automatic entry to the Breeders Cup with all entry and travelling expenses
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Ballinrobe,
awarded Irish Racecourse of the Year in 2012, has announced that two high-value
races will be held on May 27<sup>th </sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>which will be the inaugural McHale Raceday.
The Mayo National and the McHale Coranna Handicap Hurdle each carry a prize-fund
of €30,000 and will make them the most valuable races ever staged at
Ballinrobe. </div>
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McHale,
one of the leading Agriculture Dealers in Ireland are based in Claremorris <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>will sponsor six races on the day. The company
is run by Managing Director Padraic McHale, who commented on the sponsorship
deal: “We are very happy to sponsor the Raceday on the 27th of May. Over the
last 15 years since we opened the factory in Ballinrobe, we have watched as the
Racecourse has developed into a top-class facility. The Racecourse Committee
and Management deserve the height of praise for developing the Racecourse into
the superb venue it is today”</div>
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Jim
Bolger and Aidan O’ Brien both received commemorative pins and crystal pikes at
the Curragh Racecourse. The pins and pikes were designed by Wexford Artist Fred
Curtis and marked the trainer’s status as Wexford Ambassadors. Both Bolger and
O’ Brien are Wexford natives and were chosen as Councillor John Hegarty,
Chairman of the Committee charged with delivering the Ambassador Programme revealed:
“While the county has many assets, none are more significant than the quality
of its native people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At home and across
the world, in sport, literature, music, media and business, Wexford men and
women have achieved significant success, disproportionately, it has to be
agreed, to the size of the county. Jim Bolger and Aidan O’Brien are Wexford
natives, professional, hugely successful, globally respected and yet very much associated
with their home county; we felt were the ideal representatives for the county
and what it has to offer.”</div>
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<br />The GE 1.5 megawatt wind turbine is not known for being discreet. It weighs 160 tons and has three blades that span 35 meters each and spin atop an 80 metre tower. The blades sweep a vertical airspace of just under an acre and at a cost in the region of €2,000,000 per turbine. The GE 1.5 is one of the most common wind turbines used in Ireland and each one can supply about 500 homes. With renewable energy at the forefront of the Government’s mind, there are plans in motion to expand the wind turbine network countrywide.<br /><br />This expansion plan has not gone unnoticed by those in the horse racing world. Showing strength in unity, all four industry bodies; The Irish Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association, the Irish Jockeys’ Association, the Irish Racehorse Trainers’ Association and the Association of Irish Racehorse Owners agreed on a joint submission which was delivered to the Department of the Environment. This paper included proposed revisions to the DoE Wind Energy Development Guidelines which planned to safeguard the future viability of the racing industry in Ireland. </div>
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<br />Highlighting the well-touted fact that the racing industry employs upwards of 14,000 people and has a value of over €1 Billion to the Irish economy, the revision document stated that the revised Wind Energy Guidelines “should not facilitate insensitively sited wind turbines from impacting negatively on the safe operation of thoroughbred studs, stables and training yards and, as a result, threatening the viability of the thoroughbred industry in Ireland.” While at pains to stress that the ITBA, IJA, IRTA and AIRO are not opposed to Ireland’s commitments to meet its renewable energy generation goals, they are concerned that it poses a serious and tangible risk to thoroughbred horses. </div>
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Champion National Hunt jockey Ruby Walsh has also voiced his concerns that wind turbines pose a health and safety risk, he added “The moving shadows on sunny days created by wind turbines is a massive problem for horses. The riding or even grazing of horses in such areas is simply not possible and extremely dangerous.” Locating a wind turbine within a horses vision or indeed earshot is believed by the vast majority of horse racing experts to have a highly negative effect. <br />This claim is backed up by a four year study conducted at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Lisbon’s Technical College. The study revealed that ever since wind turbines were installed beside the grazing paddocks of a Portuguese stud farm in 2008, 11 foals developed flexural deformities of the front limbs, after they were born. All but one of these foals were euthanized.<br /><br />During the four year study, researchers carried out measurements of ground vibration at different distances from the wind turbines, with the same equipment that is used to detect seismic vibrations (e.g. earthquakes). The results of these measurements, showed ground vibration at different frequencies and these vibrations effect bone metabolism which in this case, have lead to developmental deformities in the foals.<br />David Redvers, a highly respected bloodstock agents whose clients include Sheikh Fahad al Thani’s Pearl Bloodstock and Qatar Racing has admitted that his clients are watching this matter closely; “we currently are sourcing potential farms on which to base our Irish operations. However, it is with regret that we read of the plans to allow the construction of large numbers of electro-turbines and pylons in the areas traditionally associated with quality Irish stud land. It is our considered opinion that developments of this kind are not conducive to the raising of top quality bloodstock in the areas in which they are built.”<br />Careful consideration therefore needs to be taken if wind turbines are to be placed near horses and training facilities and this consensus appears to be echoed across the industry. There is a lot at stake here. More perhaps than what is recognised. <br /> </div>
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But all is not lost. Energy Minister Pat Rabbitte has confirmed that plans to erect over 2,300 wind turbines across Kildare, Meath, Westmeath, Offaly and Laois have now been shelved. This news will be well received by horse trainers, breeders and all those involved in the equine world as the consensus is that wind turbines are detrimental to a horses health. The revelation comes on the back of a meeting in Brussels between Minister Rabbitte and UK Climate & Energy Secretary of State Minister Ed Davey. Element Power, one of the two organisations behind the proposal had won significant government support in the UK but the initiative has now stalled, apparently due to a lack of progress on the UK side. Opposition parties in the UK had dismissed the exercise as an easy solution for the UK to meet its renewable targets of having 40 per cent of its electricity generated from renewable sources by 2020.<br />The wind turbine project, which was valued at some €7 billion, appeared to have been given the green light last year when both the Irish and British Governments signed a memorandum of understanding. This would have seen 2,300 wind turbines being built across the midlands between now and 2020 to supply 5,000 megawatts (MW) of power exclusively to the British market. The vast majority of the planned 40 wind farms were to be erected on 20,000 hectares of cutaway bog where they would have reached heights of 185 metres.<br />But of course the midlands is home to the epicentre of the horse racing industry in Ireland. With dozens of stud farms, training yards and equine facilities dotted near to the proposed locations of wind turbines. <br />Minister Rabbitte now has questions to answer, none more so from Sinn Féin who have put forward the issue for Private Member’s Business this week. Also, a note from Davy Stockbrokers has suggested that the UK had changed their strategy on the Irish export scheme and were instead focussing on developing fracking, North Sea gas and nuclear energy to meet its energy needs.<br />Either way, there will be much delight from The Curragh to Navan and beyond. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />References – <br />http://www.turn180.ie/2013/03/23/can-wind-turbines-cause-developmental-deformities-in-horses/<br />www.theirishfield.ie/site/article.php?id=4020&cid=1 <br />http://www.iwea.com/index.cfm/page/bycounty/id/14<br />https://www.wind-watch.org/faq-size.php<br /><br /></div>
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This
is a great time of the year for reflection and anticipation. Looking back on
the many highlights of the 2013 horse racing year serves well to whet the appetite
for the forthcoming twelve months of flat and jump racing action.</div>
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And
speaking of highlights, there were some monumental ones. Bittersweet times
reigned during the flat season. On Ladies' Day at Royal Ascot, the sight of Her
Majesty the Queen enthusiastically cheering her horse Estimate in the Gold Cup
showed the millions watching how much the monarch loves the sport. This was a poignant
time too with the passing of legendary trainer Sir. Henry Cecil at the age of
70. The ten-time Champion trainer, so famous for training Frankel, one of the
all-time greats, will be sadly missed. Training however will continue at the
Cecil yard and Lady Cecil has declared her ambition is to “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Win a</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Group One race next
year</i>".</div>
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The
jumps season turned full circle with memorable Cheltenham and Aintree Festivals
and there is so much to look forward to in 2014. As we look at the racing
calendar, there are many questions to answer. The question on many people’s
lips is can the mighty Hurricane Fly become the first ten year old winner of
the Cheltenham Champion Hurdle since Sea Pigeon in 1980 ? Trainer Willie
Mullins certainly believes so and is on record as saying the horse is "<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">stronger than ever</i>" this season.
Hurricane Fly recently set a world record of seventeen Grade 1 races (beating
the previous record set by Kauto Star) but competition is stiff this term. Our
Conor, a runaway winner of last year’s biggest race for four year olds, is set
to clash with Hurricane Fly at Cheltenham. Originally acquired for the modest
sum of €4,500 at the Tattersalls Sales in 2010, Our Conor was sold for a sum in
the region of €1,000,000 last year to owner Barry Connell. He remains a horse
of almost unlimited potential and is one to follow for the season.</div>
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The
Blue Riband of jump racing, the Cheltenham Gold Cup is always a race to savour.
Gold Cup Day at Cheltenham sells out each year so the trend for many racing
fans in recent years is enjoy the carnival atmosphere at local pubs where the
racing is shown. The 2014 renewal of the Gold Cup is a very open affair. Current
favourite (and last year’s winner) Bobs Worth, is unbeaten in five races at
Cheltenham. He is still a progressive horse but another entry, Cue Card may
have even more potential. Cue Card is now 6/1 (from 20/1) for the Gold Cup and
has proven course form which is crucial. He won the Champion Bumper as a young
horse and also the Ryanair Chase at Cheltenham which are both major races. He
will be an eight year old in March and with plenty of experience and class,
remains one to take very seriously indeed.</div>
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In
April, the Aintree Grand National is one of the great days. Breaking all
betting records last year with over £150 million wagered on the race, the Grand
National will be watched live by over 600 million television viewers in 140
countries worldwide. Forty runners will jump a total of thirty fences around
the marathon four and a half mile course and over 70,000 people attend the
races at Aintree that day. It is traditionally one of the most competitive and
unpredictable<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>sporting events in the
world and has had some amazing results. No female jockey has won the Grand
National to date in 18 attempts but Katie Walsh finished third in 2012. Could
this be the year that history is made with a first female jockey to win the
race ? With the likes of Nina Carberry and Katie Walsh from Ireland and Lucy
Alexander and Samantha Drake in Britain, it could be a very interesting Grand
National for the ladies.</div>
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Not
many people might be aware that Horse Racing is the second biggest spectator
sport in the UK. Last year over six million people attended a race meeting and
in Ireland too, spectator numbers remain high. Attheraces (Sky Channel 415)
carry exclusive coverage of both flat and jumps racing from all 26 racecourses
in Ireland. Last season Willie Mullins totally dominated the Irish Jumps season
with almost €4 million in prize money, three times that of second-placed Gordon
Elliot. With a stable of over 300 horses, the Mullins yard is set to continue
it's fine form. On the flat in Ireland, Aidan O' Brien had almost 500 runners
and with a record 135 wins and was crowned champion trainer for the sixth year
in a row.</div>
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Aidan
O’Brien also trains the favourite for the Epsom Derby. Australia, an impeccably-bred
colt by Champion Sire Galileo. O’Brien is seeking a hat-trick of Epsom Derbys in
June and can be strongly fancied to do so. First run in 1780, the Derby
attracts the best three-year-olds in training.</div>
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The
flat season reaches a landmark day in October with Champions Day at Ascot. This
is the richest day in British racing. On offer is £3.5 million in prize money,
and five end-of-season championship races will decide the winners of the
respective Sprint, Mile, Middle Distance, Long Distance and Fillies & Mares
categories. Awards for the champion trainer and champion jockey are handed out
and it is a fitting conclusion to the season.</div>
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2014
also marks the ten year anniversary since the launch of RacingUK (Sky Channel
432). Broadcasting from 33 of the UK’s top racecourses, RacingUK pays 100% of
their profits directly back into the racing industry. Interestingly, the RacingUK
tracks were responsible for more than 60% of total prize-money contributions
made by racecourses in the UK.</div>
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Between
the jumps and flat racing, there is so much to look forward to. It is time to
enjoy and savour the action and best of all, to make new memories.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;">Major Horse Racing Fixtures 2014:</span></b></div>
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Tuesday 11<sup>th</sup> March</div>
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Cheltenham Festival</div>
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Thursday 13<sup>th</sup> March</div>
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Thursday 3<sup>rd</sup> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>April</div>
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Friday 4<sup>th</sup> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>April</div>
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Saturday 5<sup>th</sup> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>April</div>
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Saturday 3<sup>rd</sup> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>May</div>
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Saturday 8<sup>th</sup> June</div>
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Derby Festival</div>
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</tr>
<tr style="height: 5.45pt; mso-yfti-irow: 11;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid black 1.0pt; height: 5.45pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 196.65pt;" valign="top" width="328">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Tuesday 17<sup>th</sup> June</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 5.45pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 101.05pt;" valign="top" width="168">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Royal Ascot</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 5.45pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 168.4pt;" valign="top" width="281">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Royal Ascot</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 5.45pt; mso-yfti-irow: 12;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid black 1.0pt; height: 5.45pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 196.65pt;" valign="top" width="328">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Wednesday 18<sup>th</sup> June</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 5.45pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 101.05pt;" valign="top" width="168">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Royal Ascot</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 5.45pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 168.4pt;" valign="top" width="281">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Royal Ascot</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 5.45pt; mso-yfti-irow: 13;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid black 1.0pt; height: 5.45pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 196.65pt;" valign="top" width="328">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Thursday 19<sup>th</sup> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>June</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 5.45pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 101.05pt;" valign="top" width="168">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Royal Ascot</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 5.45pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 168.4pt;" valign="top" width="281">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Royal Ascot</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 5.45pt; mso-yfti-irow: 14;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid black 1.0pt; height: 5.45pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 196.65pt;" valign="top" width="328">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Friday 20<sup>th</sup> June</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 5.45pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 101.05pt;" valign="top" width="168">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Royal Ascot</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 5.45pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 168.4pt;" valign="top" width="281">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Royal Ascot</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 5.45pt; mso-yfti-irow: 15;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid black 1.0pt; height: 5.45pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 196.65pt;" valign="top" width="328">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Saturday 21<sup>st</sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>June</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 5.45pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 101.05pt;" valign="top" width="168">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Royal Ascot</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 5.45pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 168.4pt;" valign="top" width="281">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Royal Ascot</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 5.45pt; mso-yfti-irow: 16;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid black 1.0pt; height: 5.45pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 196.65pt;" valign="top" width="328">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Tuesday 29<sup>th</sup> July </div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 5.45pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 101.05pt;" valign="top" width="168">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Goodwood</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 5.45pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 168.4pt;" valign="top" width="281">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Glorious Goodwood</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 5.45pt; mso-yfti-irow: 17;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid black 1.0pt; height: 5.45pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 196.65pt;" valign="top" width="328">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Wednesday 30<sup>th</sup> July</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 5.45pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 101.05pt;" valign="top" width="168">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Goodwood</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 5.45pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 168.4pt;" valign="top" width="281">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Glorious Goodwood</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 5.45pt; mso-yfti-irow: 18;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid black 1.0pt; height: 5.45pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 196.65pt;" valign="top" width="328">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Thursday 31<sup>st</sup> July</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 5.45pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 101.05pt;" valign="top" width="168">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Goodwood</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 5.45pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 168.4pt;" valign="top" width="281">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Glorious Goodwood</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 5.45pt; mso-yfti-irow: 19;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid black 1.0pt; height: 5.45pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 196.65pt;" valign="top" width="328">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Friday 1<sup>st</sup> August</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 5.45pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 101.05pt;" valign="top" width="168">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Goodwood</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 5.45pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 168.4pt;" valign="top" width="281">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Glorious Goodwood</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 5.45pt; mso-yfti-irow: 20;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid black 1.0pt; height: 5.45pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 196.65pt;" valign="top" width="328">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Saturday 2<sup>nd</sup> August</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 5.45pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 101.05pt;" valign="top" width="168">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Goodwood</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 5.45pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 168.4pt;" valign="top" width="281">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Glorious Goodwood</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 5.45pt; mso-yfti-irow: 21;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid black 1.0pt; height: 5.45pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 196.65pt;" valign="top" width="328">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Wednesday 10<sup>th</sup> September</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 5.45pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 101.05pt;" valign="top" width="168">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Doncaster</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 5.45pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 168.4pt;" valign="top" width="281">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
St Leger Meeting</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 5.45pt; mso-yfti-irow: 22;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid black 1.0pt; height: 5.45pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 196.65pt;" valign="top" width="328">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Thursday 11<sup>th</sup> September</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 5.45pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 101.05pt;" valign="top" width="168">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Doncaster</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 5.45pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 168.4pt;" valign="top" width="281">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
St Leger Meeting</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 5.45pt; mso-yfti-irow: 23;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid black 1.0pt; height: 5.45pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 196.65pt;" valign="top" width="328">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Friday 12<sup>th</sup> September</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 5.45pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 101.05pt;" valign="top" width="168">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Doncaster</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 5.45pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 168.4pt;" valign="top" width="281">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
St Leger Meeting</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 5.45pt; mso-yfti-irow: 24;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid black 1.0pt; height: 5.45pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 196.65pt;" valign="top" width="328">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Saturday 13<sup>th</sup> September</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 5.45pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 101.05pt;" valign="top" width="168">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Doncaster</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 5.45pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 168.4pt;" valign="top" width="281">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
St Leger Meeting</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 5.45pt; mso-yfti-irow: 25;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid black 1.0pt; height: 5.45pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 196.65pt;" valign="top" width="328">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Saturday 18<sup>th</sup> October </div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 5.45pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 101.05pt;" valign="top" width="168">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Ascot</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 5.45pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 168.4pt;" valign="top" width="281">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
British Champions Day</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 5.45pt; mso-yfti-irow: 26;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid black 1.0pt; height: 5.45pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 196.65pt;" valign="top" width="328">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Friday 14<sup>th</sup> November</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 5.45pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 101.05pt;" valign="top" width="168">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Cheltenham</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid black 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 5.45pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 168.4pt;" valign="top" width="281">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
The Open</div>
</td>
</tr>
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It
has always been a serious race. Dawn Run won it, Morley Street, Baracouda,
Hardy Eustace too and in recent years Overturn and Silviniaco Conti. Though a
Grade 2, it is not treated as such and this year’s renewal is awash with class.
Though both Zaynar and Silviniaco Conti won the Coral Hurdle as four year olds,
it pays to side with experience. Nicky Henderson’s Rolling Star, the only four
year old in the field, was last year’s Triumph Hurdle favourite, before
finishing sixth to Our Conor. He was subsequent favourite in the Grade 1 4yo
Juvenile Hurdle at the Aintree festival but could only manage one place better
when fifth to L’Unique. The impression given on both starts is that Rolling
Star is more of a 2m4f horse and his future lies over fences. The Ascot trip
will play to his strengths but he may not have necessary class to beat the
market principles. Having won the race three times since 2008, Nicky Henderson
does have place prospects with Rolling Star and he did win on his seasonal
debut last year in a Triumph Hurdle trial.</div>
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Currently
rated 167, Zarkandar is the highest rated hurdler in the field. He is a
half-brother to the unbeaten Zarkava and winner of eight of his eleven hurdle
races. Already a Triumph Hurdle winner, Zarkandar won three Grade 2 races last
season before finishing fourth in the Champion Hurdle to Hurricane Fly.
Connections maintain that he is at his best with cut in the ground but it was
blinkers swhich proved a real revelation when he beat the brilliant The New One
in a showcase finish in the Aintree Hurdle over 2m4f. It is worth noting that Zarkandar
wore blinkers when racing in France and Paul Nicholls admitted after the Aintree
race that he was a different animal with blinkers applied. Interestingly he
also said <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I definitely don´t see him as
a Champion Hurdle horse next season. He´s going to be a three-miler.”</i> At
his brilliant best though, he is a tough nut to crack and whatever happens at
Ascot Zarkandar remains a class act to follow all season long.</div>
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Despite
the class of Zarkandar and the potential that Rolling Star clearly has, the
race may go to the Irish for the first time since Hardy Eustace in 2007. There
has only been one Irish runner in a Coral Hurdle since 2007, when Sabrina Harty
ran the 100/1 chance Bull Flyer who was well beaten in the 2008 renewal. Given
the amount of valuable prizes on offer in the Irish racing calendar, Ascot is
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Annie
Power is one of the most exciting hurdling prospects in the Mullin’s yard.
Outside of Hurricane Fly and Quevega, Annie Power has the potential to join
those exalted two and have an absolutely stellar career. Just a 5yo, she is
unbeaten in all of her seven starts. I have heard good word that Annie Power
bypassed the Morgiana Hurdle because she would have beaten Hurricane Fly. Given
that Hurricane Fly was clearly not fully match fit on the day, there may have
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A dual
bumper winner for Jim Bolger before being acquired by Rich Ricci and the
Mullins team, Annie Power has done nothing but improve since sent over hurdles.
She put Don Cossack and Defy Logic (rated 142 and 148 over hurdles
respectively) to the sword in a Grade 2 hurdle at Naas. The mare then ended
last season with a facile twelve length victory in the Grade 1 Mares race at
Fairyhouse. Willie Mullins is on record as saying that “She could be anything.”
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Annie
Power receives a hefty 11lbs from Zarkandar in the Coral Hurdle. This is a
serious amount of weight to give to such a classy mare. On plain ratings, Annie
Power is 155 and Zarkandar 167 and the betting shows are 11/10 for the Mullins
mare and 11/8 for Zarkandar. That she is so short in the betting reflects her
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<br />It has all been leading up to this. One day in the racing calendar when the stars collide on an unprecedented scale. Thirty five of the best flat races have been run over the past five months and now all roads lead to Ascot on October 19th. QIPCO British Champions Day is, in a word, unmissable. <br /><br />Champions Day is the richest day in British racing. On offer is £3.4 million in prize money, an amount that has increased steadily since the inaugural Champions Day scarcely two years ago. Organisers of the showcase event have built upon the resounding successes of the two previous years and the 2013 renewal will conclude the flat season in some style.<br /><br />Five end-of-season championship races will decide the winners of the respective Sprint, Mile, Middle Distance, Long Distance and Fillies & Mares categories. The Sprint Specialists include Lethal Force who won the Diamond Jubilee Stakes at Ascot in June. He lines out against the veteran Society Rock and Irish raider Sole Power in the Group 2 Sprint Stakes over 6f. Fifth when 7/2 favourite in the race in 2012, the James Fanshawe-trained Society Rock has finished second to Lethal Force in his last two starts but is a dual course winner at Ascot. Now a 6yo, whether he can turn the tables on Lethal Force on Champions Day remains to be seen. Lethal Force readily accounted for the field in the Darley July Cup and it is interesting to note that five of the previous ten winners of this race have gone on to become the seasons Champion Sprinter.<br /><br />With £1 million in prize money, Europe’s richest race over a mile, the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes has been won in the past by the likes of Frankel and Brigadier Gerard. The 2013 running is set for another great dual between Toronado and Dawn Approach as they lock horns once more. Last year’s Champion two-year-old and current 2000 Guineas winner, Dawn Approach is currently the 7/2 second favourite for the Queen Elizabeth II and sits just one point behind Toronado in the Mile category standings. Should he prevail against the brilliant Hannon colt and take the title of Champion Miler, it will end the season on a high for connections following a tame fifth in the Prix Jacques le Marois at Deauville. Dawn Approach was not himself that day (scoped dirty) and Olympic Glory who finished a short head behind Moonlight Cloud in the Prix Jacques le Marois heads the betting for the Queen Elizabeth II.<br /><br />The Middle distance series includes such seasonal highlights as the Coronation Cup, Epsom Derby and the Juddmonte. This culminates on Champions Day in the Qipco Champion Stakes where there is £1.3 million on offer. This ten furlong Middle distance race is likely to feature triple Group 1 winner Al Kazeem amongst a superb field of runners. Since winning the Eclipse at Sandown in July connections of Al Kazeem have strongly hinted that this will be the 5yo will be retired after Ascot and though the fast ground did not suit him when third to Declaration Of War in the Juddmonte, conditions are much more likely to be in his favour on Champions Day where he is currently the 3/1 favourite.<br /><br />Considering the value of the race and the prestige involved, opposition to Al Kazeem is guaranteed to be very strong. Last year's QIPCO Champion Stakes winner, Cirrus Des Aigles is entered as is Farhh for Godolphin. Paying close attention to the Racing Post analysis of the Lockinge where Farhh “absolutely bolted up”, he is an intriguing entry and his pedigree suggests he has all the required stamina to prove a real threat to Al Kazeem. Irish Derby winner Trading Leather finished second to Novellist who set a new course record in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot in July. Although many form analysts would question the depth of that race, it still contained five Group 1 winners and Trading Leather handled the track like a very smart colt. Aidan O’ Brien has entered Camelot, Ruler Of The World and Declaration Of War and interestingly, the Champion Stakes is a race that the O’ Brien team have never won. This race promises to be absolutely top class.<br /><br />The Ladies then take their turn in the Champions Fillies & Mares Stakes which this year is being run as a Group 1 for the first time. The prize money for this race has also doubled in value to £500,000 and attracted a wealth of European talent. The first three home in the British Oaks (Talent, Secret Gesture and The Lark) are pitted against the first three in the Irish Oaks (Chicquita, Venus De Milo and Just Pretending) and the German Oaks winner Penelopa. Last year's winner Sapphire and The Fugue represent the best of the older generation, while Germany's Nymphea and South Africa's Igugu head the overseas challengers. Make no mistake, the Champions Fillies & Mares race is a proper Group 1. The distance of the race, 1 Mile 4 Furlongs, ensures that there can be few excuses for a true-run contest and since Dancing Rain (who had won the Investec Oaks at Epsom and the German equivalent) won the inaugural running of this race in 2011, it has risen sharply as a target for trainers across the world.<br /><br />The seven races of the QIPCO British Champions Long Distance category vary in trip from the extended 1¾ miles of Doncaster’s Ladbrokes St Leger to the 2½ miles of the Gold Cup at Royal Ascot. Settling on an even 2 miles, the QIPCO British Champions Long Distance Cup is one of the most demanding and stamina sapping events in the racing calendar. The Queen could be represented in this race as her Ascot Gold Cup winner Estimate was entered. With the Irish having won the 2011 and 2012 renewals, a royal victory would be all too fitting. Michael Owen's Brown Panther is also entered in this £200,000 race which is the final major long distance race of the British season.<br /><br />With so much on offer for so many, organisers have done well to condense such talent and quality into one day. All that is left now for the rest of us is to enjoy it. An easy task.</div>
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host a seven race card tonight with the feature event being the Group 3
Ballyroan Stakes. Commencing proceedings is the Foxrock Fillies Maiden over 6f
where Willie Mullins enters a rare sprint runner in Wizz Up. The filly finished
well down the field on her only start for Robert Collet in Maisons-laffitte
before being acquired by Ballylinch Stud. Out of Lidanna, the 6f trip will suit
and Seamie Heffernan takes the ride. She is an interesting contender in what
looks a very ordinary maiden. Likely favourite Il Palazzo tries the 6f trip for
the first time but continues to disappoint. Winless in five starts she finished
one-paced over 7f at the Curragh last time out when beaten into 4th. She
started 6/4 favourite that day and looks opposable here. She may try to make
all (employed similar tactics at Leopardstown before) but she lacks true
sprinting speed in her pedigree and this may be exposed by one of the
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">In
the 7f Irish Stallion Farms EBF Maiden, Johhny Murtagh trains and rides Corona
Borealis who looks progressive. His dam is a half-sister to the high-class
Inchinor and he fetched 110,000 Guineas as a yearling. By Galileo he finished
mid division over a similar trip at the Curragh in June and improvement is
expected. The Ballydoyle-trained Friendship, second last week (7 ½ lengths back
to the third horse) to Mustajeeb at Galway, has been highly tried and his last
race at Galway was a very high class affair. He may well win today and there is
every indication that he is progressing. Strictly on form lines he should be
winning today, he finishes his races well and should appreciate the ground. On
just his second start he ran in the Chesham Stakes at Ascot (but got very upset
at the starting stalls) and is officially rated 95 which should be enough to take
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content with just being the King of Ballybrit, Dermot Weld has made the
Ballyroan Stakes all his own. He has saddled the winner of the last four
renewals of this race but has no runner today. In all truth, this year’s
renewal looks very competitive on paper. Both Scintilla and Ernest Hemingway
are officially rated 115 but Scintillula receives a stone in weight from the
Ballydoyle runner due to being a 3yo filly. Unraced as a 2yo, Ernest Hemingway
famously served as a pacemaker for Camelot in the 2012 Prix de l´Arc de Triomph
and he beat Royal Diamond (last year’s Irish St. Leger winner) in the Group 3
Curragh Cup in June over 1m 6f. It was a comfortable victory that day despite
his odds (12/1) but today will be a real test as to whether he can be
considered a real stayer in the Yeats and Fame And Glory mould. On the negative
side, Aidan O’ Brien has only won this race once, back in 1999 with Peach Out
of Reach, and no horse carrying 9-12 has won the race in the last ten years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">Scintillula
for Jim Bolger is a full sister to Claiomh Solais and Cuis Ghaire who is a
muliptle Group 3 winner and finished second in the 1000 Guineas. She has won at
Leopardstown twice this season and
comfortably accounted for Mars in the Group 3 Meld Stakes two weeks ago. She
also finished fourth in the Irish Oaks and with the weight she receives today,
Kevin Manning may well try to steal it from the front. It is Royal Diamond
however who is of most interest. Owned by Andrew Tinkler, he is a half-brother
to Mad About You and as a 7yo, has plenty of experience whish fits the profile
for older horses having a high strike rate in this race. He improved no end
last year which culminated in a narrow victory in the Irish St. Leger. Hard to
believe that this horse was running over hurdles at Fakenham on New Years Day
last year and there is now talk of the Melbourne Cup following his Listed win
at the Curragh in July. Royal Diamond is a tough, genuine horse who keeps
everything straightforward and it is well know that Johnny Murtagh is very fond
of him and has this race as a target.</span></div>
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the concluding race, the 2m Leopardstown Club Member’s Handicap, Giant’s Quest
looks an each way proposition following some very decent spins over hurdles.
His last three races over jumps read 213 and at the weights, Pat Smullen is
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />There are three Summer Festivals staged each year at Killarney’s racecourse. This is more than any racecourse in Ireland or the UK, but one visit to Killarney will make you understand why. The track itself is relatively straightforward, it loops around a ten furlong left-handed oval with a short finish. But the surrounds of the racecourse are phenomenal. Sitting in a natural bowl the racecourse is set against a panoramic backdrop of Killarney’s National Park, Ross Castle and the McGillicuddy Reek mountains. Branding itself as “<i>Ireland's most Scenic Racecourse”</i>, this may be a little understated.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />Yesterday’s meeting (Wednesday evening) featured an eight race card and one of the biggest gambles of the flat season was landed in the very first race with the Aidan O’ Brien runner Royal Irish Hussar. A significant overnight drifter, the 3yo son of Galileo (pictured) was backed from 9/1 into 5/4 favourite, he made all the running and won cosily by eleven lengths. Speaking to Joseph O’Brien afterwards, the jockey noted <i>“He bowled away nicely in front and he won nicely enough but it was an ordinary race “</i>. Such was the weight of money on this maiden race that Paul Binfield from Paddy Power, noted : <i>"We paid out over 100k on him. We went in at 6-1 about him, which wasn't the top price and was on the low side, but we soon realised that we really screwed up on the price. We never got near the bottom of him and he was backed at all rates."</i> From the off the result was never in doubt and it was Aidan O'Brien's fifth winner in the last six runnings of this race.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />With the Galway Festival just over two weeks away, Dermot Weld’s stable is warming up nicely. Khothry rallied late to deny the Jim Bolger-trained Neophilia a hat-trick in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF (Fillies) H'cap of €17,500 over 1m 3f. Though Neophilia was in receipt of 16lbs from Khothry, she was just held at the line. Khothry hit a high of 11/1 in-running (with Neophilia trading at 1/3 entering the final furlong) and she showed a nice turn of foot to hold on from Jim Bolger’s filly although the time for the race was slow by 3.54s despite the fast underfoot conditions.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />With the going officially Good To Firm, Good in places, there was watering on the track but little in the way of large withdrawals due to the ground. Steps To Freedom started as the 13/8f in the Irish Examiner Beginners Chase but was denied by Sizing Italy. The winner, formerly trained by Jim Dreaper, was making his debut for Henry De Bromhead who said afterward: "I’m delighted. Andrew gave him a super ride. I thought the favourite was a certainty but that’s obviously why I don’t bet! <i>"It was a savage run and he jumped great and all is good. He has every right to go for the novice chase on the Thursday of Galway now." </i>Steps To Freedom, a former Grade 2 winning hurdler, had to settle for second place in his second start over fences but he will be winning soon and may appreciate slightly softer ground conditions. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />The solitary hurdle race on the card was claimed in stylish fashion by Your Busy. Trained by James Nash, the Curragh handler announced afterward <i>“I thought he had a great chance today and I told a few people to back him each-way. He got a freebie in front and he jumped great. He has always been better over fences and he will go for the Galway Blazers now”.</i> Given an enterprising ride from David Casey, ,Your Busy kept on under pressure and if not too harshly treated by the handicapper, is one to keep on the right side of given similar ground conditions.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />Monasterevin-based trainer, Peter Fahy completed a one-two in the concluding Ladies’ bumper when Sunday Serenade (6/4F) won by a neck from stablemate Alton Bay (20/1). Sunday Serenade was well supported throughout the day and was backed all the way in from 7/2. Ridden by Jane Mangan, the mare led from the last two furlongs and held the challenge of Alton Bay, winning in the end by a neck . Speaking of the plans for the winner, Fahy noted “<i>She will have a break now and her main aim will be to go back to Navan for that Listed mares bumper.</i>”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />With a good crowd in attendance, the racecourse management will be very satisfied in what was a very decent precursor to the highlight of the year, today’s meeting - The Dawn Milk Ladies Day.<br /></span></span></div>
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Situated just six miles from
Windsor Castle, a royal residence for over nine centuries, Ascot racecourse had
had regal connections since it was founded by Queen Anne in 1711. The five day
Royal Ascot meeting staged each summer attracts over 300,000 visitors and has
long been a highlight of the racing calendar. It is considered among the most
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Beginning on Tuesday 18<sup>th</sup>
June with a Royal Procession, the Queen’s horse-drawn carriage will rumble down
the centre of the racetrack to commence proceedings. Ascot is now the United
Kingdom’s only remaining racecourse that is still owned by the Crown. From an
industry perspective, Royal Ascot turnover is on the increase and Spokesperson
for William Hill Lucy Rhodes reveals <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"Royal
Ascot is the biggest week in Flat racing, and with the British public revelling
in royal raptures, we're looking forward to a busy five days.”</i>.
Interestingly, William Hill have been offering bets on the colour of the
Queen's Hat at Ascot since 1973 and this is often the subject of national
debate.</div>
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For the first time in its
history, Royal Ascot will feature prize-money in excess of £5,000,000 in 2013.
This represents a total increase in the total prize-money of £500,000 (an 11%
increase from 2012). The racing on offer is highly impressive with sixteen Group
races and at least one Group One event on each of the five days. Day One
features The Queen Anne Stakes which was won in great style last year by
Frankel. There was recent confirmation from connections that Animal Kingdom,
winner of the Kentucky Derby and Dubai World Cup will conclude his racing
career in The Queen Anne. </div>
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Winner of over $8.3 million in
prize money, Animal Kingdom will race over the mile distance and the stiff test
should play to his strengths. He is the current 3/1 favourite and sure to
contract with the hype surrounding the horse although it will be his first time
running in the UK. Aidan O’ Brien has a strong entry in the race with Declaration
of War who was bred in Kentucky by Joseph Allen. Winner of five of his six
races, Declaration of War comfortably won the Heritage Stakes at Leopardstown
in May on his seasonal reappearance. Aidan O’ Brien has won The Queen Anne
twice in the last seven seasons and boats a good record but Declaration of War
might not be in the same class as Animal Kingdom.</div>
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The feature race of the day is The
St James’s Palace Stakes which also features increased prize money this year. This
race features the best male milers from the Classic generation and attracts
horses that have run in the English, French and Irish 2,000 Guineas. Style
Vendome, trained by Nicholas Clement is considering St James’s Palace as the
most likely route after his recent win in the French 2000 Guineas. The other
highlight of Day One is the King's Stand Stakes run over 5f which is part of the
Global Sprint Challenge and has attracted more than its share of international
winners.</div>
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The Prince of Wales's Stakes is
among the feature races on Day two of Royal Ascot. Won by So You Think in 2012
it is the richest race at the Royal Ascot meeting and has a prize fund of
£450,000. Among the list of entries include 1,000 Guineas and Irish and Epsom
Derby winner Camelot. Described by Aidan O’ Brien as the best horse he has ever
trained, Camelot underwent colic surgery over the winter and is has this race
as his main seasonal target. Another horse who had surgery over the winter,
this time for a chip on his ankle, Godolphin are all set to run Farhh who finished
third in this race last year. Never out of the first three, Farhh is a very
consistent sort and finished second in his last four runs in Group One races.
It is sure to be an intriguing contest and supported on the day by The Windsor
Forest Stakes, for older milers and The Group 2 Queen Mary Stakes, for the best
up-and-coming two-year-old fillies.</div>
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The midpoint of Royal Ascot is on
Thusday June 20<sup>th</sup> with the prestigious Gold Cup. This is run over
the extended trip of 2 miles and 4 furlongs. The Gold Cup is the first leg of
Britain's Stayers' Triple Crown, followed by the Goodwood Cup and the Doncaster
Cup. It has been won many times by the same horse including Yeats, Royal Rebel,
Ardross and Sagaro. Rite Of Passage trained by Dermot Weld heads the market at
6/1. He is a dual Ascot winner and handles any type of ground. Runaway winner
of the Ormonde Stakes, Mount Athos also takes his chance in the Gold Cup for
Luca Cumani as does Aiken for John Gosden. Although Rite Of Passage is a nine
year old (the last 9 year old to win a Gold Cup was Beeswing in 1842) he did
set a track record winning the 2010 Ascot Gold Cup and older horses can run
well. Whether he can still stave off younger legs however, remains to be seen
but it is a fascinating renewal.</div>
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Friday 21<sup>st</sup> June is
midsummer and the feature race at Royal Ascot is the Coronation Stakes. This
race traditionally brings together the leading three-year-old fillies in
Europe. Also on the card is the King Edward VII Stakes, which was formerly
known as the ‘Ascot Derby’, as its conditions mirror those of the Epsom
Classic. The Sir Henry Cecil-trained Hot Snap was removed from the Oaks
following a disappointing run in the 1,000 Guineas and is entered in the
Coronation Stakes. She is a full sister to Midday and a former winner of the Nell
Gwyn Stakes. Flotilla, a brilliant winner of the French 1,000 Guineas may also
run in the race for trainer Mikel Delzangles. At Longchamp Flotilla defeated
favourite Esoterique, getting up in the last few strides, with four lengths
back to the third, she is an exciting prospect for her young trainer.</div>
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Concluding the 2013 Royal Ascot
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As the second British leg of the Global Sprint Challenge, it is also UK’s
joint most valuable sprint race, alongside the Darley July Cup at Newmarket.
This is the last of the seven Group One races run at the meeting and was won
last year by Black Caviar. Yet another name in the peerless roll of honour of
Royal Ascot which is set to continue this June as the flat season reaches its pinnacle.</div>
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In Service Of Others</div>
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<br />Three hours before the start of the first race at this year’s Punchestown Festival, Dr. Adrian McGoldrick will drive through the racecourse gates. He will meet with all personnel including racecourse doctors, The Order of Malta Ambulance Corps, Turf Club officials, Gardaí and racecourse management. The early arrival to Punchestown however is mainly to meet with Racecourse doctors, the Order of Malta under Nigel Kelly and groundsman Andy Coyle . Together with Coyle, they will inspect the track and meticulously plan the ambulance routes for all the races, in particular the cross country races. Due to the nature of the races and the large amount of runners taking part, no less than four doctors will tail the pack, the aim being to deal rapidly with any injuries sustained by riders falling.</div>
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<br />Racecourse doctors at Punchestown and other tracks aim to tend to fallen riders, when necessary within sixty seconds of an incident occurring. This is an impressive time frame, second to few sports worldwide. It is as immediate a response time as possible and the doctors must make rapid assessments in ambulances travelling at speed . At times it may be necessary to leave a rider who has had a simple fall in order to keep up with the race in case of more serious injuries. This is no easy feat but when you are a racecourse medical officer, it is exactly what you do.</div>
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<br />On New Year’s Eve 2008, Dr. Adrian McGoldrick, a native of Rathangan,Co. Kildare took over the reins as Turf Club Senior Medical Officer from the retiring Dr. Walter Halley, who had pioneered racecourse medical services in Ireland. The role is as diverse as it challenging and few areas of occupational medicine are involved in areas of such risk. It is a seven-year renewable contract and Dr. McGoldrick must spend at least seventy days per calendar year working on track where he will partake in any number of professional and advisory duties. These include meeting with Turf Club officials to check whether or not there are jockeys that need to be passed fit to race and other engagements such as checking the catering facilities in the weigh-room to see if the food is adequate for the jockeys.</div>
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<br />In addition to his role with the Turf Club, Dr. McGoldrick is a practising GP at Moorefield Medical near in Newbridge. Since graduating from UCD Medical School in 1976, Dr. McGoldrick has become one of Ireland’s most experienced sports medicine professionals. Through the Turf Club Research Group which he co-ordinates jointly with Dr. Giles Warrington, Programme Chair of Sports Science at DCU, they have produced a wealth of peer reviewed medical journal articles and abstracts. His deep research is specifically focussed around the well-being of jockeys and his published reports include such topics as “Bone Mineral Density and Body Composition Characteristics of Top Level Jockeys” and “Acute Weight Loss Patterns By Professional Horse Racing Jockeys In Preparation For Racing”.</div>
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<br />Dr. McGoldrick has a deep understanding of the physiological impact of being a professional jockey and explains his motives; “I was very concerned about the lifestyle jockeys were leading so I initiated the research in an attempt to address it. Prior to our research, there was very little research being carried out but now we work closely with our counterparts in England, Australia and France who are involved in ongoing research projects."</div>
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<br />As an example it is only in the recent times that issues such as hydration are being addressed as he explains; "We know from our research that the majority of jockeys are dehydrated on an ongoing basis, but more so during racing. At higher levels of dehydration we do see impairment in cognitive and physiological function. We are addressing this through dietary and exercise education and new approaches such as setting Minimum Riding Weights for Apprentices."</div>
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<br />The area of weight too is a huge area for concern. Dr. McGoldrick reveals that “The issue of jockeys 'making weight' has been a matter of great concern to me and has perhaps been the most important factor in my becoming involved in research on racing. In 2004 I made a submission to the Turf Club Safety Review Committee based on the findings of my initial research. This, in turn, led to the establishment of the Turf Club Research Group and has been in existence for the last eight years.. Our research has shown that the vast majority of jockeys have restricted nutritional intake resulting in reduced bone density in up to 50% of them. . Apart from providing nutritional advice and advice on “making weight’ safely, we have been able to liaise with all stakeholders –The Turf Club, H.R.I., The Trainers Association and Jockeys Association, resulting in the minimum and median riding weights being increased by several pounds in the last few years and ensuring that the health of our jockeys is being consistently monitored and addressed."</div>
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<br /> Given the nature of horse racing, there will be falls, but for the first time in a decade, fall rates are down. This is predominantly due to the weather and resulting soft ground. National Hunt jockeys will still fall on average in 5.5% of their races, rising to 15% in Point to Point riders with associated injuries.. The upside is that when accidents happen, riders are in safe hands. There is now a detailed concussion protocol in place, with baseline assessment of cognitive function before a jockey’s licence is issued. Following a concussion a rider is stood down until their cognitive function returns to their baseline level. The Jockey’s helmets standard, which have changed little since 1996, is currently being re-written at European level, chaired by Mc Goldrick with a view to producing a higher standard of helmet which may also reduce concussions and work is on-going with organisations in Australia to introduce an improved standard of helmet which will be available in Ireland when it is ready later this year.</div>
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<br />Dr. McGoldrick also adds to that well-founded belief that jockeys have a higher tolerance for pain. “Part of my day job is an occupational physician assessing employees fitness to return to work. But with jockeys they want to get back to work literally the following day, the problem is to try and restrain their enthusiasm, it’s an addiction, they want to get straight back into the saddle again. Their pain threshold is unique to the rest of us, it is way beyond a normal human being"</div>
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<br />A reflection of the dedicated and clean lifestyle that the professional jockey lives is reflected in the banned substance rates for 2012. During that year 164 riders were drug tested and just three samples were confirmed as positive. “Drink and drug testing is random but jockeys are elite athletes and rarely misure drugs. There is a very low uptake of drugs but if someone is found positive the Turf Club and I will fund provide counselling services where neccessary.”. With respect to injured jockeys he would like to see a centralised holistic rehabilitation centre built in Ireland. A team headed by McGoldrick and Warrington visited Oaksey House in Lambourn prior to the recent injuries to JT Mc Namara and Jonjo Bright and saw the need for a co-ordinated approach to rehabilitating jockeys. He would like to see this built in Kildare, perhaps as a further development of R.A.C.E., due to its central location and which would provide a further range of services to jockeys and their families.</div>
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<br />Perhaps the most ground-breaking plan for jockeys is the new Jockey Pathway. The Pathway is in the final development stages through the Turf Club Research Group and R.A.C.E and aims to provide support and backup services to jockeys from the time they start their careers in pony racing into retirement. The proactive approach taken by Dr. McGoldrick and his medical team and counterparts truly does cover the entire racing sphere. It is entirely admirable and truly a case of dedicating oneself to the care and service of others. There can be no better calling. <br /></div>
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<b>The Real Deal</b><br /><br />By Stephen Dwyer</div>
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<i>“He is the real deal, he hardly came off the bridle</i>”. So said trainer Dessie Hughes who was surprisingly generous with some very lavish compliments after Our Conor beat the best four year olds in Ireland last weekend. Dessie, Gold Cup winner on Davy Lad, Champion Hurdle winner aboard Monksfield, father of Richard Hughes. Dessie, trainer of dual Champion Hurdle winner Hardy Eustace, knows what it takes for a horse to be the real deal, for anything to be real deal for that matter. Our Conor is just that.<br /><br />Now outright favourite for the Triumph Hurdle, Our Conor is the best horse that Dessie Hughes has trained since Hardy Eustace. Rated 145, he already holds the same mark as Don Cossack and is very close in the ratings to established performers like Tarla and Rule The World. He is the youngest horse in the Ireland’s top twenty-rated hurdlers and he is a better horse on better ground. In other words the best is yet to come, if this happens at Cheltenham, he wins the Triumph Hurdle.<br /><br />But Our Conor comes from humble beginnings. He was bought for €4,500 at the Tattersalls September Yearling Sale in 2010 and in his first outing on the Curragh, he finished a distant ninth at 33/1 in a very ordinary 10f maiden. Very ordinary as only two out of the first six home would win a race, certainly not brilliant form. But Our Conor won his next start, over 7f at Roscommon. He won the start after that at Naas and finished third in a Handicap at Leopardstown over 1 mile 2f next time out. Dessie Hughes had earmarked a race at Galway for him after the Naas win and he would go very close in that too. Succumbing by a nose to the stoutly-bred Diplomat, trained by the King of Ballybrit, Dermot Weld, Our Conor could not concede 3lbs in the weights to the Weld horse. It was a good run however and he would run one more time on the flat, finishing third in a valuable handicap at Killarney.<br /><br />With a rating of 84 on the flat, Our Conor was never going to be a superstar. You need to have at least a triple digit rating to realistically contest the bigger races so connections schooled him over hurdles. This was no surprise, the horse was purchased to be a dual-purpose animal and he always schooled well at home. After his first run over hurdles at Navan, Dessie Hughes stated simply “He can jump!”. Hyperbole at its finest, but jump he could. Our Conor finished a good 8 ½ lengths ahead of the second placed horse and was well supported at odds of 8/13 favourite. Taking a step up in class, the horse easily accounted for Stocktons Wing at Fairyhouse in the Grade 3 Bar One Racing Juvenile hurdle. The reports from the Hughes stable following this race were positive again, “He's a good leaper and he has a turn of foot. He has everything you need.”<br /><br />Our Conor is by Jersey Stakes winner Jeremy, who sired the Group Three Concorde Stakes and Derrinstown Stud 1000 Guineas Trial winner Yellow Rosebud. He has plenty of speed and Flamands, his Dam is by Sadler’s Wells, she won twice over middle distances on the flat at Newmarket and Chester for Luca Cumani. He cemented his place at the head of the Triumph Hurdle market after his latest win at Leopardstown in the Grade 1 Spring Juvenile Hurdle, a race worth almost €70,000. Willie Mullins was double-handed in this race with Diakali and Blood Cotil who were both believed to be the very best juvenile hurdlers in the Mullins yard. Both were expensive French-bred horses, both unbeaten in their two respective starts over hurdles in Ireland.<br /><br /> After his win in a Grade 2 at Leopardstown over Christmas, Willie Mullins compared Blood Cotil to Scloardy who won the Triumpy hurdle for the yard in 2002. Both he and Diakali carried serious reputations entering the Spring Juvenile Hurdle. Our Conor always travelled well in the race and although made a two minor hurdling errors never came off the bridle to win the Grade 1 event comfortably. Back to Dessie Hughes again who noted; “He finished his race well and it is great to see him staying so well, that's what he'll need for his next race (the Triumph Hurdle at Cheltenham).”<br /><br />But the Triumph Hurdle is not straightforward. You need to travel very well throughout and need lots of luck as it is always run at a furious pace. Some seriously good horses have won this in recent times, Zarkandar, Celestial Halo and Detroit City typify the British stranglehold on the race. Apart from Scolardy, the only other Irish winner in the past twenty years was the Ted Walsh-trained Commanche Court in the 1997 renewal.<br /><br />There have been plenty of well-fancied Irish horses who have run well, but not won the Triumph. Unaccompanied was second to Zarkander, even with a 7lb fillies allowance. Carlito Brigante was a well-beaten fourth (and 7/2 favourite) to Soldatino and Lounaos (also 7/2 favourite) could only finish tenth for Eoin Griffin when Katchit won the race. Lounaos had also won two of the hurdle races that Our Conor has won this term and fits a similar profile but Our Conor is a little more imposing and should take some beating if run handily.<br /><br />Cut from 12/1 to 5/1 after Leopardstown, Our Conor faces stiff opposition from both Paul Nicholl’s runner Far West and Rolling Star trained by Nicky Henderson. Far West won the Triumph hurdle trials in November and Decembers and he stayed on strongly particularly when the ground was that bit better in November. If Far West keeps progressing for Paul Nicholls, his 8/1 price would be good value. Rolling Star won over hurdles in France and is a previous Cheltenham winner . He beat the well-regarded Irish Saint in the Grade 2 Triumph Trial two weeks ago and Barry Geraghty has reported that the horse will improve again.<br /><br />On bare form, Our Conor has a great chance in the Triumph, especially on the back of what he has done to the Mullins horses. The dream is alive now for his connections so if you like him, take a price about him now because there is a wall of Irish money and prayers going to be placed on the shoulders of this boy.<br /><br />The Triumph Hurdle carries prize money of £120,000. If he wins, it will be long way from that ninth at the Curragh.<br /></div>
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It is the jewel in the crown of the jumps season. From Tuesday March 12th to Friday March 15th, the most elite horses, trainers and jockeys in the world of equine talent converge upon the Cotswolds for the Cheltenham Festival. Worth over £50 million to the local economy, the Festival attracts almost a quarter of a million visitors each year. <br />
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To the UK and Irish betting industries, the Cheltenham Festival fundamentally affects the annual profits of bookmakers on both sides of the Irish sea. Ten years ago, when favourites won half of the races at the meeting, several major bookmaking firms reported lower than expected profits for the year, attributed in no small part to “unfavourable results” at Cheltenham.<br />
Such is the scale of the betting frenzy that the Festival also accounts for around 10 per cent of the Tote’s annual on-course pool betting turnover. On average at least £1 million changes hands on every race in the betting ring at the racecourse, with over 250 bookmakers in attendance for each day of the four day meeting. Attracting the owners and connections, aside from the prestige of having a Cheltenham winner, is the extraordinary prize money. With a total prize fund of over £3.8 million, the average race is worth in excess of £141,000. <br />
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Four championship races form the centrepiece for each of the days at the Festival and the competition for each of the events is especially strong this year. The Stan James Champion Hurdle includes no less than four previous winners in Rock On Ruby, Hurricane Fly, Binocular and Punjabi. The prize fund for the race this year has never been higher, at £400,000 it has been increased by £30,000 from the 2012 level. <br />
At the head of the market is the 2010 winner Hurricane Fly. Available generally at 3/1 Hurricane Fly recently equalled Istabraq’s record of fourteen Grade 1 wins over hurdles. There is no doubt that Hurricane Fly is the best hurdler since Istabraq, he boasts a better winning record, has never fallen and Ruby Walsh is on record as saying the ‘Fly has so much speed he could win a Group 1 on the flat if he wanted to.<br />
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No horse has won back the Festival Champion Hurdle since Comedy of Errors in 1975, but if there is one who can defy that statistic, it is Hurricane Fly. He cast aside the “Montjeu” curse in 2011, where no progeny of Montjeu had won at the Festival and he has a very realistic chance of regaining his title this year. Many punters will be a lot happier taking 3/1 for him now than the 4/7 last year when he was not a sound horse, coughing a week before the race and was not right on the day when beaten into third. It is also worth noting that his trainer Willie Mullins has either the favourite or second favourite in 14 of the 27 races at the Cheltenham Festival. This is a true reflection on the strength in depth at Closutton and Hurricane Fly is quite happy to lead the charge, as he does at home on the gallops. Hurricane Fly is nine now and there have only been three winners over the age of eight for the last 58 years, he faces a tough task yes, but not an impossible one.<br />
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On Ladies Day, the feature race is the Sportingbet Queen Mother Champion Chase. With £350,000 on offer, is seems a penalty kick for Sprinter Sacre. Beaten only twice in his thirteen races, Sprinter Sacre is an astonishing horse. He remains unbeaten over fences and has been supported from 11/10 into 2/5 for the race. He was a seven length winner of the Arkle Chase at last year’s festival where his performance was simply described by Sporting Life as “awesome”. Progressing greatly in his career as a second-season chaser, Sprinter Sacre has subsequently won three Grade 1 races since last year’s Festival by a combined distance of 42 lengths. It is very difficult to identify chinks in his armour, his jumping is impeccable and he has a devastating turn of foot. The only conceivable cause for concern is that the horse has yet to make a serious mistake over fences and does he have the ability to recover from a jumping error. In truth he probably does and Sprinter Sacre should become the fifth winning favourite in the Champion Chase in the last ten years.<br />
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When Paul Nicholls broke the news last December that Big Buck’s sustained a leg injury and would be out for the season, it was greeted with dismay by the racing public. The only horse to win four successive Ladbrokes World hurdle titles at Cheltenham, Big Buck’s had won eighteen races in a row before his injury. Connections are hopeful that the horse will return to training and his defection from this year’s World Hurdle means that it is the most open renewal of the race in some years. Nicky Henderson’s Oscar Whiskey finished fifth to Big Buck’s last year and recently ran Reve De Sivola to a neck in the Cleeve Hurdle over three miles. Oscar Whiskey does have plenty of class, he was third in a Champion Hurdle, won the Welsh Champion Hurdle and has won around Cheltenham four times. After the Cleeve Hurdle, Rory Jiwani of Stan James said, "Nick Williams' charge is definitely on an upward curve and he just saw off Oscar Whisky with the pair well clear. We've cut Reve de Sivola from 6/1 to 4/1 favourite for the World Hurdle”. Where Reve de Sivola is a proven stayer, with just 6 wins from 23 starts, he does not have the class of Oscar Whisky. Should Nicky Henderson’s 8yo stay the trip and get his ground, he would be a popular winner.<br />
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On the last day of the Festival, the Blue Riband of jump racing takes centre stage. With £550,000 on offer, the most valuable prize of the Festival is the Betfred Cheltenham Gold Cup. There was over £50 million staked on the 2012 renewal of the Gold Cup alone which took the turnover for the week above £300 million. Hennessy Gold Cup winner Bobs Worth is the outright 3/1 favourite, he won the 2012 RSA chase and has never been beaten at Cheltenham from his four starts. His trainer Nicky Henderson is the most successful trainer of all time at The Festival with 46 victories and is very keen on the chances of Bobs Worth. The 2011 winner and last year’s third, Long Run is 7/1 for the race and Willie Mullins saddles Sir Des Champs who is 9/2 and has won both the Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys' Handicap Hurdle and the Jewson Novices' Chase at Cheltenham. The race appears to be between the main market protagonists although Silviniaco Conti for Paul Nicholls has an each way chance if handling the extended trip. Interestingly a new Cheltenham Gold Cup is minted each year. There is 10 ounces of gold in the trophy, which makes it worth around £11,000 and it will find a new home in 2013. <br />
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In wrapping it all up I recall attending the Festival some years ago I met an elderly gentleman who said something very fitting; “there are four days in a year, the rest aren’t Cheltenham.”<br />
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They say it’s a hard race, and they are right. It’s a big ask for a novice to jump nineteen fences over three miles and 110 yards, harder still when it’s at Cheltenham and to be expected to win there. The RSA is run over the Old course at Prestbury Park, like the New course, it is testing and undulating. Stiff fences and sheer left-hand turns sap the life out of all but the toughest horses and the 350-yard uphill finish has put a firm stop to many plans of victory.<br /><br />That said, you don’t need to be a world beater to win an RSA. Guts will do, plenty of them though, and the ability to jump downhill and travel well within yourself. Seven seems to be the magic number too, as eleven of the last thirteen winners of the RSA were seven year olds, the younger horses often bypass the race for an easier challenge. Case in point, Timmy Murphy noted that horses are going three strides quicker in the RSA than any other novice race and for that reason preferred to see the progressive Our Father take his chances in the National Hunt Chase over four miles.<br /><br />And onto the theory that the RSA is a hard race, out of the last ten winners of the RSA four horses did not complete their next race. Weapon’s Amnesty pulled up, One Knight fell and both Rule Supreme and Bostons Angel were unseated. The argument may be made that some of these results were simply jumping errors in a jumping theatre or it could equally be made that the RSA took its toll. But a forty per cent failure to finish ratio cannot be lightly dismissed. By comparison, out of the last ten running’s of the Arkle Chase, comparable in that it is for for novices, the only horse not to finish his race next time out was Azertyuiop when unseating at the first in the Haldon Gold Cup. Starting with Sprinter Sacre the next-race record for Arkle winners was 113215271U compared to 1UP43111UF for the RSA, a comparable win percentage but much higher for non-finishers.<br /><br />And then to the Irish hopes, it would seem Boston Bob leads the way. He had an unhappy time of it last year at the Festival when unable to make up lost ground to Brindisi Breeze in the Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle over 3m. He was strongly fancied for that race and backed into 6/5 favourite but left his followers disappointed. We were left with the feeling that he never really got into the race as Brindisi Breeze found plenty up the hill and ran away a deserved winner. But Boston Bob was always made to be a chaser. His debut over 2m4f at Navan did not elicit a lot of praise, he was niggled two fences from home but evidently found enough to win by half a length. Not the performance you would expect for a horse which was 1/5 on the day. Going on bare form, the second that day, You Must Know Me was beaten 22 lengths next time out when 9/10 favourite so it seems that Boston Bob should be bigger than his current odds of 6/1 for the RSA. He will need a run before the Festival and this is likely to come in the Dr PJ Moriarty Novice Chase over 2m 5f at Leopardstown this Saturday. This race is always an interesting trial for the RSA and Willie Mullins has won both this and the RSA twice before, with Florida Pearl (1998) and Cooldine (2009). It was also achieved by Bostons Angel (2011 so it will be an interesting challenge for Boston Bob.<br /><br />Two other Willie Mullin’s runners, Aupcharlie and Back In Focus are close in the betting, at about 12/1 and 16/1 respective. All of Aupcharlie’s three wins have come on ground with some cut in it but he was third in the Cheltenham Champion Bumper in 2011 so he does hold respectable course form. He has been second twice over three miles, beaten only a head and half a length on these starts. Aupcharlie travels well within himself during races but his jumping needs to improve slightly if he is to play a part in the RSA. Back In Focus, an ex-Howard Johnson gelding fits the profile a shade more positively. He has progressed nicely over fences and is three from three, winning a beginners chase, Grade 2 and Grade 1 within 11 weeks. He rallied well under pressure to beat Aupcharlie in the Topaz Novice Chase at Leopardstown last time out and he too holds an entry in the Dr PJ Moriarty Novice Chase. He has been compared in his ways to Tidal Bay in his early days but he seems more straightforward. A negative is his form on good ground, he was beaten almost a distance on his only run on good ground at Aintree but he could well be a grinder and that sort does well in the RSA.<br /><br />The Gigginstown army are represented by Tofino Bay trained by Dessie Hughes. A general 16/1 chance, he is a ten year old and this in itself is a huge negative. No ten year old has won the RSA, (Birthlaw won it aged 11 in 1946 and Minnehoma in 1992 was the oldest at 9 to win the race.) He has won the Troytown and Woodlands Park Grade 2 Chase but his age is enough of a detractor.<br /><br />The useful Lord Windermere trained by Jim Culloty may have more of a chance than Tofino Bay. At 7 he fits the age profile and has been running well over fences. He finished ahead of the well-touted Marito over 2m 5f in a Grade 2 at Leopardstown so he should get the trip at Cheltenham. He ran well enough on goodish ground in the Deloitte Novice Hurdle, finishing ahead of Captain Conan and Cash And Go so if he steps up in trip it will be interesting.<br /><br />In a race where favourites have a poor enough record, even for the festival, Dynaste is short but the Irish have a decent recent record and it may prove so in a couple of weeks time.</div>
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There is a colloquial term within large corporations which refers to everything running within normal parameters. BAU, or Business As Usual might be one of those “Americanisms” that has slipped into our vocabulary but it perfectly describes events in the Irish Champion Hurdle last Sunday. It was BAU for Hurricane Fly as he captured his third successive win in the Grade 1 event, barely breaking sweat.<br /><br />Conditions were outrageous, driving sleet and snow paid havoc with the going and jockeys reported the ground to be as testing as it had ever been at the Foxrock venue. No matter for the ‘ Fly, three flights from home he cruised into second position and from there coasted to the line, eased down by five lengths. Around Leopardstown that is his aggregate winning distance, unbeaten in six starts at the track it was a fitting setting to capture his fourteenth win at the highest level.<br /><br />Much was made of the opposition on Sunday and just five went to post but in truth Binocular and Thousand Stars were always playing for second place. And so it came to pass. Barely a nose separated the two as Tony McCoy was held by Paul Townend for the runner-up spot. Though rated four pounds higher than Thousand Stars, Binocular had not run for 320 days and carried condition, in abundance. In truth it was a good effort from the former Champion Hurdler and improvement is assured.<br /><br />Binocular’s performance attracted the attention of the stewards who accepted the reason for the placing was essentially a lack of match fitness. Many of those in attendance felt that more use should have been made of Binocular but the reality is that he is a hold up horse. When winning the Kingwell and Christmas Hurdles, he did so from off the pace, he is a horse that needs to be nursed into a race. Overturn beat him the Fighting Fifth in no small part due to Binocular racing far too keenly early on and it was the same in the Irish Champion Hurdle when he ran at Punchestown, he kicked off and led early and could not stay on at the business end.<br /><br />To run Thousand Stars to a nose was a good effort, Thousand Stars is a dual French Champion Hurdle winner who has already ran twice this season and it is hard to understand what was expected from Binocular. In the end he finished 29 lengths ahead of Captain Cee Bee who has already won a Group 2 hurdle this season so he is no slouch.<br /><br />But the day belonged to Hurricane Fly. He finished up the 1/6 favourite, 1/10 on the Tote, the shortest priced winner of the race in living memory, even Istabraq finished at a bigger but equally unbackable price of 2/9 when winning the third of his Irish Champion Hurdles in 2000 in a similarly small contest. There is no doubt that Hurricane is the best hurdler since Istabraq. He boasts a better winning record, has never fallen and has amassed more prize money despite running less races than Istabraq. For the record Istabraq raced over hurdles 29 times, winning 23 races and £1,007,957. Hurricane Fly has raced 19 times over hurdles, winning 16 of these and accumulating £1,020,574 in prize money.<br /><br />But it is a moot point comparing the two. Success in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past. Right now Hurricane Fly is top of the heap. Ruby Walsh is on record as saying that the horse has so much speed he could win a Group 1 on the flat if he wanted to. He won’t get off the ‘Fly in March, nothing in Paul Nicholls yard has a better chance and at present Ruby is being diplomatic, an understandable position.<br /><br />In just over eight weeks’ time, Hurricane Fly attempts to win back the Champion Hurdle crown that is lost to Rock On Ruby in 2011. He has a tough task in front of him. No horse has won back the Festival Champion Hurdle since Comedy of Errors in 1975, but if there is one who can defy that statistic, it is Hurricane Fly. He cast aside the “Montjeu” curse in 2011 and can do so again in March. I would be a lot happier taking 3/1 for him now than the 4/7 last year when he was not a sound horse, coughing a week before the race, gifting eleven lengths to Rock On Ruby at Cheltenham and had an off day, it happens.<br /><br />That his trainer Willie Mullins has either the favourite or second favourite in 14 of the 27 races at the Cheltenham Festival is just a reflection on the strength in depth at Closutton and Hurricane Fly is quite happy to lead the charge, as he does at home on the gallops.<br /><br />Out of interest, we must correct Willie Mullins who recently said that the very useful Pont Alexandre was the first horse he put into Grade 1 for his first run over hurdles, but he was wrong. This honour fell to Hurricane Fly who won the Royal Bond at Fairyhouse as a 4 year old That will tell you the regard that he has for Pont Alexandre.<br /><br />Pont Alexandre has a long way to go before being compared with Hurricane Fly but a good start is half the battle.<br /><br />I hope Ruby remembers that when he lines up at the start of the Champion Hurdle on March 12th.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-IE">January Jumps</span></b><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-IE"><span lang="EN-IE">By Stephen Dwyer</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-IE"> </span></b><br />
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<span lang="EN-IE">January is typically one of the quieter months in the horse racing calendar. After the seasonal highlights of Newbury, Ascot. Kempton and Chepstow in December, many of the top trainers use the month as a rest period before Cheltenham. But where the season lulls in January there are still many important races to be contested. There is a Champion Hurdle trial at Haydock and the Victor Chandler Chase at Ascot but one of the meatiest racing offerings is in Ireland at the January Jumps Festival in Leopardstown. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE">The January Jumps weekend was the brainchild of Leopardstown CEO Pat Keogh. First run in 2012, it is now a permanent fixture following impressive attendances of almost 13,000 at the inaugural meeting. Encouraged by how the January Jumps weekend was received, Pat Keogh of Leopardstown noted "<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Having spoken to a number of people, many of them from Britain, over the weekend we were very encouraged as many of them said they would come again and we are promoting the two-day meeting more widely, around Ireland as well as in Britain, for 2013," </i>said Keogh, who described the weekend as<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> "a huge success".</i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE">Run on Saturday 26<sup>th</sup> and Sunday 27<sup>th</sup> January there is a seven race card on each of the days including two Grade 1 and two Grade 2 races. Among these include the Boylesports.com Handicap Hurdle and the BHP Irish Champion Hurdle. First run in 1969 as the Irish Sweeps Hurdle and subsequently named The Ladbroke Hurdle and Pierce Hurdle, the Boylesports.com Handicap Hurdle over 2 miles is a major source of handicap hurdling form for the season ahead including major handicaps at Cheltenham. The race was one of the traditional Champion Hurdle trials in the 1970s when Persian War, Night Nurse and Comedy Of Errors (who collectively won seven Champion Hurdles) all won at Leopardstown. In 2011 Willie Mullins trained Final Approach who proved an impressive winner of the MCR Hurdle and went on to score in the Vincent O´ Brien County Handicap Hurdle at Cheltenham. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE">There is also significant industry weight behind the January Jumps program. In November 2011, Boylesports and Leopardstown signed a major three-year sponsorship deal. Included in this sponsorship, Boylesports are offering the potential of €150,000 worth of bonuses each year should any horse complete the Leopardstown and Cheltenham Festival double. There is a €100,000 bonus to the winner of the Grade 2<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Boylesports.com Hurdle should the winner go on to win at Cheltenham and €50,000 if a horse completes the Irish/English Arkle double.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE">And that Irish Arkle is an intriguing race, it was also at Leopardstown in the Frank Ward Solicitors Arkle Novice Chase (The Irish Arkle) that Flemenstar ,now joint-favourite for the Cheltenham Gold Cup, displayed one of the most commanding rounds of jumping all season, winning by an eventual nineteen lengths. The Irish Arkle however has not been a great indicator for the Arkle Chase at Cheltenham, the last horse winning both was Klairon Davis in 1995. Whether Tony Martin’s Dedigout and Willie Mullin’s Arvika Ligeonniere line out in the race is yet undecided but Jessica Harrington is likely to target the race for Oscars Well. A faller at the third fence last time out in the Craddockstown Novice Chase over two miles at Punchestown, Oscars Well started an odds on favourite that day and connections will be keen to make amends. Willie Mullins may also saddle the French-bred Twinlight who has won three times over fences. A useful front runner, Twinlight was third to Grandouet and Kumbeshwar in the Grade 1 Champion Four Year Old Hurdle at Punchestown in his first season and he looks a very interesting contender over fences. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE">The Boylesports.com Grade 2 novice Chase over the extended two miles and five furlongs is also a very important pre-Cheltenham trial. Won by Sir Des Champs last year, who was the youngest horse in the race and also carried top weight, this novice Chase is worth noting as year on year the form lines prove strong. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE">The highlight of the entire Festival is the Grade 1 Irish Champion Hurdle over two miles. This is traditionally a showcase race for Ireland’s top hurdlers and has been won by Hatton's Grace, Dawn Run, Istabraq and in recent years Sizing Europe, Brave Inca and Hurricane Fly. Seen as one of the most significant pre-Cheltenham Champion Hurdle races, it is worth over €100,000 in prize money and seen as a true test of speed jumping. In truth, it revolves around one horse, Hurricane Fly who has one eye on regaining his Champion Hurdle Crown at Cheltenham.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE">Hurricane Fly was bred in Ireland and sold as a yearling at Goffs for €65,000. He was sent to France and subsequently bought out of the Jean-Luc Pelletan yard for an undisclosed sum on the advice of bloodstock agent Richard Hobson. The acquisition by Hobson (who is also responsible for the purchase of Golden Silver and Pomme Tiepy) was on behalf of retired Belfast construction worker George Creighton and Rose Boyd who runs an equestrian centre in Co. Down. At Leopardstown, Willie Mullin’s Hurricane Fly is seeking a hat trick in the race and it is extremely difficult to see past him. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">With twelve top
quality races across two days, the William Hill Winter Festival at Kempton is
the finest mid-season meeting in the National Hunt calendar. A crowd of over
30,000 travelled to Middlesex to attend the festival last year where Kauto Star
was the leading attraction. Since William Hill began sponsoring the Winter
Festival in 2009, it has been heavily promoted within the industry. The
festival features multiple Grade 1 races including the williamhill.com Feltham
Novices’ Steeple Chase, the williamhill.com Christmas Hurdle and the William
Hill King George VI Chase, all showcase events in their own right. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">From a betting
perspective the King George VI Chase day at Kempton is one of the busiest of
the year. In 2011 it formed a large percentage of the £100m wagered on Boxing
Day. The King George is a perennial favourite for punters and layers alike and
with a prize fund of £180,000, it attracts the top staying chasers. The race is
the centrepiece of the two day William Hill Winter Festival and is second only
in the pecking order of National Hunt racing to the Cheltenham Gold Cup.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">First run in
1937, the King George VI Chase has been held on Boxing Day since 1947. Arkle,
Wayward Lad, Desert Orchid and One Man are among the greats of National Hunt
racing to have won the race. Many will acknowledge that for the first time since
2006, there will be no Kauto Star at Kempton. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Winner of five of the last six King George’s,
the retirement of the greatest National Hunt horse since Arkle opens the door
for the next contender to the throne. Kauto Star retired amidst good company,
Long Run, already a Gold Cup and King George winner heads the betting for the
King George at odds of 11/4 with race sponsors William Hill. Multiple Grade 1
winner, Grand Crus (9/2) is close to Long Run in the betting and Paul Nicholl’s
holds a strong hand with the exciting Silviniaco Conti (5/1) and Kauto Stone
(10/1) who is now proven over the trip. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">Even without the
great Kauto Star, this year’s renewal of the King George is highly anticipated
as Kate Miller, William Hill PR Director, noted: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Whilst Kauto Star has dominated the William Hill King George for the
last six years, the entries this year demonstrate what a fantastic race it is
and the legacy of the King George being the mid-season Championship is set to
continue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As things stand, we are
expecting a competitive field with the winner likely to head the market for the
Gold Cup next March.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">Thanks in no
small part to Kauto Star, trainer Paul Nicholls boasts no less than seven wins
in the race and is its leading handler. Aside from the five timer from Kauto
Star, he won it twice with See More Business. The King George is a race famed
for multiple repeat winners. This is backed up by the statistic that no less
than twelve horses have won it more than once. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">Favourite for
the race, Long Run, has not raced since his Cheltenham Gold Cup third to
Synchronised. Beaten twice by Kauto Star last term, the seven year old boasted
his only victory of the season when narrowly winning the Grade 2 Betfair Denman
Chase at Newbury. He has yet to confirm the form showed when winning the King
George and Cheltenham Gold Cup in 2010/11 season but his record at Kempton
reads 112 so he has a huge chance if back to his best. At times Long Run needs
to have his mind made up for him at fences and works best when ridden
prominently but he is still a brilliant horse and you cannot safely discount
him.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">Both Long Run
and Grand Crus have won the williamhill.com Feltham Novices' Chase at Kempton.
Last year Grand Crus ran out a hugely impressive winner of the 3m race when
eased down ahead of Silviniaco Conti. Grand Crus has not raced since his fourth
in the RSA at Cheltenham but has won twice on his seasonal reappearance and
David Pipe’s grey is a class act.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Nicky
Henderson team saddle Finian's Rainbow who overcame early jumping errors in his
races last season before comfortably winning the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John Smith's Melling Chase at the Aintree
Festival. Finian's Rainbow is unbeaten at Kempton, he won his bumper by 6l in
2009 before outstaying Wishfull Thinking in the Grade 2 williamhill.com Desert
Orchid Chase at the Winter Festival last year. He has yet to race beyond 2m 4f
but he showed stamina in abundance in Aintree and may stay the trip. Another
entry worth noting is Kempton Park specialist Nacarat, he has won both the
Racing Post Chase and the Racing Plus Chase at the track and has run in the
last three renewals of the William Hill King George VI Chase.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">Finally, Cue
Card is an intriguing contender. He demolished a useful field in the Haldon
Gold Cup at Exeter recently. In beating Menorah and Edgardo Sol, the odds of
Cue Card were slashed from 20/1 to 8/1 for the King George. Cue Card’s jumping
improved readily towards the business end of the race and his speed allowed for
a 26 length victory. Trainer Colin Tizzard has always had Kempton’s Boxing Day
highlight in mind for his six-year-old and said after his win at Exeter: “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">If he’s ever going to get three miles, it
will be around Kempton. Pace is just not an issue for him as he was always
cruising. He used to tank but he was a lot less fizzy than he normally is on
his first run back. When Joe squeezed him up, he was gone.”</i> What is also
interesting is that the dam of Cue Card, Wicked Crack, was a three time winner
over three miles in Ireland for Eddie Hales so on the face of it, Cue Card is
equipped to stay the trip.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">Though the
highlight of the meeting is the King George, there are several other top class Grade
1 races to contend with. The Christmas Hurdle, won by Binocular for the past
two years is always an exciting race and the Feltham Novices' Chase aims to be
as competitive as ever. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">With stiff
fences and a short run in, you need a horse that can jump and travel well at
Kempton. With several runners unbeaten at the track, this year’s William Hill
Winter Festival promises to be as exciting as ever. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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