NOT many were leaving Cheltenham. The last race of a pulsating opening day at the 2014 Festival had just finished. Present View had passed the post half a length ahead of Attaglance but the stewards were deliberating whether the interference suffered by the runner-up at the hands of the errant winner was enough to warrant …[Read More]
FEWER sights were more uplifting last season as GODSMEJUDGE soaring over the last few fences at Ayr to win the Scottish National. It was some performance for a novice chaser who had been on the go since the previous October and who had already run some mighty races. Alan King’s chaser looks a ready-made Grand …[Read More]
WHO is the toughest National Hunt horse in training? Bobs Worth? Zarkandar? Overturn? Impossible to say really. But I think I’ve got the answer and he runs in Saturday’s Paddy Power Gold Cup. If there is a tougher jumper in the land than KUMBESHWAR then I haven’t seen him. This chap embodies everything I love …[Read More]
by JACK MILNER, at BetVictor. PROPER racing is back. No offence to the flat, but the difference is quintessentially men against boys, and the jumps season really kicks off with Cheltenham’s Open Meeting. There’ll be many pointers to the Cheltenham and Aintree spring festivals with a host of superstars in action to set tongues wagging. …[Read More]
IT WAS November 1977. I was only a kid but I vividly remember Peter O’Sullevan’s dulcet tones calling home Bachelor’s Hall in the Mackeson Gold Cup. What I didn’t realise at the time was that this was the start of my love affair with this great race. Now called the Paddy Power Gold Cup, for …[Read More]
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